"Carla A-G" <
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> Guess you missed the whole point. The trails are like thick soup right
now.
> I'd rather ride the trainer (and watch tv or listen to music at the same time) than to go out and
> do damage to the trails I love by riding in the mud. The trails have to be given a chance to
> recover from this relatively harsh winter we have been having. Its called using some common sense.
> We did, however, go out for a trials session last night, the weather finally settled a bit.
>
> And I am not a weirdo...
>
> - CA-G
>
> Canadian Girls Kick Ass!
Sorry, didn't know about the mud and the winter. I take back the weirdo. Down Here we are in the
midst of one of the worst droughts on record, so I've actually forgotten what mud looks like. Our
trails are so hard baked by sun that you could do donoughts in a tank and wouldn't scratch the
surface. I appreciate you not riding in the mud, too many doing that gives mtn bikers a bad name.
Though I do confess to riding in the rain once, it was a trail I'd travelled over 200Kms to get to,
and then it chose to rain, and since this trail is an unknown, almost never used trail in a tiny
outback town (1100 population) the damage done by our bikes (the only ones the trail had seen in a
long time - in fact I suspect the only ones on the trail since the last trip WE made there) would be
pretty minor, and quickly repaired by nature itself, especially as the trail in question was
actually a fire trail for fire vehicles, that was marked and mapped and sign posted for bike riders.
And having travelled so damned far to ride the trail, I wasn't going to turn back unless I felt it
would harm the trail, and I seriously doubt in the situation that it would, but we did check with
the trail manager first.
Mind you the whole idea of riding on a trainer fascinates me, I really want to try that some day to
see how the balance etc works when the bike isn't actually moving.
It's like the plan I've heard some person has to build a MASSIVE, and I mean MASSIVE disk TILTED on
a huge hill, and motorise this disk so that it rotates, and get people to pay to ride "down" the
upward moving side of the disk so that they have a never ending downhill ride. And if they do ride
faster than the disk then they get carried back to the top on the other side of the disk. This idea
intriques me, as in theory the bike isn't actually moving, so do the technicalities change re.
balance, etc. And what happens when you go over the jumps etc, the bump is actually passing up under
you, you aren't actually moving, so do you get much air, etc. etc. Also how does moving from the
inner circle to the outer circle affect the ride, because the outside of a disk moves faster than
the inside of the disk, so the speed the ground is moving underneath you would change, so your speed
would need to change, and the only way to do that might actually be to PEDAL down the hill. In the
winter he intends to make it a never ending downhill ski slope as well. But I suspect the cost to
build this thing would make it VERY VERY expensive to ride on, and I know one won't be built near
me, as we have irregular winters, and WAY WAY WAY TOO SMALL a population of bikers who'd ever
consider paying for riding.
Trentus
