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This video has a great explanation on how to fix your issue. His videos in general are really good.

Here's another really good video for solving this problem. The key here is not to actually place your front wheel on top of the object but to instead glance off the top of it to propel you up and over while unweighting the back of the bike. It's called the punch. The timing can be tricky but it's a great move.

Just got back from sessioning DD. I was able to utilize “the punch“ to clean every step up but some I had to try a few times to get it. Now just need to work on consistency. The only one I was having a hard time cleaning was the step up that has the loose climb just before it. Hard to get enough speed to punch up. Ended up having to brute force it. IMG_1849.MOV

Yeah, I prefer plastic pallets, but wood pallets are more commonplace, and make better bonfires.

Yeah, amongst a bunch of grown men who put on diaper shorts and play around in the dirt you sure got you a sophistificated pallet.😂

Good today!

And take a long walk off a short pier.

I wasn't 100% sure I understood the OP's question. I'm thinking of one specific step-up on 1/4 on which you get front then rear wheel up but immediately you have another step, or rather your front wheel is in a dimple. For lack of a better description, I use what looks like what trials riders do here. I basically almost come to a stop but I do one last full bike push to keep going forward. I've been riding MTB for 25 years and Brushy for probably more than 5 years but I still haven't gotten the nerve to ride down sponge bob. Regarding how much harder DD is than 1/4, it has more climbing and some visually-more-challenging spots, but as I've been learning in the last year or so and @circuitbreaker has been encouraging me try more stuff with some coaching, I've found that most of the intimidation is from how something looks. To me Sponge Bob looks intimidating. I'll ride it at some point when I'm feeling confident and I'm sure I'll think "what was the big deal" but I'm totally cool with walking something (I practice CX dismount here if I want to do a decent time on 1/4 E2W) rather than get injured. I'm trying to think of where there are difficult hairpins on 1/4. I can't think of any that are more difficult than some of the tight turns on DD.

Same here. For me once I got hardware to hold my ankle together, I am a lot less brave when there are rocks and rock gaps and such where I envision not making it up, putting my foot down on the wrong spot and breaking it again. I still had one fantabulous ride about 2 months ago where I sessioned a lot of stuff on DD that I'd been walking. Some definitely deserved my respect and caution, but most stuff was fairly tame, and some stuff was tame if you can hold the right line, and scary if you can't.

Hey nothing wrong with that - and trust me you'll have DD down in no time if you have the physicality to run 1/4 end-to-end in 16 min. I used to pack a full lunch and take 3 hours to go end-to-end when I first started riding Deception (1/4 Notch and DD combined). Now I can go end-to-end in well under an hour in either direction, and then turn around and go back in the opposite direction. Like others have stated, I thought many of the features were un-rideable when I first saw them. There are a couple of spots I generally don't even attempt anymore for fear of stalling on the incline and then falling backwards with nothing to stop me (like getting up Jammer). Probably more mental than anything, but at 61 I don't want to rely on brut strength that I just don't have.

Taking a friend and his young son out to Peddlers around 5 for their first ride out there. Excited to show them and hope we don't slow any of y'all down too much.

This is the method @Morealice taught me to get up EBD step. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Don’t forget about Bamboo bikes ...and 36ers Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great teaching video.

MmmMMmm. Incredible taste. So discerning.

not my bikes..haha I've been riding the 2, karate monkey and pake cross bike, for over 10 years now, it's kinda weird now with so much history they're like family

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Used most of the bike to upgrade kids bike and wife and mine, and threw in a dropper that need rebuild, was using it worked ok just didn’t like the weight and he gave me just what I needed so her is every thing else Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No that's a different Claire. She's still around a bit. She's now got 2 young boys and is trying to get back into the swing of riding (as a mom). -CJB

A few things that get put to the side from the generous donation Aron firstblood Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s only a flesh wound! I decided to try 1/4 Notch the first day I got clipless pedals. Ended up not clipping out in time and fell over on a cactus. That was fun.

Riding 1/4 this afternoon. Was pushing it to the max as there was a guy behind me who started at the same time and was actually keeping up. In the first twisty tree covered section i rounded one of the tight turns and clipped my shoulder on a tree. Managed to keep the bike up and was rewarded with a new PR of 16 mins flat. Worth it I guess. Shoulder will not be happy tomorrow. 🤷‍♂️

They all have their hands down each others pants. It's f@cking ridiculous how they do business here.

Mavics are narrower OK, Gravel Kings are yours Will PM both of you.

I saw that this morning. Now all they need to do is break up the liquor mob.

Yep, it’s always a surprise what the other side is going to look like once you get on top. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

finally, governor ironsides and his merry band of f*ckbois might actually make a good decision.

That spot keeps me on my toes, I just never know what I might encounter from ride to ride.

I feel like I'm back in high school. Can we just not do this shit here anymore. I mean you guys do you. But maybe elsewhere . Or maybe I'm the one with the issue and just need to take a hiatus again. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

On the bright side: https://www.kxan.com/news/coronavirus/gov-abbott-alcohol-to-go-could-stay-forever/

Many many years ago @Scorpionwoman (Claire) and I would put on 'free clinics' at City Park. She would take the more beginner group and I'd take the intermediate group. I think she'd work on basics and I primarily worked on drops and step ups. Around the same time one of my (bike shop) customers offered to pay me to do a mini-group lesson (w/3-4ppl) for him and his friends. That spun off into me doing a handful of those across a few years. A few of the guys on this forum attended. At the time, I'd schemed up another idea of doing an "ATX nemesis" clinic where over the course of a few weeks or so we'd cover tips & tricks to pulling off some of the local challenging spots on our trails (Root Drop, Nando's Elbow, Elephants Butt, Jock Strap, Etc..). But I never got around to it. Same concept cold be done for a 'highlights of Deception" too. If you don't end up finding what you are looking for I wouldn't be against trying to work something out. I'm not riding as much as I was back then, and my schedule is (normally) a little busier, but I did find it fun and rewarding. *NOTE* Claire was doing paid 'beginner clinics' and 1on1 quite a bit back then, so maybe she'll chime in here too. Cheers, Cody Baron 512-6nine4-one3one9

Dude! I f ing hate you.@HoneyBadger My rage didnt allow me to inspect the photo. Hahaha. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Paramedics out at the Peddlers Pass trail head. Gentleman is doing ok. But they are Wheeling him out. Cardiac related but conscious and talking. Mountain bikers and other good Samaritans were helping.