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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. 4-22-09 Shuttle

Another fan-frickentastic morning on the great somo…well for most of us anyways. A little carnage in the form of pausch getting his revenge on mighty geronimo, but ended up getting a couple nice holes in his elbow through his pads. Good thing meegan was there to patch him up.


Mikey and Trent had some drivetrain issues…mike broke his hanger clean off and trent bent a front ring.

The rest of us took it easy and made it down no prob. Rich was there to lead us down Natty to 24th st. which is always a blast. Almost took Chollaball out on the switchback/rock roll section of natty. Sorry bro… Maybe next time we’ll stop and chat a bit, still have yet to meet you.

Did I mention I love 24th, the faster you ride that trail the smoother it is! “You really ride down this trail on those?” asked a couple of hikers on there way up. Scooter was getting all crazy finding new lines down the trail and almost ended off the side a couple times. Jeanie shredded like she had no shoulder probs at all. “I feel like another run!!!” five minutes later “I think I’ll drive…” Damn adrenaline never lasts as long as it should. Jeanie was nice enough to drop Brett and I up top for another run down the Natmonun… Ripping and super hot!!! The trail and temperature, not Brettski…

Wed. Mornin’ Shuttle Ride report 4/1/09 and 4/8/09

Sorry for the delay on the post from last week…busy. Anyways the April Fools day shuttle was a very foolish day indeed. We had a grip of people show up for the 6am start. Two trucks full to be exact! First a Geronimo run and then a holbert run. Lots of gnar on both, some got a little too gnar. Sorry Jeanie, hope the shoulder heals up quick. Mr. Mikey Dropped the double drop in the holbert pit, I hate him… Then we all head back up for some more shreddage down natty, about half way down to be exact. We get roll the top half smooth, a couple fellas tried the super spine at the waterfall. Then we head down in to hidden valley, I mean broken off valley… See vid.

That was stu playing lawn dart for us. He landed on his right shoulder and wasn’t feeling so hot so we wrapped him up good with a tube/kneepad sling and hiked his butt back to buena vista, the others took his bike down 24th st. (that musta been fun) We get stu to the urgent care and the loving arms of his girlfriend. So Steve and I grab a little lunch, and ask ourselves w.w.s.d.? (what would stu do?) We headed back to the top for an honorary run down natty, mormon, and a trail on the north side of the hill that is fun to ride. It was nice ripping in the evening light, thats right evening… We spent all day shredding, hiking, hospitalling, grubbing, and some more shredding. Boy did my dog have to pee when I got home. All in all, a good day on the hill for the rest of us, not so good for mr. stu. It turns out he broke his collar bone in 4 places and broke his scapula. It didn’t even look that bad in the video. Everyone keep stu in your thoughts and send him healing vibes to get him back on the bike asap.
Gallery Here!!!
Wed. Mornin’ Shuttle 4/8/09

On to today… Another great morning starting at 5:45am, these AZ DHr’s are ready to rock like Slayer!!! 6 riders at 6am. First on the shuttle up, a dude on a Harley passes us by the gate and hucks his bike going 50mph off one of the speed bumps, it’s gonna be a good day! Up to geronimo, down, Birthday Boy Brett and wifey Jeani and maia dog meet us for a lift up to a natty, mormon, run. Uneventful except for Mikey shredding his front deraliur cable on his first run, Pasch pinch flatting in the truck on the shuttle up, and Brennan almost rolling down the waterfall. We kept up a race pace, giving us a great idea…TBDL (to be discussed later). Rolled down to the bottom and back to the truck to start the bday bash. I warmed up the frying pan for bobs famous bfast burritos. Jeani took the rest of the clan plus two w.m.s. newbies, steve and trent (soon to be pinners with the right gear) up to geronimo for another run. They met Tank and other Park Rangers improving our favorite DH trail. Thanks crew!!! It wouldn’t be a w.m.s. without Brennan blowing not one, but two tubes on the way down. Crimson took a nice trip o.t.b. After everyone made it back to the bottom, we enjoy some good food and bevy’s. Crimson even brought the meat for the non “vagatarians”. After filling our bellies to the brim we headed back up for a bday run ala brett, I guess cause he’s so far away from 24 now he wanted to ride 24th st. It’s been a while for me and others on that trail, and it showed. I gotta run that one more, lots of gnar topped with some whipped gnar and gnar sprinkles.

24th Channel train from latedropbob on Vimeo.
After we survived that we headed to holebretto for a quickie. Some more shredding down that, with Pasch dropping the uber sick line that’s not even the trail(wish I’d a had the video going for that one) some more crashes but nothing serious. We all survive the trail to get to the bottom to see Pish Pasch drop the dollar bill drop in the Holbert Pit. See Vid.

Dollar Bill Drop from latedropbob on Vimeo.
We all load up and hit the road. On the way out of the lot we notice some sweet dh bikes we’ve never seen before and some new riders, we give a honk and a wave on our way by. Paschy knocks on the windo from the back and goes “Was that Andrew Shandro?” We flip a bitch and it was!!! He is out here with the Trek crew doing some desert testing. So being true pro hoes we got a group picture to end the day. Happy Bday Brett!!! Another successful shuttle day!!!

Gallery Here!

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Not Bad for a couple of Downhillers…the helipad TT

We took a whack at the challenge that mtbikeaz put up for us via twitter “Helipad TT” during our weekly pedal this morning. Started at the San Gabriel lot and pedaled Desert Classic all the way out there.  We each took our turn on the attempt. Andy started 1st ( hoofed it on the start) Stuart got off to a great start only to stall 50 feet up the trail, “this stuff is rough” he huffed.  I raised the seat, clipped in and took off, made it 75 feet to pull out of the pedals and hike that first steep loose section. But bound and determined to make it on one shot I pushed on, pedaled what I could and passed both guys on the way up.  About half way up, we were passed by this hammerer on a specialized hardtail showing us how to do it. Pedaled all the way to dissapear down the opposite side.  We reached the summit and had a little coffee, snapped a group pic and started the shred down.  About half way, stu got all gnar in front of me, and flew off trail after sending this little drop almost putting me into a barrel cactus on the right. Just a little scratch for me and a couple for stu.  We continued to shred via secret and the flats out.  Loaded the cars and headed to Los Taquitos next to Cactus bike for celabratory burritos.

Helipad TT Times:
Latedropbob: 10:30
Andy: 11:10
Stu: 12 flat (no pun intended)

Good Times!!!

Gallery of Pics Here!

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.