Monday, November 13, 2006
Hunting Season Continues....as does our Biking!!!
More excellent riding although we had to deck ourselves out with blaze orange to prevent hunters from targeting us! Opening season for rifles...maybe not so smart to go riding with the rednecks in the bush but hey! we have just as much right to be there as they - probably more so! Nice frozen ground - I'm wearing the blue jersey and Pat is in the red - I put a couple clips from the previous time out and Jason & Pat are wearing yellow...
Enjoy!
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Love the video. Looks like good fun -- like a bunch of guys who haven't forgotten how much fun it was to be ten years old and just playing. A couple of things sprang to mind...
It's nice to see climbing as part of the fun. Most of the growth in the sport out here has been in guys shuttling their big bikes to the tops of large downhills, and a lot of the old cross-country guys who used to enjoy (or at least tolerate) climbing have switched over to the road. I still enjoy the punishment of a tricky climb, but I seem to be in the minority.
It also struck me how different the riding is there. Pretty much every ride out here involves climbing for the first two-thirds of the ride, then descending for a third. It requires a really different mindset than a trail that has lots of smaller ups and downs.
Finally, I remember riding dirt bikes a couple of times in hunting season near Cavalier where Pat's uncle Lorne lives. Even on a noisy, motorized bike, it felt super sketchy to see hillbillies toting shotguns and flats of Budweiser around in the bush where we were riding.
Yep - still hootin' & hollerin' our way up & down the hills...we actually had shed our "colors" for playing on the roller-coaster...and yes the ground was frozen! It actually used to be a much steeper set of hills but the quads have eroded the trail there at least 4-5 feet down due to the sandy conditions...so normally we can't ride there - in fact it probably has been about 2-3 years since we've even ridden that trail.
Yeah - our riding conditions are way different - definitely more cross-country stuff but we are lucky to have the hills we do - some are actually comparable to the hills near Uncle Lorne's place (yep he's my uncle too)...actually Pat & I rode there earlier in the season. And Lorne has gotten into the sport of mtn biking as well!
I love tricky climbs - we have some nice technical steeps that can really burn a guy out but unfortunately we don't have the amazing long descents that you have out west! Most of our singletrack trails are hardpacked dirt with the occasional sand patch - nice little 2 foot drops every now and then...the hills are relatively close to each other and so you can often use the momentum from going down one hill and up the next!
Sweet video! I love the rocket-man - but I thought the Blonde Squid traveled by hydrofoil!
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