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Man, we are super high up here on the Whistler Mountain.
We're in the clouds and I'm gonna give a lowdown
on how I set up my downhill bike,
specifically for the bike park.
So let's head out of the clouds.
For me, I've picked a downhill bike.
It's the obvious choice for me, the downhill bike,
because I love going to hit those huge jumps.
I kind of like landing flat and all of that
and this bike is specifically designed for all of that,
specifically designed for going downhill,
but there's a few things that I like to change around,
especially on the suspension part of things.
I'm gonna start off with the front of the bike.
Straight out of the box,
this bike comes with a 63 degree head angle,
which is kind of perfect for me.
I haven't touched that,
but you can get cups in here
that can change it by plus or minus one degree,
but I don't want a super raked out front end.
I like to have the bike super compact,
'cause I like to flick the bike around
and I'm not too worried about that.
When it comes to suspension setting
and rear suspension setting, I'm a bit meticulous with this.
I'm gonna start with the front.
I'm running 95 psi, one Token in there.
It's quite stiff.
It's quite hard, but it's perfect for me.
I don't want those forks to dive on a takeoff.
Clicks, what I mean by clicks is
you've got a rebound setting down the bottom,
you got high-speed and low-speed compression setting
up the top, so what I do I close them right off
and on the rebound, I'm running eight clicks open,
which is enough rebound for me.
It's not too fast and it's not too slow.
It's just perfect and right for me.
On the top on the high-speed,
basically that's for those big hits out there,
I'm running that at 18 clicks.
So that's quite a lot,
but I think that's good enough for my huge hits.
And 14 clicks on my low-speed then,
to soak up all those tiny little guys.
So coming from a dirt jump background,
I don't really venture off into the full suspension realm.
I only have front suspension and the rear is a rigid frame,
so it's a hard tail.
So what I've done with this rear shock,
I've volume spacered it to its max.
I've got 165 psi in there.
It doesn't sound much, but what that volume spacer does,
it decreases the chamber that the air is in,
so it kind of makes it bit more stiffer.
Alright, moving on to the fine details,
all the settings, all the clicking settings
on this rear shock.
Much like the front one I've done, I've shut them all off
and my high-speed compression right here,
what I've done is I've opened it 14 clicks,
which enough for all those big hits.
For all those tiny little bumps,
what I've done with the low-speed
is I've opened it 15 clicks,
which is perfect for all those little bumps for myself.
So when it comes down to high-speed rebound,
what I've done is I've opened it 18 clicks,
which sounds a lot,
but I want that rear shock to react quickly
when I'm hitting those jumps.
Then on low-speed rebound, I've done it at 14 clicks,
which is kind of perfect for me.
Alright, moving on to the drivetrain on my bike.
This is a little bit special for me,
'cause on the back there's something different,
but I'm gonna talk about the front.
I like to run a nice chain device,
a bit of an aggressive one, with a nice bash ring right here
just to protect my chain ring and chain
when it does come in contact with rocks
and bit more protection is this.
What Canyon have done is they've added this nice plasticy,
rubber down tube protector just to protect it
from rocks flicking up out there in the bike park
and destroying your down tube.
Pedal wise, I'm running flat pedals.
I don't tend to clip in on this,
because I like to get my feet off and do some tricks,
'cause I'm that kind of guy,
but what I've done is wound the pins out
to give me extra grip there when I do come to a situation
where the trail gets a bit rough and I want my feet to stay
on the pedals and not bounce off.
My seat height setting.
I tend to run it quite low down,
but you can't really slam this saddle down,
because you gotta take into account that this rear triangle
and this tyre is gonna come up
when that suspension is fully compressed
and this is gonna buzz here.
So what I've done, I let all the air out of my rear shock,
slammed it down to its max compression
and make sure there's just enough gap
to clear the rear wheel and my saddle.
These Renthal Fatbars straight out the box are 800 mil wide,
but I am not
a long armed human being,
where is Dadi has got super long arms.
He can stick to 800 mil, bit more keep him in control,
but I've kind of cut them down to 760.
Bit like what I ride on my dirt jump bike
and that brings it all in
and I can flick it all about a little more better out there.
My tyre choice to ride a bike park,
I love these tyres, a super aggressive tyre.
This is a Continental Der Kaiser.
It's a 2.4 inch width of tyre.
It's super aggressive.
It's got a lot of grip.
The side walls are super thick,
just keep those punctures at bay if I hit a rock.
For me, I'm running tubes front and rear.
I just like to ride tubes.
So there you go, there are a few tips
on how I set up my downhill bike for a bike park,
such like Whistler bike park.
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