Mountain Biking

Between the rain and wildfire smoke its been about three weeks since I've been able to hit an MTB trail.

Spent a beautiful morning out on my Stache and enjoyed exploring. Found this fire pit that appears to have been made out of abandoned junk scavenged from the trail system.

Exploring on the bike is one of my favourite feelings. Seeing what’s behind a bend, up that hill, beyond that forest… it’s a never ending adventure.

Anyway rode a path I’ve ridden dozen of times and decided to finally follow a really nasty (as in overgrown) path I’ve never been down before. Literally down, as it as steep decent over loose gravel.

Man was it worth it. The path follows one of the local rivers and is actually a very decent and clean place to ride.

Can’t wait to explore even further

I bought a new mountain bike recently, and it has three sets of bottle cage mounts. But there's no way I could actually get two bottles inside the front triangle, and the third set is on the bottom of the down tube where I don't think I trust a bottle to stay anyway. So I have one bottle on the top of the down tube, but the other two mounts are currently unused.

I was using a Dakine Gripper on my old bike, but it never stayed in place, so I was hoping to find something like that that would mount directly to the bottle cage mounts. But I can't seem to find anything like this.

Does anything like this exist? What do you do with extra bottle cage mounts?

I'll be visiting ft Collins in early August and renting a bike. What are the best trails to check out around town. I'll be working until about 5 PM so the trails need to be reasonably close to the city and 2 to 3 hours in length so I can make it back before dark. I expect to have 3 to 4 evenings available.

I'm an intermediate rider. I will likely be renting a Ripley or Ripmo. Any suggestions on what trails to check out (or where/what bike to rent) are appreciated.

Now what the heck am I supposed to do? Walk?

There are many like it, but this one is mine. (Merida Big Trail 500 - XL)

I never thought I would do this run, but this past weekend I finally managed to break through the mental barrier and execute. I cannot describe how ecstatic I was when I got on the on-off.

One from a recent leisure ride - Darwen Tower, UK

I am shopping for a new helmet and learned about this amazing resource!

My new Stumpjumper Comp! Picked it up on sale for 20% off. I have had it for a couple of weeks and have already made a few mods to make it my own. My first full squish. Coming from a Rockhopper Expert I bought during the pandemic.

Track looks to be running really well this year compared to last year's sludgy mess. Seems like we won't see the carnage on the step down this year.

Does anyone actually notice a difference in stiffness between the revalation and the pike in rockshox lineup?

Becoming convinced that this might become my primary bike. Super snappy and fun to ride. Right now the fork is undergunned and the brakes may be too :)

It's getting warm finally!

Figured I'd get some content on here!