Nj.

You need to come out here...you'll be turning work away and only taking the sweetest jobs.

. . . and giving half his income to the government ;)

I think half may be exaggerated (I'd have to look at my taxes from last year but I think it was around 20-25%) but he'll be making so much money he won't care! Plus he'd be able to ride some REAL mountains! ;)

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b2...4/HPIM0582.gif

This section of trail had my number for 8 years, I always either freaked out due to being intimidated by it or when I attempted it, I always ate dirt. I've hit and cleared way harder lines, this one i always had problems with. It's reign of terror on me ended this morning being that I cleaned that section for the first time ever. Before today I always clipped the first set of roots, thus sending me flying without the bike.

I feel like a huge gorilla was torn off my back.

You coming down or climbing up that section? Either way it does look like a handful.

Going down, I've yet to see anyone make it up that section in 8 years without falling flat on their rear. Plus I don't have the gearing to make it up that.

nice trail there look like some fair sized roots

Always feels supreme to clean and lay to rest a nemisis.

Well, 26 west opens this weekend so that all good. The bad thing is my X crapped out on me on the way home from there last night about 30 miles away from home. I put it on the trailer this morning and I think I know what the problem is.....Fuel sending unit. So,out I go to pull it out of the tank.

here is an redwood i took an photo of good 200 ft tall and its girth is about 8 ft

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e8...c/HPIM0362.jpg

I bet you that wouldn't have happened with the Element.

Naw, he probably would have had to drop the whole rear suspension to get at the tank, ripped out half the interior to get at the blind fasteners from above, bought a special spanner from the Honda dealer parts dept. to twist the sending unit out (only they're on backorder so he'd have to wait three weeks for his spanner) and then paid $400 for the unit itself ;) - - oh, and $30 for the gasket kit that did not come with the unit.

You're just feeling guilty because you probably recommended the Xterra over the Element.

Well ok, my brakes have been for sale for freaking ages.
I'm getting desperate to get rid of these.

Some guy jusy offered me a trade of a 2006 Norco Team DH frame, e13 chain device and bashie and cranks!
I'm thinking I should take it...

SOME SUPER SWEET BERMAGE!!!! '66 this is right around the corner from your place and definitely worth checking out... Western NC soooo rocks!


http://www.kinetic-images.com/photos..._h5FCJ-L-1.jpg

I'll post more later.

^^^^^^WOW^^^^^^ I could sooooooo take a high side trip off that!

. . . I could blow the inside one, cross over and stack it on the outside :).

Nice shot, highrevs!

Meh. I'd be tootling along right in the middle of the trough.

^haha, nice b2b.

Over the course of the weekend, I saw two front wheels get totally pringled in those berms.

Awesome pic.

What's missing on my line is the Frappuccino puddle right about the apex as I would have to reach for both brakes to not miss the turn.

Am I the only one that doesn't know how to merge pictures like that? I am pretty good on 'puters and stuff but I could never work a graphics program.

Yes.WNC rocks. I think I'll stay a while. I paid my house off today!!!!!!!!!!! Heck yes!

nice, congrats 66.

Awesome news. Looking forward to that day.

gastro and I went to a skillz clinic and the grand opening of the DS track @ Headwaters Outfitters Adventure Village. The place is sweet fer, sure.

Joe Haley pinning it through the berm i posted earlier.
http://www.kinetic-images.com/photos..._oMNjS-L-2.jpg


check out the photos of the clinic with Chris Herndon and Joe Haley...
Dual Slalom Track – Grand Opening PHOTOS

:thumb:

Nice shot - - and great 'eyes-ahead' stance on the part of the rider.

Santiago - - do you have Photoshop or at least an LE version of it?

No, I have what came on my Mac. On the PC i fully ignore I used to have The Gimp installed. Installing the Gimp on a Mac requires more effort than I'm willing to install.

Any recommendations for a Mac?

Looks like Seashore is another freeware editing program like Gimp - - but doesn't need X11 to run. I opened the user's manual and it seems to have the most important ingredient for doing stuff like Hick did with the superimposition: Layers. And, more importantly, an opacity slider for each layer to give it the 'ghosted' look. There also appears to be freeform and polygon lassos in the toolbox - - for doing freeform selects to clip out a portion of an image to paste elsewhere.

I'd say since they're both free, you have no good excuse for not investing a little time to download and install Seashore or Gimp and playing with them some ;). They seem to do all of the "Photoshoppy" things you'll need to do.

Thanks, Doug. I downloaded and installed Seashore. I think I got the hang of it but I find I'm terribly inefficient at using this type of software. I can see why courses in this stuff is offered.

Here's my first attempt:

http://stradasystems.com/mtb/images/MOTP.jpg