Pretty good ride today at case, but totally not what I was expecting. I started to get worried when I realized that I was the only one out of 6 guys without shin/knee pads as we were getting ready in the lot. The ride started out with a climb up a washed out fire road, it wasn't too steep, but was pretty consistent. I thought it was a fun way to start the ride as there was just enough roots and rocks too make it interesting in spots. When we got to the top of the climbing the guides explained that was about the end of the climbing and that the real fun stuff was about to start. What I didn't realize then was that our two guides were basically trials guys and to them fun was climbing or hopping up the sides of big rocks and then rolling and/or dropping off the steep faces on the other side, often involving track standing and hopping around on the top of the rock to line themselves up. Many of the features had ways up that mere mortals could handle and some were even possible for me to handle. Ultimately this ended up being more of a stunt session than a ride IMHO, which was cool because it opened my eyes to a whole other style of riding I hadn't experienced before. Most of the stuff they were riding I never would have looked at and thought that people should ride bikes over it. The ride mostly consisted of riding short distances between obstacles with a few short portions of actual riding and ended up with a pretty fun DH mix of fire road and ST.
I did take some video with my point and shoot, if I can figure a way to convert the .mov files into something that WMM can recognize I'll put them together into a short video, if not I'll pick some of the best clips and post them up.
The GPS shut itself off mid-way through the ride, but here's the track and map of what I got .
I did take some video with my point and shoot, if I can figure a way to convert the .mov files into something that WMM can recognize I'll put them together into a short video, if not I'll pick some of the best clips and post them up.
The GPS shut itself off mid-way through the ride, but here's the track and map of what I got .