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<\/a>At junior high school I discovered the Mountain Bike<\/strong>. I was 12 years old. From that time I never left it. It began with three friends<\/strong>: Pierre Pichon<\/strong>, Jean-Baptiste (JB) Bouillon,<\/strong> Anthony Piscione<\/strong> and Yohan Cambourieu<\/strong>. Each had their own speciality: Cross-country<\/strong> (endurance), Dirt\/Downhill<\/strong> (Tricks and speed) and Trial<\/strong> (maniability). After lunchtime Yvon Regout<\/strong> (a physical education teacher) was training us to Trial Bike<\/strong>. I met Pierre at school bus stop.\u00a0 With Pierre who was three years older than me, we went really far with our bikes. When I was 13, we rode nearly 62 miles each week-end<\/strong> without cell phone! To be quiet my parents locked up my bike sometimes<\/span>! Two years after they offered me my first cell phone. With Yohan we was in the same class for 4 years. We liked to watch New World Disorder<\/strong><\/a> movies and after we were riding with adrenalin<\/strong>. Tony met us one year after and he became my best friend. We get up to all sorts of mischief\u00a0 together!<\/strong><\/p>\n.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n Also during 6 years I made money and I sold my motorbike (an other great story). This was time to replace my bike. I was nearly 20.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n I bought this one to Antony to increase in Street and Dirtjump. Wheels came from my Lapierre Trail LTX. I’ve sold many components to buy other more recents.<\/p>\n From high school until second years of university, I rode less than less my bike<\/strong>. Yohan stopped mountain biking, Antony changed his bike each half year bewteen Downhill, Dirtjump and BMX and Pierre liked more than more road bicycle. That’s wind of change<\/strong>. I had stopped championship and I joined JB’s mountain bike club<\/span>. They liked only cross-country. That was boring but less boring than ride alone.<\/strong><\/p>\n When I was 17 I moved to Clermont ferrand to follow sport management studies<\/strong>. I didn’t find other people who liked mountain Biking as I like it. So I got Federated Mountain Bike coach<\/strong> certificate<\/strong> for Virus VTT<\/a> to teach my expertise to children for one year. But during my second study year, I totally stopped Mountain Biking<\/span>. It’s only when I went to Bayonne that I found a club which had the same way of ride than me: Bikikoz VTT<\/a>.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n With its configuration, this incredible bike<\/strong> is a little heavy (15 kg because of weight of wheels with DH minion 2.35 tyres) but I never had a bike so funny<\/strong>. Since June 2012, I take championship again but this time in Enduro bike with Enduro Bike Pyrenees Trophy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lately I participed to Maxiavalanche from Vallnord<\/strong><\/a> and I was qualified to run the Europe Cup<\/strong>, less than 4 minutes to Dan Aterthon!<\/p>\n However, the first frame edition (2009) was a little frail. I broke the frame end 3 times<\/a><\/strong>. The warranty of frame (2 years) expired since few months but the Barracuda Company<\/strong><\/a> (the webshop where I bought this frame) opened a procedure to help me<\/strong>. 6 months later, I was a new frame end<\/a><\/strong>. I thank them for that. Its yoke (the part which I cracked) is really reinforced<\/strong>. That’s a good thing!<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n You can find testimonials<\/strong> about this frame on MTBR website<\/a>.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n I chose to put a FOX DHX AIR 5.0<\/strong><\/a> rear shock instead of FOX Float RP23<\/a><\/strong> because I practice big mountain and Freeride. I take jumps more than 10 meters or 3 to 4\u00a0 high meters with my Intense. So I need to slow down the travel end<\/strong>. The Boost Valve on DHX 5.0 does it.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n But its felling is regular, with good power and progressiveness<\/strong>. I would like changed it for a Hope M4<\/strong> brake system. Lastly I changed my front disk brake with a 203mm rotor instead of 185mm. I have a 185mm rear rotor.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n<\/a>It’s due them in particular that I became versatile on bike<\/strong>. I quickly got good results in France junior high school championships<\/strong>. So my parents help me to increase<\/strong> my level. They bought my first real bike in a selling on consignment: a Cannondale F500<\/strong>. It was nice. Its frame which had the same color that grany smith apple.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
<\/a>As my level was increasing month after month and I mounted the podium at every championship, the next year I decided to buy my first full suspensions<\/strong> mountain bike when I was 15. This time I bought it myself while mowing the law for 4 years… It was a Lapierre Trail LTX<\/strong> (2003 model).<\/p>\n<\/a>It was an awesome bike. It has opened the doors for me of All mountain and Freeride<\/strong> which will inspire me to move faster, to jump hig<\/span>her and to ride stronger<\/span>. During 6 years I was riding this bike I broke the frame four times<\/span>. Fortunatly, my father kn<\/strong>ew someone who could weld aluminium!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>I was falling love of a Intense Tracer VP blue frame<\/strong> in June 2009. It was limited to 50 blue editions in the world.<\/strong>\u00a0 So I broke open my piggybank in order to buy it. It’s a 6 inches rear travel. I put a FOX 36 fork<\/strong> (2005) that I recovered on my Atomlab General Issue<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/h1>\n
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Frame<\/h3>\n<\/a>I have this Intense Tracer VP for 3 years. I met many riders through my MTB club, as Alexis Delgado<\/strong> and Fabien Cousinier<\/strong> that I met during shooting of Pista Prest Dago.<\/a>\u00a0 Thanks to “Couscous “(Fabien’s nickname), I bought his Bos Deville Fork with new settings at low price.<\/p>\n<\/a>Also, VPP 2 (Virtual Pivot Point upgrade) doesn’t allow to put a stinger chain tensioner because of low small connecting rod<\/span>. Therefore I fixed a stinger roller on my right base<\/strong> as close as possible to middle chainring.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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Brake system
<\/h3>\n<\/a><\/a>I have an Avid Elixir CR<\/strong> brake system. It’s not very reliable.<\/strong> My rear brake has air bubbles and I need to bleed it after a hard day run<\/span>. Moreover bleed it is hard<\/strong> compared with Hayes Brake.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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Fork
<\/h3>\n<\/a>My Bos Deville<\/strong><\/a> runs very well. Compared with my Fox 36 Talas RC2<\/a> (2005) it was like night and day. I recomand it for enduro bike. <\/strong>It has high and low speed compression, rebond and prestressing settings<\/span>. It is very sensitive<\/strong> and it has a linear travel<\/strong>. If you use all travel, increase high speed compression. I use TRC system in brittle trails, never to climb.<\/p>\n<\/h1>\n
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Telescopic seat post
<\/h3>\n<\/a>For enduro trails, a telescopic seat post is useful<\/strong>. With your thumb you can up and down quickly your seat. I have a KS I950<\/strong>. But I amended in swivel\u00a0 it to 180\u00b0 to have the remote cable forwardpass<\/strong>. That protects the mechanism to mud<\/span>. Moreover I use a neoprene sock. But sometimes, the seat post doesn’t back up entirely.<\/strong><\/p>\nTransmission
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