Drunken Monkey's ups and downs live up to it's name | Mountain Biking Croom

Drunken Monkey is a short action packed trail that will challenge you're ability to switch between pumping the terrain, throwing short bursts of pedaling and resisting the temptation to use your brakes, with steep ups and downs its a lot of fun and feels much longer than its aproximate 3 miles. It wasn't really that the jump was too big, its actually not that long or tall of a table top, my issue with it was that it was super skinny, after riding over it once, being tired and alone I decided against sending it. As you most probably noticed my Race Face bottom bracket has finally lived up to its name, the creaking has begun! Truthfully, at this point I've ridden this bike over 9 months and 1200 miles, I would have liked the bottom bracket to make it to a year, but considering it went to muddy Windrock and dealth with freezing wet weather in NC, i'm OK with putting a new one in. A few days before this ride I did a minor service on the dropper post and added less pressure than it had before to try to slow it down a bit, unfortunately I overdid it and it wasn't fully extending without my help. Overall I find Drunken Monkey to be the kind of place where sessioning really comes into play, it would be great to come here and figure out each of the sections independently before chaining them all together, if you can properly pump through and avoid using your brakes I'm sure the whole trail can be done at much much faster speeds, getting it all right though is tricky as its easy to loose speed in certain sections if you dont read the terrain right. Drunken Monkey on Trailforks: https://www.trailforks.com/trails/dru...