Took a high speed soil sample on my favorite trail (Sleeping Jake) today. Misjudged a transfer and stuffed the front end into an acute rock corner. Used up all 180mm of travel tumbling a ways before coming to a stop lucking out and staying off the rocks. Carefully finished out on the jump run (Gronk). Overall feeling pretty good. Left shoulder isn’t happy. My competitive chicken dancing days will have to be put on hold for a bit. Hopefully I can PT and be back on the rig by next weekend. Tomorrow would be better.:) #crisscrosscrash #felldownandwentboom #mtb #mtbdownhill #gtsanction #wreck #crash (at Thunder Mountain Bike Park)

First time out “riding street” and the skatepark on the squishy bike. Stair bombs and random yard hips were a lot more friendly on this thing. The baby spine, was crazy feeling haha. It’s been one thing to point these bikes down the mountain or aim them at some jumps, but I’d like to have a lot more freedom than that. #mtb #gtsanction #rideabikeeveryday #sunset (at Norwalk, Connecticut)

Day started out rough and almost called it. I wasn’t feeling it at all. After some lunch and refreshments I slowly came around and ended the day stoked. Did some more adjustments to the Sanction setup and it’s feeling incredible on both jumps and the fast rough stuff. I must say, bodies feeling pretty damn good too. Amazing what the right tune will do for the abuse to your body. Looking forward to more sends next weekend. Here’s a video of top to bottom. Dominion, Lower Dominion, Salvation, Crap Shute, Frog Pond, Lower Ripper, GRT Container Jump. Swipe to follow the video. #mtb #mtbdownhill #gtsanction @mountaincreekbikepark #rigsoutforharambe (at Mountain Creek Bike Park)

Landing strip. @mountaincreekbikepark #mtb #mtbdownhill #gtsanction (at Mountain Creek Bike Park)

Tuning the mountain bike in the living room while watching Legion kind of night. #mtb #gtsanction #dialing (at East Norwalk, Connecticut)

Perfect temps, little breezy. Can’t wait to give the #gtsanction a go on familiar ground and watch Burney year some rest laps for the Spring National Pro GRT! #mtb #mtbdownhill (at Mountain Creek Bike Park)

Pulled the #gtsanction out of the basement for the first time since the end of last season. Biggest change is the monster @fox 180mm 36 up front. I have two modes for this bike 7spd Saint for bike parks and 11spd XT for trail romping. She’s currently in trail mode...didn’t feel like swapping back to 7, haha. I have the front brake ram through the streerer tube and a long cable for rear brake and shifting. This beast feels like a big squishy BMX bike and I can’t wait to ride her. Only got a few runs on it last season in the pissing rain before the mountains closed. #mtb #mtbdownhill #livefreerideordie (at East Norwalk, Connecticut)