Blue Mountains Trails

i think you'll be fine on pretty much any trail with drops under a meter with a hybrid. FIre trails
generally don't have any drops at all. If your hybrid is a kmart variety, pretty much anything over
30cm will put your wheels a bit out of true. This of course, depends on your weight. YOu might find
bumpy trails a bit rough, so lower the tire pressures to 40 psi or so, a higher pressure if you are
a bug guy. I used a hybrid ona downhill course without any jumps locally, it was fine until I
crashed one day, whereupon it was a writeoff.

Some tips to avoid crashing: use front and rear brake evenly. Rear brake doesnt have a hole lot of
power. Thus its the front tire which you really care about. IF your front wheel skids, your gonna
fall. Run the front tire at a lower pressure than the back tire. Put a multipurpose tire on the back
wheel ( not a slick) ie one which has knobs on the sides but it reasonably smooth in the centre. Put
a knobby tire on the front, with an aggressive tread. Look for one which if someone rode over your
stomach with it and skidded, it'd hurt the most. If you want you can use a knobby tire instead of a
semi slick at the back as well. semi slicks on the front arent a good thing for a rigid, if you
don't have much experience off road.

Take plenty of water as well, don't worry about weight.I do all my mountain biking with a friggin
lead acid battery attached to my bike :p Runjing out of water in the middle of a fire trail is a
Very Bad Thing. I do all my mountain biking with a friggin lead acid battery attached to my bike :p

have fun. I wanted to go to the blue mountains these school holidays, but i never got
around to it 🙁

Andrew Swan said:

Apparently there are some fire trails in the BM's that go mostly downhill from Wentworth Falls and
Woodford to Blaxland. My MTBer friend wants to do them, but I only have an unsuspended hybrid -
would the hybrid cope or are the trails too technical/bumpy/loose?

Is there anywhere to get more info about these rides?

TIA,

&roo

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Quoted message said:

Apparently there are some fire trails in the BM's that go mostly downhill from Wentworth Falls and
Woodford to Blaxland. My MTBer friend wants to do them, but I only have an unsuspended hybrid -
would the hybrid cope or are the trails too technical/bumpy/loose?

Is there anywhere to get more info about these rides?

Check this site: www.thefathippy.com - no relation! ;-)

hippy

hippy said:

"Andrew Swan" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Apparently there are some fire trails in the BM's that go mostly downhill from Wentworth Falls and
Woodford to Blaxland. My MTBer friend wants to do them, but I only have an unsuspended hybrid -
would the hybrid cope or are the trails too technical/bumpy/loose?

Is there anywhere to get more info about these rides?

Check this site: www.thefathippy.com - no relation! ;-)

hippy

Thank you, hippy who is not fat (apologies to Austin Powers).

&roo