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The Trail Bogan
New Zealand
Приєднався 7 лип 2007
Caffeine, trails, and leopard print 🤘🏻
If you watch running or mountain biking trail guides and think "they're going too fast and they're too good for me to judge what the trail is really like", then you've come to the right place.
Wellington, New Zealand
Instagram: trailbogan
If you watch running or mountain biking trail guides and think "they're going too fast and they're too good for me to judge what the trail is really like", then you've come to the right place.
Wellington, New Zealand
Instagram: trailbogan
I invented the FLAPJACKINGTON
Portmanteau baking is a vibe. Meet the new kid on the block and tell me whether you think it should be called the "Flapjackington" or the "Lamingjack" in the comments.
Flapjackington: Flapjack + Lamington
Flapjackington: Flapjack + Lamington
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Відео
WUU-2k 2024: The emo takeover of Rock 'n Roll Corner
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Big shout-out to the lovely runner/channel follower who absolutely made my day by announcing he'd "finally met the Trail Bogan" as he was speeding past. I'm sorry I didn't catch your name, but I hope you had a brilliant race :-)
Driving across the private land at West Winds farm in Wellington
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Once a year, West Winds opens up to competitors at the Xterra trail race who get to drive through the operational wind farm on their way to the start line.
CAFFEINE: Temu vs Italian moka pot test
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A few months ago a colleague gave me a second-hand Moka Pot that had "belonged to her Italian boarder". I was flabbergasted to find out that for nearly half a century I'd been missing out on the EASIEST AND BEST way to make almost-espresso at home. Will a $8 Temu moka pot perform as well as the Italian gentleman's gadget?
Xterra Red Rocks: the short course 'adventure' option with ropes
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The Xterra Red Rocks short course is a bit special. It begins on private land in Bata Place, behind the Bata shoe factory, weaves its way up and through Te Kopahou Reserve, before peeling off from the medium and long courses.... People on the longer courses get to run the last few kilometres along the beach and it's only the short course folks who get to experience the famous "adventure option"...
Xterra West Winds: the trail race across a private wind turbine farm in Wellington
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This is my 10th year doing the Xterra trail race series and West Winds has always been my favourite venue as we get to run across private land. This year I dropped down to the medium course which misses out the beach scramble section that the long course runners have to do.
A 5km trail run wearing only gear from Temu
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I bought 10 trail running items of gear from Temu and took them out for a test run. This is what I had on: Compression socks $3.36 200m portable wrist water bottle $4.68 Purple buff: $1.71 Sports undies: $4.48 Quick drying running cap: $4.39 UV400 sunglasses: $5.97 Sports bra: $7.59 Running skirt: $12.79 Quickdry running shirt: $6.37 Running shoes: $13.35 TOTAL: $64.69 (the price I paid varied ...
Checking out the new bridge at Korokoro Dam
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It's a couple of weeks old and the actual dam itself is still closed off but I went along to check out the new bridge and put it through its paces.
A Wellington icon is gone: the Hawkins Hill Radome has been demolished
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I've been keeping an eye on the Radome (from far away) since my last visit a few weeks ago. Yesterday, it was still there. But this morning, while at the summit of Makara Peak, I glanced over to Hawkins Hill out of habit and it had disappeared! I cut my ride short, chucked my bike back in the car and hurtled over to Brooklyn. The contractors were still up there putting the finishing touches on ...
Last days of the old Hawkins Hill Radome
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Based on the impeccable source of the Brooklyn Trail Builders Instagram page, the word on the streets is that that Hawkins Hill Radome is going to be removed after nearly 35 years of being the "Golf Ball/Spy Base" overlooking Wellington. pC3oB7FMhtME/ I waited for the next available WOAGD to take a final trip up to see the old girl.
Four months off mountain biking: how much slower am I now?
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It's been four months since I hit the trails at Makara Peak, thanks to a foot fracture that saw me in a moon boot over summer and I'm STILL not allowed to run yet. I recreated the same loop I did the last time I was here, 20km and 560m of elevation, which is about 2.5 hours of riding. Track conditions were a little drier than they were in November, but not by a huge amount. My bike has also had...
