The ideal pump track bike

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Someone asks this question every five minutes. As with all things, the answer depends on your style:
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Geometry for pump track bike?

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Lee,
Thanks to your e-book digging has commenced (who really needed a garden anyway). I have a lot of tight radius turns and was curious if going with a shorter wheel based (42″ish) bike would help? Does a slack head angle say 67-68 ride a lot different than say a 69-70deg. I guess looking for the ultimate Geometry #s for a pump track machine. Thanks!
Marshall
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Tires for German gravel?

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Hi, Lee.
I’ve been living in Germany for three years now. My favorite trails have loose gravel in a lot of places. I can feel my tires get kind of loose on the turns and I’m wondering if there is a tire that really sticks in gravel.

Thanks,

Elizabeth
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Pump tracks for motos

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When the trails are snowy, we cruise 40 minutes up I-25 to the Berthoud motocross complex. In addition to the main race track, there are several smaller tracks and a dozen little “pump tracks.”
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Clinic success: Rippin’ in Fontana

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Hey Lee, just an update. The Incycle team has been hitting up Fontana the last couple of Saturdays, and man we’re ripping! Very cool to see people pushing it, and having a blast, the skills you taught us are definitely paying off. Just being able to see lines better, being in the right position to attack, man what a difference. The guys are already asking if we’re doing it again next year!

See you later,

Jason

Jason, that is awesome. Thanks for the update.

— Lee

All the rest of you, check out the story:

www.leelikesbikes.com/california-clinic-madness.html

Enduro SL: Great bike, iffy wording

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This reader wants to know whether 1. Specialized has built his dream bike and 2. what they mean by “yaw.”
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Specialized suspenson on Enduro SL?

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Lee,

Is [your new Enduro] the one that’s carbon and uses Specialized’s proprietary shocks and forks?? If it does, my question is how good is it, and aren’t companiess like Fox not going to like it since that’s one bike their stuff isn’t going on?? Or is that just ONE model and all the others will still get off the shelf 3rd party shocks and forks??? And lastly, if I had a Specialized fork and shock on my Enduro, do they let you put another brand of fork/shock on there if I choose??

ok ok… too many damn questions!!! 🙂

take care,

Brian
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Q&A with Mike King

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World downhill and BMX champ Mike King was just named Brand Manager at Bombshell/Avent Cycles. King will oversee marketing/promotions, product development, team management and whatever else they throw at him. King has had a long run as a racer and, more recently, a team manager. As he enters the next phase of his career, it seems like a great time for a little interview:
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Front derailleur fu: ditch my mechanic?

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Hi Lee,
I have a 2006 Stumpjumper FSR Comp. I love the bike ‘cept for one thing: the Deore LX front Derailleur will not drop into the granny ring under a load (my 175lb load…) The mechanics at my LBS tell me it is tuned perfectly, but all they are doing is riding around the parking lot where of course it works fine. Nothing is worse than railing a nice turn into a steep climb, trying to drop the chain…please, puh-lease, ohhh Gawd Puh-leeeease drop, only to have it stick in the middle ring. Find a different mechanic or ditch it for XT or SRAM?
Michael
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See no winter, hear no winter, speak no winter

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Sure, it snowed over a foot earlier this week. But it’s been sunny for the past few days, and our boy Gregor is visiting from New York City. Snow be damned; we had to check out the trails.
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Sweet: Possum Town Pump Track

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Hey Lee,
It all started with your write up in Dirt Rag Mag. Ordering your Pump Track Nation E-Book and then having 15 cubic yards of dirt dumped in the backyard. At 1st I was wondering about what I have gotten myself into. WOW, was it a lot of hard work. The town where we live is nick-named “Possum Town.” So that’s how I came up with the odd name “Possum Town Pump Track.”
Thanks
Derrick in Columbus, Mississippi
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Leaning: street motos vs. mountain bikes

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Hi, Lee.
I just went through your book, and I have a question. I was wondering why motorcycle road racers always get off their seats to the inside (trying to keep the bike vertical) in corners, but mountain bikers do the opposite?
Cheers,
Eric
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