2010 NK RiDe, HoT, FaST & AdVenTuRouS

The 2010 NK ride was HOT, FAST and ADVENTUROUS. There you go, that is the short summary you dont have to read further if you dont want to. Thanks for stopping by!

Now for those that want details, here we go. Jonesy Showed up early bearing gifts of Ice Coffee and good conversation. As we meditated we attempted to load topo maps from Gpsfiledepot dot com onto his etrex, but we had meditated so hard that thought abilities had escaped us. We got Dressed and rolled out. Kanning had called saying he would meet us right at 930am. I mistakingly had assumed Kanning had read the directions and knew to meet us at Wal Mart where we were meeting the others. WRONG... On top of that he forgot his PHONE, epic FAIL.

Regardless, 945 am we rolled out after snacks and riders meeting. We headed down 415 to Lemon Bluff road to see if we could connect thru this preserve over to Reed Ellis road that would dump us right onto the Naked Indian Route. I say try cause I forgot the maps at work, We gave it a shot, hiked a biked a huge swath of fire break, then pulled the plugg. Adventure 1, couple of bonus miles was now in the books.

After that it was more happy rolling, me dipping into my Fred Aero bar set up, totally loving the ease, comfort and speed I was getting out of it. We hit Bethel Loop, Hit old enterprise Rail Road Bed, onto Old Titusville, over to the Morality Trail, thru the Brickell connector hike, onto the washboard dirt road, road climb out and we hit 7 11 for water. Already 17 miles in at this point, still a long way to go. Mike Had contacted us thru Facebook and said he would meet us at McDonald's. SO onto the new bike path, we cut thru the powerlines, to encounter a swamp and knee deep water, bushwacked onto a road and made the restaurant, no Mike to be found.

Jonesy Early in the Ride, Still Smiling. Right around mile 55, not so much.

I saw this thing had a ladder and I had to climb it, Had lots of energy on this Naked Indian ride.

Still smiling, never got a picture of him frowning, the section after this was boulders on a railroad service road, kind of sucked, but him and rob hammered away on it.

Curt Joined the ride, rode it on his Long Haul Trucker Surly bike, great attitude and hung tight all day long.

Me, after playing Monkey on the Rail Road thing..

Trying to figure out how to navigate that preserve prooved to be an excercise in futility, I forgot the maps and it was pretty much a waste of time, next time I will figure it out, cause I will take the maps, Im not as smart as I think folks.

So, they built a fence around the pit we used to ride thru. Then apparently there has been a ton of construction traffic that totally dismatled our usual route thru this section so we had to take the main powerline trail. It was pretty awful but short, I managed to stay on thru 99% of this.

We kept going a little road to Gemini sidewalk to Gemini Trail, to Lake Monroe for another little cooling off break and another attempt to find Mike, but no luck. On we rolled, eventually finding out the pit we loved had been fenced in and we had to ride more powerline then usual cause the path I used to take had been drudged by construction vehicles.


We eventually finished off the first section of Rail Road service road, which was way rougher then I remember, I think we should have taken the low water route which from our vantage point looked alot smoother then what we were on. We popped out and took Dutchman Bends into the Back door of Blue springs and onto the Second section of Railroad which was not bad at all.

Finally past the rail road tracks on To Dutchman Bend road, all good riding from here till lunch break, singletrack as well once we got in the Deland, the longest portion of singletrack matter of fact.

Eventually we emerged onto the Lake Beresford Bike path, rode all the single track and were on Fatio Road heading towards a much needed lunch break. All the heat and the effort and extra monkey wrenches had burned lots of calories and we were all ready for some real food.

The rollers on the latter half of Fatio seemed extra brutal, but we pressed on and made lunch and had a good meal and lots of water and cooling off. During the Rail Road Section I hit a pit of sand and totally fell on my side, this has not been the year for me to stay tumble free.

Wolf Pack Run trail was sandy today, but Rob and I stayed on and hammered the rollers thru here.

We rolled out of there a little pavement to sidewalk then back into Deltona, more pavement to sidewalk, then right into Wolf pack run trail. Lots of Sandy ups and downs, but Rob and I pedaled it all and we emerged to a little more sandy road, then a quick trip thru cassadega.

Eventually, we made our way thru lake helen onto the Ranch Road section, a little sandy and dry but rolling good, I look back and Jonesy was doing the frustration push. He had literally said he hated the Wolf Pack run trail and gave it the finger. Me thinks he hated this section too. I attempted to comfort them by letting them know we didn't have much left which was true. Eventually we hit Old Train Road, Rob and I did the Cemetary Trail Bushwack and eventually we stopped at my house, got in just as Curt And Jonesy showed up, they skipped the Cemetery section and took the sidewalk all the way to Wal Mart, good call, cemetery section was just a tad arduous and not a good way to end up if you were already in the pain cave.

Overall, excellent ride, ended with cold showers and good food and conversation. Absolutely Loving the Fred Bars Aero set up, and my "training" Plan is already starting to pay off, as I felt good after the ride, and rode with good stamina and strength all day.

Great ride fellas, thanks for coming out, I really appreciated it, next one will definitely be in January and all the new re routes will be worked out to avoid the SAND traps we endured.

Take care,

Laters,

The NaKeD InDiaN