Is there anything more slippery than wood module on the wet?
Is there anything more slippery than wood module on the wet?
byu/A6RA4 inMTB
by A6RA4
Is there anything more slippery than wood module on the wet?
Is there anything more slippery than wood module on the wet?
byu/A6RA4 inMTB
by A6RA4
19 Comments
Nope
I learned that lesson on the first km of my mtb career, never had a bike disappear underneath me like that ever again, and am now very wary of any wooden feature.
there isnt anything thats much slipperier. gotta avoid wood like the plague when its wet out, i fucked my shoulder up on a boardwalk one time
Never ride wood in the wet.
Ai! You ok I hope?
This is basically how I busted my shoulder. Careful out there.
No.
Yo mama
Riding wood features in Scotland I’m happy to report that they are almost always covered in chicken wire making them super grippy irrespective of the conditions.
In the northern hemisphere we either cut a thread into it, or wrap it with chicken wire.
To answer your question: Yes. Eels.
Did put too much faith in my Conti Kryptotal tyres… as they really saved my wrongdoings many times… if you hear the audio I say something something slippery, and got into it so carefully and trying to modulate the brakes as well as possible, but the rear totally lost it!
That hurt to watch
Wet ice. Dislocated my shoulder that way. But it’s close.
Nope. There’s one banked wood feature locally that is maybe a foot or two in the air on the bottom edge. Hit it too fast you’ll fly off the top. Go too slow or stop and you’ll slide off the bottom and scrape yourself up on an old stump on the way down. I skip that loop when it’s wet.
Ice without studded tires perhaps.
Slicker than snot on a door knob.
yeah, I had the same happen in Roseland, BC lost the rear wheel and immediately splat… slid like 15 feet (it was a downhill section) and slammed my forearm into a stump… was really lucky to not fracture anything
I’ve been there and I burned in hard.
On my local trails the wood is covered in some kind of pattern that makes it grippy, never had a problem. Without that… Would not want to do them