joyota

My interest in bike commuting and MTB'ing this year has inspired my dad to hop on his bike more and try to lose some weight, so the old man and I spent the weekend riding a rail trail and later hit some dirt trails. One of the trails I rode had a tree down over it. It was too heavy to move and I didn't have a saw with me, so unfortunately we couldn't do anything about it.







Maybe next time I'll be back with a saw and shovel and make a new log pile out of it.

MARKIT

Really cool pictures in this thread,
Way more advanced than my trail riding

joyota

Truth! I love checking out this thread, even old posts, for motivation/inspiration before my rides!

digthemlows

Downieville in Northern CA ...... sooooo much fun!!

scrublover

A couple from the last while.

A buddy on his new 27.5 Trance-X. I pedaled it around a bit. It rode like a bike.





Grocery getting.


What's in the pack's "oh ****" bag.


I quite like these orange shorts. My ass at least will not be shot during hunting season.


Glacial erratic.







Really? Two rides?

scrublover

The new shorts are cargolicious

joyota

Had a great day of riding on Saturday at my local trail. It was a super foggy morning.


I love riding in the fall!


After checking out this thread for the past couple weeks, I've been inspired and itching to get a little adventurous (by my own standards) and try a couple of new lines in the crater at my local trail. Since I was a loser and didn't invite any friends, I setup my camera sitting on the ground and hanging from a tree. Still got some decent shots, though. The photo makes it looks much more exciting than the video does. The crater walls feel so much steeper than they look in the video.

scrublover

Daspydyr 

A big horn sheep jumped up right in front of me. But he was gone before I could get my Samsung out. It was still a good day.

Dannihilator

yep...

scrublover

Dan: don't sweat most fat-bike rims only being single-wall. Seriously. It's a non-issue.





4" tires at 8psi only do so much - I was quickly reminded that this is a rigid bike.


Fatty on a skinny. They sorta' self steer. The big fat tire wants to follow every undulation of the trail - you have to work against that. OTOH, when up to speed, they roll over stuff like mad.




The big wheels seem to act like drag chutes when in the air. Gapping over small trail stuff takes more "oomph" than the regular bikes, but isn't too horrible.






Replace any of my other rides? No. A nice adjunct to? Hell yes!

craigcraigcraig

nice, I haven't seen many trail riding pictures from fat riders.

scrublover

First ride on it, so was stopping to tweak setup and pressure a bunch anyhow. After the first 15 minutes or so, felt comfy enough to start doing stupid stuff. Fun bike. Not going to replace the other bikes by any stretch, but makes a nice addition. Will probably see lots of my solo ride time, when not in a hauling ass/hucking stuff mood. Particularly in the winter.

The traction makes for amazing low speed rock crawling on things you'd think you couldn't. You can trackstand for days in the midst of some chunky gnar while figuring out your next move. Also, surprisingly not as slow as one would think. A bit more work to get up to speed, but motors along nicely. Fast directional changes are tougher, and it's a slow climber - 1500gm. tires and all that. But, the climbing traction is amazing.

Got some lighter tubes for it on the way, and plan to drill the rims once they are here. Other Fatty riders suggest that's good for roughly 2# rotational weight loss right there. It's 34# as shown - my heaviest and least suspended bike.

Dannihilator

Good to know. Awesome pics.

scrublover

dminor 

We've been spending the week at Panorama Resort outside Invermere, BC. During the summer months, the bike park is open; in fact, I got to ride here last year during closing weekend (most of the BC bike parks [except Whistler] close the September Long Weekend). Had a blast then. So we're back but on the shoulder season (when my wife and I do some of our best vacationing - - EXCEPT - - things are pretty dead in ski villages in shoulder season.

Soooo . . . left the downhill bike at home, loaded the SB66 and decided to see how much non-lift-assisted trail riding I could find. Trail map showed two XC routes - - one that's pretty much fireroad and another that got used a couple years ago for a Canadian National XC race. Well, I've yet to find all of it...two days out riding around, perusing a sketchy map, one day hiking the mountain and out again today in search of this elusive Mad Trapper XC trail. Dang! I've been on chunks of it now and it's VERY, shall we say, "rustic." And I know now why there are directional arrows on the map: this is no two-way trail. Spent the afternoon today riding/pushing/hike-a-biking up what I think was supposed to be ridden down. Then I lost the signs and ribbons about halfway up the ski slope again. Next attempt another day will be trying to find the other, western end - - only I scoped part of it and it turns out to start UP the tail end of a double-black called Punisher. Oh I remember that one. All I can say is these Canadian XC racers must be freakin' animals. Parts I've found so far have billy-goat ascents and one gully dive that would freak your typical XC dude.

But I'm having a ball, sweating my ass off in <40F temps through patches of a 2" dusting of snow. and exploring the mountain. Consolation is I've found and rode two of the bike park blue trails and a short double-black (with too much snowy wood); and have found the SB is just perfect for these types of trails. It really is a DHer's perfect trail bike by any measure.

Nobody has hassled me riding bike park trails off-season - - guess they figure anyone crazy enough to ride to the top of the lift has earned the priveledge of going back down. Hopefully I'll get out one more time before we have to pack up and head home Sunday. If I can't find the other half of the loop, there's alway Bender or Punisher to give the SB a workout on, haha.

Over and out for now.

bwilli88 

Had a great ride today.

lubes17319

Only 1 pic, our yearly parade of drunks - we hit Green Mt, Dakota Ridge, Matthews Winters (I turned tail & rolled back home via Dakota/GM again), while others headed to Golden via north-Dakota & North Table Mt.


In the past 10 days, I also pedaled: Marshall Mesa, 3 Sisters, Deer Crik & Bergen Peak.
Dry dirt and no snow....yet.

lubes17319

WKD-RDR's pic from last night.

scrublover

In the 20's yesterday morning, warmed up into the low 50's by the time I got to riding. Excellent!

Savagewolf

No action shots, but this is what my bike looked like after doing some riding at the Blackrock mountain bike area in Falls City, Oregon today. First time I've ever done something of this caliber, and I'll admit that I took the easy lines and avoided some of the crazy jumps. Maybe another day when I get more practice in.

lubes17319

10°f, 80% humidity & a dusting of snow last night.
'Twas a bit chilly, but allgood. 1st snow ride of the year in the books!

dminor 

Blackrock is somewhere is still HAVE to get to. It's pretty much rideable all year, right? Winter jaunt may be in order.

SpeshulEd 

Put in 2 hours today and I didn't fall down. I was quite excited, even rode around the parking lot with my arms in the air celebrating.

Had to walk up a few hills though due to poor gear shifting. I will also blame the fact that ate too much yesterday and my legs failed at carrying my giant belly up the hills.

joyota

Just had some snow and it melted. Made for serious mud slinging fun!