I probably would have joined you if i knew you were there, the park is 3km from my house.
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Donald Klopper <[email protected]>wrote: > So Carine cohersed me (I'm just too easy!) into joining her (and whoever > else) at the MTN bike park last night. > > They still have night-rides every Tuesday night, but it's not attracting a > lot of interest it seems. For no good reason. People just don't know any > better! > > There were two night riders at the park last night, until closing time at > 20h00. > > It was Carine. And me. > > We tried to ride most of the trails once while there was still some light > out (between 17h00 and 18h00) since it was my first time actually riding the > trails. I've walked many of them before, just after the park opened and they > didn't want to allow us to ride then due to recent rain, but Andrew McLain > allowed us to walk the trails... > > As you can see from the attached Google Earth picture, we didn't stop at > riding the trails just once... several trails were ridden over and over, > since they allowed access to other trails. We covered a total of around 26km > in 2 1/2 hours. Not bad for single track heaven! > > Sweetness. > > On some bermed trails the berms have been made high, so it whiplashes you > around when you take them just right, into another... > > Most of the drop-offs are sort-of safe with a reasonably straight landing. > I'm still such a wuss. Many of the black route trails are very steep > cambered turns, into an immediate steep down-turn changing into a short > jump... very tight, very quick, very steep. Wow. Great balance, power, > skills training. My heartrate went through the roof more than once....! > > The pump track ... oh the sweet little pump track. Who said mountain biking > wasn't a good upper-body workout? No pedalling, just pumping with your arms > and trying to keep the wheels on the ground... if you do that for 45minutes > 4 times a week ... well, suffice to say, it will be good for you! > > And even the kiddies track is fun. > > You often find yourself riding the same loop a couple of times just because > it's so much fun and if you pick a better line, it becomes sweeter to > ride... you almost don't have to pedal, just push the bike into a line, and > flow with the trail... > > The long and the short of it, is that the MTN bike park is perfectly safe > to ride at night, if you take the black routes with respect and stay off the > double black diamonds (yeah they've got those there now too)... > > *So when are we getting a combi or something and all pitch there on a > Tuesday night for some fun???* > > DeeKay > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DarkAndDirty?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
