Today's Ride
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FairfaxPat
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so today i was asked to go to a yha in castleton to pre inspect it before taking a bus full of teenagers, and for lunch.........
i went riding, would have stayed longer but i had to collect sprog from school and its a 1-2 hour drive traffic pending
lunch in the van
freshly built bike to ride, wonder if it'll stay this clean......
the views, when i dared to stop and take some, tight time frame
mmmmm getting muddy
back to the van just in time for my aim of 1.30
and no, it didnt stay clean for long, but nowt went wrong, posts a little low but worked and rode ace!!!
so today i was asked to go to a yha in castleton to pre inspect it before taking a bus full of teenagers, and for lunch.........
i went riding, would have stayed longer but i had to collect sprog from school and its a 1-2 hour drive traffic pending
lunch in the van
freshly built bike to ride, wonder if it'll stay this clean......
the views, when i dared to stop and take some, tight time frame
mmmmm getting muddy
back to the van just in time for my aim of 1.30
and no, it didnt stay clean for long, but nowt went wrong, posts a little low but worked and rode ace!!!
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Nice. Is that down the back of mam tor?
FairfaxPat
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Today-Thursday, Thanksgiving Day Holiday- I rode the annual Appetite Seminar with Warren and Charlie Kelly and at least 500 other riders. The climb up to the ridge at 1500' was brutal the way we went-plus it was so muddy on the last third of the climb we were pushing all the way. Once at the ridge top at about 1500' there is Pine Mtn. Truck road (fire road) to ride along the ridge, but since it is flat, it collects rain water and was, in places, a long muddy trough. We were riding and walking through the bushes along side of the deepest places. After hanging at the Triangle, the place where the last downhill starts, we rode down to the party downtown at the Museum parking lot. There was free beer until it ran out, and lots of old friends to visit with. A really fun day...
Today-Thursday, Thanksgiving Day Holiday- I rode the annual Appetite Seminar with Warren and Charlie Kelly and at least 500 other riders. The climb up to the ridge at 1500' was brutal the way we went-plus it was so muddy on the last third of the climb we were pushing all the way. Once at the ridge top at about 1500' there is Pine Mtn. Truck road (fire road) to ride along the ridge, but since it is flat, it collects rain water and was, in places, a long muddy trough. We were riding and walking through the bushes along side of the deepest places. After hanging at the Triangle, the place where the last downhill starts, we rode down to the party downtown at the Museum parking lot. There was free beer until it ran out, and lots of old friends to visit with. A really fun day...
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Repack Rider
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A few of my own photos from the Thanksgiving Day "Appetite Seminar" ride. Count was somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 riders. Sunny skies but deep mud that would have been the envy of any UK rider. As usual, beer ran out just as I arrived at the finish party at the Marin Museum of Bicycling.
For 21 years Josh Orlando (left) has run the Pine Mountain Turkey Day Cafe, pouring coffee laced with a little hair of the dog. He'll make you pancakes of you need them.
The Turkey Boyz decorated for the occasion.
Mud. We have it. Especially after 7 cm of rain in the previous week and a few hundred riders.
Marin Museum of Bicycling is a perfect finish party.
It got a little muddy.
When you have Scot Nicol and "Ibis Maximus" in the same place, you get a photo.
Here, BTW, is the poster I had made to promote this ride in 1982.
For 21 years Josh Orlando (left) has run the Pine Mountain Turkey Day Cafe, pouring coffee laced with a little hair of the dog. He'll make you pancakes of you need them.
The Turkey Boyz decorated for the occasion.
Mud. We have it. Especially after 7 cm of rain in the previous week and a few hundred riders.
Marin Museum of Bicycling is a perfect finish party.
It got a little muddy.
When you have Scot Nicol and "Ibis Maximus" in the same place, you get a photo.
Here, BTW, is the poster I had made to promote this ride in 1982.
Repack Rider
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Pat and I both posted about the recent Appetite Seminar ride in Marin County, which drew 800 riders in spite of the mud. Wet trails, but blue skies, and now this incredible Steadicam footage from the last descent. You can see the bike bouncing around, but the camera doesn't move.
You see what we have to deal with here. Views. Bright sunshine. Real mud. Endless downhill. What you don't see is how much work it took to be in a position to ride this downhill!
The video is all on a fire road, but at the point where it ends, the rider had the option of dropping through single-track and a flow trail.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPNvf6JCjGw[/youtube]
You see what we have to deal with here. Views. Bright sunshine. Real mud. Endless downhill. What you don't see is how much work it took to be in a position to ride this downhill!
The video is all on a fire road, but at the point where it ends, the rider had the option of dropping through single-track and a flow trail.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPNvf6JCjGw[/youtube]
Repack Rider
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Here is the "other" downhill from the same ride. This the descent of Pine Mountain, one of the best in Marin. It is a lot longer than the video suggests, about 300 vertical meters of descent.
The price of this descent is the climb out of the deep canyon it ends in.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E4yhscZI5U[/youtube]
The price of this descent is the climb out of the deep canyon it ends in.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E4yhscZI5U[/youtube]
