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For jumps, repetition is huge. I had taken a few bike park lessons, but overheard some guys talking on the gondola saying if you ride jump trails for 10 days, you'll be good at jumping. Started just lapping jumps all day. Went from not clearing 60% of Crank it Up to comfortably riding Dirt Merchant pretty quickly (pre Pro-Line). I still can't bunny hop FWIW. It's pretty hard to beat the progression of the Whistler park given the amount of runs and predictably built jumps. It's just built for progression with Crank It Up (More)/A-Line.

I'm hoping to get some cornering coaching this summer if anybody can recommend somebody in Whistler/Squamish/Pemberton.

Finally took out my Carbonda FM936 (Chinese XC frame) for it's first laps today. This is the manufacturer of the new NS Synonym that was on Pinkbike last week. Really fun bike... 120mm, 66 HA, 76 STA, 475mm reach on Medium, and came in at 25lbs. Raced another Chinese frame last year and really liked it (ProMance M7007-II) but wanted something with more modern geometry. Will try to get a better pic next time.

I'd highly recommend Phoenix/Sedona/Flagstaff. Been heading down there every October/November for the past 3 years or so. Perfect time to go.

Looks like they've changed their mind...

https://globalnews.ca/news/5454385/north-vancouver-trail-obstacles/amp/

Forekaster/Aspen worked better than expected for the Nimby considering the rain. Might have to give 2.6's a chance soon... has anybody tried the Forekaster or Rekons? Not a hardtail rider myself, but 100mm so less than most. Looks like they weigh less than I expected.

Really happy with the Forekaster 2.35 up front with the Aspen 2.25 in the rear, both EXO on 30mm ID rims.

Plenty of tire for the NIMBY, pre-rode the course yesterday actually. Minion SS is pretty heavy I think (running one on my other bike).

Believe Kabush ran Aspens for the BC bike race last year, but put a Forekaster up front for the Squamish day

I rode a 2014 Instinct BC for four years, awesome bike. Going to build it back up and sell it soon, but it's a medium. Definitely going to want to convert to 1x in my opinion, but should be cheap to go 1x11 nowadays and I just ran the stock crank with no issues. Should be fine on a large, I'm 5'10" and rode a medium with a 40mm stem... not ideal by modern standards, but no real complaints.

NX Eagle isn't compatible with his XD driver, so GX cassette plus everything will be $500+ for less range/more weight. NX cassettes are really cheap though.

Something about the lack of chainwrap? Heard about that, but I've never had any issues myself. To be fair, I'm not in it very often.

I've been really happy with my e13 cassettes and always seem to find deals on them. They sell the 3 big gears (aluminum) separately so you don't have to buy a new cassette when this happens.

9-46t (XD driver) and you can downsize your chainring if you want without losing any top end speed. More range than Eagle or 12-speed XTR. Recommend running SRAM chain for best shifting with them.