Monday

Excited to get out and found the sun so dang strong lately I am still wearing sun block. The weather is nice no doubt, but in a short 2 months it will start to climb and another tough summer will be upon us. The ride went smooth, lots of elderly people out there walking the trails, a few bikers. Can't say much about this ride just another spin around Usery.

Climby Saturday

The weekend has come, but unfortunately my bike has not, it looks like Monday it should be in the store. I am excited but surprisingly calm about the whole thing shockingly. I was excited to head to South Mountain with my bike bike to get rowdy, I was in a funk of a mood and was armed to release the trail with my fury. I hate that I can't find terrain to charge hard enough, I just want to go fast with this bike, I want to hit big jumps, don't get me wrong Phoenix area can offer some chunk but I can never fully release the YT Capra completely in the desert terrain. So I climbed up Mormon, lazier than normal but somehow set records, then down national. Always over too fast but a good time. The down Javalina which was bland for some reason. Then up Beverly and down the gnar to Desert Classic, whole crap I forget what suspension can do, honestly I feel like my wheels should not be able to stay round after I charge some chunk. Always astonished how this bike can climb, I will never get rid of this bike, I want to take it the the bike park sooooo bad! Did a lot of technical climbs today, I liked it.

Low Traction Friday

I have been noticing the rear tire looking more haggard each ride, today it definitely barked at me to change it, man the desert sure eats my tires right up! But I guess I do a fair bit of riding to tear thru them, I don't think I would go back to the Maxxis Ardent Race but however am happy with the Ikon. So I will soon be slapping one of those on next week. I took a little detour from the normal loop over to Saddle and Upper Secret, added a little spice happily. It was all butter from there, getting warm here for December I've about had enough with the 70s go away!

Thursday

Off to Usery for my normal easy fast spin of the week. I decided part way in to switch up the mix of trails to bring in some new flavor, it turns out that it doesn't spice up the trail experience very much. But it did however seem faster, probably the fastest 18 miles under 90 minutes I have ever done on dirt. I have to say I was feeling pretty good this day, body was finally in tune where I like it, maybe I am finally adjusted to this low carb thing. Still I need was less teeth on my bike, I need to start experimenting with a smaller cog to help with the flats, I can say that 32x22 was just fine in Utah where you climb plenty, but here in the desert some places are flat. Not the end of the world either way, I am fine 32x22 for life as far as I am concerned as big if a diaper baby gear it is.

Monday

I was trying to figure just where to go on Monday as the kid happily went off on the bus to school. I can say I am fortunate to have options, about 4-5 options to be exact. I had in my head wanting to do something a little different and I took the chance at a populated San Tan. Now I frequent here 1-2 times a month so this is not out of the norm, but I do ride here less due to the fee and horse/people traffic. When I got to the lot it had normal amount of cars and I happily got climbing. My legs were absolutely funky as I began to climb, they did although happily warm up. A pretty normal loop around the place, came upon a bunch of kids having a session on a jump, about 10 or so, turns out they were missionaries. Just 3 groups of horses with happy encountering and some hikers. Good to see people out enjoying the trails.

Wild Horses on Hawes

I ended heading for Hawes on friday, set out for my normal loop and noticed a lot of pungent horse poopies, soon after I spotted few horses, at first I assumed domesticated but then I figured out after a second they were the wild horses I have come across before. One nervously crossed my path and I got a good picture of it. Wild horses, the only horses I can appreciate.

Gold On Thursday

Set off thursday for Gold Canyon, tried in my mind to mix things up slightly for a goo 80 minutes of fun. It was nice to have the dirt all prime and it felt great to be out on it. Now into December the afternoon rides have become quite nice and comfortable, it will all go to crap in a few months but for now I am loving it!