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I was up at Farm doing some work for the property owner.

Then took a low key ride by myself.

Nice! I'm sure it's beautiful up there this time of year.

Twist wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 05, 2023 8:17 am

Nice! I'm sure it's beautiful up there this time of year.

Definitely past peak, but still pretty. I always try to really appreciate it. Even though Im there fairly often

Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy. I managed to move my schedule around and come up to Farm for a few hours.

My forks are still out for service so Sam was nice enough to give me his Ultra Bee for the day.
Super fun bike. Im still recovering so I took it easy and left it in Eco almost the whole time. Still enough power to get me around the trails. The light weight and quiet are so great. Ill have to get an electric some day.

I still need to saw out one or two more logs. But Im happy with the newest section of trail.

Matt helped and laid out quite a bit of this. Several spots on this trail we were able to have an easy line and a challenge line real close to each other.
(As usual the pic looks like nothing…)

The easy line to the right of the bush. Easy roll up the slope.

The hard line to the left of the bush. Its a bit more of a ledge than the pic shows.

I'm not sure what sprocket Sam is running on there but with that 16" rear wheel it looks like 200 teeth :) Would give DaveJ's LightBee sprocket a run for its money! I'm sure it has plenty of torque even in eco mode.

smdub wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:41 pm

I'm not sure what sprocket Sam is running on there but with that 16" rear wheel it looks like 200 teeth :) Would give DaveJ's LightBee sprocket a run for its money! I'm sure it has plenty of torque even in eco mode.

Good to know. I did notice it was a large sprocket but I thought it was stock

Probably helped Eco mode feel stronger!

Looks like my 64 tooth (or maybe a bit larger) I run on my Surron. Pulls my fat ass pretty much anywhere. I can do the big hill climb at Phil's but I have to do the old switch back routine 1 time.

Firebolter wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:34 pm

Looks like my 64 tooth (or maybe a bit larger) I run on my Surron. Pulls my fat ass pretty much anywhere. I can do the big hill climb at Phil's but I have to do the old switch back routine 1 time.

FWIW, The UB uses 520 chain so the sprockets have less teeth for the same diameter. My orig joking aside, that looks like a 62? Appears to be a Vortex sprocket redrilled to the UB bolt pattern. No one makes one that big AFAIK. 58T is as big as I've seen.

The UB makes quite a bit more torque stock than the LB.

Last year I cut a bit of a walking trail at my house. (We have several dogs but no neighborhood to walk them in)

I did a few laps on the bike. The whole thing is pretty easy but there is this short section that is rocky and offcamber. Just tricky enough.



Same short section from one direction, then the other