Crazy steep and seats

[Al Boneta]

@outerlimits it always feels steeper than it actually is.
Here’s Cam Zink doing a 63 degree chute at Rampage

 

[CjP]

Man how do you people have time to know where your knees or thighs are?
When I’m going down hills it’s more like shit that’s steep, hold on, enjoy the ride and don’t die!

 

[Gary]

100m elevation drop over 800m isn't particularly steep.

I'd read your op as 800m elevation

 

[Haedesz]

I'm gonna go on a limb here;
Super buttclenching steep (without mentioning degrees) would mean you would have to zizgzag down, if the terrain allows it. By doing this you effectively unsteepen the descent. The longer the distance you zigzag side to side, the more you take away from the degrees decline.

On any gnarly descents for me personally, I can't touch the seat for fear of tipping over.

Anyways,
800m of length over 100m of height:

For reference: 80 degrees descent

 

[outerlimits]

I'm gonna go on a limb here;
Super buttclenching steep (without mentioning degrees) would mean you would have to zizgzag down, if the terrain allows it. By doing this you effectively unsteepen the descent. The longer the distance you zigzag side to side, the more you take away from the degrees decline.

On any gnarly descents for me personally, I can't touch the seat for fear of tipping over.

Anyways,
800m of length over 100m of height:
View attachment 21172

For reference: 80 degrees descent
View attachment 21173

Yeah narh, it was crazy steep ?‍

 

[slippery pete]

Don't know what you've ridden but...


Vert entry settling to 50 degree. Average 40 degree top to bottom.

Controlled descent on grippy limestone (37 degrees) with a certain amount of playing it up for the camera...

 

[CjP]

We should just stop using degrees and percentages and just use crazy steep and super butt clenching steep instead.
Pants shittingly steep is another one.
Seat staining steep would be a good one for you Outer.

 

[outerlimits]

We should just stop using degrees and percentages and just use crazy steep and super butt clenching steep instead.
Pants shittingly steep is another one.
Seat staining steep would be a good one for you Outer.

How bout it was foam chewing steep ?

 

[CjP]

Why are you chewing foam?

 

[outerlimits]

Don't know what you've ridden but...


Vert entry settling to 50 degree. Average 40 degree top to bottom.

Controlled descent on grippy limestone (37 degrees) with a certain amount of playing it up for the camera...

All I know is it was seat staining steep and all the video links and graphs in the world can’t give it prospective.

 

[outerlimits]

Why are you chewing foam?

Chewing saddle foam with me ass cheeks ?

Lucky I had trued me rotors before the ride ?

 

[CjP]

Chewing saddle foam with me ass cheeks ?
?

Lol I forget there’s foam in it cause the seat is so hard.
My ass feels like sandpaper atm from 3 days of riding.

 

[outerlimits]

Lol I forget there’s foam in it cause the seat is so hard.
My ass feels like sandpaper atm from 3 days of riding.

You sit too much. ?
At least the coarseness will aid in saddle grip on foam chewing steep descents ?

 

[Haedesz]

This is buttclenching steep for me, but only for 20 meters or so. Angle is a guesstimate.

If I'd be anywhere near my seat on this I would tumble over. I gently massage my ass with the top of my rear tyre when going down these slopes.

Would I be able to do this for +-800m? Maybe, but not in a straight line. I'd probably keel over zigzagging due to not enough momentum on loose over hard.

But then again I'm no pro by any means.

 

[CjP]

You sit too much. ?
At least the coarseness will aid in saddle grip on foam chewing steep descents ?

Hey! I do lots of climbing unlike you crazy rampage riders!

Also I don’t sit on or near my seat on full on descents. Half my rear tire rubber is imbedded into my shorts.

 

[mark.ai]

This is buttclenching steep for me, but only for 20 meters or so. Angle is a guesstimate.

Except that the angle is more like the one between these white lines:

So less than 45 degrees … but that is still very steep ...

 

[Pdoz]

Anyways,
800m of length over 100m of height:
View attachment 21172

If you squint, look sideways, pucker up just enough and have been smoking just the right amount - that's still an 82.819 degree drop.

 

[Haedesz]

Except that the angle is more like the one between these white lines:

So less than 45 degrees … but that is still very steep ...

Absolutely right, thats a better angle!

 

[B1rdie]

Got to have hip flex so with legs extended you can stretch ya upper body so that while ya butt gets a rear wheel scrub and you still can kiss the stem.

 

[Doomanic]

Did you video it? Or Strava it? If you set it as a segment Strava will work out the distance and drop for you.