Who's Riding Where???

There’s an E-bike contingent riding San Juan tomorrow. Who wants in!?

 

Multiple choice:
___ Lick Sh!t off a Wire Brush

___ Chew on broken glass

___ Drive without AC in a van 6 hours across the desert with @DangerDirtyD's pads

___ Ride San Juan after a foot of rain with a group of e-bikers

 

They're all stupid ideas, in my not so humble opinion. Which of course is worth exactly what I'm charging.

 

Chewing on ground glass ain't so bad. It's the unground shards that get you.

 

good point - I will modify

 

I don't see a clear winner here. Trick question.

 

What makes tomorrow any different than any other day.

 

Verdugo Mountain in the morning during the fair weather window. There's plenty of snow up there and I won't have to climb forever. Assuming that I can reach Verdugo Motorway, it should be a nice cruise in the snow at 2800-3000 feet. Not too high, not too low. Hope my banged up knee is up to the task.

 

Weekend and break from rain.

 

52° Thursday. Riding the local trail at 2:00pm
55° Friday. Riding Hensley Lake about noonish.
Going to try riding two days in a row which I haven't done since my bike had training wheels. We shall see.
Looks like no more snow for a while.

 

Going to ride my local trail before the lightning storm starts at 2:00 pm.
What conducts electricity least, aluminum, titanium, or carbon ?
If I get zapped by a bolt will you hate me because I would then have an e-bike.....

 

Believe it or not, I'm doing a road ride on the gravel bike....

 

Not a bike ride but.......10" of fresh snow fell overnight in Flagstaff and its currently dumping so it's time to make my first trip to Arizona Snowbowl to RIDE my snowboard in some powder. Buying online ahead of time, I was able to get (2) days of tickets for $73.

 

Wow that is crazy cheap!

 

I was looking at their trail map a few weeks back. Looks like a fun hill for being small. The stuff you hike up could be fun.

 

Snow quality, even the fresh powder, was sub-par on the lower mountain. I was just getting ready to bail when they opened more terrain and up top was much, much better snow. I Went from leaving at 12:30 to leaving at 3:30. Today, they opened the gondola which goes even higher and I did 9 laps in the trees. Not Utah quality snow but very good. On my last lap,I followed some locals to the legal "out of bounds" area....all that green area on the far right of the trail map. I've skied or ridden 41 years and that was the longest continuous powder run I've ever been on. There was ONE other track in the 500? 1000? acres I rode. The bad part, which I didn't know, was that it dropped me on the road 3.9miles from the resort. I hitch hiked for the first time in my life.

 

lightning travels 1000 +ft to the sky, the arc travel down that path to the ground. I think you are safe because on a bike you are at least 6" above the ground. "What conducts electricity least". the paint, unless its powder coated which most commercial items are. but Silver, gold. copper, al ally, ti, carbon in order of resistivity. A lightning bolt has at least 200,000 VDC when an arc is established. So the resistance of the bike frame is inconsequential. Plus normally lightning is accompanied with rain. Pure Water is non-conductive, but rain water is not pure, and trail water is dirty. So riding in a lightning storm one must ask themselves Do You Feel Lucky?
happy trails to heaven

 

I imagine the long powder run was worth the hitching a ride.

 

I'm riding Mt. High Saturday with @tbarnesarc - who's in?

 

I will be having a farewell tour on 3 of my local trails on my SS before the gravel conversion.
This Saturday will be my neighborhood trails, Sunday will be Hensley lake, then after the next rain session it will be the flatlands.
Today I will be riding the mower and finishing the lower half of the property.

 

Not riding the Luge any time soon.

 

Looking like hero dirt!

 

ha, I rode it last sunday and almost went OTB at that mudpit. Yelled out a warning to the guy coming up fast behind me. Rest of the luge was ok-ish though, the slippery turn above that was at least quasi-doable

 

Where / what part the slippery part in the shade near the top?

 

I don't know. I pulled that from the OC MTB Facebook group.

 

I'm pretty sure I know where that is. I've slid through the brown snot there before

 

Same. Last time I rode the Luge and it took me hours to clean my bike.

That said ... good time to ride some demo's.

 

How was it up in the white stuff?

 

Spectacular!

See this post

 

@mtnbikej I have today off says Oaks is Open...
What do you think ... Mudfest or OK?

I might enter through actual park front, saw pictures of the lowland trails between Irvine Park and Chutes Climn looked like a river!

But perhaps the high one... Road Runner... Well probably gonna ride out there...

Not Up For / Time for MS - MWY.