The first ride was close to home at our back door spot of Patapsco State Park...not a real big DOWNHILL area but it did have a few good little ones...
First off I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO BE A bitch TO PEDAL THAT BEAST UP HILLS...and the beast was for the most part out of its element...BUT...I stayed with it for the day, and enjoyed MYSELF...the group of course (as I totally expected) raced off to do their thing...again we were on different bikes and different missions...)
1. Its' brand spanking new and how exciting is that to take your new bike out for a ride...besides needing to get to know it.
2. The Dam run (which I did 3 times, hiked up it)...has some of our favorites jumps and NOW they are definently jumps...and at the bottom I cleared from the trail 4' down right to the asphalt trail...HA...If I feel like playing on some DH, I can park at the Hilltop lot and play for awhile on the 2 dam runs....
3. Funny I still did at least half our usual loop (adding the additional up and downs multiple times) and hiking up the blue trail to the top on the south/west side of the bridge only to run into the gang again...and rode down (stopping twice for the XC DHer's...:)
4. I found some kids with the same interest and they showed me some incredible riding skills as we walked up Vinyard and FLEW down, these kids race DH and have some amazing skills...told me a thing or two about the hows/whys/and the really big advice...TRUST YOUR BIKE, IT WILL DO AMAZING THINGS FOR YOU... they aren't kidding....it was incredible how this bike hooks up and rails the corners...surprised the sh** out of me a number of times...one time I dove into a corner to hot, hit the brake, it slid around, foot stabbed the ground and I kept rocketing around...amazing...surprised me.
5. The rock garden DH from the tire park was SOOO smooth...just blasted right through it all...but then I had all that damn uphill from there...Jason you know the trail thats shoots across/under the power lines where the vine caught me...wow this time I hit that berm, caught air right where I landed was that slight up to the right then left wow it was all so quick and smooth...for going down this is what it advertises it to be...an incredible, precise, smooth, capable, RAIL MACHINE...YEEE HAWWW...can't wait now for spring/summer...going to hit all the different parks...probablly do some beginner Dh races too...
In conclusion, for Patapsco...damn heavy machine...fun on the DH's...YEP...but there just to short there...I'm sure I'll do some more though...just know that I will do walking as well...but it's certainly worth the moments of extreme pleasure...this bike performs the job it's designed for better than anything I've ridin...(yeah I'm a real rookie)...but this bike SHOWS you right from the moment you point down...kind of like Jasons Jet9...it just jumps right out at you with the features it's designed for...the other bikes I've had and ridden just don't act that way, they ride very similar to others...where as these have their own SPECIFIC personalities....
Wish I had some shots of me riding it today but i was off by myself, maybe next time.
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