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Mtbscottie
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So I'm travelling along Interstate 90 yesterday, headed to the Cleveland Air Show. I stopped at a
rest stop to get something to drink. On the way out, I noticed a Toyota pickup with a Klein hardtail
on the roof, with a Colorado license, and went over and started conversing with it's owner and his
wife. I asked where he was from in Colorado, and he stated Fort Collins. I asked him if he had ever
rode or been to Fruita. He said, "yeah, but not sure if I'll go there again". "Why is that", I
asked, "from what I've read and seen, it's like heaven there". "It's beautiful there, that's for
sure" he answered, "great trails too." I asked what turned him off. "Well, it was my first ride with
my wife, I've been trying so long to get her to ride with me. She finally agreed to, and so a month
into her riding career, we decided to head to Fruita for the weekend. I got her used to fire roads
and double track first. So Fruita was her first real shot at single track. So we were just riding
along, minding our own business, not bothering anyone. She's having some trobule staying in the
single track, veering off trail here and there, totally unintentional. Out of nowhere comes this guy
way over 6 feet tall and starts yelling at both of us for her veering off trail. My wife was in
tears, and I tried to be reasonalbe to this guy and let him know she's just starting out. He didn't
care though, it's as if he owned all the trails. He was a real jerk. So the next day we found this
shop called Over The Edge. Great group of people! They asked us how our stay was going, and we told
them about the incident. They told me this guy, who goes by the name of JD takes great pride in
maintaining and policing the trails. They apologized, and said, he does take it to far sometimes."
All the time, I'm trying my hardest to keep from breaking out in laughter! I went on to explain that
I knew who he was, and the couple was in total amazement. The wife looked at me and said, "Tell him
I said hello, and that it must be great to be a world reknown idiot!"
LOL! Loving every minute of it!
rest stop to get something to drink. On the way out, I noticed a Toyota pickup with a Klein hardtail
on the roof, with a Colorado license, and went over and started conversing with it's owner and his
wife. I asked where he was from in Colorado, and he stated Fort Collins. I asked him if he had ever
rode or been to Fruita. He said, "yeah, but not sure if I'll go there again". "Why is that", I
asked, "from what I've read and seen, it's like heaven there". "It's beautiful there, that's for
sure" he answered, "great trails too." I asked what turned him off. "Well, it was my first ride with
my wife, I've been trying so long to get her to ride with me. She finally agreed to, and so a month
into her riding career, we decided to head to Fruita for the weekend. I got her used to fire roads
and double track first. So Fruita was her first real shot at single track. So we were just riding
along, minding our own business, not bothering anyone. She's having some trobule staying in the
single track, veering off trail here and there, totally unintentional. Out of nowhere comes this guy
way over 6 feet tall and starts yelling at both of us for her veering off trail. My wife was in
tears, and I tried to be reasonalbe to this guy and let him know she's just starting out. He didn't
care though, it's as if he owned all the trails. He was a real jerk. So the next day we found this
shop called Over The Edge. Great group of people! They asked us how our stay was going, and we told
them about the incident. They told me this guy, who goes by the name of JD takes great pride in
maintaining and policing the trails. They apologized, and said, he does take it to far sometimes."
All the time, I'm trying my hardest to keep from breaking out in laughter! I went on to explain that
I knew who he was, and the couple was in total amazement. The wife looked at me and said, "Tell him
I said hello, and that it must be great to be a world reknown idiot!"
LOL! Loving every minute of it!
