I'm looking for something weird to demo
Like a full rigid plus bike...
or like somethin...
-I got a drop-barred 29er
that might be one of the weirder things..
That..that's more what I'm talkin about
Alright I'm here at Alafia River State Park
Supposedly this is some of the best riding in all Florida
Big booty
So I'm really excited to see it
I havent looked at any maps or anything
I'm just gonna go in and explore
Here we go - "Moonscape"
This is supposed to be where all the fun stuff is
This is Moonscape, and then this trail is "Gravatron"
and this is kinda what I came here to ride, this is supposed to be awesome
So...kinda the Orange P7's maiden voyage for me, so lets go take a look
Pretty tight...Nice!
Oh man, i'm going to have to go through this again
Oh this is fun
Big drop! Double! Hell yeah
I gotta stay in a low gear for this
This is a punchy little climb
More doubles
A little one
Holy crap! Almost fly off that cliff
Around that bend over there, look carefully, I'm gonna try and look over so you can see..
Theres a swamp, and i ask you guys, what would be worse, falling off the trail into a canyon...
Or falling off here into a swamp and getting eaten by an alligator?
Look at that, falling off...getting eaten by an alligator
Oh crap, quick climb!
Woof, prolly trips a lot of people up
And then a nice little drop off
Holy crap
That was awesome!
Theres a rock ledge up there, about two feet
you go down this crazy steep descent
you go straight up this friggin thing
Wow, once i go through this a few times
and learn all the lines
I'm gonna be able to flow the crap outta this
Me and this Orange P7 were made for each other
So thoughts on the new bike..
To be honest it performs exactly how i thought it would
The steel takes a bit of the sting out of the bumps and vibrations
The geometry is perfect for jumps
I never really squirrelled out on landings
Seth - You guys open for business yet?
(sure)
Wow that's a super aggressive hard tail
what is that, a 2.75?
- that is a 2.8
2.8 -yeah
Cool
- Want to take it out - Yeah I would love to!
do you want your pedals or our pedals? - any platform pedals are fine
Alright, so i'm demoing a Norco Torrent 7.1 right now
They said it's about a $2600 bike
It's got SRAM GX, the ususal
It feels pretty nice, its small
I feel like i can whip it around
And it's got 2.8" tires
so...which way am i supposed to go here...
oh, Roller Coaster
I want to ride Roller Coaster
It's got these + tires, and this trail is really sandy..they actually feel really good on that
oh a little jump section
I love this
I'm feeling really good right now because...
I'm super hungry
And i can ride well when i'm hungry
as long as i have a little sugar
I just cant ride full..when I get full i just start ...wretching
I dont like it
Lets see what we got here
This one's called...Derailed
And it's black
Lets see what this is all about
Oh we're going to pick up some speed here
Thats fun
I don't know if I would consider the difficulty of that trail black diamond
However, if you mess up
There is a lot of times where you would just go off the cliff into the swamp
So
I think it's appropriate to try and keep beginners off of there
Hah
Wasn't expecting a double to be there
Its just not lined up right. I'm gunna close it down at least for the fat tyre festival
I hear you. Do you mind if I hit it once more?
Go for it
Beautiful! Nice talking to you man
This trail is so flowy
So much fun
Haha
That was a good little drop
So Alafia as a whole, smooth, flowy, lots of steep features, lots of jumps
This is just
So much fun
So when I came to demo this bike
They took my credit card and drivers license and thats probably a smart idea
Because, you know, I could just ride off with this bike
You know it's a precaution
and I remember one time in Virginia Key
I took out a niner
Full suspension I don't remember what it was
All I know, that it was friggin awesome
And it was like seventy five hundred bucks or something like that, and they didn't ask me for anything
and so I took that thing out on the trails
Took it off a big jump, I went flying
Bent the front wheel
Bent the shifter
Just, wrecked that bike
Definitely did like a grand worth of damage to that bike
I just gave it back to them, and they were like
Oh man
Looks like you had a good time out there
Thanks bro
And that was it
That was the end of it
They didn't give a crap
I don't know if different companies have different policies or whether they were just feeling really relaxed that day
Whatever the reason was
They could not care less
That i came back to them
With this bike
In total shambles
It was awesome
So the Norco Torrent 7.1
I really like it
It feels light to throw around
Handles extremely well
It has a smooth ride
But at twenty-six hundred?
Is it really that much better than a two thousand dollar hardtail?
I dunno. Has anybody else ridden this bike? What do you think?
Ok, so I am going to look for something else to demo today