Portland got random snow so I cobbled together the cross bike and went out for a nice ride. Sorry if the quality sucks, forgot to change my camera settings

#tr8-t0r

Looks like a really fun ride. Would love to do something similar.

Your "dirty" bike looks remarkable clean considering the terrain.

If anything it was because my skinny tires didn't fling up much mud onto the frame, and a 5 mile stretch of pavement at the end cleaned the tires up. If you're in NC you've got ample opportunities to do something similar

There are lots of short unpaved roads but i don't know of any long ones or combinations that can be connected to make a long ride.

Do you know of any or how to find them. Most bike shops cater to roadies and "gravel grinding" insn't really a thing here yet.

I know your state and national forests have good maps that show which roads are paved or not. Spent some time in DuPont over the summer and that place is great for riding gravel. Other than that I'd say look for rural roads and google street view them to see what the surface is like. Are there no local groups or forums centered around gravel riding? Maybe check the ride calendar on GravelCyclist.com to see if there's anything in your area.

protips:
bing maps - shows what roads are gravel/dirt/unpaved in light brown (this is the only thing bing is good for)
google maps - turn on bicycling and terrain and they will show unpaved roads in dark brown and cycling paths in dark green
open street maps - use "outdoor" or "bicycling" versions of OSM and they show all kinds of trails in differently colored dashed lines. the best way to see them is on ridewithgps
Gravel Road Maps and Biking Routes - Gravelmap - look for yellow stuff
https://openmtbmap.org/ - explains itself

Good stuff, thanks.

Moar good stuff, thanks.

holy ****ing fat

The new Salsa's with the Klein style loud paint are the business.

damn. those are all rich kid fat bikes.

that was one of my new buddies taking a photo of me, there was about 4 of the carbon sherbert beargrease, the winner was on one with enormous renthal risers, and i saw 1 or 2 of the purple flavor

the orange specialized fatboy was a popular one, mustve seen about 6 of those. the girls were on some cool purple/green one which i really digged the paintjob. theres one in the front center with the team lazercats kit on

the black beargrease in front of me is my friend who owns the lbs, the ****ing thing weighs 21 lbs.

fatbikes are huge in NJ, a huge number of mtbers have sold all their other mtbs and run straight up fat now. its good for them because youre either on sand or on rocks and roots, which bigass tires dont give two ****s about

a lot of those people are middle aged with money burning a hole in their pocket too so there was some expensive **** rolling around out there

Back in South Florida. Nothing to climb here except bridges and parking garages

I'm gonna need help with custom paint soon.

One more South Florida here. West Palm Beach to be exact. Foggy morning ride.

Went out monster trucking, it's so much fun not having to pick a line and instead just barge everything. It was a bit muddier/icier than I would have thought.

nuts to butts...trying to keep up with the roadies


we got zebras



small, medium, large #cinelli

Back in Carolina. From Fridays ride, still some frozen puddles.

Today; a little bit of gravel

Must be cold when even the horses are wearing their jackets.

kewl zebras.

Hey, that's my butt! World class ride today, dude.


Here's a snap from last week:

more zebra:

florida representing in this thread

brisk ride out to the old landfill to catch some views. you can see the city peeking over the trees on the right side of the second picture, almost 10 miles away.