Mt Victoria: Te Tuarā o Matairangi Sections 1 & 2
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Section 2 of Te Tuarā o Matairangi opened in mid-February just as I was getting out of Moonboot Jail. This is my first time back on the mountain bike in almost four months! I've always been a bit intimidated about riding the Mt Victoria trails (and I still am!) but having this Grade 3 option (and with a couple of others there too which I haven't ridden yet) it's starting to look like somewhere ...
Kiwifoot Reserve: Aro St to Kelburn Parade
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I'm back, bogans. Kiwifoot Reserve is kind of like the mullet of urban trails. Party at one end (Aro Street) and Business at the other (Kelburn Parade). Easily doable from the CBD for a lunch run, if your metatarsals are fully intact too.
Tasting 20 new sugar free energy drinks
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Reupload - thanks to The Butler for drawing my attention to the gremlins in the original :-) These are the drinks in the order they are shown in the final line-up at the end: Musashi Fruit Crush Musashi Blue Raspberry Musashi Lemonade Musashi Green aapple Musashi Grape Monster Rosa Monster Peachy Keen Monster Fiesta Gold Monster Fiesta Mango Monster Ultra Zero Mother Raspberry Rockstar Watermel...
I ate (and baked with) all six flavours of the Vegan Treatory cookie dough
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Here at Bogan HQ we maxed out our credit cards and bought all the flavours of edible cookie dough from The Vegan Treatory: vegantreatory.co.nz/pages/new-2022-frequently-asked-questions Some of them we reckon were nicer raw and some were better after being baked. Grab an amuse-bouche, get comfy and keep watching to find out more....
The Bogan Festive Kitchen: Energy Drink Sorbet
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The Bogan Festive Kitchen: Energy Drink Sorbet
Help! My seam-sealed running jacket is leaking, what should I do?
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Help! My seam-sealed running jacket is leaking, what should I do?
Lazy Fern 2023: How much faster does a track get after an upgrade?
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Lazy Fern 2023: How much faster does a track get after an upgrade?
Riding Mt Victoria: Te Tuarā o Matairangi (the track formerly known as Pyramid Scheme)
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Riding Mt Victoria: Te Tuarā o Matairangi (the track formerly known as Pyramid Scheme)
I finally bought a full face helmet: Advice on choosing your size in the IXS Trigger
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I finally bought a full face helmet: Advice on choosing your size in the IXS Trigger
Kārearea: the new grade 3 downhill track at Mākara Peak
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Kārearea: the new grade 3 downhill track at Mākara Peak
Catchment View Track: Revisiting that glute-busting climb from Xterra Whareroa
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Catchment View Track: Revisiting that glute-busting climb from Xterra Whareroa
Mt Kaukau to Ohariu Valley the back way
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Mt Kaukau to Ohariu Valley the back way
Meadowcroft Grove: unpopular & unknown way into the Skyline
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Meadowcroft Grove: unpopular & unknown way into the Skyline
Zealandia: The Western and Eastern Firebreaks
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Zealandia: The Western and Eastern Firebreaks
"Primordial smurf goo" - Trail Bogan, 2024
I was secretly quite proud of that one ;-P
@@trailbogan on the fly, no script. Always the best procedure. Nothing has ever gone badly that way, ever.
Lamflapingtonjack
My camera crew suggested Flop-ingtons which is what you'd expect from that lot.
First pot is overheated, second one brew out too fast
Need to ensure that the water does not cover the safety valve!
Good call! Particularly if you’re using a bigger moka pot!
Might want to measure the amount of water each can hold, and the amount of coffee, and see if there is a % difference that would make your brew stronger/weaker. (not that I drink Coffee... V and Coke for my caffeine. Oh and I suggest washing ANYTHING from Temu etc before use...
I've been forbidden from buying anything further from Temu that I might eat or drink from!
