Couple pictures from Northstar/Downieville trip this last weekend

[Total Heckler]

Here are some pictures:

The crew at Downieville (I'm the one rocking the Guinness shirt):
http://www.shovelbeating.org/~josh/me/Mountain%20biking%20photos/Tahoe%20weekend%209.23.05-9.25.05/Mounted%20Up.jpg

The bridge before the first climb at Downieville
http://www.shovelbeating.org/~josh/me/Mountain%20biking%20photos/Tahoe%20weekend%209.23.05-9.25.05/showdow%20jobs.jpg

Here is me hitting that high speed double right before 3 amigos/manure pile at Northstar:
http://www.shovelbeating.org/~josh/me/Mountain%20biking%20photos/Tahoe%20weekend%209.23.05-9.25.05/fast%20double.jpg

Here is me doing the banked ladder for the first time at Northstar:
http://www.shovelbeating.org/~josh/me/Mountain%20biking%20photos/Tahoe%20weekend%209.23.05-9.25.05/ladder%20fun.jpg

Here is me hitting the jump/drop right before the ramp park at Northstar (landing halfway down that hill is fun):
http://www.shovelbeating.org/~josh/me/Mountain%20biking%20photos/Tahoe%20weekend%209.23.05-9.25.05/little%20bit%20of%20air.jpg

[Scarpa]

Nice pics. That ladder looks fun.. I'd probably be too chicken to hit anything else pictured. ;)

[Total Heckler]

The ramp onto the ladder is the most sketchy part. Its soo ghetto. Going down was the easy part. =]

[dfinn]

Nice pics. That ladder looks fun.. I'd probably be too chicken to hit anything else pictured. ;)


the ladder is probably the easiest out of everything, except the shot of them sitting on their bikes, that looks pretty straight forward.

[Total Heckler]

lol you guys are great.

[chicodude]

Ok, so that was you i made fun of unicyclists with.....I think.

I saw you at the lifts a bunch though...

[Total Heckler]

lol dude that was so you. Hahaha goodtimes. All those guys were from Santa Cruz too. I see them on the UC trails all the time. Stoked people actually recognized me out there. =] I was kind of living up to the name.

[OGRipper]

I think I saw you and your red upper link from the lift, but never ran into you on the ground...next time. Oh and cool pics.

But yeah it's weird, every one of those ladder stunts has a pretty sketchy entrance. None of them are that hard but just getting on them seems, I dunno, just weird. But that's true of a lot of stuff at Northstar, they just don't seem to get it.

[Total Heckler]

The bottom link and the seat post clamp are also red, not just the upper link. =] But yeah they all have the most sketchy entrances. Im not big on the high up ones because of my past of falling off a log ride and breaking my ankle (see link below)...

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=119557&highlight=log+ride

[OGRipper]

OH MAN!! Those are some freaky pics, that really looks horrible. Like you just had a little ankle flesh holding your foot on! :eek:

Curious though, how did you colorize your vp-free links? Got any better pics of the frame?

[Total Heckler]

I actually have a buddy who is a powder coater over at Santa Cruz. The bike is 1 of 2 bikes ever done by Santa Cruz like that with trans blue and trans red. Oh, the bash gaurd is also done trans blue too. =]

This is the only other images I have of the frame right now. Unfortunately when I broke up with the girlfriend I lost access to her nice digi cam.

http://www.shovelbeating.org/~josh/me/Mountain%20biking%20photos/New%20VP%20Free%202.jpg

http://www.shovelbeating.org/~josh/me/Mountain%20biking%20photos/Tahoe%20weekend%209.23.05-9.25.05/Bikes.jpg

[OGRipper]

Nifty. I thought maybe they were ano'd or something but that is pretty cool.

[scvw79]

yeah, im amazed that with the amount of mountain that they have at northstar,
that their trails, ramps and jumps are so under constructed...I have a better ride on the trails here at UCSC...even with the shuttle runs...