DH Biking

[muck]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

If I thought downhill biking could cause terror, it has nothing on highway riding. Road bikers are the real insane ones. Mountain biking - yeah, it can be scary but it's you, and your skill level, and the mountain. And the mountain doesn't pretend to be anything but what it is. On the other hand, every time someone passes, road bikers put an enormous amount of faith in complete strangers, those who would not even feel a thing as they drove over top of you, and are probably fiddling with an iPod, or makeup, or texting someone, or shouting at their kids or who knows. Yeah .. think I'll stick to mountain biking.

Sounds like you had a good weekend Tony. Im one of those crazies...
I manged to get out last night on my skinny tires for a good 40+km ride of Frogger around Edmonton after the rain.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by muck

Sounds like you had a good weekend Tony. Im one of those crazies...
I manged to get out last night on my skinny tires for a good 40+km ride of Frogger around Edmonton after the rain.

I was thinking of you as I rode the highway. Seriously dude, that is just nuts hearing morons approach at >100kph with their tires touching the rumble strips and I'm all "at what point do I just dive into the ditch so I can stay alive?" for each and every one of them. And it's at best 400-500m from trail's end back to where I had parked for that shuttle run. I can't imagine >40km of sharing the road like that. I'm sticking with mountain biking!!!

[Delphinus]

This is a great site for anyone contemplating riding at Moose Mountain:

http://www.mmbts.com/members/

Couple weeks ago a bunch of us did Moosepackers to Ridgeline (which is a new trail this year that bypasses most of boggy Tom Snow) on our XC bikes. Great fun. Ridgeline is a great new trail. Not for a DH bike though as there's a fair bit of climbing to get to the downhill sections.