I'm going to make this an actual "ride pics" thread now....
Sunday-
I actually felled a couple of trees and re-routed a brook at the 3.5 hour mark. I must have looked imposing in my yellow Mavic shoes and fancy-ass Spooky gear kneeling in muck and silt in the middle of nowhere using sticks and rocks to dig water bars, hacking at trees and unclog streams.
(p.s.- this is why we offer a model called the Lumberjack).
It was mostly downhill except for the parts where I climbed for what seemed like hours up powerline cuts and the steepest, longest paved climb I'd never found before from Shelburne to Ashfield. I suppose it must have been half uphill and half downhill, but it sure seemed like i spent at least half of the ride daintily letting the bars dance between my hands and engaging in irresponsible advanced cornering techniques. At some point I made my way onto the snowmobile trail system and got to ride some wicked fast graveled doubletrack. The key with deep gravel, like everything else in life is a heavy hand on the throttle. There is always traction if you can make the tire hit something that doesn't move.
Sunday-
I actually felled a couple of trees and re-routed a brook at the 3.5 hour mark. I must have looked imposing in my yellow Mavic shoes and fancy-ass Spooky gear kneeling in muck and silt in the middle of nowhere using sticks and rocks to dig water bars, hacking at trees and unclog streams.
(p.s.- this is why we offer a model called the Lumberjack).
It was mostly downhill except for the parts where I climbed for what seemed like hours up powerline cuts and the steepest, longest paved climb I'd never found before from Shelburne to Ashfield. I suppose it must have been half uphill and half downhill, but it sure seemed like i spent at least half of the ride daintily letting the bars dance between my hands and engaging in irresponsible advanced cornering techniques. At some point I made my way onto the snowmobile trail system and got to ride some wicked fast graveled doubletrack. The key with deep gravel, like everything else in life is a heavy hand on the throttle. There is always traction if you can make the tire hit something that doesn't move.
