alpinehyperlite
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I got caught in my first rain storm on the motorcycle. That sucked.
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Riding in the rain always sucks, don't care how much gear you have on.
Took the now B+ side on a post work ride today. My initial thoughts...
Rained us out yesterday, and I was first man on the trails today. How do I know? Because I collected about 50 spiderwebs. You can only see the one, but there are three on my brake cables in this pic. Pedal or GTFO!
At the bottom...
On the way up. Damn roots, made it to the last one and spun the back tire
At the top...made the climb for a second time in a row on the SS.
Do you see it?
Also, have I mentioned lately, I love this bike?
Strava deets
Took the now B+ side on a post work ride today. My initial thoughts...
Rained us out yesterday, and I was first man on the trails today. How do I know? Because I collected about 50 spiderwebs. You can only see the one, but there are three on my brake cables in this pic. Pedal or GTFO!
At the bottom...
On the way up. Damn roots, made it to the last one and spun the back tire
At the top...made the climb for a second time in a row on the SS.
Do you see it?
Also, have I mentioned lately, I love this bike?
Strava deets
Yes, I see the deer. Good thing the bear behind you kept moving.
I stunk too bad for bear to want to eat me, I already smelled dead. 
hamz9561
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More riding inspiration..
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Now that's the kind of motivation I can get behind!
Just got back from a weekend riding / camping trip. It was so great to get away and disconnect for a while.
First day was at DuPont. My ride got cut short and included some walking, did just over 18 miles.
Map reading class 101
Top of Airstrip with my buddy Mike
Fixing a flat on Mine Mountain. I would do this a couple more times before heading for the truck, flatting again, and walking the last 3 or so miles. Couldn't find anything in the tire or wrong with the rim, turns out it was a small rock gash in the sidewall.
Bottom of what I think is Reasonover
Accommodations for the evening
Second day was at Pisgah. Rode a variation of the big M loop starting from Sycamore cycles. Some pavement and easy bike path stuff to the horse stables, then Clawhammer to Maxwell cove to Hickory Knob to lower Black Mtn to pisgah hwy to grassy to Sycamore. Just an incredible ride! Right at 16 miles, and lots of clmibing!
My buddy Mike (I think) coming down Black
The group
Post ride was Hubba Hubba BBQ and beers at The Hub
I'd post up Strava deets, but the Garmin wonked out (imagine that, a Garmin product being buggy LOL) as usual.
Just got back from a weekend riding / camping trip. It was so great to get away and disconnect for a while.
First day was at DuPont. My ride got cut short and included some walking, did just over 18 miles.
Map reading class 101
Top of Airstrip with my buddy Mike
Fixing a flat on Mine Mountain. I would do this a couple more times before heading for the truck, flatting again, and walking the last 3 or so miles. Couldn't find anything in the tire or wrong with the rim, turns out it was a small rock gash in the sidewall.
Bottom of what I think is Reasonover
Accommodations for the evening
Second day was at Pisgah. Rode a variation of the big M loop starting from Sycamore cycles. Some pavement and easy bike path stuff to the horse stables, then Clawhammer to Maxwell cove to Hickory Knob to lower Black Mtn to pisgah hwy to grassy to Sycamore. Just an incredible ride! Right at 16 miles, and lots of clmibing!
My buddy Mike (I think) coming down Black
The group
Post ride was Hubba Hubba BBQ and beers at The Hub
I'd post up Strava deets, but the Garmin wonked out (imagine that, a Garmin product being buggy LOL) as usual.
Oh yeah, I had a blast Pete.
Group ride day today, still feeling the weekend's MTBing in the legs too. And the Garmin still sucks, shows Sunday for this ride. Hell, I was in Pisgah Sunday. Stupid Garmbage.
Group ride day today, still feeling the weekend's MTBing in the legs too. And the Garmin still sucks, shows Sunday for this ride. Hell, I was in Pisgah Sunday. Stupid Garmbage.
Did some riding over the holiday weekend with my niece and nephew, including his first real MTB trail, and my first trip around a pump track. The pump track was a blast! Getting to be involved with things like this with them makes me want to move down there. Found some challenging technical trails at Big Creek also, good stuff!
