Comments on: Last Day of Downhilling at Mountain Creek Bike Park

By: element22

element22 — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:07:59 +0000

Thanks…If you have a chance you should check it out…I had a great time. Looking forward to going next year.

By: Jared13

Jared13 — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:54:31 +0000

Nice write-up! Those trails looked awesome.

By: element22

element22 — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:52:43 +0000

I just mentioned that I had to be faster that one person…

By: stumpyfsr

stumpyfsr — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:56:21 +0000

Great post and writing style. Especially I like that part where you mentioned about being the fastest in the group That’s how people set new speed records

By: element22

element22 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:00:04 +0000

Thanks castro. Had fun writing it, I hope you enjoyed it. If you do head out there have no worry as they do rent equipment so that you do not have to damage your HT. You will love it. I believe they have folks there that will take you around as well with instructions but follow up with them.

By: casto

casto — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:00:02 +0000

@element22 : Very nice read. Looks like you had a good time out there. Being new to MTB this is one i def want to do moving forward. Might be a little rough for my hardtail though lol (Trek Marlin 29er) which is very good for my parts in East Texas (Mainly thick pine forest gaurenteed to have under 1000 ft elevation change.) Everything flows great with good man made features and technical creek stuff but thats about all of the excitment for my area.

Anyways, back to your post. Thanks for the tips, i go crazy trying to stay as educated as possible and the more info i know about DH the better the first time is goning to be.

Nice work with the #gopro. I have a couple of the Hero2′s and i love em. One thing to note, the #gopro bolts have the same thread pattern as the little bolt up places on the frame of your bike. i bolt mine hanging upside down on the frame near the drop outs. You get a pretty wicked view looking forwards and back. Ill post pics and vids soon, because im pretty sure i didnt do good explaining.

Anyways after a couple of months of just browsing every area of this site i finally decided to sign up so i could leave my fisrt comment. So… thanks!

@mtbgreg1 : Thanks for everything.

By: mtbgreg1

mtbgreg1 — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 14:06:02 +0000

Great read! Sounds like such a fun day of shredding! I’m totally digging all of the uber rocky gnar shots. Call me crazy, but when I’m riding DH I actually prefer to pin it through a massive, steep rock garden as compared to sending it on big, smooth booters. There’s just something so gratifying about blasting through something that just looks impassable and coming out the other side in one piece, and not only surviving but crushing it with style!