Representing interagency cooperation and a community-wide effort by individuals and groups, this trail creates an important recreational and commute component for the communities it serves.
Pleasanton/Dublin BART station to Santa Rita Road in Pleasanton, opened to the public on August 19th, 2014,Īfter almost 30 years of planning and funding efforts. Segment of the Trail, which closed a gap of 1.8 miles from the Regional Trail, as of 2014, spans a distance of 32 miles. Pleasanton follows the Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-wayĮstablished in 1891 and abandoned in 1978. This multi-use, whole-access trail between the cities of Concord and Toll Free: 888-EBPARKS ( 88), option 3, extension 4533 As a result, it certainly wouldn’t be our first choice of these four bikes for big Alpine trips or big-hit straight-line work.Open between 5am and 10pm unless otherwise posted or permitted. The faster and more open it got, the more the short wheelbase, flexy swingarm and twisty fork started to feel nervous and needed more rider input for stability. That said, once we’d dialled in the lines on our short and rocky test courses and speeds and impacts started to increase, we were pushing the bike pretty close to its limits. In fact, every tight, techy ride on the Kumicho was a real ego massage, and it was the undoubted fun-packed surprise of the test. The comparatively low overall weight also makes the bike very easy to accelerate and change direction on. It mimics every move you make, flaring out around corners, floating drops with perfect poise and landing them with equal control. Watch the Yakuza Kumicho in action and you can see the back end working overtime, chattering under braking and squatting under power, but when you’re actually riding it just feels great. In fact, the predictable swingarm feel makes the bike almost like a natural extension of yourself rather than a separate machine, and from the fi rst run all of our testers were just thinking about the trails and the lines, not the bike. The soft shock sucks the bike on to the ground to provide superb traction and makes it easy to fold up and flick from line to line without even thinking about it. As soon as you sling your leg over, feel it sag back into its travel and hit the hill, it comes alive with an amazingly playful feel. The best thing about the Kumicho is that we didn’t even think about the price of the component spec once when we were riding it. The SDG saddle is tough and easily adjustable, although you’ll probably need to glue or wire the grips on because ours worked loose quickly, even in generally dry test conditions. The big, blocky WTB treads are impressively sure-footed too, although the 2.7in front tyre only just squeezes through the fork brace. Hayes HFX-9 brakes with 203mm (8in) rotors do the stopping effectively, and the WTB wheelset takes the hits without worry. A clamp-on e.13 chainguide (the frame doesn’t have mounting tabs) keeps things running smoothly in the rough too.
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The almost ubiquitous Truvativ Hussefelt crankset is joined by a full Truvativ cockpit and SRAM X.7 gears. We’d rather have it plush for traction than too stiff though, and you can tune squat and bob out with the SPV damping. The Manitou Swinger 4-Way coil shock out back was a bit too soft for even our skinny test team too. It’s noticeably more flexible under braking and cornering loads though, and you can feel the springs grating in the legs. Once we’d fettled the rebound it was actually very plush and keen to level out long step or boulder runs or serious drops without panicking. With £300 less to spend on kit there are some obvious compromises, but we were impressed by how well the Marzocchi Super T fork rode compared to the 888s elsewhere. It’s certainly not a bike you’ll get the wheel out of in a hurry. The only disappointments are the thin, unclamped, 12mm drilled dropouts that spread and bind when you try to drift the 150mm rear axle out of them. You even get a bottle cage under the down tube for drink or light battery duty.
The Kumicho’s the only bike here to use a big 1.5in-compatible head tube, which means you can fit Manitou’s monster single-crown Travis fork if you remove the reduced Aheadset.
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