I'm gonna be switching schools/jobs in about a year and I'm trying to figure out which states have plenty of great downhill and good colleges close to each other. I'm thinking maybe colorado, utah or montana.. any suggestions?
grif
grif
states for DH and school
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well what do you mean by good colleges??
u of montana has plenty of singletrack and it is a easy school to get into
if mtbikin is not just a hobby then u of BC which is down from whistler but im sure there are other colleges close by that are better than U of BC. it is a crappy lookin school too. all grey but it is in vancouver and close to downtown and it is north shore property so that might win it for you i dunno. i know it would win it for me.
nebraska :devil:
when is ya time finished griff ?
when is ya time finished griff ?
how about massachusetts? Boston has a ton of schools, and diablo, plattekill, jiminy, whiteface, attitash, mt. snow and mt st. ann are about a day trip away. If you don't have a car, forget about, but there are a ton of schools and lots of good riding around.
Another vote for Boston, great scene, plenty of mountains to pick from, and so many good schools in one area.
Dude! do yourself a HUGE favor and completely run through oklahoma as fast as you can! and never look back! The land is flat, the temps are HOT, and the universities are soso but with an overly priced tution. Tulsa, ok. is one of the top 15 cities in the nation with very overweight people. The public schools are a joke and the Mayor is a dork who on a very rear accasion favors a good choice. Oh, and the biking here is awful, some little area called Turkey Mtn that has some good trails and a freeride park but the parkin lots are full of butt-pirates waiting to meet some guy to molest in the bushes.
However if you are into road riding, you might be in luck. Lots and lots of roads with wide shoulder for a cyclist to ride providing you like to ride flat with a head wind of 20-35mph and the occasional white-trash a$$hole who thinks is funny to throw a beer bottle out the window at you. But I assume you are not looking for this type of environment so keep moving,,,,, go with the Rockymounatins!
However if you are into road riding, you might be in luck. Lots and lots of roads with wide shoulder for a cyclist to ride providing you like to ride flat with a head wind of 20-35mph and the occasional white-trash a$$hole who thinks is funny to throw a beer bottle out the window at you. But I assume you are not looking for this type of environment so keep moving,,,,, go with the Rockymounatins!
'bout a year or year and a half, depends on school and if i get fed up enough to submit for early departurepartsbara said:
gonna get as much free school as i can though. How did you fit in over in Korea? Bet you stuck out like a sore thumb 
give my regards to the mrs.grif
cool... hope it works out for ya... yeah, korea was a PITA... good to see the missus, but i ll be glad when shes back here...dgrif said:'bout a year or year and a half, depends on school and if i get fed up enough to submit for early departure
grif
ps. northeastern has a good team... RESPECT
If you want to race dh for a college FLC in Durango is awesome, but the academics are soso. Boulder is a much better school, but a real yuppie town. However you are close to Keystone, Vail, etc, and there is a sh!t ton of dirt jump spots in the Boulder/Denver/Aurora area. I've found 3 spots within 20 minutes of Denver that are Waaaaaay bigger than the old RAB jumps.
yeah colorado is lookin nice.. tricky is talkin me up about montana, and it does look sweet up there. close to canada too. I'll have to look into the mass area for sure. I was lookin at the DC area too, but the traffic looks like it blows pretty bad.
what do you know... everyone knows uphill jumps rulesayndesyn said:
edit.. the only jumps there that were even close to being considered big were the two that we built... but they didn t pass the rigorous air farce test.. what do we know.. i m sure the places in denver are way bigger... when ya come out here i ll show ya a double that ll make ya wish for mommy.. makes the big one at burg frank look small... too big for this scared old man...
the sh1t at RAB was fun, although small.. but ya have to remember that we had to start them small due to the fact that they were on base... lots of kids, inexperienced jumpers etc... still doesn t change the fact that my bike doesn t roll uphill
Cali baby, these so much riding here, at CSU Monterey yuou can drive 5 minutes and hit some 15 to 25 foot dubs.
i hate yuppies :wonky2:sayndesyn said:
yeah we were thinkin about AZ too.. what area? I stopped by the Tempe area a few months ago.. guy at a lbs there told me the freeride scene was decent, but he didnt know about DH.bjanga said:
AZ for the winter maybe... that is unless you enjoy baking your brains out. Of course it is 100 in Denver right now..
it's 95 in boston too...welcome to global warming.
Some of the big jumps here are near vert and it looks like you would hit about 15 feet off the deck easy. For some reason the vert jumps sketch me out, but I've been hitting a bunch of fun medium sized doubles about the size of the right line at RAB that go into berms with gaps and rhythm sections. My vote is Colorado griff, but Montana would be sweet as well.
partsbara said:what do you know... everyone knows uphill jumps rule
edit.. the only jumps there that were even close to being considered big were the two that we built... but they didn t pass the rigorous air farce test.. what do we know.. i m sure the places in denver are way bigger... when ya come out here i ll show ya a double that ll make ya wish for mommy.. makes the big one at burg frank look small... too big for this scared old man...
the sh1t at RAB was fun, although small.. but ya have to remember that we had to start them small due to the fact that they were on base... lots of kids, inexperienced jumpers etc... still doesn t change the fact that my bike doesn t roll uphill
sayndesyn said:
sounds good mate... those jumps on the RHS at rab were good... yeah, the vert stuff isn t my cup o tea either... it s so frackin hot here... 102 today, 103 tomorrow... think i might have to buy some lights for night rides...
i d go colorado as well griff...
Our Fort Ord trails, try about 20-25 feet above the ground some of the lips are close to 8 feet tall
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They might bring them, but they stay in the truck all day.bjanga said:
Salt Lake (Univ. of Utah)...we just need to convince more resorts to get up off their asses.
Far closer to liftys than anywhere else in the world with a university.
Far closer to liftys than anywhere else in the world with a university.
What about Florida? This place is sweet... Nascar, Daytona, spring break, girls, mullets, cheap beer, rednecks, moto tracks galore, air boats, swamp buggies, alligators, snakes, 6 feet long flesh eating lizards and a whopping 343 feet of elevation change. You'll be so busy you won't even care about downhill, and when you do, you'll be stoked to know that the University of Florida is the southeast conference mountain bike champions. The dirty south is where it's at!
WA is close to alot of dh courses, plenty if great riding in the seattle area (E38,E27,marginal,sst,and hopefully they re-open the summit for dh) and we're a 5 hour drive away from whistler
UW is a great school
so is wsu
UW is a great school
so is wsu
also, don t forget the chance to meet loads of queers and old folks...tangboy said:
haha
queers
queers
Naaa, those are rumors to keep those not in the loop out of the loop. No more queers than San Fran and NorCal, and no more old people than Arizona.
If you are going to school to ride bikes, or more specifically to race downhill, there are only two options. University of Colorado and Fort Lewis. And Fort Lewis is a glorified community college that I could get my dog into if I wanted .
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Yup, WA is pretty rad, definetly glad I live here. Tons of riding in state as well as reasonable drives away from some of the best riding availible (Shore, Whistler). The schools in WA are good too, I'm looking to go to Western WA University which is in Bellingham. There's some good riding there and it's very close to good ol' Canada.hungryleprican said:
yeah, Washington is amazing!
I would not want to live anywhere else
I would not want to live anywhere else