yep, from skinner’s butte
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49 min lunchtime loop from work in Belmont regional park. Bull Run trail, Grade 3 in the dry. Unfortunately it’s been raining solid for a week. Still, nice too get out at last.
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First ride of substance on the Lorry (1.27 tarck century).
It was windy earlier. That crate needs more speed holes.
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Rode 124 miles on Saturday from Astoria, Oregon to Vernonia and back. Almost 11,000 feet of climbing. Only about 15 miles paved, the rest gravel and one ATV trail.
Saw a bunch of elk and deer. Rode past a dead deer 15 miles from Astoria, my friends were ahead of me and had stopped and were yelling at me but I couldn’t hear what they were saying. When I caught up to them they told me that when they rolled up on the deer there was a mountain lion standing over it but it ran off into tall grass next to the road. Said they saw its tail sticking up out of the grass 10 feet from me when I rode past!
Tough ride. Decent route except for a few miles of very shitty chunky loose gravel either side of Vernonia.
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First time doing a night mtb ride in a long time! Only bummer was that there was a flying ant hatch all along the trail, so I had to stop many times to shake them off my body and helmet. Luckily I had a mask or I’d have eaten many.
I also need to work on the fit of my Lynskey, having some issue with hand numbness and lower back pain on long climbs.
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Yesterday I had a “photo memory” from years past pop and it showed me with a bandanna around my face & the text “It’s gnat season on my commute, time to don the emergency bandanna mask, wish it was a little more comfortable” and here I am in 2020 with a much more comfortable mask I always carry and can be used to keep the bugs out.
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I have also appreciated not swallowing a single bug this season, but a few more than normal have been funneled into my eyes, none so bad as the one I had last fall that was in there for a few hours before I finally stopped long enough to take some pictures and confirm its location and made myself cry it out.
Had a great ride last weekend
5000 ft of climbing, 45 miles round trip, with 6 miles of this good chunky stuff on the way down
Definitely took the Emonda to its limit
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I’ve been slowly catching up on this thread starting from late 2019 and it is some good feels therapy seeing some of the places y’all are riding
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Looks like a wicked ride. Ive always wondered, the sram shifters are so light, dyu reckon that sram/spryes combo would be lighter than Easter Island Hydro?
Maybe
These brakes feel like garbage but I think it has more to do with the cable routing
Gonna get hydros next season prob
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WFH lunchtime ride. I just realised my last 4 rides have been on 4 different bikes. Who am I trying to kid about reducing my fleet. A ton of feral goats out there today. A bit cold too. Tail hook lengthener is working well.
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125km/2600m on Tuesday - I discovered mid-ride that one of the State parks that I was passing through was closed due to fire damage. I didn’t want to backtrack and I wasn’t sure if it was just sort of ‘closed’ or it was ‘closed closed’ 4 real so I tried sneaking it. Discovered it was the latter after I ran into some park rangers who were kind enough to let me keep going so that I could get out of the forbidden zone.
At this point, I was outside of mobile reception and the range of my downloaded maps so I went off some vague directions from a local. I ended up riding some sweet new roads and still managed to get back on track in the end. The detour added around 20km extra, all of which were worthwhile.
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Where is this! Those are lovely pictures I want to go there.
Yarra Ranges, around 70km east of Melbourne, Australia. A very lovely part of the world, though unfortunately parts of the native forest are subject to clearfell logging which severely scars the landscape and destroys biodiversity.
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you could ride similar terrain west side of the coast range, not too far from you
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Have had a price watch out on another Burley Nomad for a friend and picked one up from Bainbridge today. Stopped for a growler fill of a lovely scotch ale and decided to skip a ferry and take a business call on the beach before heading back to Seattle for some great dumplings.
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