CharlieDontSurf
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Only one part of them is large. Well two actually
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Big JD
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Oh yes love it Charlie ABBA or perhaps YABBA for a fresh look.Will the members of WEBBA be members of ABBA( annulus billabong bike association). Your the pres, sorry Dicktator of that group aren't you JD
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Then the motto could be "YABBA dabba doo" and you could all ride Norco Big Foots.
mtb101
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who's up for this on Sunday morning from Warburton 8:30 a mini epic with a good chance of snow. (bigjd, big whoever, others?)
57k, 1200 metres climbing.
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pace will be easy, will be snow and wet, so bring appropriate clothing. it's a beautiful place to ride.
57k, 1200 metres climbing.
ride on strava
pace will be easy, will be snow and wet, so bring appropriate clothing. it's a beautiful place to ride.
fitzroybikeco
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I will also be at the interwinter. hAd a nice ride tonight from the pipe bridge up to burke road. Trails are good just a few puddles.
mtb101
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round 2 chasing snow up mt donna, well while the single track is a bit muddy - we have some epic riding only 1.5 hour from melbourne ... the mtb can go there, I rode over most of the snow as long as it was untouched I could ride on it, as soon as the tyre dropped into other tracks I was wheel spinning. fantastic fun. temperature hit 0.7, no rain, just a light cloud cover.
starting to look hopeful for snow around 700-800 metres elevation.
snow.
look no bike stand.
the summit, we made it, lots of kids on toboggans to dodge on final climb to summit. all we had left was a 20k descent on road.
starting to look hopeful for snow around 700-800 metres elevation.
snow.
look no bike stand.
the summit, we made it, lots of kids on toboggans to dodge on final climb to summit. all we had left was a 20k descent on road.
CharlieDontSurf
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Looks awesome 101. Didn't happen to see two snowboarders in your travels?
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mtb101
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had 2 lycra tops and a vest, plus leggins etc, - I rode with normal gloves until the snow then put on the chunky ones, also put covers over shoes, the 2 areas I suffered last time were hands and feet, if you can keep your feet dry that's a win and hands, spare pair of gloves, ... bingo.
wasn't too cold as long as you didn't stop for too long. descent down was on main mt donna road - bitumen, there was a long line of cars waiting to access summit for tobogganing, I just sat on the tail of cars descending, got up to 80ks at one stage, was thinking about my tubeless conversion at that point.
jathanas
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Looks great but I think you're a crazy bas**rd!
eastie
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Looks like an awesome ride. I have the same feelings about high speed on tubeless. I looked it up recently and saw that there's no real valid reason to doubt it at speed, but the recent flats I've had have been quick to flat compared to fairly slow with a tube. On the three decent punctures I've had stans didn't plug the hole and the tyre was flat in 3-4 revs. For that reason a front blowout still scares me so I stick with heavier reinforced casings both ends. Should probably go back to tubes as well.
Hmm is that because the stans will stop any smaller holes from flatting and hence the only flats you get are large/fast ones?
mtb101
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most tubeless conversions are using a standard rim so the bead lets go and believe me it happens very quickly, I use stans rims (haven't had one of them go) so to a point the tyre bead fits snuggly into the rim inner bead, on the road with higher sideway forces I've had 2 beads let go only at low speed usually from a sharp turn, I trust them on the dirt, just not on the road.
other thing is we're use tyres for tubeless conversions that are designed for tubes, so the sidewalls are not as robust.
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