That’s Reed? Wow, okay.
Funny, I’ve never actually gone on a ride with Nicole. We shared shop space together for a long time in the 00’s. I mean, technically we still do, kinda. Anyway, she’s one of my favorite people.
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Awesome, what region!
Tokyo to Kyoto over 8 days.
Reed and I had to duck out at Kyoto, the remaining four did another 6 days doing some island hopping on ferries down to Onomichi.
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Hella jelly.
Oh yeahhhhhh, they went to Setonaikai. That place was bike paradise.
Leaf peeping on the MTB this morning. Probably a couple weeks out from the peak but super gorgeous in DuPont. 20 miles, 2.5k.
Stopped at the Caesar’s Head overlook on the way up:
I love this place.
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Early-ish start. Freeway closed for construction.
Cornelia was excited about this mushroom
Fall colors in suburbia
The tiny dot in the middle is a jet powered R/C plane. There was another plane that pooped out little paratroopers.
Lunch. I forgot to get a pic before I ate half of it.
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dudes rock
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First bike ride after a few weeks of feeling not-great. Nice gravel riding we have around here. Especially nice for leaning an XC bike with minions over enough to leave marks around corners on the downhills 
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Damn that’s pretty
we used to ride the park but I don’t like it with the weird sticky asphalt
climbing out of the parking lot is however very satisfying
is this a gravel joke?
I realized yesterday that I’d been going there for almost 15 years. So much change (much more popular) and yet it is still really nice. Well-managed and well-funded I guess.
no
the trail around the lake used to just be a dirt jeep road and they did that weird half asphalt pea gravel surface that always feels like pedaling through mud. maybe it’s gotten better as it aged I haven’t been back in a bunch of years.
Oh yeah, you mean around lake awosting. Right. On this ride we didn’t go over to the far end where it was kinda rough in the past. I don’t remember it being terrible. We were still riding it gingerly on road bikes bitd.
Overall I think the change has been positive. Nice smooth graded trails make the place more accessible for users of many abilities. It was nice to go out for a walk on my bike.
The ol’ ‘part of the rail trail near a town/ well used parking lot special’
Yeah I did notice that it was kinda slow feeling, but I attributed that to my 1000+ gram tires with tall tread and the moisture content from rain in the past few days.
That surface really calls for a mild file tread at most. Prolly rips on 28mm tires. I wonder if you’ve seen Glory Hill in Mohonk recently? That was maybe the one section that got a bit sketchy on a “gravel” bike. Would be really interesting if they’ve updated it.
@dumpsterlife there’s almost 100 miles of that up there. Completely multi-use and cyclists used to be a rarity before the industry “gravel” boom.
Also not confidence inspiring with snow / ice next to cliffs
Glory Hill is pretty washed out these days. It’s particularly sketchy to climb when (like last week) you have to deal with two morons on e-bikes skidding towards you with their brakes locked.
I noticed some skid marks from very wide tires on the trails. Like eff off with that shit.
I don’t think I’ve ever eaten it on glory hill on a bike. Skis are another story.