What is Pura Vida

July 25, 2018 jeffkendallweed Leave a comment

Jeff Kendall-Weed mountain biking in Costa Rica and on the hunt for la pura vida!

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I always wanted one of these!

#workhardrideharder #myi9 #keeppedaling

Check out the Industry Nine Matchstix multi tool & spare axle at Jenson USA here: http://bit.ly/MatchstixJKW

This tool is pretty sweet! I’m able to totally forget that it’s on my bike, and it’s got most everything I need for some quick trail side repairs. It’s also really pretty, and made in the USA at Industry Nine’s Asheville, NC, location. I’m STOKED to be sponsored by Industry Nine this year, and this tool is such a nice addition to their awesome wheels!

Big thanks to these guys for making this all possible! Any purchases from these links will directly help support this series as well:

Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/JensonJKW
Industry Nine: http://bit.ly/IndustryNineJKW
PNW Components: http://bit.ly/PNWComponentsJKW
Kitsbow Cycling Apparel: http://bit.ly/KitsbowJKW
Kali Protectives: http://bit.ly/KaliJKW
Wilderness Trail Bikes (WTB): http://bit.ly/WTBlocaloam
Ibis Cycles: http://bit.ly/IbisJKW
Trust Performance: http://bit.ly/TrustMessageJKW
Camelbak: http://bit.ly/CamelbakJKW

Check out our podcast! http://bit.ly/KendallVSKendall

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World's most stylish MTBer? Cody Kelley's story (& former Olympic dreams)

#dobikes ‪#‎manualmonday ‬#codysmanimondays ‬

Cody Kelley is perhaps the most stylish mountain biker of all time, and he has quite a racing pedigree- including winning the 2014 Sea Otter Classic Dual Slalom event.

Thanks to our mutual sponsor PNW Components (http://bit.ly/PNWComponentsJKW), Cody and I were able to link up for an afternoon at Duthie Hill mountain bike park in Issaquah, Washington. I’d always been curious about the long-haired kid from Salt Lake City, so I used this as a time to ask him about his background, who influences him, and even spent a few minutes trying to follow him.

Follow Cody here:
https://www.instagram.com/kelleymtb/
https://www.facebook.com/kelleymtb/

Big thanks to PNW Components for making this all possible!

Any purchases from these links will directly help support this series as well:

Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/JensonJKW
PNW Components: http://bit.ly/PNWComponentsJKW
Kitsbow Cycling Apparel: http://bit.ly/KitsbowJKW
Kali Protectives: http://bit.ly/KaliJKW
Wilderness Trail Bikes (WTB): http://bit.ly/WTBlocaloam
Ibis Cycles: http://bit.ly/IbisJKW
Camelbak: http://bit.ly/CamelbakJKW
Industry Nine: http://bit.ly/IndustryNineJKW

My additional sponsors:

Trust Performance: http://bit.ly/TrustJKW

Check out our podcast! http://bit.ly/KendallVSKendall

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Check out my riding tutorials: https://www.patreon.com/jeffkendallweed

www.jeffkendallweed.com
https://www.instagram.com/jeffkendallweed/
https://www.facebook.com/jeffkendallweedMTB/

https://www.trailforks.com/region/duthie-hill-mountain-bike-park/
The Trust fork ride report!

#trusteffect #trustperformance #kendallweedclassic

Check out the new Trust Message 130mm travel 27.5/29 fork here at the Trust Performance website: http://bit.ly/TrustJKW

I’ve been riding this fork for three months now, and have ridden it in Washington, Arizona, Texas, California, and Puerto Rico. When I first received the fork, I wasn’t fully sold on it, and even brought a back up unit to Tucson, AZ, with me just in case I didn’t get along with it. After that first ride, I saw that the fork is legit, and I then accepted a sponsorship from Trust.

This fork has really impressed me with how the bike’s stability remains constant through the travel. This is a hard concept to explain, as “stability” is often seen as a subjective claim, but with some simply geometry, it becomes much easier to understand.

A bicycle’s steering geometry is often boiled down to its trail measurement- that’s the distance from the steering head axis through a vertical line coming down through the axle of the front wheel. This measurement (when the bike is static) is affected by head angle, wheel size, and fork offset.

On the size medium Mojo HD4, with a stock Fox 36 160 fork, the trail measurement is around 120mm, which is actually pretty big- close to the trail measurement of downhill bikes from a couple years ago. However, as that fork bottoms out, and the offset (and wheelsize) does not change, the effective head angle does. A 160mm fork, on a bike with a 1192mm wheelbase, will steepen the head angle by about 7 degrees, up to 71 from the stock 64.5. This actually reduces the trail measurement by about 50%- literally, the bike is half as stable at bottom out than at top out. That’s nuts! We’ve literally been designing bikes around this fact for decades.

