Hey guys just wanted to share my spring break trip. We headed down south, North Carolina baby. 2 buddies and I decided to head to the Tsali recreation area, located near Bryson city, NC. There are about 40 miles of trails their. We rode for 4 days straight and packed up a day early due to the rain on Wednesday. The trails are very different to what is here in New England. They have these things called hills over there, who knew. The trail conditions were pretty good as far as dryness goes but there are mud holes sprinkled about. Some bad erosion in some parts though. Beautiful and fast pure single track at Tsali, would do it again in a heartbeat. Well here are the pics, they speak for themselves
We started the trip by loading the car
We arrived at 5am and slept in the car for a few hours, this pic is from around 8am or so
Our first campground
Messing around before the first ride
Good views for sure
What a good looking kid, ME!
Tom doing up a roller/wall of dirt. They even have stuff to play with in the south!
Messing around
Day 2 not too many pics, too busy riding I guess
Some single track
we moved to a new campsite to get some more morning sun
Day 3
I almost fall off the mountain. Look at the pile of leaves that I messed up. this was probably the scariest moment while on trail.
day 4 well it started with a drizzle and ended with a down pour.
No pics because we shredded through this trail way to fast. Really fun in the rain. About 4 miles in we were all wet so we threw everything out the window and ripped down the single track and ran through all the water and mud holes. No point of trying to stay dry so have fun instead. All the fun proved to be abusive to our brakes. At about mile 6-7 out of 12 our rear brake levers were hitting the handle bars. A quick trail adjustment with the multi tool worked until the last mile of double track. My rear wouldnt return after I let go of the lever. My buddys brake bottomed out his lever again. We got to camp and decided to pack up in the rain and head home a day early. I didnt want to head home early but having no brakes was the deal breaker.
We started the trip by loading the car
We arrived at 5am and slept in the car for a few hours, this pic is from around 8am or so
Our first campground
Messing around before the first ride
Good views for sure
What a good looking kid, ME!
Tom doing up a roller/wall of dirt. They even have stuff to play with in the south!
Messing around
Day 2 not too many pics, too busy riding I guess
Some single track
we moved to a new campsite to get some more morning sun
Day 3
I almost fall off the mountain. Look at the pile of leaves that I messed up. this was probably the scariest moment while on trail.
day 4 well it started with a drizzle and ended with a down pour.
No pics because we shredded through this trail way to fast. Really fun in the rain. About 4 miles in we were all wet so we threw everything out the window and ripped down the single track and ran through all the water and mud holes. No point of trying to stay dry so have fun instead. All the fun proved to be abusive to our brakes. At about mile 6-7 out of 12 our rear brake levers were hitting the handle bars. A quick trail adjustment with the multi tool worked until the last mile of double track. My rear wouldnt return after I let go of the lever. My buddys brake bottomed out his lever again. We got to camp and decided to pack up in the rain and head home a day early. I didnt want to head home early but having no brakes was the deal breaker.
