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We met at the quarry this morning for a couple hours to work on the DH/FR trail we’ve been neglecting. We bench cut about another 60ft. or so- the moisture content in the ground was just right for packing the dirt back down after plucking rocks from the trail bed. We built 2 more crib walls out of rock and now we have a nice flowy trail (well except the off camber right hand turn which will soon have a wallride). The trail rolls really nice and allows the rider to maintain much more speed than before to make it up the ladder and off the big boy side. Speaking of Big Boy- Chris obviously had on his big boy pants today and nutted up to the big drop. Congratulations Chris- and he did it on the Nugget! Just goes to show you that once you get it out of your head that bad things might happen, it’s really an easy drop and in my opinion looks way cool in photos. Watch for Chris’s review of the Nugget coming soon.

After cutting trail it was time to ride- after a couple practice drops off of the smaller side of the ladder it was go time. The Konig did me proud, sailed through the air like a champ and touched down effortlessly 8 ft below. The first drop is a little scary each time- but by the second time it was a cakewalk on this bike. Never before have I jumped on a new bike and felt like the bike was “made” for me, aside from nit-picking the parts spec, the bike is great as is. After everyone sessioned this section we packed up our tools and moved down to the DJ section. The Konig jumps well- if it were a touch lighter (wheels and fork) it would jump great. Enough writing for now- enjoy a couple pics until next time.
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Here are a couple of myself on the Corsair Konig

And T-bird even tried her out on the big drop.

I have to post this pic of Chris on the Nugget

Well boys and girls- we’ve finally gotten our dirty mitts on a Corsair Konig. I’ve had my eye on this particular offering from Corsair for the last couple of years. It looks interesting, but not much is available in terms of real world reviews, or action photos….you know testimonials- we hope to help Doug @ Corsair out a bit on this.

The Konig is the Slope Style offering from their line-up. Initial impressions- this bike is sweet, it’s small- has a super low stand over height and from my first neighborhood test ride last night seems to ride/ handle VERY well. When I first sat on the bike- the suspension feel was not too far off from the feel of a single pivot bike. Once pedalling the bike around and sprinting it up my very steep driveway it became apparent that this frame pedals much better than your run of the mill single pivot frame. This biks is simply solid. I glanced down at the linkages to see if there was any visible movement while hammering along- and there wasn’t any. The bike pedals well……very well. In fact- after the drive way assault I headed up the block to get a good sprint going and see how the bike manualed. Now we’ve all heard claims from people stating that thier full suspension bike pedals like a hardtail under load Not neccesarily any brand manufacturers stating this, but countless consumers)…..well I’m hear to tell you that anyone who makes that statement is full of crap- period. Every design will have an inherent amount of suspension movement- unless of course you have the shock aired up WAY beyond the point of getting any sag from the bike. So now back to my manualing experience……since all suspension bikes compress a little under pedal load- it should hold true that as you shift your weight rearward (as if you were leaning back to loft the front wheel) that the bike would compress too…right? Wrong! While that is certainly the case with most ful-sus bikes that I’ve ridden- and I’ve ridden a lot of different designs. Most will squat a bit then settle into the travel making the rider have to really position their bodyweight in a manner so as to not allow the bike to compress any further in order to maintain a manual. Well I will say that this is THE first full suspension design I’ve tried that actually felt like a hardtail when picking the front wheel up at speed and leaning back….no lie! Tomorrow will begin the official testing of this bike at the Argenta Freeride Area. I figure I’m gonna huck her off the 8 footer in the woods and see how she flies- then check the stability of the bike on our skinnies- then a DJ session is in order- this should be fun. Watch for pics and more of this review in the next couple of days.

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Alright so it’s been quite a while since we made a new post. This should make Old Man Ryan happy:)

Today was a great day for working and riding…..well okay, it kind of sucked chocolate salty bawls because it was colder than a polar bears toenails! T-Bird was first on the scene this morning at the crack of dawn (9:45a.m.) and made quite a bit of progress cleaning up the big boy line before myself or Chris arrived. By the time I arrived Chris and T-$ had moved onto the beginner table top line and were cleaning up the rutts made by a little man and his Pit Bike (If you’re reading this and you are the guilty party STAY OFF the track). We spent some time tweaking and cleaning up the pumptrack a bit also. We ended up burying about an 8 ft.section of PVC to route some water out of Lake Argenta- it was either that or start stocking the pond with crawfish and catfish- hell, come to think of it, if we did stock it with catfish and charge people to fish there maybe we could afford to buy our own signage! John Crowe if you’re reading this we need signage BAD- people are continuing to ride in wet weather and rutt the place up and 3 wheelers have not been shy about leaving tracks out there either.

The reason I titled this post just 1 beer- well after having a horribly “off” day of riding a week ago Sunday word was that I needed to take it back to the old school and start drinking a beer before riding. You see Travis, Phil and myself used to drink a beer before riding at Fergussens skatepark (R.I.P) whether it was a B to the E (budweisers energy beer stuff) or a 22oz. something or other, we would indulge before a session and it was just enough to get you “loosened up” before hitting the jumps or hurling yourself of of god knows what. Well I took their advice- and guess what…..IT FREAKIN’ WORKED!!! Today was the first day of actually jumping the hardtail and low and behold I actually cleared the entire jump line- not once, not twice but somewhere around ten times- before having to call it quits for the day. I think Chris was a little irritated that I got up on the box and exited safely off of it before he did. Well he ended up giving the Mongoose hell and after several times of getting up the box, he finally dropped the thing and all was good after that. So this was one of the best days riding the jumps that either of us have had since completing the jump line. I think it goes without saying that T-BIrd was smooth a butter- as usual. Kit was M.I.A. and still isn’t able to jump since he has a busted up shoulder and I’m sure Ryan got quite a bit of work done on the house. This weekend is supposed to be nice, so maybe we can get out in full force and perform a bit more maintentance and get some good riding in as well.

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Did I mention T-Bird pulled a tuck no-hander on the Super Booter?

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Chris

I went out to the park today to do some riding since I had a rare day off during the week. When I pulled up I saw Mother Nature had been doing some work. Lucky for us she did not make any changes to anything that we had put work into.