Today's Ride

Harvey wrote

Neve had a Christmas gift certificate from Toys R Us burning a hole in her pocket.  Not a fan of the place, the smell of plastic gives me a headache.

But you can buy a fat bike for $29.  I didn't buy it, but I rode it around the store until we were kicked out.  Zelda and Neve were mortified.


The Mongoose Stomp

I saw a very similar bike in our local big box store recently. My inner twelve year old thought it was the coolest bike I had ever seen. You can't imagine the stuff we rode on 20" wheels back in the day. Natural half pipes and singletrack bordered by poison ivy. Those tires would have let us take it to the next level. Or perhaps death.

Good for you on taking it for a ride.

Started off MDW on Friday taking off work and going for a ride down here at the shore - Hartshorne Woods in the Atlantic Highlands...runs along the Navesink River where I took this pano shot

I can't imagine riding now what I did as an 8 year old. I split the headset out of my bike jumping off rock out croppings and down steps.

So this isn't actually of todays ride but a few weeks back I went out for three days with a few different folks to get footage for a local bike shop tv commercial. I ended up throwing together a short edit of it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkcEx6qluKs

Unfortunately during finals week I took a quick break from studying to do some hot laps on the AZT and crashed pretty badly. I severely dislocated two fingers so it ended my riding for a while. With summer classes starting back up I probably won't be getting back on the bike until August. :(

ADmiKe wrote

Hartshorne Woods in the Atlantic Highlands

Hartshorne/Huber Woods is always a fun ride.

After SEVEN PAGES of long division we got out for our ride tonight.  We bought this web thingie that allows us to strap a Bball onto my rack, and we stopped at the train station to drain a few.



Nice night.

Nice video, sorry about the DL AZ.

Canoeroots early summer magazine page 31” Playing the Futures” has nice article about kids gear for mountain biking. Better equipment make better riders is the gist of it. Thought you’d like to check it out if you can. Neve is about same age as girl in photo I’d say.

That building in your photo is incredible.

Thanks, it's all good. It could have been much worse so I'm feeling lucky.

That's our train station circa 1876 I think.  It was in use until 1980 something. Now that's a freight only line.

Town has a rich benefactor who laid out some cash to restore it and you can use it for your kids birthday or whatever.

HH I couldn't find Canoeroots magazine online.  Neve doesn't seem to be interested in MTB yet.  She just got a multi-speed bike for her birthday and while it's built for some light offroad, she seems to want to keep it on the smooth.

Interesting perspective with the chairlift in the mid-ground (Castle Peak in the background).  


Rode the Liberty-Behive complex

This is one my favorites in our area.  Lot's of different loop combinations here.  A full pull is just short of 25 miles with about 4000 vf of climbing.  The longest descent drops 2000 vf in just under 3 miles.  The trail passes through everything from quasi-rainforest to sage-brush desert.  

Damn! Nice ride! Putting in miles.

Looks like a great place to live-- nice bike!

nepa wrote

Interesting perspective with the chairlift in the mid-ground (Castle Peak in the background).  


Rode the Liberty-Behive complex

This is one my favorites in our area.  Lot's of different loop combinations here.  A full pull is just short of 25 miles with about 4000 vf of climbing.  The longest descent drops 2000 vf in just under 3 miles.  The trail passes through everything from quasi-rainforest to sage-brush desert.

Sweet! 2k in under 3 miles eh? I can smell your brakes burning from here in Arizona! That's steep. Where is this Nepa? PacNW?

raisingarizona wrote

Where is this Nepa? PacNW?

Yup.  North Central WA.  The big descent is actually not too steep.  I would even describe it as fairly wife friendly.  The trail design in that section is near perfect.  It's pretty fast, with a small handful of moderately technical sections.  In general, I would say that it is more tiring than technical.

wow, what'd you do after lunch!?!?!

Seriously, that looks really cool. If I ever leave the city I'll happily trade in the single speed commuter rig for something more fun.

Full shus bike, too. That man knows how to travel.

nepa wrote

raisingarizona wrote

Where is this Nepa? PacNW?

Yup.  North Central WA.  The big descent is actually not too steep.  I would even describe it as fairly wife friendly.  The trail design in that section is near perfect.  It's pretty fast, with a small handful of moderately technical sections.  In general, I would say that it is more tiring than technical.

 I love steep! Those are sweet stats for descending but I bet climbing that section is a bear.

Caught a shot of this bro on main street: