My Rail, Resting on Stuff

[High Rock Ruti]

Love this thread.... and as I today picked up this babe.... famous from

Here is my addition from this Rail 9 (2021) first ride.... 885m to 1357m over 22km, great intro to this one; did a testride the day before from 762m to 1348 which was excellent, thus just had to get it

Resting on....... a bale of hay:
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A crikey bridge:
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A wooden bridge:
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Fence while going up hill: (oh and yes, restarting a bike going uphill, that is updated to have 85Nm works great; then again that worked even better on the Haibike Flyon Allmtn 8.0, that one just ran out of juice too quickly); this section of the path was the easy bit:
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Another Cow-fence:
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A bench a wee bit further up:
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Together with the sheep, horses and donkey (off screen to the right):
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and of course on a watererthrough, drinkable water straight from the mountain, which is a good thing, as unless one brings a camelpak, no waterbottle fits in the triangle (the bontrager holder does, but you won't get any useful bottle in ...
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That was a nice 22km intro ride to get it back home, further was downhill at ~46kmh average, yes, the breaks work fine.

The Zeb functions marvellously, but will have to throw some more off track against it to test that properly.

High Rock Ruti

You gotta ride those hay bales like Danny McCaskill!

 

[jeroen]

You gotta ride those hay bales like Danny McCaskill!

The farmer was just driving around picking them up with his tractor, thus had to get out of there before he crushed my little bike
If somebody will scratch it, it will be me!

 

[Philly G]

Love this thread.... and as I today picked up this babe.... famous from

Here is my addition from this Rail 9 (2021) first ride.... 885m to 1357m over 22km, great intro to this one; did a testride the day before from 762m to 1348 which was excellent, thus just had to get it

Resting on....... a bale of hay:
View attachment 35413

A crikey bridge:
View attachment 35414

A wooden bridge:
View attachment 35415

Fence while going up hill: (oh and yes, restarting a bike going uphill, that is updated to have 85Nm works great; then again that worked even better on the Haibike Flyon Allmtn 8.0, that one just ran out of juice too quickly); this section of the path was the easy bit:
View attachment 35416

Another Cow-fence:
View attachment 35417

A bench a wee bit further up:
View attachment 35418

Together with the sheep, horses and donkey (off screen to the right):
View attachment 35419

and of course on a watererthrough, drinkable water straight from the mountain, which is a good thing, as unless one brings a camelpak, no waterbottle fits in the triangle (the bontrager holder does, but you won't get any useful bottle in ...
View attachment 35420

That was a nice 22km intro ride to get it back home, further was downhill at ~46kmh average, yes, the breaks work fine.

The Zeb functions marvellously, but will have to throw some more off track against it to test that properly.

Lovely bike! Pretty similar to the 2020 model except for the Zeb? And the gorgeous new colourways!

 

[befoot]

Here's mine at Beeks Place in the Santa Ana Mtns, CA View attachment 27319

it's not my Rail ....It's my Procal but it is at Beeks

 

[befoot]

My Rail 7 resting on the Amulet Silver Mine Walker, Prescott, Arizona

a pre-work morning ride resting on a branch...Prescott Arizona

resting on top of Mt Union with Christi behind the bars...Prescott Arizona

 

[ragnor]

 

[1981Miked]

My rail 7 resting on stuff.
Pic 1: Top of Drovers road at back of Dundee
Pic 2: Bench on Riverside nature trail in Dundee after I decided to go out one night at 22:00.
Pic 3: Top of Pitmedden Forest, taken today. Still loving this bike. Although I did start to head a creak from bb area today whilst under power.

 

[acmcdonaldgp]

Looking down the creek....and letting the mud dry a bit....

 

[Tony.OK]

In the Esk forest in Napier, NZ where she belongs, bombing the rootiest trails I can find ?

 

[Stanpipe]

Here’s mine leaning against the trig point at the summit of Snowdon a few weeks back. Ignore the idiot in the background! ?

 

[Doomanic]

Weather looks nice...

 

[Stanpipe]

Weather looks nice...

??? Yeah, visibility zero and a good 10deg colder at the top! My Singletrack Timber Bell came in handy on descent tho. Hikers appearing out of mist could hear me coming in plenty of time! ?

 

[Blue Moon]

Top pic.
Bottom of holcombe hill just as the fine drizzle began.
Bottom pic.
Drink break in Redishaw Woods

 

[Doomanic]

Resting on a log at BPW...

 

[Doomanic]

Resting on a bench at BPW after the battery went flat...

 

[Philly G]

Resting on a log at BPW...

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Nice shot. What rotor are you running on the front?

 

[Doomanic]

Galfer

 

[Philly G]

Galfer

Rotors look sweet, "Noise and vibration-free", that's what I need, sick of trying to straighten/quieten the Shimano rotors. Never heard of Galfer before. Are they good? Are you running the 223mm?

 

[Doomanic]

Vibration free? I don't think so. I'm pretty sure mine is warped, just need to summon up the arsed to remove it and check.

It as the only one available at the time (April) and if I'm honest it's massively overprice at £40, even if it hasn't warped.

It is the 223, but I don't think I'll bother again.

 

[Philly G]

Oh that's a shame. Hopes for me then, if I can track any down....

 

[jeroen]

Resting on a Log (real one, not one from Blammo) : [mmm actually that is a tree stump, but everybody wants a Log...]

And on a remembrance marker at ~1300m, as apparently the road was built by interned polish soldiers during WW2 (German Wikipedia)... one still can learn a wee bit of history wherever one goes...

 

[Doug Stampfer]

Hmmm might have to talk to the mechanic tomorrow.

 

[Philly G]

Hmmm might have to talk to the mechanic tomorrow.

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oh no!!! what happened? is it just the crank arm that's broken?

 

[Doug Stampfer]

oh no!!! what happened? is it just the crank arm that's broken?

Nah just the bolt came out. It's funny as I was halfway down one of the best tracks in Nelson (Te ara koa) absolutely on fire having a blast & remember looking down & seeing the grease on the inside of the crank arm & thinking I hadn't noticed that before. Went over a small root lost my footing & then spent a few seconds spinning my legs trying to find my pedals again until I stopped & saw I had no pedal. Luckily it was 10m back up on the track. I din't want to put it back on incase I munted something so single sided it back down. I was ok coming down on the left side of the track but the right side gave me a bit of grief.

 

[Philly G]

Nah just the bolt came out. It's funny as I was halfway down one of the best tracks in Nelson (Te ara koa) absolutely on fire having a blast & remember looking down & seeing the grease on the inside of the crank arm & thinking I hadn't noticed that before. Went over a small root lost my footing & then spent a few seconds spinning my legs trying to find my pedals again until I stopped & saw I had no pedal. Luckily it was 10m back up on the track. I din't want to put it back on incase I munted something so single sided it back down. I was ok coming down on the left side of the track but the right side gave me a bit of grief.

Good thing you weren't landing a jump when you noticed the crank had gone! Hopefully the splines aren't damaged from riding with it loose. You might need a new axle

 

[LeeSeb83]

My Rail leaning on a wooden rail at Godrevy, Kernow (the view is actually spectacular however sea mist somewhat obscuring it!).

 

[Doomanic]

You might need a new axle

Axle will be fine, it's steel. The crank arm is aluminium though and that might be damaged.

 

[Gazzaaitken]

Tweed Valley Scotland

 

[Doomanic]

Blade Trail, Afan, this morning;

This was the second attempt as it decided that resting on stuff wasn’t as much fun as falling on it and damaging the paint...

 

[Doomanic]

Whites Level Trail, Afan, this afternoon;

Whites Level is way more fun than Blade.