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<\/p>\nSo the weather the past week or so has been conspiring against me.\u00a0 We made another trip out to Fujimi to get some downhill action in.\u00a0 Since I had busted up my buddies bike last weekend and my 6.6 has STILL yet to make an appearance in Japan I was planning on renting a full-blown downhill\u00a0piggy for about $80 for the day.\u00a0\u00a0 The rain was just freaking pounding at 5AM in the morning when we set off for Fujimi.\u00a0 Even though it was only a short ride distance from my apartment to the meeting spot, I was a drowned ratt when I got there.\u00a0 It is a several hour drive away so we were hoping for better weather over there.<\/p>\n
Turned out not to be the case and there were lots of folks at the park thinking about wither to give it a go or not.\u00a0 A couple of us to decided to wait for some others to get in a run and bring back a condition report.\u00a0 I rather enjoyed kicking back in the\u00a0van and shooting the breeze while the others scoped out things.\u00a0 The group took a very long time to getting back from thier run.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is the way things looked.<\/p>\n
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Some had a little trouble shifting \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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Heda reported that while overall the trails were pretty slippery there was\u00a0good traction in spots,\u00a0particularly when using your chest.<\/p>\n
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We debated wither\u00a0Dan’s riding shorts are 60 or 80 thread count, but we all agreed the inseam-stitching was singlepass.<\/p>\n
The consenus was that things were quite slick and while still\u00a0fun, there was a lot of gingerly riding to be done to get down the mountain.\u00a0 I was not too interested in dropping $130 total for a rental and lift pass to gingerly go down the mountain so I decided to save my money for another day and chill out at the bottom.\u00a0 Quite weenie of me I know, but it looks like I’ll be back here before I leave and hopefully when there is some sunshine.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the happy but crusty faces from the day.<\/p>\n
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Micah<\/p>\n
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Dan<\/p>\n
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Greg<\/p>\n
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Before calling it a day, the 4X track had to be given a go.\u00a0 It was in okay shape but it was wet enough to steal away\u00a0some speed in the critical spots.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So despite not actually riding it was a fun day and a nice drive through the countryside of Japan.<\/p>\n