drjeff
Well-known member
AWESOME RIDE tonight!!! Hit the trails just before 6 with my usual riding friend, a patient of mine and his buddy (both these guys were relative Monsters who were killing it tonight and really forced me to take my riding up a notch and took me on some new trails!) Did the usual orange out past the bridge, got to maybe within a 1/4 mile of the cornfield before we headed back. At the red bridge, we were all feeling good, and it was such a nice night, that the new guys we were riding with wanted to go across the bridge to the east side of the lake, and I wasn't complaining. Did some of the yellow (the Monsters also took us down some unmarked stuff - which was really cool in the dark!) and then up the blue to the campground and back down to the yellow(really cool descent 1st decent for me down a leaf covered rocky stream bed in the dark! ) then back across the red bridge, down the yellow to the orange and back to the parking lot. Total ride time was an hour and 50 minutes (included in that was the time to fix a broken chain and 2 blown tubes). Total distance was 8.6 miles with 1855 feet of climbing.
Had a stupid over the bars moment tonight . I was just about to exit the woods on the yellow and head out onto the dirt road by the Lake. I'm making the last part of the climb before the descent that takes you out into the field. Almost at the top of the hill, and barely moving, I go to upshift so I can pull some more gear on the descent and botch the shift and drop the chain off my #2 front ring :dunce: A kind of slow motion "oh sh$t!" as I start tipping over and couldn't find solid ground to plant my foot, so next thing I know I'm checking out the structural integrity of a smallish sugar maple and giving the other 3 guys in the group a good laugh!
Probably 80-85% of the ride was in the dark with just the lights, and it was defiantely a top 2 or 3 ride for me interms of fun this year!
Had a stupid over the bars moment tonight . I was just about to exit the woods on the yellow and head out onto the dirt road by the Lake. I'm making the last part of the climb before the descent that takes you out into the field. Almost at the top of the hill, and barely moving, I go to upshift so I can pull some more gear on the descent and botch the shift and drop the chain off my #2 front ring :dunce: A kind of slow motion "oh sh$t!" as I start tipping over and couldn't find solid ground to plant my foot, so next thing I know I'm checking out the structural integrity of a smallish sugar maple and giving the other 3 guys in the group a good laugh!
Probably 80-85% of the ride was in the dark with just the lights, and it was defiantely a top 2 or 3 ride for me interms of fun this year!