RR: Short Steep Siglespeeding Singletrack

Ride-A-Lot said:

What was originally planned as a road ride became an MTB ride after
Mike D. tells me that we should ride a new double secret hidden park in
Burlington County. The fact that it was five minutes from my door
didn't hurt, either. OK, I said and I'll bring the singlespeed. After
all, it is southern New Jersey. He laughs and tells me that I
better bring two bikes. Yeh right. Sure. I show up at the double secret
hidden park with just the singlespeed and say to myself that I never
remember seeing a hill here before. I pass this area on my road bike
almost ever day and never think twice about it. Who knew there were
even trails? Well, there are.

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0620.jpg

And lots of log overs, including a great big nasty one you'll see
later on.
http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0621.jpg

And the surprise of the day, hills in Burlington County!

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0623.jpg

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0625.jpg

There's not a lot of acreage in this park, but the amount of short
steep climbs, logovers, and off camber roots provided one of the
hardest workouts I had in a long time. It made me wish I hadn't brought
the
singespeed. The pain was excrutiating after every climb. That said,
there were still smiles at the top of every hill.

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0628.jpg

Of course what goes up must come down. There are plenty of steep
downhills. The exposed roots and even an odd rock give it some
technical spots. This is way steeper than it looks.

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0629.jpg

Unfortunately this park is so compact, the downs are short lived and
lead right back to short steep climbing. Before going up the next
climb, there is a log over that I hit at a pretty good clip. When I
come off it, I'm doing a rolling wheelie on the front wheel for 10
feet. I don't think I'll ever be able to do that again, even with
trying. Fortunately I save myself from an endo this time. Yeh, I
walked this one. 16/34 was not the ratio for me and this.

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0630.jpg

After reach the top again, we choose the drop off chute. Well, Mike
tells me there's a drop off. So I send him down with the camera and
when he's set for the pic, I head down. OK, I'm thinking maybe a
little 6" sand ledge or something. Coming down the hill, I see a
small little log as he screams drop. I say to myself it's just a little
log over
and prepare to lift my front wheel and then the back at full speed
over theflat part of this (at least what I saw):

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0636.jpg

I lift the front wheel up and over, then the back goes up but the
front hasn't come down yet. Oh no, something is about to go terribly
wrong. What happened to my little log over.

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0635.jpg

Of course the air fork I have on this has the rebound set to orbit
mode. The fork hits, compresses, and then like a road runner
cartoon, Wylie Coyote (me) is sprung 7' in the air. It was almost
like a high diver as I do a full flip to a side face plant. Thank you
helmet for doing
your job. Of course, Mike misses the picture and takes the aftermath
of my face.
http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0633.jpg

After recovering, I call uncle and we head out.

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0637.jpg

An hour here is definately an extreme workout for a weekday evening. I was
more beat up after this than the 26 mile ride on Sunday. I'll be
back but with more gears and more suspension plus the knowledge of
where to do a wheelie drop!

Looks like a fun trail. I spent all day Sunday working on my kitchen
cabinet doors......
So when are you coming back out my way? (no, anaheim doesn't count).

Gary(not crazy about the blog format)

GeeDubb wrote:
<snip>

Quoted message said:

Looks like a fun trail. I spent all day Sunday working on my kitchen
cabinet doors......

Just like you, it's nice to have a trail right out your front door.
Only I just found out about this one today and I'm keeping it a secret.
It's mine... mine... all mine!

Quoted message said:

So when are you coming back out my way? (no, anaheim doesn't count).

I'm still deciding if I should do the Gartner trip (Orlando) or the CIO
trip (Scottsdale) in November again. I'm leaning towards CIO. I might
be out sooner if I have to take my MIL to the Arizona Cancer Center
(best BC doctor in the world is there), but I'm hoping it's nothing and
that I don't. I've got a big travel summer coming up with La Jolla in
June (bike is coming with me), Vail in July (bike tagging along again),
Idaho (more biking) in July, and 24 Hours of Allamuchy in September. I
already had to buy a new living room to keep the wife happy. The pool
will keep the kids busy. If you are going to AMB-ID, I am going to try
and ride up the path to visit you guys on the last day you are there
(the day I arrive, I think).

