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Goal this evening was to introduce Grassi21 to MTB. We all met at the Scoville lot around 6 pm. Brian, Jeff and I teamed up to pull Chris's road tires off his bike and replacing them with his new MTB tires. Brian also fixed his faulty front derailleur to stay on the middle chainring. Within 20 minutes or so, we were off.
Jeff took the lead into the warm-up loop, followed by Brian, severine, Grassi and I took up the rear. I tried to help Chris with a few basic tips. He seemed to attack things within short order and I notice he has some really good balance. He hung right in there on the warm up loop. We then crossed Scoville again and headed into the southern trails. It's pretty tricky in there and I was impressed with how Chris didn't hold back and attacked a lot of the obstacles. His overall speed started to pick up as well. Carrie was doing a nice job too. Chris actually hit many of the obstacles that I skipped for several rides. He really is a bit of a natural and that's not a suck up. I was definitely impressed, especially given the piece of crap rigid bike he was riding.
We then crossed E. Chippens and sessioned around the rocky junction up there. Carrie took a few pics of us being foolish. Even Chris tried hitting the small drop there and wrecked nicely. Awesome job, bud! 8) We then headed down to B street. After some encouragement Brian finally took the B street ledge. We then headed back to the junction and took the Tunxis trail back to Scoville.
All in all a fun ride. I think we did a solid job introducing Chris to MTBing. Actually it was a pretty hard core intro. :lol: I hope you had a good time, Chris. You really did do a great job given that was your first ride. Carrie hung right in there as well. Nice job! I hope you two join us again soon.
We missed you, 2knees...
Jeff took the lead into the warm-up loop, followed by Brian, severine, Grassi and I took up the rear. I tried to help Chris with a few basic tips. He seemed to attack things within short order and I notice he has some really good balance. He hung right in there on the warm up loop. We then crossed Scoville again and headed into the southern trails. It's pretty tricky in there and I was impressed with how Chris didn't hold back and attacked a lot of the obstacles. His overall speed started to pick up as well. Carrie was doing a nice job too. Chris actually hit many of the obstacles that I skipped for several rides. He really is a bit of a natural and that's not a suck up. I was definitely impressed, especially given the piece of crap rigid bike he was riding.
We then crossed E. Chippens and sessioned around the rocky junction up there. Carrie took a few pics of us being foolish. Even Chris tried hitting the small drop there and wrecked nicely. Awesome job, bud! 8) We then headed down to B street. After some encouragement Brian finally took the B street ledge. We then headed back to the junction and took the Tunxis trail back to Scoville.
All in all a fun ride. I think we did a solid job introducing Chris to MTBing. Actually it was a pretty hard core intro. :lol: I hope you had a good time, Chris. You really did do a great job given that was your first ride. Carrie hung right in there as well. Nice job! I hope you two join us again soon.
We missed you, 2knees...