OneEighth Sighting
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@KelOnWheels 25328 wrote:
I got to draft ShawnoftheDread for a while this morning on the MVT
I was not slick enough to manage to get my phone out for a picture though.
I think the cool kids (aka Dirt) use a small point-and-shoot. Punching in that iPhone access code is a bit of a pain while steering.
@SilverSpring 25274 wrote:
Dirt,
Was that you and another gent (couldn’t make out who) on the W&OD today (Sunday) at about milemarker 13 at about 9am? Nice tires!
Sorry for the slow response. Yup. That was TubaTransport and me coming back from riding the north end of the CCT. We rode Lake Fairfax, CCT, Great Falls, What’s left of the completely devastated trails Riverbend Park, Great Falls again, CCT again and then home. Lovely day for it.
Danger Panda Drafting
All I need is a LOT more momentum.Fun day on the bike. Riverbend is not a happy place right now. Fairfax doesn’t have the staffing to really deal with all the downed trees from the big storm. They’re working on it as well as they can, but there are still many, many dozens of big trees down across the trail. I haven’t ridden Riverbend in a year and what’s worse is that it seems like no-one else has either. The more common loop through the park was completely overgrown. Had I not been one of the folks that built the trail, I would not have known where it was. This is no-one’s fault but my own. I have been off the mountain bike so much that I haven’t been riding these trails. No-one else really took up the torch either. I will search for and hopefully cut out a good loop through there when I get back from vacation. That will give the park folks a bit more time to clear stuff out.
@ShawnoftheDread 25807 wrote:
I think the cool kids (aka Dirt) use a small point-and-shoot. Punching in that iPhone access code is a bit of a pain while steering.
Affirmative. Even the best camera phones I’ve ever seen don’t shoot well enough for me to use them on the bike. A good point and shoot camera is also much, much more durable than a phone is… even with a special case around the phone.
you can see my camera case strapped to the top tube just behind the stem on my bike:
Rock on, folks! Keep posting up those sighting photos. It is nice to see other people get spotted.
I love this community.@Dirt 25809 wrote:
Sorry for the slow response. Yup. That was TubaTransport and me coming back from riding the north end of the CCT. We rode Lake Fairfax, CCT, Great Falls, What’s left of the completely devastated trails Riverbend Park, Great Falls again, CCT again and then home. Lovely day for it.
Danger Panda Drafting
All I need is a LOT more momentum.Fun day on the bike. Riverbend is not a happy place right now. Fairfax doesn’t have the staffing to really deal with all the downed trees from the big storm. They’re working on it as well as they can, but there are still many, many dozens of big trees down across the trail. I haven’t ridden Riverbend in a year and what’s worse is that it seems like no-one else has either. The more common loop through the park was completely overgrown. Had I not been one of the folks that built the trail, I would not have known where it was. This is no-one’s fault but my own. I have been off the mountain bike so much that I haven’t been riding these trails. No-one else really took up the torch either. I will search for and hopefully cut out a good loop through there when I get back from vacation. That will give the park folks a bit more time to clear stuff out.
Just strap a chainsaw to a rack and have at it on your next ride.
@Dirt 25790 wrote:
dcv on his amazing Cinelli. I love that bike!!!!
Very nice to see dcv this morning. We ride similar routes ever day, but we ride at very different times.Rock and roll!
Dirt
great to finally meet you Pete, love that i finally made this thread. i’ll have to get up (a lot) earlier for our next encounter on the trails.
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