Had a great weekend of riding...as some of you know Jennifer was back in San Diego for the week...took our grand daughter home...and then visited with our Daug and her Dad...so I had a ton of rides last week...Wednesdays was eventful with the bending of my rear I-9 rim, YIKES...so I am running a stock Rig rim for now, stronger for all the FUN rides (save the high dollar stuff for racing)...On Friday night after work I raced up to Jim Thorpe State park to go riding with Randy, Phil, Brian, Gunnar, Jacob and Tim...camped out and rode Saturday. The weather was "blessed", the trails were rocky and technical, the boys had such sore butts from riding so much that one had to stand most of the ride, actually it was very hilarious, sorry for making fun of your pain but come on it was funny...besides your young and strong and can do it...there were some real challenges to some of the sections and we all had fun trying out our skills...we're all lucky Randy Bergey doesn't race...the man has skills!!!! Way to go Randy, and Phil what can we say, he is FAST! Now we see where the young guys get it from...then of course theres Old Me...:) Well I got to experience FLATS...yep my first on trail rides...and not just one, both and totally unprepared...after borrowing and leaving everyone depleted we got my flats fixed and then cut the ride short to get back to break camp, go into town resupply on "flat" material then go hit another trail....
The next area was a fast grassy fire road that just kept gradually going down till we hit a point of a late evening possible, so we had to turn around and head back up...well let me tell ya, Jacob diappeared on us, the guy BLAZED back to the cars, smoked us!
From there it was time to head home...the area was beautiful, I really do like PA...what a great state for riding!
Well on Sunday the Bike Line team (12-15) came down to our neck of the woods and we all rode Patapsco...had a great time, hopefully everyone else did too...thats what is so much fun about Patapsco, it offers a wide variety of riding levels...rocks, roots, climbs, trees, water and smooth fast...the group split up just after the beginning into a small slower pace and then the larger faster group up front, and by the end we all were together for the ride back to the cars...off to a local "dive" for a LOOOOOONNGG wait for food (Daniels, biker bar/resturant), took so long for food I didn't get to eat, had to go get Jennifer from the airport, which her flight was on time and I made it with approx. 5 minutes to spare...
Thanks to everyone for making the weeks worth of rides so enjoyable, the friendships are cherished.
Ed
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