@@trailbogan 😬☕🤮
I wondered why my home ground was overrun with parked cars... I've ridden all that on my trail bikes, including climbing up the roped part... There used to be a track down from about the 5:20 mark that went straight down the cliff to the quarry... That one was fun getting up.. and the last time I went down it, they had bulldozed the last 10ft away.. barely managed to stop the bike due to how steep it was, then burned my arm man-handling the thing sideways across the end down onto the track. That was just before they closed the quarry and they removed more making the track nearly non existent. At 8:26, if you head up the stream about 2-3 minutes, there is an old small dam, probably built to supply the quarry in the late 1800's. There was also a way to get back to the top of the 1st section via that gulley (probably long overgrown, wasn't a track as such, just a lack of gorse in a contiguous path to the top ridge. Useless post note. If you look at the building by the gate (and the concrete pillars that match it to the East)... That is the skeleton of the old Quarry workshop.
Ahhh I do remember you posting a video about an old NZ ad made in the area nearby where you grew up! I can't imagine getting your bike UP the roped bit!!
@@trailbogan The Film Archives have the "Dear John" add located at that quarry but my video shows it was in my family quarry the other side of Owhiro bay. As for getting up that track.. The trail bikes I was referring to had 2 stroke motors. q8D There's some pix of me riding it (oddly that is what it was officially called.. an I .T ) at the very end of my "Mt Vic MTB Skills area" video.
Watching this makes me feel very tired and unfit...
Right back atcha! I get FOMO watching your videos 😆
Omg I've just found your UA-cam channel 🖤💜💙 I love it! We should do a video Collab!
OMG yes!! First video... "How not to get lost after walking back to base after marshalling a race"!
Oh yes that day 😉 I'd have eventually ended up on SH1 I think which is near my dad's house up past Waitangirua, in time for tea and biscuits!
This is great 😅
Random question, I know but do you work on the metlink trains? If not you have an identical twin haha
Sounds like I have a doppelgänger 😂😳
Hi there, do you know if the radar externally has been installed yet or the old radar is down completely, or is it still a construction site? I am a photographer and wanting to swing by but cannot see it without a lengthily drive.
I’m not 100% sure but I was at the wind turbine on Friday and looking across to Hawkins Hill, there didn’t seem to be much up there!
@@trailbogan thank you so much for the response, and so fast. It looks like a bit of a walk with 20kg or so of gear, but looks like it will be worth a go. Have a lovely evening.
Yeah the only 2 things I invest in are shoes and sport bras and I feel validated 😂 thank you for your sacrifice!
🤩💜☺️
I miss you guys!! (but not enough to leave the sunshine and beaches :-) )
It’s not quite the same without you running past either 🤩
What was rong wif the shous? Those Saksteobard shoes look supar proefssional to me.
Well in all seriousness, they had more grip than I thought they would (I didn't slip around on the ground) but there was just zero cushioning or support inside the shoe so that let the side down!
@@trailbogan I find modt of the cheap shoes have a 'Waffle' style inner, basically a thin crosshatch leaving diamond shaped voids.. that are not air tight.. so fairly much like standing on a tennis racket strings.. and they cut into the inners.. Then they make the sole out of foam.. with tiny bits of rubber to take the wear.. but they usually peel off... Having said that... that's what I use for Disc Golf for $35 from The Warehouse... but I put liners in them to make them slightly more comfortable.. I wouldn't run anywhere in them tho..
@TheButlerNZ exactly, this experiment has made me feel better at paying, hundreds of dollars for real running shoes !
@@trailbogan Corse it should have been filmed on a NoPro while wearing an Opple Wotch
Work has one of those mini diggers... They are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun. We've got a drill for it... It's currently at a friends place and we've been putting in a crib wall and making a big yard out of his multi small terraced yard. (And we popped his mum on it at his last house... Dad wanted 2 things.... a convertible Mercedes with the corrugated side panels (I got him a model)... and an empty yard, with a pile of dirt... and one of those little diggers.. (He was a 70yo schoolboy at heart). Love that track. The brother of the wife of my mate with the digger (no too much of a stretch there) had a house in Korokoro so we would often do the Damn circuit (that's the Dam circuit but when someone has a leg injury)
I've never ridden my bike around there (only further up in the Belmont MTB park) but I've done heaps of running and yes, it's really lovely! I was surprised they left the digger unguarded with no signs (though I was still nearly caught faffing around by a runner who came past 30 seconds after I hopped off!).
@@trailbogan Not sure it's a bike friendly track but the trig above, down to the highway was a great ride years ago on my ol Steel framed, Cantilever braked, hard tail Milazo.. the ride from Petone up Dowse Dr almost all the way to Stratton Street Bike Park, then up to Belmont Trig...
Good for fat tire e bikes (dual suspension) that go 40 mph on throttle alone? Thanks
When I was researching this helmet the internet generally said they would choose another helmet for full-on downhill or rowdy park riding, which is probably a similar risk to going 40mph on an ebike, so I would say 'no'!
@@trailbogan I agree 👍🏼
Hello 🙋🤝🙋🇨🇭🇨🇭 Thank you for your very beautiful video💝💝
aww. one of the first landmarks I remember from when I first moved to welly 15 years ago.
that radome building was constructed 1989/1990 - i have a copy of original drawings: because i drew them. so 35 years old. not 50.
Looks like an old ARSR series radar antenna. Probably ARSR2 or earlier. And probably obsolete now as it would be 50 years old or so. (Air Route Surveillance Radar)
Second highest point in Wellington, Outlook hill on Terawhiti Station is the highest.
Yes! I Should have said "Highest point on Wellington's Southern Hills" (from Wikipedia)!
Chào ngày mới người bạn, với góc quay Camera quá sắc nét, tôi thật sự mến mộ bạn.
Hope you took one of Wellies longest gravity rides back down via Barking Emu & Carparts then on down to Aro or Karori depending on if u were headed home via the City or backroads. If only there was a Gondola to the top I'd ride that all day.
I definitely cheated and rode down the sealed road 😂
@@trailbogan trickier terrain but the track has very few pinch climbs unlike the road... on the trailbikes there were a couple of detours off the road... but we had petrol to help with the pinch climbs q8)
The previous radar to the 'Golf Ball' was definitely in need of repair in the end. I used to ride trail bikes on the firebreaks before they shut off the access for Mountain bikers.. damn mountain bikers... hey wait.. that's me... Damn, damn me all to hell... anyhooze... on a windy day the radar (the good ol conventional wide frame) would be sitting there wobbling about a foot back and forth rather than rotating... I suppose we also shouldn't have been able to stand right in front of it.... Another interesting thing about the Golf Ball (A doppler is hiding inside I believe.. I think I managed to gain a peek back in the late 90's when someone was working on it and indvited me to have said peek) again...anyhooze.... when they were planning it, a friend (Railways radio tech) was involved, and advised the (Americans?) that they should build the ball in the clear area that is the subdivision (or was it the old mill) at the base of the road, not at the site as Wellington has a habit of turning on the wind... with up to a balmy 250kph gusts. The (Yanks?) said they knew what they were doing, they had done many back in the US... and proceeded to build the dome onsite... It blew down before it was finished... An example of how windy it gets up there... When they built the 1st Win Turbine just down the road... An inspection hatch later ripped off the top unit, and was never found. I see there appears to be a small Doppler golf ball 7k ENE from Hawkins (SE from cable bay on a high peak)... might be there to monitor small traffic, even boats, crossing from Blenheim/Picton. PS. The concrete pad in the last scene is the old radar foundations.
