JD
New member
This was taken in the first couple weeks after we built the ramp. The first time I hit it (on a specialized enduro) I landed past the tree on the tight edge of the frame, not in the pocket at all. We ended up moving the ramp back about 10 feet and it was perfect. You could just roll in from a stop at the top of the little hill w/o haing to pedal. The landing and runout were 100 percent natural. I was never one for just fabricating big landings for drops that were to flat naturally. Instead we would find natural drops to good trannys or a good tranny where we could build a takeoff. The Fern Gap inb the pic was just like going off of a curb at 15 MPH. There's not that big a difference between dropping a few feet and dropping 10 or even more. With a bit of speed your bike becomes super stable in the air, flys straight, and you're still only in the air for a second....maybe. Not that much can go wrong assuming you come off the lip fairly flat. You can always tap the back break to bring the nose down to meet the landing. This jump was so smooth to land, like deep powder. A 4 foot low speed drop to flat is harder and more abusive then this thing was.
