Originally Posted by Hugh Morris

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.


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.