Alternative Riding - Diablo

Coming off successful endeavors at the Wilderness 101 and Dark Horse 40, C-Dubs and Top Chef declared this past weekend as a "No Moar Training Weekend". Riding for Satruday was limited to bikes that tip the scales at 40 lbs, have 170mm of travel and real gnarly tires, preferably 2.5s.
Starting the day with a pot of primo Costa Rican coffee, a visit to Mt. Kohler and a big bowl of Chinese congee we loaded the truck and headed south to the highlands of New Jersey to Diablo Freeride and Water Park. Rumors of Snooki, The Situation and the rest of the Jersey Shore crew had us south well above the speed limit. All was for naught as the recent arrest of Snooki meant the everyone had to keep low key until the start of the new series.
Arriving at the park I was excited to bomb the mountain on the Norco with it's new Marzocchi triple crown fork and being fresh out of the box there had been no set up done. After consulting tech guru, Top Chef, I pumped in his recommneded 90 lbs. Well the first run was an easy beginner one and we both got the downhill mojo going again, enough so that the second run we upped it to one of the expert runs. Half way down I was suffering with the rock gardens, taking a pounding and hearing a lot of noises from the bike. Stopping to check it out Top Chef noted that the travel was under 80mm and some of the 90lbs of air should be let out. Well having survived a downhill run on basically a rigid 40lb bike was an event in itself and after letting all of the air out I finally had the full 170mm of travel and it was time to go and have some fun like this -

After a couple more runs like that we headed to the outdoor bar at the base of the lift and had margaritas Team Seagal style

Then it was time to load the bikes and head out for some chinese food and beer for the trip home.