Monthly Archive for April, 2007

Rode Wailuna on Saturday.  Met Jeff and Sara at 08:30 and it was drizzling.  The immediate thought was to call it and go home and sleep, but I didn’t want to waste the Cytomax and Endurox that I already mixed up.  Root was running late, so by the time he showed, the rain had ceased and the sun was out and drying things out.  The road climb was not too bad considering the secret training ride I did the day before, but once on te dirt, my legs were burning.  I had to spin granny-ring on sections that were otherwise mid-ring climbs.  Just after the bypass trail junction, Root got the idea that I should climb a lightning-killed tree for a photo.  I managed to get up it, but at the expense of pulling the muscle in the front of my shin.  This would cause me pain for the next 8-miles.

The descent was muddy in spots, but otherwise perfectly tacky.  At the end of the doubletrack, we descended “upper paperbark” to the traverse trail to Newtown, but saw it continue on the other side of the road.  The trail was well worn-in, so after descending a little, we decided to further explore it instead of riding back up to the doubletrack to the traverse.  The trail was significantly more packed and ridden than when we rode it last year.  Connecting to “lower paperbark”, we ended up at the grassy plain.  A singletrack in the grass that had been run through by a truck caught my eye, and we went down it to explore further.  We found “upper front door loop”, “lower front door loop”, and “back door”.  We rode them in that order, finding ourselves at the outer powerline road.  Returning to the grassy plain, we descended “Kerwin’s trail” through the stunt valley and out to the street.  There were lots if new jumps and a bridge-to-log stunt that wasn’t there last year.  The built-up section of the bridge-to-log was rickety, and the telephone pole section it transitioned to wasn’t set well, so it rolled laterally under rider weight.  Total ride was 10.08-miles with a trail time of around 3 hours.  Vavr was 6mph. 

Still don’t believe Jeff and Sara went surfing after all that… 

Root posted pictures already; I’ll add mine after I resize and whatnot in PS (don’t want to do it on WinPE)

http://www.studionewmedia.com/gallery/v/Fooligans/04282007

01 May 2007 – photos uploaded (I think I got the order correct)  

Short-list crew rode St. Louis last night, only Root, Ckucky, and me.  JT was just back from Kauai, and Chris was in birthing class.  Rode the cliffside trail, the main line, and 2-jumps down, then went back up to the powerline pole and hit the center trail to the junction with the switchback climb up from Hypodermics.  Rode all the way back up to the mainline and rode down the old way.  I (nobody?) didn’t feel like riding all the way back up the inner loop to do Dumps, but we ended up still having to suffer on the agave climb.  Dirt was dry but grippy – not dusty and loose like last Monday.  Don’t have the bike here, so no computer, but if memory serves me, Vmax on the trail was 21.9mph.  Root took some pics, so they should be up in the gallery eventually…

On the way back to McB, checked out the sideways tree on University Avenue.  Looks like a good spot for photos.  Mr. Low-rent who lives in the building next to the tree started tweaking when he saw Ckucky’s HID – probably thought the aliens or HPD was outside.

 25 April 2007 – just checked the computer, and it was a measly 4.5-mile ride! Vavr was 8.0mph.