Here's some action stuff.
The trail was a 2 mile loop and was just the right amount for Winter.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Intervals w/ Winter (Texas)
We hit the "Arbor Hills Nature Preserve" today (Plano, TX). It was unkigiuash, Me and Winter. It was Winter's first time taking a bike on an offroad trail and the totally amazed both me and unkigiash. She did the downhills, hit the corners, mashed pedal up the hills and only had to walk a few times (she really needs a bike with gears). How do I know she loved it? She kept "whooping" and "hollering" and yelling "mother nature."
The trail was a 2 mile loop and was just the right amount for Winter.
The trail was a 2 mile loop and was just the right amount for Winter.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
The motherland (Colorado)
We pulled an overnighter out to Colorado (Fort Collins area) to hang with our old Outdoors Unlmtd friends. The kids went to sleep in the Suburban in Texas and woke up in Colorado. Mt. Dew and sunflower seeds pulled us through.
This is a double teeter totter that is cable actuated so that as you roll up the first section, the second section becomes horizontal - then you roll onto that and the cable resets the first section at an angle - a really cool design that adds some challenge to the obstacle as a result of the additional mass that you are working against as you roll through it. I had to hit the brakes at the highest point of the ramp, balance and wait as the mechanism worked through it's range, then proceed forward and pause and balance again to wait again, then proceed.
Steve on one of the elevated balance sections:
And yes, those are some SWEET dirt jumps in the background. Lots of fun and made me wish two things: 1) that I was riding my Specialist and 2) that I knew how to really ride dirt jumps. I couldn't quite get the flow and kept hanging my rear wheel on the flat sections of the table tops. Oh yeah, and I came up short on huevos to try the bigger of the jumps.
My friend Steve and I did a short local run (short is good with the shape I am in) and there was a REALLY nice BMX/dirt jump/obstacle course at the halfway point. We stopped and messed around for a while before moving forward. I rode my other friend from OU's mt. bike since he couldn't come out at the last minute. It was a nice new Specialized Stumpjumper and while it felt strange to be on a new bike (especially one that is set up so very differently from my Specialist) it was great to get back out again and the Stumpjumper is a worthy substitute.
This is a double teeter totter that is cable actuated so that as you roll up the first section, the second section becomes horizontal - then you roll onto that and the cable resets the first section at an angle - a really cool design that adds some challenge to the obstacle as a result of the additional mass that you are working against as you roll through it. I had to hit the brakes at the highest point of the ramp, balance and wait as the mechanism worked through it's range, then proceed forward and pause and balance again to wait again, then proceed.
Steve on one of the elevated balance sections:
And yes, those are some SWEET dirt jumps in the background. Lots of fun and made me wish two things: 1) that I was riding my Specialist and 2) that I knew how to really ride dirt jumps. I couldn't quite get the flow and kept hanging my rear wheel on the flat sections of the table tops. Oh yeah, and I came up short on huevos to try the bigger of the jumps.
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