Did a nice loop today with Woodcore, Mlegg, and a guy named Tim. We started from the pull-off by where the orchard DH crosses Scoville to the Pelican. I'm still trying to figure out the advantage to starting there, unless you like starting your ride with a climb.
We started by going up the Orchard DH>Meth lab>newer stuff at Nass West that we did last weekend>Waterfall by-pass>Waterfall DH>Heart Thumper>Sessions gravel>B-street>4 way>Rock wall DH>BSB>Jug>Scoville twisties>Sandy Pelican>done.
All said it came it right at about 13.5 with a moving average in the high 6MPH range. It turned out to be a great loop and a good day in general, though starting the day climbing up the orchard wasn't my idea of awesomeness. Most importantly to me was that last night I serviced my fork and got it working as good if not better than it was when I got it new. For at least the last month I'd been getting progressively less travel out of it as the oil was leaking out of the damping cartridge and into the lower leg. Before I pulled it apart last night I was getting less than 2 inches of travel before it would abruptly bottom out on the pool of oil in the lower leg. I could really tell a big difference between today and when I rode a lot of the same trails last Sunday and Friday.
It was also my first time riding up the orchard to the meth lab climb, which despite being what we started on wasn't that bad. I thought it was actually easier than going up the knee tree, I guess because it covers more or less the same vertical in a longer distance. I still kinda like the knee tree climb, but this is a nice alternative to have.
We started by going up the Orchard DH>Meth lab>newer stuff at Nass West that we did last weekend>Waterfall by-pass>Waterfall DH>Heart Thumper>Sessions gravel>B-street>4 way>Rock wall DH>BSB>Jug>Scoville twisties>Sandy Pelican>done.
All said it came it right at about 13.5 with a moving average in the high 6MPH range. It turned out to be a great loop and a good day in general, though starting the day climbing up the orchard wasn't my idea of awesomeness. Most importantly to me was that last night I serviced my fork and got it working as good if not better than it was when I got it new. For at least the last month I'd been getting progressively less travel out of it as the oil was leaking out of the damping cartridge and into the lower leg. Before I pulled it apart last night I was getting less than 2 inches of travel before it would abruptly bottom out on the pool of oil in the lower leg. I could really tell a big difference between today and when I rode a lot of the same trails last Sunday and Friday.
It was also my first time riding up the orchard to the meth lab climb, which despite being what we started on wasn't that bad. I thought it was actually easier than going up the knee tree, I guess because it covers more or less the same vertical in a longer distance. I still kinda like the knee tree climb, but this is a nice alternative to have.