Case Saturday Ride

Met up with Paul for an early Case ride. Brought the doggy and off we went. Was very out of shape and weak from who knows what but I hung in there and completed the ride. The bike is showing signs of wear with a bent skewer and snap crackle pops form the rear hub and still something with the fork or headset. Good news is I got some new ergon grips, new bb7 brakes and new skewers. I also now am the proud owner of a Go Pro HD which is amazing but a complicated device I have not gotten to play with yet. I still need to get few mounts for the camera but I can start with the helmet mount. I missed a couple rides on Sunday which sucked but I have not been feeling good since Friday so I was in need of some rest.

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Back To Hale

Got out on tuesday before the rain on a great ride with Paul and Jose. The location was Hale thankfully cause it was close to home. I had gotten a half day of work in and got home and spent an hour and a half raking more of the northern loop. It takes a lot of work and time to clear these trails it's slow moving. I did some bridge work and raked some leaves and after 90 minutes of that I headed home to get ready to ride at 5. I met up with the fellas and we got cranking on our raked stuff. It was amazing to ride the raked goods, like a powder run on the snowboard. After that was over we headed across the way and rode wiggle. Mighty fine ride that I had was only about an hour but I had to head home as Paul rode off with derek and miles for another 2 hours of madness.

Hale good loop

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Trail Maintenance Hale

It finally happened, I got out with Paul and raked half of the north trail at Nathan Hale. I met up with him on trail since he got a head start and got raking by 6:30. It was very warm out and got to sweating quite quick. But the raking was pretty easy and straight forward. It got a little tricky in the roots and tight spots. We came upon a possible feature which we moved some rocks around and got it done. It worked on the first try and that was it. More raking as we got into the open it became much much easier. I looked down and found 4 ticks crawling on me, stupid little buggers. We found another feature this one was built most the way and just needed some love so it got it. It was now two hours in the woods drenched in sweat and one long day so I had to call quits after 2 hours. On the way back I got to admire the handywork that we had done and let me tell you it was amazing!

Big Hurt At Bigelow

Another great sunday ride for the most part. Set off at 9:30 with a few of the regualrs for a full pull at Bigelow. In the begining things were going ok, but they soon turned into a vicious cycle of un coordination and shitty bike riding. I spent the first hour of the trail trying to keep up, but being sent to my pedals way more than I ever have in this park it made a tough day. Not to mention the legs were never really there in the first place but I trucked on. By the time we made it around breakneck I was getting over most of my frustration but it soon came back. I walked so much and was hating my 32-21 gearing. But i continued on despite the day I was having and when we finally took a long enough brake for me to sit down and get some water into my system I felt like I regained some steam but that was only to be taken from me when we began to climb Mashpaug overlook. One beating hill after another, stepping off, walking I had it with myself and was looking forward to the car. It was a beautiful day for sure, while alot warmer than i would have liked, being around 80 degrees in mid october was strange but it was an annoyance with my bacteria stank filled hemlet. We did eventually hit the car where I packed up and headed the heck home to try to get some relaxation before work came monday morning. Would I do it again.....yes.....

Bigelow ass woop

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Salmon River Morning

Got Paul to follow me into Salmon River to ride some of their great trail network on saturday morning. It was an early morning with my alarm going off no earlier than a work day but I was pumped to ride. We met at the Air Line trailhead at 8:30 and set off with bentley leading. We quickly hopped onto trail and began uphill on some good trail that quickly broke into doubletrack atv stuff. Nothing fancy on the way up, but when we arrived at the top I couldn't wait to get to heading down. These trails are built by a mountain biker and I had the privilage of meeting the main guy who also happens to build belltown bikes, a very custom fabricated sweet 29er.......We had his group of three set off in front of us, and then we descended. Everything was so nice and smooth and twisty and Paul was enjoying it quite alot as well. We caught up with the guys where they wanted us to ride a new trail that needed some traffic so we agreed and rode. It was alot like the other trails and as expected antoher good trail to the network. Set off on our own again we continued down until we were back at the rail trail and we headed further downhill to get into Day Pond park which is a solid ride day in there alone. I was short on time but commited to making my way into a part of the park anyway. Everything after what we just rode was bonus miles. We got onto blue and began a steep ascent which ended in me walking most of it. Got to ride just a little bit more before we had to turn around and head down which was a sweet quick downhill some road and then back uphill through the pines to the rail trail and then the car. A very very good ride that left my bike beat up but so far nothing major is broken.

Salmon river goodies

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Happy Almost Birthday

As a Mountain Biking nut you can imagine there is quite a bit of mountain biking schtuff I want. With my birthday around the corner my wife could hardly contain herself with my gift so last night she gave in. My wife who is most awesome, decided to make a great investment in one of only two spots my body makes contact with this mechanical device called a bike. I had not even thought of making an heavy investment into this area but like all areas of the bike it all adds up in the end. She bought me these amazing and when I was amazing I am not exaggerating one single bit, these 510 Impact shoes are nothing but a work of art. From its construction it is very very impressive. I have been getting by the last few years with various skate shoes that have been successful and some have failed but now my future looks bright with these shoes. I am sad to put such a beauty to such hard work but I guess that's what they are for. Thank you hotty you are amazing!

Goofing at Trmbull

An old friend of mine I have not seen in quite some years I found out he was a mountain biker and we setup to ride Trumbull after work Thursday night. He was running a little late so I set off into the woods to bring back old memories. I had been here once this year in the last 6 but before that I spent some time in these woods with my first rides on my Kona Dawg and Specialized Rock Hopper. I found some rocks to play on and a few ramps and was having fun. There is a bit of features in this small park that are a lot of fun to play with. I made my way7 back to the car to meet with Lawrence and then set off. Rode some blue and yellow and stopped for sessions in between. It was really fun to not have any ride time or length goals just simply to ride and play around on the features in between. I eyed the green monster and told it I will be back very soon to conquer it. Got out of the woods just before dark and headed home. Looks like Saturday is going to be a day with my lady so maybe sneak an early morning ride out at Hale or shall I say home.

Goofing off trumbull

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