The concept of changing the fork offset as the fork cycles through its travel is not new by any means, but no one has implemented it quite like this. The Message, through my very rough measurements, starts at around 50mm of offset, creating a very lively and flickable bike at the top of its travel. Then at bottom out, the offset is reduced to around 20mm. While the head angle changes quite a bit, the corresponding change in offset counteracts this, creating a front end confidence that must be experienced to be believed.

Have a look at the new Ibis Cycles Ripley 29 at Jenson USA here: http://bit.ly/IbisJKW

Big thanks to these guys for making this all possible! Any purchases from these links will directly help support this series as well:

Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/JensonJKW
PNW Components: http://bit.ly/PNWComponentsJKW
Kitsbow Cycling Apparel: http://bit.ly/KitsbowJKW
Kali Protectives: http://bit.ly/KaliJKW
Wilderness Trail Bikes (WTB): http://bit.ly/WTBlocaloam
Ibis Cycles: http://bit.ly/IbisJKW
Camelbak: http://bit.ly/CamelbakJKW
Industry Nine: http://bit.ly/IndustryNineJKW

My additional sponsors:

Trust Performance: http://bit.ly/TrustJKW

Check out our podcast! http://bit.ly/KendallVSKendall

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Check out my riding tutorials: https://www.patreon.com/jeffkendallweed

www.jeffkendallweed.com
https://www.instagram.com/jeffkendallweed/
https://www.facebook.com/jeffkendallweedMTB/
WOW! First look at the new Trust Message fork

#trusteffect #trustperformance

Check out Trust’s fork here: http://bit.ly/TrustJKW

My sponsors:

Ibis Cycles at Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/IbisJKW
PNW Components at Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/PNWComponentsJKW
Kali Protectives at Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/KaliJKW
Camelbak at Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/CamelbakJKW
Shimano at Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/ShimanoJKW
Fox Shox at Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/FoxShoxJKW
Kitsbow Cycling Apparel at Competitive Cyclist: http://bit.ly/KitsbowJKW

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Check out our podcast! http://bit.ly/KendallVSKendall

https://www.trailforks.com/trails/national-14939/

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Check out my riding tutorials: https://www.patreon.com/jeffkendallweed

www.jeffkendallweed.com
https://www.instagram.com/jeffkendallweed/
https://www.facebook.com/jeffkendallweedMTB/
The new Ripley experience: let's go to camp

#IbisCycles #IbisRipley #Ripley29

Have a look at the new Ibis Cycles Ripley 29 at Jenson USA here: http://bit.ly/IbisJKW

Camp Ripley was a BLAST! So rad to ride with so many old friends from the industry, and the reception of the new bike was awesome!

Big thanks to these guys for making this all possible! Any purchases from these links will directly help support this series as well:

Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/JensonJKW
PNW Components: http://bit.ly/PNWComponentsJKW
Kitsbow Cycling Apparel: http://bit.ly/KitsbowJKW
Kali Protectives: http://bit.ly/KaliJKW
Wilderness Trail Bikes (WTB): http://bit.ly/WTBlocaloam
Ibis Cycles: http://bit.ly/IbisJKW
Camelbak: http://bit.ly/CamelbakJKW
Industry Nine: http://bit.ly/IndustryNineJKW

My additional sponsors:

Trust Performance: http://bit.ly/TrustJKW

Check out our podcast! http://bit.ly/KendallVSKendall

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Check out my riding tutorials: https://www.patreon.com/jeffkendallweed

www.jeffkendallweed.com
https://www.instagram.com/jeffkendallweed/
https://www.facebook.com/jeffkendallweedMTB/
Unboxing (and RIDING!) the new Ibis Ripley!

#IbisCycles #IbisRipley #Ripley29

Have a look at the new Ibis Cycles Ripley 29 at Jenson USA here: http://bit.ly/IbisJKW

I had a blast riding the new Ripley. I’ve owned every generation of Ripley from the original grabber blue model in 2011 to the orange LS to the Vitamin Pee LS. All were great bikes, but this latest V4 revision is so.much.moar! I really enjoyed the steep seat angle and slightly higher BB.

Big thanks to these guys for making this all possible! Any purchases from these links will directly help support this series as well:

Jenson USA: http://bit.ly/JensonJKW
PNW Components: http://bit.ly/PNWComponentsJKW
Kitsbow Cycling Apparel: http://bit.ly/KitsbowJKW
Kali Protectives: http://bit.ly/KaliJKW
Wilderness Trail Bikes (WTB): http://bit.ly/WTBlocaloam
Ibis Cycles: http://bit.ly/IbisJKW
Camelbak: http://bit.ly/CamelbakJKW
Industry Nine: http://bit.ly/IndustryNineJKW

My additional sponsors:

Trust Performance: http://bit.ly/TrustJKW

Check out our podcast! http://bit.ly/KendallVSKendall

~~~~~~~~~~~~

Check out my riding tutorials: https://www.patreon.com/jeffkendallweed

www.jeffkendallweed.com
https://www.instagram.com/jeffkendallweed/
https://www.facebook.com/jeffkendallweedMTB/

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