Hey guys! Still getting in some good rides here but that may be about to end. We've had an extremely dry winter, the only snow around is probably 5,000 and above and crusty nasty stuff at that. The next three days are supposed to see snow, so maybe our dirt biking has finally come to an end for this season.
At any rate I have a handful of shots to post when I get the time but the crew I've been riding with keeps the pace pretty high with few breaks, so there are some snap shots but few GOOD shots, if you know what I mean. I've also really been following the Dakar this year, so posting ride reports in the evenings has been out of the question
A few weeks back we did a pseudo-epic snow ride that I really flailed on given my old tires at the time.
Snowy lava. You don't want to fall in there. That would be a red mess.
You also don't want to ride this tire on snow and ice.
There have been some good singletrack sessions since then, many of them dusty but a few not too bad if you skirt the snowline.
This is not singletrack, but I liked the picture
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Today was 50 degrees and beautiful but I haven't been seeing much of my family so I spent some great time hiking and riding bikes with them. About 3:30 this afternoon I brought the kid back and decided I needed to "gas up" the DR, since I just got it going again and it's been sitting since August. On the way to "gas it up", I managed to hit ~ 20 miles of great forest service roads in one of our regular haunts. I jumped up into the lava just in time to catch the sun set (at 4:30), not bad considering it's a cell phone picture...
The wind was cranking, temp was crashing and sun was setting, so after this I turned tail and ran powerline and forest roads back to town.
Man riding this thing is like riding a loaded water buffalo after being on the 450. It didn't help that I'd just topped off that giant tank. This area has a lot of deep volcanic fesh-fesh (haha! I said "fesh-fesh"!) that thankfully had some moisture in it today, but it took a second to get back into the swing of cornering this thing at speed on dirt. I think the tire pressure was too high.
Anyway, a great Saturday, hope you guys had the same, and the Dakar's last stage is tomorrow!!