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Bill Wheeler
Guest
Sunday morning here in Maryland was an excellent time for a ride.
Wheels down at 7:00 am. The temp was about between 30 and 35 in the
park. As you got closer to the running water you could feel the air
temps drop. I love that feeling.
I was riding what a group of 4 and around 7:30 we hit our first climb.
Two of us were out front me and another rider on a FS rig I think it
was what JD calls a Sad-a-Cruz Super Light or something. We were
hammering hard and all of the sudden I hear this bark/growl I thought
we had spooked someone's big dog or something. The bark/growl scared
the livin' sh!t out of me.
I looked to my left where the noise came from and I saw perhaps the
biggest fscking raccoon in history. It was about 10 to 15 feet off
trail. HOLY **** was this thing huge! I'm don't know if these things
can puff themselves up or what. Picture a large dog, say a German
Shepherd 70 to 80 pounds easily sitting on his haunches. That's what
this sonofabitch looked like!
"BIG ASS COON LEFT!" I yelled to the riders behind. Not that I could
hammer any harder at the time I saw this beast but I sure tried.
From what I understand raccoons are generally nocturnal so I
immediately thought this guy could have some sleep deprivation
problems and perhaps rabies. I wasn't stickin' around to find out.
It didn't give chase thank god! That definitely warmed us up and the
pins and needles finally left my hands.
We rode on for another 2 and 1/2 hours and I had perhaps one of my
best rides of the year so far.
The SS is holding up fine other than the BB, which I just ordered
another one yesterday evening. I'm going to stick in a Truvativ Giga
Pipe Team DH. I figure that will be beefy enough and last a little
longer without play developing in the left bearings.
I think I may make the mods and go tubeless this winter. Anybody use
Stans? or have any recommendations on tubeless conversions?
Peace,
Bill
The First law, Inertia: Unless acted upon by an outside force,
a body at rest tends to stay at rest,
and a body in motion tends to stay in motion.
Sir Isaac Newton
Wheels down at 7:00 am. The temp was about between 30 and 35 in the
park. As you got closer to the running water you could feel the air
temps drop. I love that feeling.
I was riding what a group of 4 and around 7:30 we hit our first climb.
Two of us were out front me and another rider on a FS rig I think it
was what JD calls a Sad-a-Cruz Super Light or something. We were
hammering hard and all of the sudden I hear this bark/growl I thought
we had spooked someone's big dog or something. The bark/growl scared
the livin' sh!t out of me.
I looked to my left where the noise came from and I saw perhaps the
biggest fscking raccoon in history. It was about 10 to 15 feet off
trail. HOLY **** was this thing huge! I'm don't know if these things
can puff themselves up or what. Picture a large dog, say a German
Shepherd 70 to 80 pounds easily sitting on his haunches. That's what
this sonofabitch looked like!
"BIG ASS COON LEFT!" I yelled to the riders behind. Not that I could
hammer any harder at the time I saw this beast but I sure tried.
From what I understand raccoons are generally nocturnal so I
immediately thought this guy could have some sleep deprivation
problems and perhaps rabies. I wasn't stickin' around to find out.
It didn't give chase thank god! That definitely warmed us up and the
pins and needles finally left my hands.
We rode on for another 2 and 1/2 hours and I had perhaps one of my
best rides of the year so far.
The SS is holding up fine other than the BB, which I just ordered
another one yesterday evening. I'm going to stick in a Truvativ Giga
Pipe Team DH. I figure that will be beefy enough and last a little
longer without play developing in the left bearings.
I think I may make the mods and go tubeless this winter. Anybody use
Stans? or have any recommendations on tubeless conversions?
Peace,
Bill
The First law, Inertia: Unless acted upon by an outside force,
a body at rest tends to stay at rest,
and a body in motion tends to stay in motion.
Sir Isaac Newton
