2011 Testing Spectacular!
rweaver | Blog | no responses | 10/01/2011 09:00am2011 looks set to be a great year when it comes to testing in MBUK.
When I first started watching bike movies in the early ’90’s, they were truly awful yet somewhat addictive…
I’ve been really enjoying the Norco Shinobi lately, as it feels far more like the sort of bike I’d use to shuttle steep and technical trails- not a million miles off my Ragley. So at the weekend I headed out to a local spot to hit a trail I worked on over the summer, specifically with my Ragley in mind. It’s steep, a lot of it off camber and you need a lot of Trials style stoppie turns to get round some of the steeper drop away turns. If ridden right, it’s got great flow, but I imagine it would be quite off putting for some to ride.
Jake here. Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been doing a bit of filming about what I get up to as an MBUK tester.
At the end of last week we went product testing with the suspension technicians from SRAM.
Yep, that’s right. I’ve gone and done it. I’m now part of the wagon wheel, circus stunting, heavy cyclocross monstercross and not-a-proper-mountain-bike crowd. Or at least that’s what they say.
But what do they know?
The bike I’m out and about on the most is one of the very best things I’ve ever ridden- and has had a few changes lately…
2011 looks set to be a great year when it comes to testing in MBUK.
Bikes these days are so good, and so much fun to ride, that it’s easy to overlook the things that make you a better rider.
By Doddy
Well that volcano certainly didn’t do us any favours! It seems to have been spewing ash into the sky for weeks now and managed to time it perfectly with our trip to Durango.
Anyway, it may have delayed the flights by a day but when we arrived, all that sitting in airports was more than worth it.
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