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Author Topic: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............  (Read 6219 times)

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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #15 on: December 07, 2007, 10:32:54 AM »
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!  :)
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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2007, 09:22:07 PM »
Quote from: steve on December 06, 2007, 09:52:46 PM
Quote from: slowfatguy on August 24, 2007, 07:47:13 AM
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.
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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2007, 07:01:06 AM »
I got the word that we are going to rework it and make it more flowy and sustainable.  Flow baby flow! ;D
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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2007, 07:57:05 AM »
when is work going to start?
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« Reply #19 on: December 11, 2007, 07:20:21 AM »
??? 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! 8)
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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #20 on: January 29, 2008, 12:17:36 PM »
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.
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« Reply #21 on: January 29, 2008, 12:30:46 PM »
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
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« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2009, 04:50:46 PM »
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?
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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2009, 04:59:23 PM »
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!  ;D
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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2009, 05:41:05 PM »
Pretty sure I spotted you today as well. That red Specialized is hard to miss.
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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #25 on: May 10, 2009, 06:04:45 PM »
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.
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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #26 on: May 10, 2009, 06:12:15 PM »
Ohhhhh, did you say he waited (read rested) DQ!!!!!!!!!! ;D
Good job Cat :)
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Re: Gatorback.......for all those that ride it......BE HONEST..............
« Reply #27 on: May 10, 2009, 06:16:50 PM »
Quote from: jbennardo on May 10, 2009, 04:59:23 PM
And I keep running into catman!  ;D

He likes it when you "run into" him ;)
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« Reply #28 on: May 10, 2009, 10:08:12 PM »
Quote from: BillT on May 10, 2009, 06:04:45 PM
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. ;D
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« Reply #29 on: May 10, 2009, 10:19:19 PM »
Quote from: Scott on May 10, 2009, 06:12:15 PM
Ohhhhh, did you say he waited (read rested) DQ!!!!!!!!!! ;D
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.
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