jamey -where do you live?
looks like a landscape ICKIW
Denver. It’s definitely KIWable.
went out mountain biking yesterday, which was mid 70’s and fucking beautiful. it was the first real mountain biking that i’ve done this year.
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^Awesome. Looks like camping.
Went to Hells Canyon to try out the “new” RV.
Highly recommended for Cross and road bike vacations. Hiking trails we tried were steep as crap (20%+) with switchbacks you’d have to dismount for so not so much mountain biking.
i hate you guys so, so much.
michigan gnar is much more boring and often manmade, sometimes not so intelligently as i found out wednesday:
coming in hot on a fast switchback getting distracted by something or another (this part is my bad) i look up and see a brand new horribly placed log ride.
clipped the sapling with my bars cause very little room. it looked like i wasn’t the first and apparently it was only built it a few days before i rode.
tried not to wreck through the corner. trail was still a bit squirmy, which didn’t help. (viewed from other side of trail, back of log ride seen at left)
oh shit they also built a log pile (seen at right in prev pic) off the back of the turn, complete with piles of branches on either side where a bypass probably should be. blew the bunnyhop because i hadn’t quite regained control, endo’d, and landed right on the logs with my leg and ribcage. pretty sure i bruised a rib cause that shit ain’t feeling any better 4 days later.
i’m pissed because later i found out to ride it cleanly you gotta slam your brakes immediately off the back of the log ride to make the turn and then give it all you got for a few cranks to barely have enough speed for the log pile. and it used to be a fast, fun corner.
so pissed i punished myself finishing the ride (this all happened within 150yds of the trailhead, btw), which was nice. new bars/stem/fork make the front end feel hella stiff and the drivetrain is giving me all of it and the brakes, which i had my doubts about, are fine.
You should rebuild that shit, man. That looks and sounds terrible.
yeah, i mean i’d consider it but i think the trail manager actually is the one who built that shit. i also don’t really hit up these trails very often once the season gets going unless i’m short on time, there is a much better/longer area for riding 10 or 15 minutes further from my house. this one just tends to be the first to dry up in the spring.
also i guess my preferred trail system is getting a pretty big overhaul this year with a couple jump sections (finally!) and some new trail sections that should make a big loop of the advanced trails, which will be nice. i’m sure i’ll post some pics of that place later once they open it up for riding.
Man, I came here to post this turkey, but after all that, it kinda feels unworthy.
Did this yesterday off a newish log pile that is around a bend and uphill. Makes it really fucking hard to carry enough momentum on a ss. Usually have to give myself a boost with one of my crankarms.
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Did this yesterday off a newish log pile that is around a bend and uphill. Makes it really fucking hard to carry enough momentum on a ss. Usually have to give myself a boost with one of my crankarms.[/quote]
TC: Don’t really like slow and technical trails. All my favorite trails are fast and flowy.
60* and sunny today. finally got a good long ride in
i saw a snake!
and then i was like
but then i saw some horsies and felt better
a watersfall
mai beik
mai feet
toenails is purple, that cant be good.
really they look yello to me 
shit man, your eyes and your toenails are fucked.
damnit
what color are they supposed to be?
did a 1-night camping trip to Eldora, CO, which is about 50 miles from Denver, but we rode from Boulder, which was about 25 miles. i mountain bike a lot…but holy shit was the non-stop climbing out to Eldora miserable. to make things worse, the climbing was accompanied by 25-30 mph non-stop wind gusts, AND there was some freak snow storm the night before, which we did not know about, which meant we camped in some deep ass snow. at one point i definitely fell into snow that came up to my chest. the way back was non-stop descending, with a tailwind…and an occasional crosswind that scared the living shit out of me.
all the pictures are from either going up or from where we camped. the downhill was just too fast and fun to stop and take pictures.
where we camped. my tent, the bike tarp, and his hammock is somewhere back there.
from our campsite
view of the moon from my tent’s window
I found one of these guys on a ride today:
The photo is not mine, sorry about cheating… But I never knew these things live here and I’m happy I ran into one. The one I saw was pretty damn big, over a foot long. The colour was almost as vibrant as in the pic. Beautiful little creature.
View from todays mtb ride
Yesterday’s ride
that looks like so much fun.