Had a pretty big group show up last night for the ride. Ten of us in total. I was amazed and surprised. Jake, Don, Joel, Kory and his friend Tom, Ray, Keith, and Dave appeared for a pretty sloppy ride. Another cool thing to see was, that out of 10 bikes, seven were 29ers, one was a 69er, and the other two were tiny little 26ers. 26er's in the minority? Wake up, local bike shops!
Due to the soft conditions, it was pretty much a constant-tension workout. Hard work, all the time, to go anywhere. Kinda like riding in snow, but brown and dirty. Should dry out a bit by the weekend and be better, especially with the wind.
Donna had her Soma out for its maiden voyage and everything went well! Wow, I must be good. She really liked the bike and even rode some logs, in the wet, that she always had issues with on her 26er FS Trek. Big wheels rule. We might shorten her stem a bit but that's about the only adjustment to make to the bike. She's happy, I'm happy, the bike's happy. Happy, happy.
One downer note of the evening was the evidence of Trail Vandals. Chainsaw-happy, no-talent, lazy chits that cut ALL the logs off a certain awesome trail that wends along by a creek. Yes, a section that included no fewer than six sweet, sweet log-overs in the space of less than a tenth of a mile.
Totally razed.
Anesthetized.
Morphine-o-fied.
Ride it in your sleep now.
Not just sections cut out of logs, but then those sections bucked into foot-long pieces and rolled into the woods. I was so angry I could spit. Why? Why? For the love of God, why do people do this? There were already go-arounds cut through the biggest logs. Why wasn't that enough? Why does someone think a woodland trail needs to be as easy as the Pine Grove Rail Trail? What's wrong with people? Maybe they should stick to Wii riding or hiking in their livingrooms. Why do people think they are the only people in the universe? Why can't they think of other people, other trail users? I don't get it. I really don't.
Okay, enough of that. Other than that, the rest of the ride was phun. Hard, but phun. It was great seeing that many people show up. Chalk it up to cabin fever? Spring fever? Dunno, but if they keep coming, I'll have to up my game to stay in it. Which isn't a bad thing, really.
Thanks for the ride, everybody.
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Happy!
BucSSexy and I stayed down south and did the Mont Alto thing last night. Being the full-on bike mooch that I am, I rode his SS Rig and he rode the full-boinger Yeti. Most trails were like quicksand, but the early summer temperatures made up for it.
The wind gods have likely already replaced what was cut out by the vandals in new and more challenging locations over the last couple days.
we can only hope. considering ways to thwart future would-be chainsaw thugs.
I'm bummed that I missed the ride, and the happy donnrett.
If we ever run into those #$t%^r #$c%^g, #o$% s%^*(), #h%^ #$c%^r#s in the act, I'm scared of what will happen. Even reading it fills me with rage beyond reason. ITS WRONG.
We've been sporting 29'er majority rides in Fredneck and Rothrock for years. Mostly SS, some FS, and the occasional 69'er - lots of rigid stuff.
years? like decades? wow. you guys are so ahead of the curve!
This might be one of the best Brett's Angry Rants ever... and completely justified too..
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