@@trailbogan I've spent a lot of time roaming them thar hillz as a kid. there's a lot of jems... I designed a track from the Radome to Red Rocks only to find someone had done the same earlier (And UA-camd it)... there's also potential for a track from the dome down due east to the Tip gate, but down the ridge instead of the shrapnel lined firebreak
So do I have to do a 1 year off video... means getting my shock serviced (been a good mental excuse for not riding)... Trouble is I only have a rough idea of my climb time (i think about 45 if I take the shortcuts and firebreak push from mid way up... an hour going full bridge. (and I used to stop for a couple of heart attacks as it was)... Less heart attacks throwing plastic at trees. Great 2 see you kept your fitness in the gap.
Stoked to see you back out on the trails again 🎉😂
Good to see ya there in the carpark! That was a surprise!!
I REALLY need to get on my bike and give it a whirl... (but the shock has a click and I have used that as an excuse not to ride... That and taking up throwing plastic at trees... I find some track building decisions quite odd sometimes... Putting the track back out beside the vehicle traffic (2:28) when they could have juggled the walking track it crosses a little and had the MTB track stay OUTSIDE the fence away from vehicles Especially when they made this a G3... which implies they want low skilled riders to be able to use it (Kids etc)... so why then make a section unsafe (entering the particular section with your back to the traffic, and as a car driver I personally have cut that corner before it was a bike share... and even closer when I rode motor bikes). Then there's the flow killer at 3:44 that they could have just avoided by going slightly to the left instead of the climb (Like the stupid climb on the Rollercoaster at Pol Hill that almost everyone stops before and rides back to the top.. all for a right hand sweeper round and back, there's a whole section of track that most riders avoid (... well that and the deadly abrupt end after it).
It was definitely a bit odd popping out and having to ride along the side of the road before popping back into the second section, I wonder if maybe when all three are done they might do a bit more work to join them up properly?
So awesome to see you back on the bike 😎. The new bit looks pretty cool aye
It's heaps of fun - not the sort of rooty-technical-grade-5 fun that you normally associate with Mt Vic but definitely more my level of fun! 🙂
oooh oooh oooh... I wanna ride down those steps, I wanna ride down those steps, I WANNA RIDE DOWN THOSE STEPS!!!! NO ! Awwwwwww !
Wish I'd had my mums, as hers had Invalids section.
Great to see. Who put in the steps and the benching and hand rails? 😀
I gather the work was started by the people who live on the other side of the slip but the local council also did a lot of work in 2022 (but I'm not sure if it has been officially opened yet as there are still issues with the geology of the site).
Interesting to take a shot of everything and pop it into a punchbowl... and see what abomination you come up with. Might give the Musashi Lemon one a whirl
I did actually put half the leftovers into a couple of old softdrink bottles as a sort of Franken Energy Drink - wasn't too bad!
@@trailbogan you could patent it but it would require a 1.5lt can to hold the content label.
(By the way... You use the old Cellphone to be a voice recorder... Clap at the start of the video to Sync it... And use the Cellphone Audio instead of the camera... No need for Bluetooth sync etc... just a little play shifting the audio left/right.... (You can also clap at the end to make sure the duration is in Sync (I had an issue with my old No-Pro where over a long run it got out of sync with the Voice recorder i was using... but I use VSDC which allowed me to stretch/shrink the mom video locked audio tracks to take up the slack....
I did this loop today but went the opposite way. Was SOOOO hot and I forgot my sunblock!
One of the best views around the region, I reckon from up the top!! Ouch, about forgetting the sunblock!
loved the video ! keep it up
More leapard print....and more vodka 😀 Looks yumo 😋
I've still got most of the tub in my freezer for when I get back on my feet and need five million calories from sugar, as well as all the salt and caffeine that's in there, to recover from a long run!
Nice vid! We are the father and son pair at Karearea yesterday, now subscribed to your channel 😄
Cool to meet you yesterday! Have also subscribed to yours, see you out on the trails! 🤘🏻
Its s good helmet, but if you're in-between sizes, I'd go larger and probably just sew some supplied pads together to make up the slack..but if you dont want to do that, return helmet and try another brand. I ended up with the Dainese linea 01 as it was lighter then the ixs trigger, had more vents, and cheaper through the right vender. Ps most helmets usually only has 2 helent shells, the pads make up the in-between sizes
My head is 57cm exactly, what size do you recomend? S/M or M/L Thanks in advance.
