In 28 years of riding and racing I’ve pretty much ridden every kind of trail imaginable: ledgy limestone, chunky granite, desert sand, gnarly roots, soft loam. In terms of mountain biking, there isn’t much I haven’t seen.
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Mountain biking
Tour de Arkansas Hills
GoPro Bro
To this point in my life, I’ve resisted the temptation to buy a GoPro. Several reasons.
Continue readingThe age-old dance
Mid-November. Still too early to ski. And while the higher-altitude trails are beginning to be snowed in, here in town the riding is great.
Continue readingHomecoming
The town I grew up in, Cañon City, is on the Front Range about an hour east of Salida. It’s 60 twisting, turning miles down the Arkansas River through Big Horn Sheep canyon. Growing up, we called this stretch of Highway 50 “the River Road”.
Continue readingMonarch Crest 2023
So there I was, just riding along, nearing the end of my local Tuesday morning ride, not unlike hundreds of other morning rides I’ve done since moving to Salida. Being the middle of the week, there weren’t a lot of people out and I had the trails mostly to myself.
Continue readingStarvation Creek Feast
It’s a testament to the quantity of trails around here that after riding 3 – 4 times a week most every week for three years straight there are still trails I haven’t explored. I’m a lucky man. One of those unexplored trails is Starvation Creek.
Continue readingFIBArk 2023
Double wide style
Once upon a time, around 1994 or so, back when I started mountain biking, anyone who rode a mountain bike, rode a bike with 26-inch diameter wheels.
Continue readingWheelie
Ok, so it’s been a few months of skiing posts and I’m sure some of you are thinking hey, what about bikes? Well, here you go. The mad Scotsman, Danny MacAskill is at it again with a short film dedicated to the wheelie. This time he’s asked a bunch of others, including the legendary Hans Rey to join him.