Jing, Clifton and Timmy invited me out to Lucas Heights today, damn I’m still high from the experience. What an awesome techy trail. I loved every single little bit of it (except for the motorbike riders).
The Reign’s just so well set up.
It’s an absolute goat for climbing techy shit. It has buckets of grip and going down tech stuff is just so plush and confidence inspiring. The front is so easy to lift so it makes hucking small drops easy.
The new forks are great, no worse than the old forks, and no better really but I’m happy. I had pro-pedal off all day (1st time) and I found that there was way too much sag at my recommended weight, so much so that there was pretty much no pedal clearance at all and I wash mashing the pedals on everything. Didn’t really stop me though. Speaking of the pedals, the V12’s + 551 shoes are so damn grippy I felt like I was clipping in and out, and clipping out multiple times as I’d often put my foot wrong on the pedal but there was so much damn grip I couldn’t adjust my foot placement on the pedal unless I lifted my foot right off lol. Perfection. I love the set-up (did I mention I love my set-up?!).
The Met helmet was awesome, so cool. Nice to see a couple of other riders out there with them on too. The TLD XC gloves, whilst suuper comfy for the first hour, are a bit thin. Might look into thicker gloves. The Joplin seatpost is a miracle which I called on a billion times today on the fly. It gives you power when you need it for the climbs and gives you bucket loads of confidence for the tech downhill stuff.
Great place, love the bike. Super happy.