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[Yesterday at 11:55:50 PM] Skinman: My bike didnt make funny noises today. Thats a victory

[Yesterday at 11:56:26 PM] billnye: o/ Funny silences!

[Yesterday at 11:56:31 PM] billnye: \o/

[Yesterday at 11:56:42 PM] billnye: bastard shoutbox ate my arm

[Yesterday at 11:57:32 PM] Skinman: I ride an FSR silence IS golden!!!

[Yesterday at 11:59:37 PM] billnye: my current ride doesn't have any issues, but I rode for years on a set of Profile cranks that creak up a storm

[Today at 12:01:25 AM] Skinman: AJ's found my problem...a Friggin skewer with grit in it

[Today at 12:01:39 AM] Skinman: thing would wake the dead

[Today at 12:01:58 AM] Skinman: I thought it was the bottom braket

[Today at 12:02:40 AM] Skinman: Loudest thing on abike I ever heard. Tonight...not a sound

[Today at 12:03:13 AM] Skinman: just my ribs grinding together trying to keep up with 23 mph Gregg

[Today at 12:30:37 AM] mmountainbiker: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[SamW]

Most riders I know that have conquered the infamous G-back at Alafia have metal plates in their shoulders. I prefer the tamer trails because I am allergic to hospitals and surgical knives. G-back caters to adrenaline junkies with health insurance! 

[slowfatguy]

That is funny, that root wall gives me no problems. For me it was always that dang bridge around the tree. Not so much the bridge, but getting up to it comfortably, I'd always dork up on the humps just before it and have no momentum left. Oddly enough the first time I cleaned the trail was on my hardtail.

Youre a dork anyway

yeah, and I can't ride so I build lots of bypasses.

Keep us up to date on this guys, I need somewhere to let my trail maintenance aggressions out now.

[chisel]

I got the word that we are going to rework it and make it more flowy and sustainable.  Flow baby flow!

[slowfatguy]

when is work going to start?

[chisel]

Ells and I will have to get wth Art and walk it to come up with a plan of attack soon! I am really looking forward to it!

[MOOSE]

No metal plate in my shoulder...

Gatorback's design is challenging. It never stops coming at you. I disagree with those that say it has no "flow". GB has plenty og flow - it's tough as can be, but it becomes a great challenge and later a great reward to string one "clean" after another together until you finally clean everything. Perhaps I'm wrong, but it seemed like a lot of the perceived or real problems with Gatorback from a sustainable trail standpoint could be resolved rather easily. I've ridden it since its inception and found it to be wildly challenging and one of the best "difficult" trails I've ridden anywhere. Please, I urge those involved to keep any changes to this trail true to its purpose of being a Double Black Diamond trail.

[MOOSE]

HEre's a movie from "back in the day" when the "Wall of Roots" was just that - a heaping pile of vertical roots. It's been tamed a great deal since then. The guy on the Video (Larry) was one of the first that i saw, figure out the technique of cleaning the wall of roots.
http://www.outdoortravels.com/files/fl_movie_alafia_walloroots.mov

[catman]

Cleaned it for the third time today and have a witness for you haters  in the forum (haters known as TripleT & Krunnch). Hey BillT, um, come on, where you at man?

[jbennardo]

Rode it twice this weekend... still plenty of dabs and I had to get off and hike once. I haven't been able to re-create my spill of a few weeks ago mostly because there was no reason for that fall. Just lost concentration. Anyway, my big accomplishment was the big twisty climb at the end. I used to look at that and say "no way" but I finally made it.
I hope to add more and more little victories and eventually ride clean with all the harder options.
And I keep running into catman! 

[catman]

Pretty sure I spotted you today as well. That red Specialized is hard to miss.

[BillT]

Catman did clear everything on Gatorback today..the only time something other than his wheels touched anything was when he was grabbing a tree waiting for me on the top of a climb or two.

[Scott]

Ohhhhh, did you say he waited (read rested) DQ!!!!!!!!!!
Good job Cat

[Triple T]

And I keep running into catman! 

He likes it when you "run into" him

[slowfatguy]

Catman did clear everything on Gatorback today..the only time something other than his wheels touched anything was when he was grabbing a tree waiting for me on the top of a climb or two.

funny, that isn't the way I remember things.

[catman]

Ohhhhh, did you say he waited (read rested) DQ!!!!!!!!!!
Good job Cat

Have to wait for the witness or else it's my word against all the haters.
 
Next goal is to clean Moonscape with all hard options. This one will take a while considering how I performed today on the inital climb into Doom. Slowfatguy tried to help but I was beyond help today.