Quoted message said:

Gary(not crazy about the blog format)

The blog is easy for me to keep updated. I used to have to Dreamweaver
each page and I hate programming! What don't you like about it? I can
tweak some things.

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Ride-A-Lot said:

GeeDubb wrote:
<snip>

Quoted message said:

Looks like a fun trail. I spent all day Sunday working on my kitchen
cabinet doors......

Just like you, it's nice to have a trail right out your front door.
Only I just found out about this one today and I'm keeping it a
secret. It's mine... mine... all mine!

Quoted message said:

So when are you coming back out my way? (no, anaheim doesn't count).

I'm still deciding if I should do the Gartner trip (Orlando) or the
CIO trip (Scottsdale) in November again. I'm leaning towards CIO. I
might be out sooner if I have to take my MIL to the Arizona Cancer
Center (best BC doctor in the world is there), but I'm hoping it's
nothing and that I don't. I've got a big travel summer coming up
with La Jolla in June (bike is coming with me), Vail in July (bike
tagging along again), Idaho (more biking) in July, and 24 Hours of
Allamuchy in September. I already had to buy a new living room to
keep the wife happy. The pool will keep the kids busy. If you are
going to AMB-ID, I am going to try and ride up the path to visit you
guys on the last day you are there (the day I arrive, I think).

Hope all turns out well with your MIL. I might be in Idaho longer than the
last day of the scheduled AMB-Idaho event. It's an awfully long trip to
spend just a few days there so I might as well drag it out a bit. So I
might try to weasel my way into your adventure in Idaho <g>. I'm still
trying to figure out what to do with the wife and kids while I'm out riding.

Scottsdale in November sounds good. We can hit McDowell Park as it's a lot
harder to get lost there..........

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Gary(not crazy about the blog format)

The blog is easy for me to keep updated. I used to have to
Dreamweaver each page and I hate programming! What don't you like
about it? I can tweak some things.

re the blog format in your post in that one has to switch back and forth
between news reader and web page. I'm easily confused and loose track of
where I'm at. A normal blog has pix in place so it's a little easier to
read. I was having a onry moment when I wrote that. I had just spent two
hours installing a new printer and nothing went wrong. It just took forever
as my computer has seriously bogged down since updating to Norton 2005 and
for some reason the new print driver and other stuff with it changed all my
settings. A 2.3 Ghz processor running at the speed of a
snail.....aarrrrggghhhh.
Any insight as to what I can do to speed things up?

Gary (technically challenged)

GeeDubb said:

Ride-A-Lot said:

GeeDubb wrote:
<snip>

Quoted message said:

Looks like a fun trail. I spent all day Sunday working on my kitchen
cabinet doors......

Just like you, it's nice to have a trail right out your front door.
Only I just found out about this one today and I'm keeping it a
secret. It's mine... mine... all mine!

Quoted message said:

So when are you coming back out my way? (no, anaheim doesn't count).

I'm still deciding if I should do the Gartner trip (Orlando) or the
CIO trip (Scottsdale) in November again. I'm leaning towards CIO. I
might be out sooner if I have to take my MIL to the Arizona Cancer
Center (best BC doctor in the world is there), but I'm hoping it's
nothing and that I don't. I've got a big travel summer coming up
with La Jolla in June (bike is coming with me), Vail in July (bike
tagging along again), Idaho (more biking) in July, and 24 Hours of
Allamuchy in September. I already had to buy a new living room to
keep the wife happy. The pool will keep the kids busy. If you are
going to AMB-ID, I am going to try and ride up the path to visit you
guys on the last day you are there (the day I arrive, I think).

Hope all turns out well with your MIL. I might be in Idaho longer than the
last day of the scheduled AMB-Idaho event. It's an awfully long trip to
spend just a few days there so I might as well drag it out a bit. So I
might try to weasel my way into your adventure in Idaho <g>. I'm still
trying to figure out what to do with the wife and kids while I'm out riding.