I’d be going with S/M!!
Have the same Head Size with 57. And i have also the S/M
Mine is exact 56cm, what do you suggest? Thanks!
I would go for the "Small/Medium" size as that is suggested for 54cm to 58cm heads!
Looks like a lot of dedication and hard work for a awesome end result 👍🏻 Are you going to start carrying some of that cookie dough around for some 'resistance' training?😛
I think 2kg of cookie dough is more likely to provide resistance by way of sad unwanted body fat, rather than an upper body workout at this point ;-P
I'll see your Macra Beach run, and raise you a Makara to Owhiro Bay via the Gold Stamper... with a Steel Frame Milazo MTB... Carried up cliff faces on a shoulder, rope repelling at the far south of Makara coast... and generally pushing the bike for about 1/3 of the 60 something K... Arriving in the dark at the Red Rocks quarry. Luxury...
@@trailbogan Abseiling sounds like we had some form of proper equipment and training... We had a huge rock with a piece of old fishing net stuck in a crevice... and it didn't reach all the way down so we had to hook the bikes on it and try and unhook then from the other side... (and jump the last few feet ourselves... Then climb up the (steeper than 45deg) fence line with the bike on out shoulders, one hand on the fence and using the sheep ruts as steps... Then there was that time we went through the Mungaatooks on the same bikes... lightly dressed... in winter... from Trentham via Haywoods, coming out at the Akka's at about 9pm (It got dark at 5)... Oh and we had no torches.
How insane was that time aye 🤪
This vid is absolute gold 😊
Cool vid 😎 Looks like a fun wee trail. Concussions are not much fun aye 🤯
Please be careful posting showing your street, creeps will be able to find where you live 😢
luv it
Or... Selleys Watershield Silicone Aerosol 200g (Currently about $17 NZD at Bunnings/Mitre10. I went Skiing in what seems another lifetime ago.. and my cheap Warehouse gloves held more water than was frozen on the mountain. Next year I went with the same gloved, sprayed with that stuff.. My MTB gloves get more wet with sweat than the Ski gloves were.. and it was a blizzard.. Works great on material shoes (my Warehouse MTB flats etc) too. I did at least 2 jackets and the gloves and a couple a pair o shoes with one 200ml can. It is a silicone, not a wax, but on woven things like windbreakers, works a treat.. and the material remains breathable... BTW K... You really need to get a cheap audio recorder (or old Cell Phone) so you can hide it in a pocket and get better audio on the blogs... I'm looking to get one of the tiny ones that clip on like an old iPod Shuffle... On the MTB videos it would probably clip on my chin strap unnoticed. [EDIT] Don't forget to clap when the video is running to sync the audio...
@@trailbogan How could you refill your hydration pack if you make it waterproof... wouldn't that make it a dehydration pack? hmmm Powdered water... just add water... sorry. In that state of mind tonight... too much sun I think, throwing plastic at trees all day...
I remember the bottom of Lazy Fern used to have a tree leaning across the track from the left... that used to take out your shoulder on the way out... A nice finish to the day (think I hit it about 3 times on my old Milazo or the Foes... I thought Koru and Lazy Fern shared the entry/exit bridge back in the prehistoric era... Maybe it's just me... UA-cam seems to disagree...
@@trailboganI still remember circa 98' giving Zac a hand clearing one of the tracks along the top.. Fairly sure we cleared past the trigg.... then I rode my Milazo with 1" slightly bent home modified Rockshox down a track that I think was the predecessor to Trickle falls... as I don't hemember the corkscrew.. and I DO remember going down a piece so steep/straight that i could keep slow, but not stop with the Vee brakes... and there was a 2ft drop at the bottom that I was forced to do... on a full size frame with the seat fairly much at full height... (It then ran a long way left... and I can't find any track now that has that combo... Not sure I could do it on the current bike.. (But 25+ years later could also have something to do with that).