any mountain bikers?

xxpinballxx · #1 (**permalink**) 01-18-07, 06:09 PM

This looks like a sweet trail. Not sure where it is but would love to ride it.
anyone else out there ride....anyone here in greater cleveland area? Pimpin, florian?

http://www.break.com/index/cool_backyard_track.html

EcSTSatic · #2 (**permalink**) 01-18-07, 06:34 PM

Sweet! looks like something from an Indiana Jones movie. You just need some pygmies shooting poison darts at you!

pimpin88 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-18-07, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xxpinballxx

This looks like a sweet trail. Not sure where it is but would love to ride it.
anyone else out there ride....anyone here in greater cleveland area? Pimpin, florian?

http://www.break.com/index/cool_backyard_track.html

Yea, I used to before I left for school. We had a lot of trails in our woods from kids riding dirt bikes and atv's so we just used them for mountain biking.

There were some sweet jumps and stuff on our trails, but that one is amazing.

xxpinballxx · #4 (**permalink**) 01-18-07, 06:48 PM

it looks like a nice challenge too....
a while back I was into trials and got pretty good at that so this course would be a nice one to get my trials legs back. Not in the shape I was back then.

Spyder · #5 (**permalink**) 01-18-07, 07:24 PM

Leaving for work right now, gonna have to go back and watch the video.

I used to ride a LOT of singletrack back in the day. Specialized fan to the core!!! Now, I can't seem to find a frame that fits my big ass.

UNCLLUIE · #6 (**permalink**) 01-18-07, 07:55 PM

Nice trail! Being a NYer, we don't have a lot here in the city. Long Island, upstate, lots of really technical stuff. Not a lot of chances to get good speed.

When I would go out to the Island to ride the trails with my Saris on top of my dearly departed Fleetwood, there was someone with a SDV with a Saris in the lot a bunch of times. Never got to meet, but you gotta respect someone with the best rack on a hot Caddy, no?

xxpinballxx · #7 (**permalink**) 01-19-07, 11:11 AM

we have some trails here in ohio but nothing like this....at least not that i know of. I might look into them this spring.

HITMONEY · #8 (**permalink**) 01-19-07, 05:25 PM

Yup I ride.. not too many hills here in florida,but where I live at the beach it is awesome. Plenty of condos under construction, lots of second floor slabs you can ride off of, huge dirt mounds, parking garages... Beach riding is cool as well but I mainly freestyle (curbs, stairs, condos, embankments, etc) on a full suspension K2.

I have a pretty funny blog up on my myspace from when I got my first mountain bike, a TREK. It is titled... "Ass Raped By Mountainbike"

~

http://www.myspace.com/hitmoney

The video of that track is sick!... I would love to ride that! (and live)

FL01SS · #9 (**permalink**) 01-19-07, 05:43 PM

I haven't been on my bike in over a year! I use to be pretty heavy into single track before I got married. I lived about a 40 minute ride from the Olympic Horse Park outside of Conyers, GA & they had some pretty good trails out around there. I was stationed on Oahu & there was all sorts of good riding out there too. I've got an older GT (it's a '97 I think, before they sold out to Wal-Mart) with a newer shimano set up & a Marzocchi fork.

roadracerx72 · #10 (**permalink**) 01-19-07, 06:42 PM

Like someone else said on youtube, I would have hit the first jump and then the first tree. I use to be an avid mountain bike racer in the 90's. I raced with John Tomac and Ned Overend. I still love Julie Furtado. I have a bike but dont ride that much. I do alot more road stuff now. I think if I lived in a more mountain bike friendly area, I would ride alot more. Love that video. That was some scary stuff. Thanks.

xxpinballxx · #11 (**permalink**) 01-20-07, 12:22 AM

my dream trip would be to Moab, Utah. Best place to ride mountain bikes.....some crazy riding if you got the balls.

Spyder · #12 (**permalink**) 01-20-07, 03:07 AM

Bidwell Park in Chico, CA is where I grew up riding. Minutes from Sierra Nevada Brewery. The original Sherwood Forest from the old black and white Robin Hood movie. It's always been rated way up there in the rankings of all the magazines and such. Moab would be incredible though...

FL01SS · #13 (**permalink**) 01-20-07, 09:11 AM

Moab would be awsome for sure. I always planned on going with the guys I rode with back, but we never got around to it & now I out of shape & lazy!!!

xxpinballxx · #14 (**permalink**) 01-20-07, 06:53 PM

same here Fl01ss...had a good group of guys and we all were rally into riding but time went by and no on ever took the initiative to set a trip up out there.

FL01SS · #15 (**permalink**) 01-20-07, 07:38 PM

I grew up in Iowa & there was a ride sponsored by the Des Moines Register every year called RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa) My friends & I went on it a few times when we were in high school. It was a great time. It was a week long ride from the Missouri River on the West coast of Iowa to the Mississippi on the East. What a blast! Thousands of bikers riding all day, then ya pull into a little town, set up camp & party all night & get up the next day & do it all over again. Ahhh the Beer Garden. That was the roped off area in the middle of town where you were permitted to get completely smashed and do what ever. It was kinda like a week long Mardi Grai moving across the state on 2 wheels.