Nice shots 66. And I'm seeing a bit o' the garden gnome tendencies in gastro.

went up to Laggan wolftrax near aviemore today. didnt spend much time with the camera out, too much trails to ride :P


walking up..

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couple shots coming down
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That stuff looks fun.
Wish we had that kind of trails around here.

Night ride in Riverside yesterday. The guy that builds bikes at work gave us a tour of Sycamore Canyon. Good stuff there I didn't know about. Rocks, drops, chutes. It was freakin nice.

What light do you use?

Had a great ride with hambone and girlscout in Pisgah today.It was perfect riding weather. Here's a few shots......

Hambone on Cove Creek......
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'66
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Hambone and Girlscout......
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Girlscout on Longbranch(I can make a fast rider look slow).....
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Good times......
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Nice ride.
Better than mine. Mine ended up breaking things.

Hey, Longbranch to Butter Gap...that's the one that ends/starts by the hatchery right? If yes, then it's all coming back to me...if not...ignore all of my comments! ;)

Yep, Longbranch has that jump at the trailhead. Butter is the one with lots of hikers, but hopefully if if we keep scaring them, they'll go away.

LOL! Please do tell how you scare them. I have that problem here, I rounded a corner and almost smacked into a guy and his dog.
Im glad my brakes are touchy.

I was leading on Butter and my philosophy to get rid of the hikers was...just pinner. But seriously, slow down for hikers...I accidentally scared a few but just slowed down, apologized then kept riding. I talk different than everyone around there so they all probably just assumed I was a foreigner and didn't know what the hell was going on, eh.

I was joking, although there have unfortunately been a couple non-optimal user interactions in the past.

It's good practice to slow down and be courteous to other trail users. Are you familiar with IMBA?

trails are too wet to ride, but I got some fsa k force bars today.

Hopefully by doing that, people won't want to close trails to mountain bikers. For whatever reasons there seems to be a stigma, and being courteous and polite with other trail users is one way to get past that.

I normally yeild to walkers and hikers, but I didn't see him, Luckily he came first though, because right behind him was a fallen tree from the storms. That could of hurt.

Yer just a local feller,ain'tcha? You know all the aboot goood trails.

I hope I can make it out again this fall...I need to be local-ized a little more! ;)

@ Hills...

How fast were you riding down that rock hill? Is it possible to ride up it? The trails here at Oleta don't have trails like that. Looks like fun!!!

i was going pretty fast down it. Its really techy and your wheel can easily get snagged up in a gap in the rocks etc. And no, i dont think you could bike up it, the bit pictured isnt the hardest/steepest.

Got out for a great day. Sunny and 62 very nice. We really didn't ride to ride we rode to fish but we still got about 12 miles in so that was nice.

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We rode paved and gravel roads so I was rockin' old school steel rigid......
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Rode Thomson today with my Thomson elite post.... NO TROUBLES YES! Took along a newbie frien... had to keep stopping and waiting, he has an old Raleigh 40 or something like that with those half slicks half dirt treads he couldn't get any grip, lol

Nice day, Hot sun, no clouds.... cool breeze, it was about 77, I actually got sunburn.

[QUOTE=mtnbiker66;6265291]Got out for a great day. Sunny and 62 very nice. We really didn't ride to ride we rode to fish but we still got about 12 miles in so that was nice.

Are those bar ends I see in the TGMG? What's up with that?

[QUOTE=victim;6265478]Thats TGMBG,don't mess it up again. Yeah thats bar ends, thas my commuter bike. I don't think it's in the bylaws that you can't run bar ends but when rolling with tha gang, that bike is left at home.

We had a nice sat, got out for 40 miles of gravel road riding. (trails are way too muddy here) We hit a minimum maintanance road that was a foot of muddy clay, had to hike a bike for about a half mile, but that's just part of the ride. Today's back to 30 and chance of snow.

First race on the Kona Four Deluxe. 3rd out of 8 not bad for the first time riding it.
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