Every October a touch of madness reaches the mountains of Ireland. They turn the conventions of the traditional passtime of fox hunting on its head. Instead of foxes and hounds, it's mountain bikers; the fox chases the hound and to make things even tougher, the fox is two-times DH World Champion, Gee Atherton. This isn't a gentle PR event either, talk to the locals and it's clear that they aren't shy on course, and neither is Gee. It's a mass-start, full-contact battle from the top of the mountain all the way down to the town below.
dirtmountainbike.com/features/instabangers-red-bull-rampage-2016-day-1.html
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I wonder what their sponsor Jeep thinks of all these Mitsubishi jerseys. Would they get a different car sponsor again?
Thought it was maybe a session with single crown forks to steepen the head angle at touch but the side bumpers / cable routing isnt right. I would love to know what it is but I do know its not a Slash!
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Ha ha. No chance. He was miles ahead. Only one guy beat him!
There's this cool invention few people seem to know about called a 25 degree rise stem. Don't know why more people don't use a combination of these and a bit of rise in the bars to arrive at the correct bar height / hand position.
Looks super clean and works perfectly. I'll leave a 10mm / 3/8" spacer that I can flip either top or bottom of the stem for fine tuning.
good job hos tyre labels and valves line up otherwise he'd be in forma slating on that as well.
Perhaps bike designers will start to take note of Pro guys (Minnaar) who are having to demand much bigger headtubes and still having to use riser bars/long stems and in DH stem plates as well to get bars at a decent height.
EWS Curtis keane who is 6' is running a 29er Enduro with a 622 stack (more like 630 as he has somehow mutated a 29eer fork to 170mm travel) and has big rise bars and a ton of stem spacers.
Thanks for posting that here.
I read that on another site as well.
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