Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
Trail: building, science, art, journeys, and gear
imba trail link trip tracks: Buffalo Creek IMBA Epic In my more than twenty years of hiking and riding, other than Prescott, AZ, I don’t know that I have ridden or hiked ‘finer’ trails. It was very much like Lynx in Prescott, only it was the Rockies. The trail layout and design was fabulous textbook
Buffalo Creek, Colorado Read More »
imba trail link Fruita certainly lived up to the hype. I really liked the two rides, the 18 Road area, and Kokopelli. I liked the the latter ride more as the views and trail surface were more fun IMO. I didn’t get to do ‘the edge’ part of the ‘edge loop’ as intended due to
imba trail link http://www.geoladders.com/show_route.php?route=18564 What a great maiden voyage on the Turner Sultan- thanks Dave and SDMBA! It didn’t take long to feel what it could do, or what I could do. I figured out the pro pedal relatively quickly, but may tweak it a bit, same with the front end. I can’t say I
Hurricane Cliffs, Utah Read More »
I was sorry to see my Seven rig go, but I think I can live with this…a shot before all the logos/graphics are gone. I earned this from SDMBA and Dave Turner from many months of hard work with SDMBA. The only bike I have rented…for a 2012 trip to PA. I’ll miss my Seven…
The plan…hit as many “Epics” and the like as possible on my way East (and my way back West (to be continued)): A: leave this town…with a heavy and light heart… B: Hurricane Cliffs, UT– “edge of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin. Grand mesas, vertical rock formations, and deep canyons combine with extinct
The Epic Mountain Bike Journey East- Part 1 Read More »
reroute dialed today after a great two days of rain, trail to officially open shortly:
Copper Canyon Reroute Read More »
I’ll be adding new pages that will have some trail design info. The second installment is a page that comes complete with its own calculator for turns. The first installment was on jumps.
Trail Turn and Switchback Design Read More »
They aren’t the jump calculator, but these have some useful applications: http://bikecalculator.com/examples.html http://www.analyticcycling.com/QCHome_Page.html
Eyes open. Things are blooming. Poway, Chocolate Lily species info sandiego.sierraclub.org/rareplants Johnny Jump Up too likes slopes