Little reasons that riding makes me happy

**HankScorpio** · 04-12-2010, 09:23 AM

.....knowing I can take down a burrito and a few beers after a long hard ride and really really enjoy it.

**Conundrum** · 04-19-2010, 02:37 PM

Cleaning my girlfriend's second bike she doesn't ride much and finding all the southern UT red dirt from a road trip last year.

**scrublover** · 04-19-2010, 03:45 PM

That even doing this after being in the woods only fifteen minutes, he is still grinning.

CS · 04-19-2010, 03:49 PM

Sending the big jump line. This even after getting the piss scared out of me from an imminent disaster to somehow miracle save jump on the smaller line.

**rotorhead** · 04-20-2010, 08:54 PM

Standing on top of Toads. First time in the start gate of a DH. watching my 12yo future stepson build jumps in the yard and keep bugging me about the snow on corral loop. Post ride PBRs with the Utah crew after a long day in Moab.

**Edgnar** · 04-20-2010, 10:25 PM

Forgetting about everything else and just pedaling. The wind in my ears. Freedom.

**monkeywrenchMoose** · 08-23-2010, 10:16 PM

Bumping this thread to the top again. It is one of my favorites.

Getting back on the bike and feeling comfortable on it after two big wrecks this year that really messed with my head. Not confident enough to rail and charge, but comfortable enough to move around a bit on the bike and let it move a bit under me without tensing up.

Slowly getting back into it! Yeee!

**pogs4ever** · 08-23-2010, 11:34 PM

^thanks for the bump, i was just thinking about this thread.

going on a family vacation for 2 weeks (no riding just lots of family stress), and then coming back and railing your everyday trail ride. feels just like the first time!

**scrublover** · 08-24-2010, 06:59 AM

Because it lets me eat like a fucking hog, and enjoy my feeding times.

It makes me new friends.

Lets me see new places.

And try new things, such as this FWOatation device.

**springsproject** · 08-25-2010, 12:33 PM

Night riding under a full moon

**Particle** · 08-25-2010, 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by springsproject

Night riding under a full moon

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.

**springsproject** · 08-25-2010, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Particle

Were you riding up Millcreek last night?

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 you

**donkeykong** · 10-30-2010, 04:36 AM

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...

**Alaskan Rover** · 10-30-2010, 08:14 AM

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.

**concretejungle** · 03-23-2011, 06:06 PM

Post-ride shower beer. Dales or Racer IPA?

**adam** · 03-23-2011, 09:12 PM

Clearing the head in a solo ride, no talking, no distractions, no breaks.

**VTskibum** · 03-23-2011, 09:44 PM

^^ 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

**babybear** · 03-23-2011, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by adam

Clearing the head in a solo ride, no talking, no distractions, no breaks.

ah- I love riding with others but there's nothing like riding solo. I miss having that escape in the winter.

**dfinn** · 03-24-2011, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by adam

Clearing the head in a solo ride, no talking, no distractions, no breaks.

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.

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.

**Rossta** · 03-24-2011, 10:57 PM

adrenaline

**Spark** · 03-25-2011, 03:41 PM

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.

**Particle** · 03-25-2011, 10:37 PM

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?

**kidwoo** · 03-25-2011, 11:55 PM

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?

**tone capone** · 06-16-2011, 12:12 PM

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.

**LaBelle23** · 06-16-2011, 02:07 PM

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.