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Here’s some video of the last few weeks…

One Year Anniversary Wed. Mornin’ Shuttle from latedropbob on Vimeo.

National Run Wed. Mornin’ Shuttle 5.6.09 from latedropbob on Vimeo.

Pinal Shred Fest!!! 5-1-09 from latedropbob on Vimeo.

All video shot with GoPro Hero Cam…

Wed. March 11, 2009 Shuttle

So this was the biggest wed. mornin’ shuttle we’ve had yet this year. I don’t know what happened but everyone showed up. Gref, Crimson, Nannerb, Ktroopa, Jeanie, Meegan, Sixty, Superstition, and meself. We rolled some real fun stuff on south mountain. Dropped into National and Mormon and 32nd st. Meegan dropped the waterfall for the first time. Jeani the second. Great JoB!!!  The rest of us were just feeding off of eachother and shredding our hearts out.  Some shredded their tires off… No hikers to be seen at all! Thats why we ride on Wed. mornin’s:)  Then when we got to the bottom, someone who will remain nameless forgot their keys in the truck at the top, so brett was nice enough to drive us to the top so brennan and I could get a geronimo run while the rest of the group waited for the keys and played on the construction drops. We got the group together, and piled into meegan’s truck, yup 8 of us with bikes and gear piled into the back of her tacoma. “That’s cheating” replied a roadie as we rolled by… We headed to the top of holbert for some more fun. I’m falling in love with that trail finally after a few years.  It’s almost fun…  Dropped in the top section and just as we were about to have some real fun crimson had big blow out. Took a few minutes to fix the flat and on we rolled.  Everyone was flowing down that trail, some for the first time.  No carnage to be had except for a dented top tube on meegan’s bike. I almost feel sorry for the flogging that trek was recieving that day, but it took everybit meegan dished out.  Brett and Jeani were breaking in their Perps thouroughly.  Rich, aka Superstition dropped a good drop at the holbert pit.  Then he was nice enough to drive us all back to the top where the group split up, some of us ripped geronimo again and some split for work and other for the bar.  That was one of the funnest wed. I’ve had in a while… Good times!  See you all next week.

That guy on a 20″ Folding Bike is kicking our A$$!!!

So andy and I were out at south mountain doing a little desert classic rip and we ran into this guy on a little folding bike. I rolled by him and said “cute bike”. We continued down the trail to get to that big up hill section by trail post fiftey, I look back and this guy is passing andy and catching up to me on this “mini” bike. We meet him at the top and start b.s.ing a little. We learn that he’s riding this Dahon Folding full suspension mountain bike. It has 3″ of travel on the front and 2″ in the rear. The plushness supplied by air shock. He was running a FSA/SRAM 1×9x3 drivetrain. 1 big ring, 9 out the back and a 3 speed hub. Now thats what I call sick. It was built super sturdy and weighed about 28lbs. He was running 20″ wheels with avid mechanical discs and maxxis tires. Here’s a video of him ripping down the valley up towards the helipad.

He cleaned most of both up hills, on flats with 5.10’s!!! Him and his wife Deb live in an RV full time and have been for some time. Both of them just travel around with their Dahon mountain bikes riding where they want when they want. They were just in moab and are heading to Tucson for some fun. Check out their website at www.debcar.com. All in all it was a great 10 mile evening with an incredible sunset and moonrise. Good to meet you Carey! Hope to roll with you again someday.