Self portrait. We start on the Wagon trail from the land bridge trail head, hit the 49Th st trails and then we hit Nayl's and do the ten mile loop taking the wagon trail back after we are done. At one point the wagon trail crosses over 75, right before the climb up the land bridge over 75 there is a nice long climb on the wagon trail. This is a shot of me waiting at the top. And then a shot of Paloma single speed slaughtering the climb. Now that I am a lean mean fighting machine, I can ride 3 times longer in the puffy butt position then I used to be able too. Love it!!
Her endurance is already at an excellent level for a beginner. Her speed, is good, but can get better. But, when it comes to technical terrain, she is still very apprehensive, understandably so, she has maybe 3 trail rides or so under her belt. She still made the trail and hiked a biked the sections she was intimidated by. I thought Nayl's was tame, but my idea of tame is skewed by years of technical trail riding. She will get the skills though, she has me as her coach.
Here is a shot of her finishing the trail. For the everyday MTBeer, no big deal, for her, a great feat.On the 49Th st blue trail, there is a section of big whoopty doos that leads to a Lil downhill and a log bump at the end. Here is me doing the very end section of it on the war machine. I think all I'm going to ride in trails for the next couple of months is the war machine. I am considering showing up to some of the FSC single speed races and seeing what I got against the pro's who race single speed XC.
Laters,
LOS
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Love riding that trail. I wish I could go there more often. It is probably as far for me as it is for you. Hey on that pic of Paloma finishing the ride her quick release looks loose. Maybe it is just pointing downward but it doesn't look safe.
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