Met up with powhunter and o3jeff this morning for a ride out of Hubbard park. I was surprised to see Steve giving his old bike the once over when I pulled in. At first I thought he had brought it along for Johnny Poach, which would have definitely made things interesting, but it turns out that his new bike had two flats and he was fresh out of new tubes so he grabbed his trusted steed instead. After I got my ass in gear we got rolling a bit after 8. Shortly after starting Steveo tried to make friends with a small snake, who didn't seem nearly as interested in friendship when he tried to nip at Steve's hand. The courtship ended before any cameras could capture it...
After getting that out of the way we started on the ride for real. I'd done this ride once before, so I had an idea of what to expect, but I somehow forgot about how long the fire road climb up to the gazebo thing was. After that was the relentless hike-a-bike up to the top, which was just as I had remembered. After a short break on the top we headed down the road to get to the start of the DH, the reason we were there. I had forgotten just how rocky and fun most of that DH was, definitely worth some work to get there.
The ride was pretty uneventful, aside from a few tumbles and a self disconnecting power-link on my chain. Just a fun ride and a nice change of pace for me. We were done before 11, and it was hot enough by then, I'm glad we didn't start any later!
Thanks for the tour Steve! This makes, I think, 4 rides in a row with Jeff, nice to be putting some miles in with you again Jeff!
After getting that out of the way we started on the ride for real. I'd done this ride once before, so I had an idea of what to expect, but I somehow forgot about how long the fire road climb up to the gazebo thing was. After that was the relentless hike-a-bike up to the top, which was just as I had remembered. After a short break on the top we headed down the road to get to the start of the DH, the reason we were there. I had forgotten just how rocky and fun most of that DH was, definitely worth some work to get there.
The ride was pretty uneventful, aside from a few tumbles and a self disconnecting power-link on my chain. Just a fun ride and a nice change of pace for me. We were done before 11, and it was hot enough by then, I'm glad we didn't start any later!
Thanks for the tour Steve! This makes, I think, 4 rides in a row with Jeff, nice to be putting some miles in with you again Jeff!