You are more than welcome to join us and we'd love the western company.
I'll give you the address of the house in Ketchum once we finalize the
plans. We'll be there 8/13 - 8/20. Just give the kids and wife lots of
$$$ to go shopping in Sun Valley 🙂.

Quoted message said:

Scottsdale in November sounds good. We can hit McDowell Park as it's a lot
harder to get lost there..........

And I'll bring the Titus this time. At least the design doesn't cause
the cables to get stuck on the seatpost clamp like that K2 thing I was
riding.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Gary(not crazy about the blog format)

The blog is easy for me to keep updated. I used to have to
Dreamweaver each page and I hate programming! What don't you like
about it? I can tweak some things.

re the blog format in your post in that one has to switch back and forth
between news reader and web page. I'm easily confused and loose track of
where I'm at. A normal blog has pix in place so it's a little easier to
read. I was having a onry moment when I wrote that. I had just spent two
hours installing a new printer and nothing went wrong. It just took forever
as my computer has seriously bogged down since updating to Norton 2005 and
for some reason the new print driver and other stuff with it changed all my
settings. A 2.3 Ghz processor running at the speed of a
snail.....aarrrrggghhhh.
Any insight as to what I can do to speed things up?

Gary (technically challenged)

Ah! If you want the inline photos with the story, then just read it on
my website (www.schnauzers.ws). I post it that way in the NG so that
people snip and reply to specific parts if they want. Otherwise, you'd
lose the thread. I don't think we can put inline picture HTML in NG
posts since it strips the HTM, or so I thought.

As for your computer, I stopped using Norton years ago. I found it did
more damage than it was supposed to prevent. I use Trend Micro now.

Open up the task manager and look at the processes. If there is
anything running at more than 3% (other than idle processes), let me
know. I'll bet the Norton is having a field day with the printer drive.
Shut Norton down (temporarily) and see if that cures the lag.

--
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www.schnauzers.ws

"Ride-A-Lot" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What was originally planned as a road ride became an MTB ride after Mike
D. tells me that we should ride a new double secret hidden park in
Burlington County. The fact that it was five minutes from my door didn't
hurt, either. OK, I said and I'll bring the singlespeed. After all, it
is southern New Jersey. He laughs and tells me that I better bring two
bikes. Yeh right. Sure. I show up at the double secret hidden park with
just the singlespeed and say to myself that I never remember seeing a hill
here before. I pass this area on my road bike almost ever day and never
think twice about it. Who knew there were even trails? Well, there are.>
After recovering, I call uncle and we head out.

http://www.schnauzers.ws/public/images_upload/IMG_0637.jpg

An hour here is definately an extreme workout for a weekday evening. I
was more beat up after this than the 26 mile ride on Sunday. I'll be back
but with more gears and more suspension plus the knowledge of where to do
a wheelie drop!

--
o-o-o-o Ride-A-Lot o-o-o-o
www.schnauzers.ws

Nice RR. a butt kick now and then is good for the soul...

And if we can hook up in SV or thereabouts, that would be awesome.

CDB

Ride-A-Lot said:

As for your computer, I stopped using Norton years ago. I found it
did more damage than it was supposed to prevent. I use Trend Micro
now.
Open up the task manager and look at the processes. If there is
anything running at more than 3% (other than idle processes), let me
know. I'll bet the Norton is having a field day with the printer
drive. Shut Norton down (temporarily) and see if that cures the lag.

Two, sometimes three things are running. Taskmgr.exe bouncing from 2 to 5%,
lsass.exe on and off at 2-4% and the rest taken up by system idle process.

I'll see what happens when I open up programs with the taskmanager open.
Just seems really slow.

Thanks,

Gary

You got great pics and you got out and rode your bike.
So they want to [censored] about your format. Did they ride
today,yesterday,daybefore, daybefore that,or even the daybefore that
one. Work out I know what you mean. Just for fun I get out on
Sunday afternoons after the two grand monster rugrats are gone home and
I clean up their mess they leave behind. And I ride my Gazelle Sport
Primcur 3 speed around town up every hill and never even leave the
saddle or think about walking up a hill. There isn't no mountain high
enough to keep me from pedaling.

