Getting in to Biking!?

[muck]

While i prefer my road bike I do love me a good trail on my XC bike too.

I don't know why this has to be a one or the other thread... ya Im looking at you Tony.

[Delphinus]

Words, just words... Have you even ridden your XC bike yet this year Ryan? I seem to recall you bought it, then rode it like twice and it's been rusting away all sadly from under use ever since. Dude - I think can hear your bike from here even. "Ryan.. why hast thou forsaken me. Please come back. I know Edmonton sucks but we can make it suck less by riding singletrack!" Come on man, your mountain bike is sad! Make it happy again. Enough playing with traffic. Get out there, or at least go find yourself a nice 1x4 to park against!





Hope you ROADIES are realizing I am kidding around. Pedal power rulez. Whatever your preferred mode is.

I'm outta here, off to a land of no internet for a few days. I might even go TRAIL riding. So I'm not purposely ignoring any further taunts, just a happy coincidence.

[Funky_Fish14]

Hah! Tony I think your just jealous of my Kiera Knightly fencepost girlfriend and my two 'prized possessions' in one picture together! Hahaha.

[muck]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Words, just words... Have you even ridden your XC bike yet this year Ryan? I seem to recall you bought it, then rode it like twice and it's been rusting away all sadly from under use ever since. Dude - I think can hear your bike from here even. "Ryan.. why hast thou forsaken me. Please come back. I know Edmonton sucks but we can make it suck less by riding singletrack!" Come on man, your mountain bike is sad! Make it happy again. Enough playing with traffic. Get out there, or at least go find yourself a nice 1x4 to park against!

I was away from the forum all weekend too Tony so just saw this...

I actually take my XC bike out just about every Wednesday with some buds and hit some trails around the city. May not be up to par with your C-Town trails but its still loads of fun as well. What you are actually hearing is the bike whining it needs to be cleaned as it got a little muddy last week and i haven't cleaned it yet.

[Parker]

Originally Posted by muck

I was away from the forum all weekend too Tony so just saw this...

I actually take my XC bike out just about every Wednesday with some buds and hit some trails around the city. May not be up to par with your C-Town trails but its still loads of fun as well. What you are actually hearing is the bike whining it needs to be cleaned as it got a little muddy last week and i haven't cleaned it yet.

I was out last Wednesday as well, what a sloppy mess lower Mill Creek was. Where you run along the river between the Mutart and the golf course heading east was also a mud fest.

[muck]

Darn it all... I won't be able to get out for the next few days. My back-cracker (chiro) advised me not for a few days.
Just when the nice weather hits too...

[Delphinus]

He's either a quack or he's a biker himself trying to get the trails all to himself.

Bummer man, but, yeah, guess don't mess with the back. Good luck, surely you'll be back at it in a week or so.

[Funky_Fish14]

Sorry to hear Ryan! Hope you get back on track soon too!
Might I ask where you ride in town? I know of some areas in the west end just east of callingwood... and a couple other crappy areas in the river valley, but thats about it.

So I've logged about 6x 14km rides so far and 2x 8km rides (did one 14 and one 8 today). Its getting much easier to push harder each time. Going to start making them longer soon. Need to let me muscles get back into biking condition first though!

[cale262]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

...I'm outta here, off to a land of no internet for a few days. I might even go TRAIL riding. So I'm not purposely ignoring any further taunts, just a happy coincidence.

I personally can't say shat though,...I haven't touched any of my bikes since discovering this salt water dealio almost three weeks ago...