Sorry for the late reply, Johnny O. I just saw this post. I have a bad habit of only looking at the main forum and not the other sections sometimes. I'm glad Shan wasn't 200 yards farther down the trail because he would have had a pic of me lying on the ground. That section was tough! I hit a rock and it deflected me off of the trail into a bunch of slick logs and I about died getting the bike out of them. I gotta get my fat a$$ in better shape.
That is still my 2012 model but I hand carried a set of '13 srouds on the airplane(s) back from Spain to put on my bike. They are much stronger!