Wheelin today with my dad. This will be his maiden voyage since the auto swap and I am dying to see what he thinks. I’m also excited to get some more seat time in my rig! Something I’ve been working on in my driving skill is the art of bumping up steeper stuff and knowing when you need to. I’ve been finding more situations lately where I’ll try crawling something a bunch of times and fail, and then remember I can bump it and it makes things so much easier and I wonder why I didn’t do that to begin with. My style has always been a conservative one in regards to skinny pedal which is one reason I don’t break stuff as much as other guys out here. But there’s a time and place for a healthy dose of throttle and momentum.
For example, the “up and over” climb on Elvis trail. This trail gets used as our shakeout run a lot after big changes or just a warm up trail on the way to bigger ones. Done it many times and have always crawled this waterfall. Usually have to spin a little bit and scrub for traction and catch a little edge that gets you over. Some days it can be difficult and others not. The other day I tried bumping it for the first time and it was so damn easy it made me hate myself for wasting so much time scrubbing for traction all these years.
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