Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Today's session started out with a blooper as it had been raining all night and the stones were slippery. From that on I only did standard moves like a pedal kick onto a 40cm curb, a sidehop onto the same obstacle and so on.

I also went to my favorite wall which is around 62cm high and tried to get as close as possible to it before initiating the pedal up sequence. It is getting easier every day. 

The last wall I tried to "climb" is 80cm high. As of now I can pedal up to 70cm so I thought that 80cm wouldn't be too hard to get onto. I was wrong but It felt good and I think I'll need some two weeks or so and I'll be getting up there with "ease".



Thursday, May 22, 2014

Unfortunately, I haven't had time to go out and ride these past two months as I had my final exams and went to the library everyday.

Last week I finished my studies and was very anxious to ride my bike. As you can see in the picture, I changed the setup of my bike a "little, and since I didn't want to cut the steerer of that expensive fork in that stupid angle my 150x30° stem has, went for a 150x35° stem.

Because Simple Trial 24''

The first ride was alright but I realized, that the stem angle just doesn't do the trick so I DID cut the steerer and am happy now. It feels so much more stable doing BWHs and this helps to do other stuff. :)

I tried that gap again and finally managed to land on that tree stump. I also got up a wall I couldn't get up the last time I rode. It's not even the height (65cm) but the little space I have for the run-up. I can get up 70cm by now if I have the space I want.

The last thing I am very happy about is that I finally overcame my fear of dropping down heights higher than 50cm. So far I was able to get up heights I was afraid of going down... not anymore. :)