Good ride with Jeff tonight. My bike behaved well with no squeaking since I cleaned and re-lubed all the rear suspension points. No chain suckage either, which was probably due to the new chain ring from Tim, THANKS!
We started by heading into the twisties south of Scoville, then we crossed E Chippens to B-Street. I finally made it up that stupid little rock that we've sessioned right before the main intersection (only slight chain ring rubbage on my new chain ring
). I rolled the big rock at the beginning of B-Street with no problem and Jeff hit it after stopping at the top. We both rolled the Tim endo rock with no problems and then went out almost to the clearing on the main trail before heading right towards the beaver pond area. When we got to the intersection of the blue trail right near the rocky climb we headed left instead to see exactly where it led. As expected it lead right to the gravel loop not too far from where it meets up with the beaver pond. We took a short ride up the path to the pond and then back tracked to the blue trail and followed that back.
Neither of us elected to hit the Red cliff section, though I could totally see how it's make-able and intend on trying it myself the next time I out with more that one person. I cleared much of the trail after that section including some short rocky climbs that I didn't think I'd make. I eventually tried a short roller drop that I normally would have walked. All in all I really enjoyed this section of the trail, this was the first time I rode it in that direction. When we got back to the main intersection we elected to go back through the twisties, but first I just had to try and wheelie drop that little roller on the trail that heads the quick way back to the cars. Unfortunately I put a little too much wheelie into it and the bike basically went straight into the air sending me right to me ass. It must have looked pretty funny because Jeff couldn't stop laughing, I got a good chuckle out of it was well. No injuries or broken parts.
We cruised back through the twisties from there, taking a slight variation towards the end that I'll skip next time, and made it back to Scoville in about 15 minutes from the time we left the main intersection by B-Street. I thought that was pretty good time, but it didn't feel as fast as Greg and I went through there in the near darkness last time. From there Jeff decided to call it quits as his chest was bothering him after he hit it on the bars when he got thrown forward after hitting his pedal on a rock. I hope that it feels better tomorrow Jeff! I decided to hit the warm-up loop in reverse to finish things out. I've never rode it in that direction, but it was fun. I had a little trouble getting into the groove in a few spots, but still made good time. I managed the hit the first two bridges coming from that direction (the second two in our normal direction) with no problem, but chickened out on the last one after not having much momentum. I'm getting closer to nailing that one though. I popped out of the woods about 10 minutes after I left Jeff without much more incident (other than clipping a tree with my left brake lever about 2 feet from the end :roll
Sorry for the fricken novel...
We started by heading into the twisties south of Scoville, then we crossed E Chippens to B-Street. I finally made it up that stupid little rock that we've sessioned right before the main intersection (only slight chain ring rubbage on my new chain ring
). I rolled the big rock at the beginning of B-Street with no problem and Jeff hit it after stopping at the top. We both rolled the Tim endo rock with no problems and then went out almost to the clearing on the main trail before heading right towards the beaver pond area. When we got to the intersection of the blue trail right near the rocky climb we headed left instead to see exactly where it led. As expected it lead right to the gravel loop not too far from where it meets up with the beaver pond. We took a short ride up the path to the pond and then back tracked to the blue trail and followed that back. Neither of us elected to hit the Red cliff section, though I could totally see how it's make-able and intend on trying it myself the next time I out with more that one person. I cleared much of the trail after that section including some short rocky climbs that I didn't think I'd make. I eventually tried a short roller drop that I normally would have walked. All in all I really enjoyed this section of the trail, this was the first time I rode it in that direction. When we got back to the main intersection we elected to go back through the twisties, but first I just had to try and wheelie drop that little roller on the trail that heads the quick way back to the cars. Unfortunately I put a little too much wheelie into it and the bike basically went straight into the air sending me right to me ass. It must have looked pretty funny because Jeff couldn't stop laughing, I got a good chuckle out of it was well. No injuries or broken parts.
We cruised back through the twisties from there, taking a slight variation towards the end that I'll skip next time, and made it back to Scoville in about 15 minutes from the time we left the main intersection by B-Street. I thought that was pretty good time, but it didn't feel as fast as Greg and I went through there in the near darkness last time. From there Jeff decided to call it quits as his chest was bothering him after he hit it on the bars when he got thrown forward after hitting his pedal on a rock. I hope that it feels better tomorrow Jeff! I decided to hit the warm-up loop in reverse to finish things out. I've never rode it in that direction, but it was fun. I had a little trouble getting into the groove in a few spots, but still made good time. I managed the hit the first two bridges coming from that direction (the second two in our normal direction) with no problem, but chickened out on the last one after not having much momentum. I'm getting closer to nailing that one though.
I popped out of the woods about 10 minutes after I left Jeff without much more incident (other than clipping a tree with my left brake lever about 2 feet from the end :roll Sorry for the fricken novel...
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