I'm 93 kg, and not dropping .  Had my -057 a little over a year, and it's doing fine. 

I had to drive to North Carolina for work this week, and was able to take along the bike.  First ride was at the National Whitewater Center just outside Charlotte.  They have a man-made whitewater course and a ton of other activities (ziplines, obstacle course, etc.) if you want something else after riding.  Trails are great- good flow,a few technical bits, and in very good shape.  Not many long climbs on the ones I rode but a good number of short and steep downhills.  One trail is called Toilet Bowl, so I had to take it and find out why.   




The second ride was at Tsali.  Tsali is amazing and should have its own thread, but I only had time to do one loop- left loop to the Overlook, then back to the parking lot.  Definitely got to go back soon!

A few miles around the Left Loop, going clockwise- nothing super technical, but very high penalty for failure.


Trail Guardian-


The Overlook-

Interested as well, but I'm still not sold on the dropper idea.  Maybe I just don't ride enough downhill, or my seat is too low to begin with, but I never have a problem getting off the back.  I guess when the seat hits me hard in the stomach I'll decide to try one out.

Awesome video!  Now when somebody asks how long it took to put the bike together, I can show them this

Good to hear you are back on the bike.  I need to come up to Chicopee!

I routed the chain through the RD incorrectly once- not on the initial build, but when I took my bike to England.  I had it running on the wrong side of the plate between the two jockey wheels.  It caused a fair bit of resistance, so I should have noticed it immediately, but actually rode a couple of times before I realized what was wrong. 

Shady, but still hot and humid.   This week is much better than last, but I just noticed most of my pictures were on uphill sections- I wonder why?

Congrats Peter!