Met Jeff and Sara out at Ditch Trail on Sunday afternoon. Chris had fun planned with the family and JT was on the side. It was breezy and a little overcast, but no rain all week promised good trail conditions. We climbed Government Road and turned onto the Ditch trail. On the ride two weekends before, we discovered that the road had been groomed. The trail itself had been groomed since that time. Most of the cut grass was still on the trail, so the turns were a bit sketchy. Continue reading ‘Cracker Ride’
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
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Nobody really wrote anything about this, but Root, JT, and I went on a CroMo hardtails-only ride on Sunday, 02 March 2008 at Ditch. Root showed up with his 10th Anniversary Fat Chance, JT had his Bridgestone XO-1, and I had my drop-handlebar Bridgestone MB-1. The climbs were so nice on bent-over, lightweight bikes, but the horsey-print trail surface made for some punishing conditions with no suspension and skinny, high-pressure tires. Aside from the inevitable monkey-butt, there was some good neckache from craning to look ahead, and vibro-itch on the jiggly parts of the arms. We rode out to the end of Ditch then came back and did the inner loop. We actually rode all the steeps, but didn’t do much of the stuff in the rock garden. Continue reading ‘Leap Year Ride’