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Damn brother, that's some shit.

 

When is your trip?

 

I leave tomorrow AM, and will be playing in the Pisgah dirt come Saturday.

 

Hero dirt in the Southeast right now.

 

If you're looking for a +1 I'll make the day trip. If not that's cool. Solo in Pisgah is relaxing

 

Looking fresh man, got any other pics of those jumps?

 

I'd be cool with that. But I'm certain my riding ability is nowhere near where you've described yourself, especially in all new terrain. I was looking at seeing Dupont, then heading over to do the lower black mountain loop that @NWTFIowa was talking about.

 

They're good shit, located 3 minutes from downtown Knoxville, TN. Baker Creek Preserve. Knoxville won a big grant from Bell helmets a few years ago and built three big jump lines right outside of downtown. Here's a recent video of the trails that dropped on PB a few weeks ago

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/high-post-shredding-with-jason-blodgett.html
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/tennessee-opens-the-bell-built-devils-racetrack-2016.html

 

Haha that looks rad man and would love to session that if I ever get the chance to go down south. It looks like the builders of it made it flow very well and you know it must be noteworthy for PB to do a few articles on it.

 

I live in the neighborhood and am very fortunate to be able and ride there from my porch.

Riding there on a dirt jumper is a total blast. My favorite days are taking a few beers out there and just sessioning the bridge and bottom jump continuously. let me know if you ever come down here

 

Yea man life don't get much better than that. Agree man some good beers while sessioning is a solid way to break in the ride for the day and just keep the calm going. Appreciate the offer man, I will let you know if I ever make it down there!

 

We had a wind storm the other day which happened to leave a little surprise on the trail!

 

A collapsible hand saw won’t clear that!

 

The base of the tree was quite large too

 

Looks like a great opportunity to build a trail feature!!!

 

Sure it will! You can do anything you put your mind to!

 

Checking out a Knolly (Warden Carbon).

 

Looks awesome! Whats the verdict? Heard great things, but never tried one out ..Interested to hear your thoughts compared to the Insurgent

 

Hey guys/ gals, besides craigslist and pink bike, wheres the best place to sell my specialized diverge gravel bike?

 

Just one ride on it so far but I've gotten used to the longer Insurgent (maybe size does matter). I need to swap some parts out of the Warden to make it more like my Evils:

Longer stem (from 35mm to 60mm)- The Insurgent is about 1.25" longer than the Warden even though the reach figures are almost the same.

800mm bars (from 760mm)

XTR Race lever with Saint calipers (from Guide RSC)- I like the instant on of the XTR Race and Saint combo (no servowave)

32T RF Ring (from a 34T Wolf Tooth)

Wolf Tooth Dropper Remote (from a Fox Remote).

ACS3 Coil for the 36 RC2 (160mm)