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

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If you do at least a mile on dirt, gravel, or mountain bike trails, put the hashtag #fs2018dirtybiker (all lowercase) into the title of your ride in Strava, and you’ll get a point for that ride for the Freezing Saddles 2018 Pointless Prize Dirty Biker contest. If you need ideas where to mountain bike in the area, go to this page on the MORE site: http://www.more-mtb.org/where-to-ride/

I’ll spot check to make sure you do at least that 1 mile on dirt and will zap the point if I don’t think the criteria’s met.

NOTES:

1. Yes, I will count C&O and gravel rides.
2. Nope, I don’t care if you do ride the dirt on a mountain, hybrid, road, or time trial bike. However, if the trail’s gnarly and you’re rocking the shoe covers, time trial helmet and aerobars, please post a picture here for laughs.
3. If the trail is not in the area (DC Metro area) and/or on that MORE list (above), post a pic of the trail with your bike on it in this thread (required) – and optionally in the ride in Strava – so we can all see how sweet it is. Action shots encouraged.
4. I want to confirm if this is possible with Hozn, but only 1 point max per day, i.e., if you do multiple rides on dirt, you’ll still get max credit of 1.
5. As a separate side prize, post any #fs2018dirtybiker pics in this thread. A favorite will be picked at the end. I generally prefer action shots, i.e., you on the bike gettin’ down and dirty.

Have fun, be safe, and always wear your helmet because rocks/roots/tree limbs are always ready to take you down

Snowy Avalon Ride by ricky d, on Flickr

EDIT 3/13/18: Read the following post for more info about contest end date, scoring, and prizes – http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?12874-fs2018dirtybiker-Pointless-Prize-Mountain-for-Dirt-Miles-for-Freezing-Saddles-2018&p=176111#post176111

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We got a light snow this morning in Frankfurt so I decided to take the Puglsey out and head for the hills. Is it still “dirty”biker if the trails are snow covered and the bike comes home cleaner than it started out? I took several video clips which I will try and post soon.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16922[/ATTACH] On Oberer Rotlaufweg above Bad Homburg on the way to Saalburg.

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@consularrider 174693 wrote:

We got a light snow this morning in Frankfurt so I decided to take the Puglsey out and head for the hills. Is it still “dirty”biker if the trails are snow covered and the bike comes home cleaner than it started out? I took several video clips which I will try and post soon.

On Obrer Rotlaufweg above Bad Homburg on the way to Saalburg.

Ha! If it ain’t pavement, it’s dirty. Jealous of the snow y’all got!

[consularrider]

There were two short sections in this clip. This is a back way up from (or down to in this case) the Nidda River along the edge of Eschersheim close to the start of the ride. Sorry about the poor image quality, but it was either drizzling or raining for the whole ride and the camera lens got water drops and kept fogging up.

[video=youtube_share;hZb7RoXcDFQ]https://youtu.be/hZb7RoXcDFQ[/video]

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Didn’t have any more unpaved trail under the snow until I was in the Hardtwald heading uphill past Bad Homburg.

[video=youtube_share;MTAZevXJ89A]https://youtu.be/MTAZevXJ89A[/video]

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Continuing along the same basic trail, but the name changed on the climb to Saalburg. This section was closed last week when I tried to ride it downhill for forest management.

[video=youtube_share;DRtNu_3Ybyk]https://youtu.be/DRtNu_3Ybyk[/video]

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Most of this clip was on snow covered pavement, but once I turn onto Lindenweg heading to the Jupiter Column it is back to gravel and continued for just over two miles until I got to Gotisches Haus and heading back to Bad Homburg.

[video=youtube_share;XiaGxL1HPJk]https://youtu.be/XiaGxL1HPJk[/video]

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Last #fs2018dirtybiker clip from today’s ride. This was the compete 1.3 mile gravel crossing of the Volkspark Niddatal.

[video=youtube_share;E9j4K43fF40]https://youtu.be/E9j4K43fF40[/video]

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A Saturday morning ride with no planned route. My dirtybiker miles were the trails through Grüneburg and Nidda Parks, some sections along the Nidda River, and then a stretch along the train tracks in Berkersheim. The crossing arm was just dropping as I got there and I didn’t want to stand there for five minutes waiting for trains in both directions. I cut my Parks route short because it was a combination of sloppy and icy and I was not on the Pugsley.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16963[/ATTACH] This stretch was real sloppy because of trucks churning up the surface for construction and brush clearing.

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It’s pretty easy to find a measly dirtybiker mile when you’re riding a 102, especially in Germany. I didn’t plan my route to include dirt/mud or gravel, but as I’ve mentioned before, cyclepaths/farm access roads can change surface type with no warning. I could have added even more dirtybiker miles by riding the top of the Rhine levee, but there were more people and dogs up there and I was happy with 8 to 10 qualifying miles.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16997[/ATTACH] On the R3 Mainradweg coming into Okriftel

[ATTACH=CONFIG]16998[/ATTACH] R6 Altrhein levee coming into Erfelden

Three shots of trails on the Kühkopf-Knobochsaue

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Another set of photos from Sunday’s century.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17002[/ATTACH] Start of about two dirtybiker miles leaving Eberstadt heading to Darmstadt

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17003[/ATTACH] Snowbells just outside of Eppertshausen

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]17005[/ATTACH] Looking along the Main on the Deutscherrnufer

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Monday recovery ride on the Pugsley through Grüneburg and Nidda Parks. I took a different set of trails than usual on my second pass through Niddapark. I was out at 10 am and it had just reached freezing so the trails were solid with ice in places. By the time I finished after stopping for coffee, it was 39°F and the top layer of stone dust sludge had started to melt.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17006[/ATTACH] On some dog walker demand paths in Niddapark

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]17009[/ATTACH] Fritz-von-Unruh-Anlange in Ginnheim

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17010[/ATTACH] The bike wash has become an almost daily occurrence, today I rinsed the boots too.

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Back to Grüneburg and Nidda Parks both before and after lunch. The temperature warmed up to the mid to upper 30s so the trails were thawed out and quite sloppy again.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]17044[/ATTACH] A short dirt section in Nidda Park I have been avoiding because it’s been very sloppy mud.

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Sunrise through the parks before my flight. This time I did not have to wash the bike off because the trails were still frozen!

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1.8 #fs2018dirtbiker miles in Bloomington, IN riding the Bloomington Rail Trail, from the Heise Bridge by Church Lane to Country Club Drive. This segment is muddy crushed stone on an old Monon Line rail bed and parallels Clear Creek (there is a hamlet by the same name). My great grandfather had a farm that abutted the railroad in the area. North of Country Club Dr the trail is paved and called the B-Line. South of Church Lane the city and county lost a court case trying to obtain access to the abandoned right-of-way.

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[consularrider]

I got about two and a half miles of Loudoun County gravel on today’s ride. Most of that was on the W&OD parallel gravel/crushed stone bridal trail. Then I rode Canby Rd from Thomas Mill Rd to Harmony Church Rd.

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