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

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A foggy Saturday morning ride through Grüneburg and Nidda parks.

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Two more #fs2018dirtybiker rides, Thursday I was back on the Grüneburg and Nidda Parks trails after my German class and today I had just over a mile of gravel/crushed stone sections on the Nidda Route then a couple more as I climbed from Gronau to Bergen.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]16687[/ATTACH] I’m having to clean my bikes off after just aboout ervery ride. We seem to get some rain just about every day so it’s keeping things good and sloppy

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Back through Niddapark and along the Nidda and the main for 2.1 miles of gravel/crushed stone/mud on a Sunday ride, photos previously submitted.

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After class and lunch, I did some dirtybiker loops in the parks and went looking for a café/bäckerei I haven’t used before. We finally got below freezing overnight and there was still a dusting of snow/heavy frost in some of the shady areas mid-afternoon.

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For Tuesday’s #fs2018dirtybiker ride I was trying to find some snow to ride on my Pugsley. After trying some partially frozen mud along the Nidda, I headed to Obrerusel, then up to Saalburg, before downhill to Bad Homburg.

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]16790[/ATTACH] No, I did not ride down that one, I learned my lesson in December

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16791[/ATTACH] I hate it when a road is closed for forest management (logging). Luckily there was a work around

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[drevil]

We’re halfway through with Freezing Saddles, and I think that Consularrider has a huge lead in this, but I can’t really tell because there is yet to be created a Pointless #fs2018dirtybiker tally page (unless I’m totally inept and can’t find it). Can any progammery types help a brotha out? I think I’d want something like the #withkid page, but count #fs2018dirtybiker, with a max of 1 point per day. Miles don’t really matter, but if it’s easy enough, I won’t complain.

Since I have been off the trails due to muddy conditions from freeze/thaw, the following is a dirty biker throwback thursday from 10 years ago

Rock Roll at Gambrill by Sean Chisham, on Flickr

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Thursday #fs2018dirtybiker ride back through Grüneburg and Nidda Parks. The trucks hauling stuff away from work being done along the railroad tracks between Bockenheim and Ginnheim have made a real mess of portions if the trails. The trucks’ wheel track is frequently slightly wider than the trials so they are churning up the mud on the sides of the trails and spreading it around making even some of the paved portions almost qualify for dirtybiker.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16806[/ATTACH] A particularly egregious example entering Nidda park from the south on the GrünGürtel. 3 to 4 inch deep slop in the wheel tracks.

[hozn]

Finally I got around to putting up this leaderboard. Sorry it took so long!

https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/dirtybiker

[drevil]

@hozn 174392 wrote:

Finally I got around to putting up this leaderboard. Sorry it took so long!

https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/dirtybiker

Thank you sir!

[hozn]

@drevil 174397 wrote:

Thank you sir!

No problem. Sorry again it took so long. I have been focused on the backend changes for being able to handle the volume. Was hoping that we could have had some volunteer help with these things this year. Apparently not.

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I hadn’t intended this ride to qualify for #fs2018dirtybiker, but the best laid plans …

For Friday Coffee Club (there were two of us) we headed to Hanau and ended up crossing the Main to ride the left (south bank) Mainradweg. That meant about a half mile of gravel just before recrossing the river into Hanau. Then there was another half mile just coming into Maintal. We had another two miles of gravel and frozen mud around Bischofsheim and coming into Seckbach Reid.

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Just under half of today’s ride was on gravel/dirt, again in Grüneburg and Nidda Parks. We’ve been above freezing for over 36 hours so the frozen mud and crushed stone trails were soft again, even without any additional precipitation. Probably about an inch of snow coming in the early morning hours.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16838[/ATTACH] On the Left bank of the above Nidda Park and next to Turn und Spotgemeinschaft Eshersheim 1951.

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For today’s #fs2018dirtybiker I headed back to the Seckbacher and Enkheimer Reids. The trails were sloppy after some light snow early this morning.

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Probably about 15 #fs2018dirtybiker miles on today’s ride to Mainz along the Nidda and main Rivers. On the Nidda Route we stayed on the gravel side from Praunheim to Nied since there could have been black ice issues on the pavement. Then there were several sections of gravel on the R3 Mainradweg Right Bank and about a third of the return from Mainz on the Left Bank was gravel and stone “dust” (mud with as wet as it has been).

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16891[/ATTACH] The Dammweg west of Eddersheim

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16892[/ATTACH] For some reason this section of the cycle path is unpaved for a quarter mile threading through a mess of highways, and it seems more like a demand path than a designated cyclepath/route, especially for Germany.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16893[/ATTACH] They really needed it before the crude turned into cement.

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About six miles of #fs2018dirtybiker miles on the paths in Grüneburg and Nidda Parks at sunset. I found out this morning that my ex-wife in Indiana passed away overnight, so I spent much of this sunny day in a funk contemplating the fragility of life.

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