Were you riding up Millcreek last night? We had a big group down the Crest at night... so good. Although the spine, in the dark, with a couple beers... was a little spicier than normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by springsproject
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Were you riding up Millcreek last night? We had a big group down the Crest at night... so good. Although the spine, in the dark, with a couple beers... was a little spicier than normal.Quote:
Originally Posted by springsproject
not us, the Crest is so good at night though. we just did BST, Dry Creek is a really fun downhill when no one is coming up at youQuote:
Originally Posted by Particle
riding a trail in the other direction, for the first time, and realizing it's better this way. also you reach the top of the ascent as night is falling and there is a storm looming to keep you riding fast. this trail is on a ridge with the winds increasingly whipping, hoping you don't get a flat, but knowing it's all downhill from here.
oh, and for the first time, not hating the fall months and the leisurely pace that winter is taking to get here...
Wooooshhhhhh....it's the sound in my head, the sound that I imagine as I'm peddling fast into the afternoon on a fall day. It's not so much that I'm necessarily going so fast as to make that noise, but just what I imagine in my head...and my feet are going around and around on the pedals in a silent synergy with the pavement or the trail...pumping, but somehow smoothly, as if for a few special moments I have become one with my bike...that for a few moments I can do nothing wrong and I am twelve once again. And the wind blows through the frame of my bike and adjusts the frame of my mind as I upshift into a familiar ecstacy.....whooooshhhhhhhhh.
Post-ride shower beer. Dales or Racer IPA?
Clearing the head in a solo ride, no talking, no distractions, no breaks.
^^ Love that too. I usually turn my local loop into a <50 minute time-trial trying to get quicker each time. Then use the last 15-30 minutes for fun quick & technical downhills
ah- I love riding with others but there's nothing like riding solo. I miss having that escape in the winter.Quote:
Originally Posted by adam
Had a great one of these tonight. Didn't even take the dog because she's sick. Except for that no breaks part. Being on your own schedule is nice, I stopped and hit some stuff 2 or 3 times to see what lines were faster and even found a new double on the trail I had never noticed before.Quote:
Originally Posted by adam
I love this time of year in Salt Lake. Tuesday I rode my sled in 18" of blower pow followed by 2 fun evening rides after work the past 2 days.
adrenaline
After a stressful or shitty day at work, I head for a ride with friends and by the end I'm all smiles and forget about all my worries from the work day.
My ass bones hurt a lot the first ride of the season.
They hurt wayyy worse the second ride. And my legs feel like they're going to fall off.
...wait what was this thread about again?
Riding makes me happy because I know that after I ski the bazillion feet of snow that hath befallen the tahoe, ..............wait, what were we talking about?
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Those rare and precious moments when your bike is perfectly balanced and dialed. When new parts work together with the old to provide a perfect ride. Ahhh, the Saint crank and brakes, the broken in '04 z150. As plush and perfectly damped as any Fox, afraid to touch that thing...Feeling very stoked as well on the 22x36 low gear for my gimp knee. It's gonna be a worthy season after all. See ya on a trail somewhere.
Riding the posse train down a piece of trail everyone knows and is schralping; the dust cloud at the back of the train; not being able to see and just pinning it anyway; bbq & beers afterwards to celebrate the stoke of the day.
Riding a crusher climb for the first time in a season and thinking, "that's not as bad as I remember it."
Riding a worm-burner descent for the first time in a season and thinking, "that was faster than I remember it."
Realizing that you have the perfect bike with the perfect setup for where you ride is also a good feeling.
'Cause even a short mountain bike ride makes a shitty day a good day.
Getting a SID XX and Bontrager Race Lite wheelset with Bontrager XR2 tubeless team issue tires for $600 makes me very very happy.
It gives me my fix when there is no pow to ski.
Because today I saw a moose next to the trail.
The fact that this thread made me get off my butt and go for a short 50min ride......
Took the new (to me) bike out for a christening on Hall Ranch today. Smiling ever since.
Women riding roadies in the opposite direction as me with their jerseys zipped down to their navels...and they're in the drops...
riding into the night
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Waking up early for a pre-work rideQuote:
Originally Posted by donkeykong
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Finding new ways to train, and actually getting faster.
Finally being able to crush riding all day.
Riding something new
Riding way longer than you planned on
Also, today I ran over a fish on a stream crossing, flipped it off my leg and onto the bank. It managed to flop back into the water before I put it in my pack for dinner but I didn't even know that was possible. Made me happy.
I finally got to ride Dirt Merchant this weekend. Arty like. Arty like very much.
Lunch rides
Hitting the trail hard after work and getting back to the car right after the sun dips behind the mountains. It makes a shitty week melt away.
Going over the bars at 30mph with only a scraped up ankle and a big grin makes me happy today.
Did that today, and it was awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by deft_funk
Finally, riding in the high country and killing that 3 mile climb faster than last year.
endorphins and adrenaline work really well with THC.
i totally got back into riding this year. lot of good stoke on the 'sprockets'. actually, riding my bike more aggressively. trying to keep my knees close to the frame and my shoulders level. using core strength which hurts like hell, but also lets me tip the bike over and slarve through turns with grin inducing speeds. keep bringing the stoke y'all.
edit:i'll be looking to buy a recent, size medium Trance X1, EX9, Blur LT, or any other worthy 5 inch trail bike you have. this won' t be till around thanksgiving, thanks!
There's just something about grinding it out, working up a good sweat, getting into a rhythm and majesty of the mountains; the peace, the tranquility, not being a desk jockey in a cube farm. And out there; the drive home from the various trailheads are pretty spectacular.
Finally cleaning everything on my regular ride, even that uphill log that is up to my knee.
Flying on the 20yo Stumpy
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Riding new trails/area. There are some many good trails out there... always fun to find a new area.
And blasting a DH while listening to Metallica!
putting yellow lenses in my glasses on an overcast day and then later being like, "oh yeah I have these bright freakin lenses in"