Jim, I definitely enjoyed the roads out that way. My instrument of choice, for whatever reason, is the trombone. This rehearsal was for a live hip hop band. Coasting downhill there was cool and all but biking uphill home with the horn on my back... notsomuch.
Originally Posted by
rholland1951
Welcome, Hugh! Glad you liked that route. Out of curiosity, how thin were your tires? Doing the Reformatory Branch on anything less than 28mm kind of counts as "underbiking", and you get extra credit. Beware of that trail within 3 days of a good rainstorm: muddy...
rod
220ish pounds on 25mm tires on a very recently acquired trek 520. Ideally I'll get some fatter things on there for winter and whatever tours I can manage, but right now money and they run. And FAST, for my limited frame of reference, having come from a limping old single speed Raleigh.
I can see how that trail would hold water; one part was nearly a rhythm section. Beginners luck with my choice of day: no traffic, long sight-lines and that Hitchcock zoom effect from flying down a narrow path in the sun-speckled woods.