A few more from my Pisgah trip. Such an amazing place, and the riding is just incredible. If you're ever down this way, I highly recommend it be at the top of your list! Only downside is it has ruined me for all the local riding, as everything here has been neutered for the tourists, I feel like I could ride my road bike on most of it at this point.
I look happier than I should after climbing up Clawhammer for the past 45 minutes, I wasn't done yet either.
Looking Glass Falls
Below Looking Glass Falls
Davidson River picnic area
I look happier than I should after climbing up Clawhammer for the past 45 minutes, I wasn't done yet either.
Looking Glass Falls
Below Looking Glass Falls
Davidson River picnic area
So after riding three pumptracks over the holiday weekend, I decided I needed something for riding those, and I have the ball rolling for building one here also. I found this on CL, and it's like new, so as soon as the Revo sold, I made the 5 hour round trip drive to pick it up. It's a Haro Steel Reserve 1.2. It has some nice components like the Alienation rims, but I had a better stem, bars, and grips in the parts bin, and Nick at the LBS hooked me up with some nice chain tensioners. I rode a lot of BMX growing up, so it's kinda like coming back home after all these years. I tried getting back into bmx about ten years ago, but the 20" bikes just felt sketchy to me. Happy to say the 26" DJ frame (and it's the long frame which suits me well at 6'2") is very stable and feels great, and the suspension fork is nice! When I'm not hitting pump tracks on it, I'll bomb around town and work on things like manuals that transfer right over to the MTB. Besides, the way I see it, as long as I'm pedaling, it's all good. Supposed to hit the Trek demo day at Bent Creek tomorrow, then a pump track in Brevard after.
I kinda dig the color keyed hub / spoke nipples
I kinda dig the color keyed hub / spoke nipples
Went to a Trek demo today at Bent Creek. Rode the Remedy 29er, Fuel EX 29er, and Fuel EX 27.5. Really, really thought I'd love the Remedy, but the geometry felt wonky to me, and we just didn't click. I went up one frame size on the advice of a friend, on all the bikes, and it was a good move as the full sus bikes tend to have shorter top tubes. Got on the Fuel 29er and was instantly comfortable with it, made some gnarly climbs (all you guys with full squish are cheating BTW, climbing tech is SOOOOO much easier with suspension in back) and some rowdy descents. Had a crap ton of fun!
Ingles Field Gap is no joke! Toughest off road climb I've done to date, steep enough that I didn't think it was possible in places, lots of chunk too.
When we got done with that, we headed into Brevard for a some dirt jumping and pump track action for a couple hours or so. Starting to get a feel for the DJ bike, and had a blast on it too. Glad I bought it, even started to slowly get a feel for manuals on it by the end of the day.
I got some vids, if they turned out worth a crap.
Ingles Field Gap is no joke! Toughest off road climb I've done to date, steep enough that I didn't think it was possible in places, lots of chunk too.
When we got done with that, we headed into Brevard for a some dirt jumping and pump track action for a couple hours or so. Starting to get a feel for the DJ bike, and had a blast on it too. Glad I bought it, even started to slowly get a feel for manuals on it by the end of the day.
I got some vids, if they turned out worth a crap.
I bet I haven't had this happen since I was about 12 years old. Pedal bite doesn't discriminate against age though LOL.
OW! Ow!!! OW! That's even going to hurt ME in the morning. Damn that got you good.
Yep, sure did Ralph. I had it quite a bit as a kid riding BMX. But modern flats are no joke, those screw in pins will lay you open, the top one is still bleeding a bit, and it happened at 6 'o clock this evening. After cleaning it good when I got home, I count 9 places it got me good, and two that are really minor. But, it doesn't really hurt much honestly, just looks gnarly.
Fall color is starting to pop here, it's my favorite time of year, and the weather is perfect for riding
It was gorgeous here today, so I took my favorite bike and rode from home to the trails and back. Not a bad way to spend an afternoon at all.
ninnon
Hardcore RCTalk User
I winced just at the thought of that picture of the pedal bjte- I'm always doing it and it bloody hurts....
Ha ha, yep, I do the same when I see other people get bit ninnon. That was 5 weeks ago, still isn't healed up completely.
ninnon
Hardcore RCTalk User
Feeling for ya- hope it gets better- at least it's not hurting as much as when you first do it...Ha ha, yep, I do the same when I see other people get bit ninnon. That was 5 weeks ago, still isn't healed up completely.
