#fs2018dirtybiker – Pointless Prize Mountain for Dirt Miles for Freezing Saddles 2018

[scorchedearth]

Fountainhead today

[drevil]

11° at Frederick Watershed

First Ride of 2018 by ricky d, on Flickr

[hozn]

Pimmit Run was fun on the 30m studded tires, but I realized after my ride that the section from Westmorland to Old Chesterbrook is only 0.8 miles. So it doesn’t count.

[Tania]

Damn. If you’d posted this BEFORE the deadline, I might have joined FS again.

[Sunyata]

@Tania 170489 wrote:

Damn. If you’d posted this BEFORE the deadline, I might have joined FS again.

Feel free to register as an alternate. We have already had four people drop out and I only have two more alternates left.

[consularrider]

How much (percentage wise) of the ride had to be on dirt/gravel to qualify?

[rcannon100]

@consularrider 170508 wrote:

How much (percentage wise) of the ride had to be on dirt/gravel to qualify?

If you do at least a mile on dirt, gravel, or mountain bike trails,

Absolute value. Not percentage. (I am counting on this for things like the Tiki Ride which involve both rhode and dirt)

[consularrider]

@rcannon100 170510 wrote:

Absolute value. Not percentage. (I am counting on this for things like the Tiki Ride which involve both rhode and dirt)

I’m still blaming my cold for my lack of reading comprehension (and anything else I do wrong for the next month).

My first qualifying ride was yesterday, but I didn’t stop for any pictures. I looped around the Grüneburgpark and hit several trails in the Volkspark Niddatal in Frankfurt. Just over ten miles total, about six of that on crushed stone.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16005[/ATTACH] This is from 1/3, not 1/1, but a section I rode that day.

[GKW]

Island Creek trails near Springfield

[hozn]

@consularrider 170511 wrote:

My first qualifying ride was yesterday, but I didn’t stop for any pictures.

That sounds mutually exclusive if out-of-area rides require photos.

But also sounds like a fun route.

[consularrider]

@hozn 170596 wrote:

That sounds mutually exclusive if out-of-area rides require photos.

But also sounds like a fun route.

Photo to fix that.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]15996[/ATTACH] Along the Nidda at the Volkspark

[consularrider]

Just over two miles on sloppy crushed stone in several sections out of 19.4 miles total riding the Nidda Route from Ginnheim to Bad Vibel for coffee and then back. There is a shared used path along the length of the Nidda River from its confluence with the Main River at Höchst out at least as far as Schotten, a distance of 76 km. The path is either asphalt or crushed stone (like the GAP). From Höchst to Ginnheim there is a path on each bank of the river, one paved the other crushed stone. For several kilometers after that the there is a dirt/grass path on one side for the more adventurous.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]15997[/ATTACH] Rainbow over Bad Vilbel after hailstorm

[ATTACH=CONFIG]15998[/ATTACH] crushed stone section Bad Vilbel

[ATTACH=CONFIG]15999[/ATTACH] crushed stone section Harheim

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16000[/ATTACH] crushed stone section Bonames

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16001[/ATTACH] crushed stone section Eschersheim, you can see one of the transitions to asphalt just past my riding partner

[consularrider]

Question, if I reride out of area trails do I need new pictures each time?

Today I was back looping around Grüneburgpark and Niddapark in Frankfurt. Again about six of ten miles on packed crushed stone. The Grüneburgpark trails have been redone over the past 18 months and drain very well although the surface can be a little soft right after a good rain. The Niddapark is a major off leash dog area so you have to be very careful, but the dogs are generally better behave than their human companions. There is a combination of trails along the perimeter that totals about three and a half miles.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16016[/ATTACH] Greek orthodox church in Grüneburg

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16017[/ATTACH] End of hedgehog ball playing area

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16018[/ATTACH] Trails crossing in Niddapark

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16019[/ATTACH] Not such good drainage with the Telekom Tower in the background

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16020[/ATTACH] A short dirt section in Niddapark, the speck in the center was a woman with four off leash dogs

[rcannon100]

Dirt is all around us. Much like the tiki ride, one can glue together dirt trails and make some very decent CX training.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16023[/ATTACH]

Trail in Glen Carlyn Park along the WOD

[consularrider]

Is that the slope with the big fallen tree across the trail at the bottom? A drevil special.

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