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| Selma is ready to rock |
Singlespeed Saturday
As I pedaled over to Ft. Boise to meet Pete for our ride I
realized that I was still feeling the pace of the Thursday Night Ride, aka TNR,
with the Eastside Cycles crew. My stoke
level was super high but my legs were heavy.
Being a great guy, Pete showed me no mercy and dropped his 32x20 hammer
on the Orchard/Watchmans climbs. I was lubing the top tube with drool. The next
time I ride with Pete I need to bring the metal sledgehammer and not my plastic
toy hammer. Doh! The trails were
surprisingly empty for a gorgeous Saturday morning and we had Watchman’s to
ourselves.
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| Pete Ross off the front on Watchmans |
With the Cream Puff being a week away, Saturday was to be
a nice 3-hour shakedown ride on Selma and I even broke out the Enve race wheels
for the dress rehearsal. Selma is ready
to rock.
Pete needed to bail a little early so I circled back to
where I “thought” M might be riding and I met up with her on her descent of
Shane’s. She had stopped to say hello to
Cairo, a handsome 2 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback out for a hike with his
owner. M and I finished out the ride
together. Whenever possible, we try to
end our rides on Red Cliffs so we can huck sick air on the mini-tabletops. Did you notice my proper usage of “huck” and “sick
air” in the same sentence? Yeah, I am
hip like that.
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| M and her new buddy Cairo |
Exploration Sunday
I was looking forward to Sunday’s ride all week. M and I had planned to explore the trails
just below Bogus Basin Resort. Cory was
nice enough to share a GPX file from his BIG RIDE the previous week so I loaded
in into Topofusion and created the route I wanted. Let me just say right now, the East Side
Trail rocks! The temp was 15F cooler up there
and we were in the trees for 80% of the ride.
A lot of folks park lower on the Bogus Basin Rd but I wanted to
experience the whole enchilada, up and down, so we parked at the top of East
Side and descended all the way down to the bottom.
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| Eastside to Stack Rock to Big Stack to Mr Big to Sinker Creek and back out Eastside |
It is well worth the 30 minute drive to get up
there but it will also be cool to ride from town up to these trails on big ride
days.
2 comments:
California is pretty nice Dave.
Hope you appreciate your blessed life 'cuz where you have been and are looks pretty freakin' awesome!!
'Flow time' trails dude!
:-)
Buzz - I agree that parts of CA are stunning. I was born and raised in San Jose, CA and went to SJSU before moving away after college. Sadly, I was not into mountain biking when I lived there.
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