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@gnarlyification that's crazy to hear that! We just have small hills here in SA but they have really made the most of them with these new tracks.

1st track is like green smoothie on steroids and the 2nd track is like blue groove on steroids 🙂

@Zanda27 thanks heaps mate! The green trail is called Phoenix and the faster blue trail is caller B-rad

Yea Fox Creek has seen some major improvements in the last few years. From memory, you visited Fox once before? But that would have been many years ago, so it's well worth another trip

@@KurtisPape Yeah man I went there before the fires, looks like it changed a lot now

@maxangus-ld6ku cheers mate! Tracks are insanely smooth you don't even need suspension. Hopefully it stays that way, but I can only imagine breaking bumps will form year that will need to be fixed up

🤙🤙 been a while

So smooth and so fast! Can't wait to clear new gaps on it 🤙

Cheers legend! There won't be any regular uploads but I might be able to do a few videos before next year, then keep it up into the future

Super long for the small hills we have here in SA 👌

For this exact year model, only 28mm tires will fit, and they are a tight fit but I haven't had any problems other than a few scratches as stones pass through the fork. I do remember they updated the clearance in later models to 30c or 32c but i'm not 100% what the current model takes.

@HudsonOwnsMTB cheers mate. I planned to start uploading again at the start of the year but I had a big crash that took me out for a month, it made re-think taking risks on the MTB, I come off lucky from crash but still have some minor nerve damage and wrist pain. I think my days of progressing to faster times and bigger gaps are over but I still want to make videos again that's for sure, just holding off for the moment

@@KurtisPape ye I've got 10 stitches under my knee rn so I can't ride for 2 weeks hope you feel better soon

Changing the exhaust was the difference between holding 4th gear up a hill or having to drop back to 3rd gear with the stock exhaust. Funnily enough I would actually prefer the quieter exhaust now because I sound deadened the whole interior of the car. Having an exhaust note is really nice for hills driving so I can rev the car out and change gears without looking at the rev gauge.

It depends... 28mm tires you could occasionally ride some gravel, it's a fairly rough ride even if it's good quality gravel, I don't think you would have to worry about punctures though if you take it easy. If you went up to 35mm size it would be less harsh but still not a full time gravel tire since it doesn't have any tread. Again in terms of puncture protection most road bike tires don't last when you ride gravel but these are definitely fine for occasional gravel from my experience 👍

@@KurtisPape i see, thanks a lot

I don't understand your comment?

@KurtisPape it looks like the tire is torn from a skid?

Yep still using the bike, I love it, handles technical sections, steep trails, jumps and harsh landings no problem. Some things I don't like about the bike is it has a strange balance point for wheelies, geometry feels neutral so sometimes it feels like I have a bit too much weight on the front wheel. Also climbing is really efficient when seated but when standing it can be a hard push. Using the bike almost every weekend since late 2017 and the bike has held up great, only got the suspension serviced once and never serviced the rear swing arm apart from replacing 4 bearings. I'm proud to have never scratched the frame in a crash, only problem is I have a few scratches from tools slipping when working on the bike and recently bike fell off the bike rack haha.

Thanks for the reply, I have seen only 2 for sale in the country and they have been for sale for a long time, I thought that as they are so rare, parts for them should be also hard to find. Thanks again for the quick review.😀@@KurtisPape

2:14 but this one says Do not fit on hook-less if inner rim is greater then 20cm

Hey mate I appreciate the comment, yes I still ride MTB most weekends. Part of the reason I stopped posting was I ran out of ideas and I didn't want to post the same tracks over and over but the main reason is I have been flat out doing wildlife photography so all my creative effort and post processing has been going into that. It's crazy I just got my GoPro setup perfect, made a few videos and stopped. With this other photography i'm doing I now have lots of camera gear like tripods, professional grade lenses etc. that could really help me do other types of mountain bike videos. I was also doing gear reviews which I couldn't could keep up because i'm keeping all my current bikes long term and I haven't purchased much new gear. I think lots about it because I do want to keep the channel going but I want a plan to keep things consistent

Fair enough. good to hear ur still riding. 🤟

I ride on a main road that always has heaps of glass and metal pieces in the bike lane. Other cyclists can usually see the glass ahead but I can't and always plough right through it haha. If your tire doesn't see glass I would see these working well with inner tubes

@@KurtisPape late response :-) Yes I see your dilemma in running through glass a lot of times :-) Happy safe cycling !

On the box it did say not for use with hookless rims, no sure if that has changed recently but I would double check for safety. Most tubeless tires now days are compatible with hookless so surely they might have updated the cinturatos

Since you haven't been riding for long probably not the best doubles to start on because the ones halfway down across the fireroad require a lot of speed even though they appear small. Perfect track is called 'poppin pimples' at Pewsey Vale, the map can be found on trailforks app. This track has heaps of gap jumps and most of them don't require much speed. They start tiny but get slightly bigger as you go down. I done a video on it, the track is at 5:47 into the video th-cam.com/video/tDrYqBTkpaI/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=Kurtis There is still no harm in trying out Happy Trails, just do a test run and don't hit any jumps, and find a gap jump you are comfortable with and practice, probably 1 toward the end of the track would be good because you can walk back up without walking directly on the track

@@KurtisPape awesome thanks so much! I’ll definitely check out ‘poppin pimples’. Once I get better at gapped jumps I’ll try out happy trails. Thanks again. Edit: I just watched your run through and it looks perfect! It’s almost like ‘jumps revamp’ but not as intense and more flowy.

Thanks, I can't take any credit for caring for them as me giving them water is unnecessary, but eventually I would love to try and help wildlife in some way because it's something I'm very passionate about. Bird nest boxes is where i want to start

Hey, thanks! The handle bar is a Zipp explr, the stem I'm not exactly sure what it was but it was the lighter weight alloy zipp stem. I ended up changing the gearing to sram eagle using the ratio shifter upgrade

Sorry, I didn't see your comment, probably a bit late now... I can't remember installing the crown race, it possibly came pre-installed for me but I have installed crown races before using pvc pipe, around 50mm or possibly larger then hit with a hammer and timber chock, it works perfect.

Thanks for the tip but I already have a 110psi air compressor and using the air gun down the stem still doesn't seat all tires. I needed 500psi with a nitrogen bottle and gauge line to seat these, but what I found was a simple fix, just add an extra layer of rim tape then the air compressor would work. I had to do this recently on my gravel bike, the air compressor wouldn't seat the tires.