GeeDubb said:

Ride-A-Lot said:

As for your computer, I stopped using Norton years ago. I found it
did more damage than it was supposed to prevent. I use Trend Micro
now.
Open up the task manager and look at the processes. If there is
anything running at more than 3% (other than idle processes), let me
know. I'll bet the Norton is having a field day with the printer
drive. Shut Norton down (temporarily) and see if that cures the lag.

Two, sometimes three things are running. Taskmgr.exe bouncing from 2 to 5%,
lsass.exe on and off at 2-4% and the rest taken up by system idle process.

I'll see what happens when I open up programs with the taskmanager open.
Just seems really slow.

Thanks,

Gary

Looks like the CIO conference is 11/6 - 11/8 at the Wild Horse Pass
resort. Sucks! I've stayed there before and it's in the middle of the
Gila reservation. I'll have to drive pretty far to get to anything.
I'll probably come out a few days early and stay with my SIL so I can
ride with you and take a day to go to Sedona, which you are welcomed to
join me.

--
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www.schnauzers.ws

Quoted message said:

There isn't no mountain
high enough to keep me from pedaling.

You've obviously never ridden in Colorado......

Gary

Ride-A-Lot said:

GeeDubb said:

Ride-A-Lot said:

As for your computer, I stopped using Norton years ago. I found it
did more damage than it was supposed to prevent. I use Trend Micro
now.
Open up the task manager and look at the processes. If there is
anything running at more than 3% (other than idle processes), let me
know. I'll bet the Norton is having a field day with the printer
drive. Shut Norton down (temporarily) and see if that cures the lag.

Two, sometimes three things are running. Taskmgr.exe bouncing from
2 to 5%, lsass.exe on and off at 2-4% and the rest taken up by
system idle process. I'll see what happens when I open up programs with
the taskmanager
open. Just seems really slow.

Thanks,

Gary

Looks like the CIO conference is 11/6 - 11/8 at the Wild Horse Pass
resort. Sucks! I've stayed there before and it's in the middle of
the Gila reservation. I'll have to drive pretty far to get to
anything. I'll probably come out a few days early and stay with my
SIL so I can ride with you and take a day to go to Sedona, which you
are welcomed to join me.

You're kidding. WHP is less than 10 minutes from the east access to South
Mountain Park and all the riding you ever wanted to do!

Keep me up to date on travel itenerary. Sedona sounds good.

Gary

GeeDubb said:

Ride-A-Lot said:

GeeDubb said:

Ride-A-Lot wrote:

>As for your computer, I stopped using Norton years ago. I found it
>did more damage than it was supposed to prevent. I use Trend Micro
>now.
>Open up the task manager and look at the processes. If there is
>anything running at more than 3% (other than idle processes), let me
>know. I'll bet the Norton is having a field day with the printer
>drive. Shut Norton down (temporarily) and see if that cures the lag.

Two, sometimes three things are running. Taskmgr.exe bouncing from
2 to 5%, lsass.exe on and off at 2-4% and the rest taken up by
system idle process. I'll see what happens when I open up programs with
the taskmanager
open. Just seems really slow.

Thanks,

Gary

Looks like the CIO conference is 11/6 - 11/8 at the Wild Horse Pass
resort. Sucks! I've stayed there before and it's in the middle of
the Gila reservation. I'll have to drive pretty far to get to
anything. I'll probably come out a few days early and stay with my
SIL so I can ride with you and take a day to go to Sedona, which you
are welcomed to join me.

You're kidding. WHP is less than 10 minutes from the east access to South
Mountain Park and all the riding you ever wanted to do!

Keep me up to date on travel itenerary. Sedona sounds good.

Gary

Wow. It seemed like the middle of nothing the last time I was there.
Cool! I'll keep you updated.

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