http://dr2dc.blogspot.com/2014/07/thursday-night-trail-riding-happy-100th.html
Wow was this fun! Close to me is a great intro mountain bike trail at Wakefield Park in VA. I believe it is considered a pretty easy, or 'not to technical' trail but I'm definitely not the right person to judge that at this point. Regardless, I've been 3 or 4 times over the past year after I discovered it during an LBS's fatbike demo ride day last year. This past week I met up with a friend from work who is a very serious mountainbiker (full suspension, downhill, cross country and all that) named Jonathan. Best part about this was that aside from the great conversation I was able to follow him around the ~8 miles of trails without having to figure out where we were going all the time. Being able to concentrate on the trail was great. The other fun thing about Wakefield is that in the summer they don't close you down at sunset, if equipped with lights you can stay and ride on, so we didn't get off the trail till a bit after 9PM. It wasn't truly dark when we wrapped up but it was getting that way under the canopy in places. But on to the Riv-ish content, the bike is my oft re-imagined MB-5 pictured below. Since I've had this bike it started as a straight bar 'stock' MB-5 then morphed into a moustache bar till I realized I just couldn't get the bars up high enough for comfort about a year ago, then it became a bullmoose rig which was also a bit low on the bars than I had wanted. The frame is clearly to small for me for most applications so I started thinking about the Alba's or a Bosco and when I finally sold one of my other garage queen frames I sprung for the 55cm (cromo) bosco bars. For further bstone/riv interest the brake levers and Ritchey rubber grips came off my XO-3's M-Bars! I honestly think the bosco's are pretty awkward looking at least on this bike... maybe the bosco-bullmooses would look better. But looks aside I loved the results on the trail. I had a tremendous amount of turning leverage and felt very comfortable in the saddle. The bars did contribute to my weight being further back on the rear wheel which made me pop up the front a couple times on short, steep hills but I think I can learn to compensate for that. I was definitely the only rider I saw with a frame pump, large seat bag, 2x water bottles on the frame... not to mention the rim brakes, 'small' 2.1" tires and friction shifting! :) It was alot of fun picking my way through and around the trails that my buddy was blasting over on his full suspension bike, I know I haven't spent much time doing this kind of riding but at least so far I'm not feeling limited by my older equipment setup. I'm pretty slow anyway, and I can pick my way through the stuff I don't want to attempt for now. So a very happy Bosco customer in the offroad category here in VA! Happy riding everyone. <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-HZ6Iv7mOwYA/U8iZ7tqquCI/AAAAAAAAE5M/lF-IuRd0yUc/s1600/DSC_3973.jpg> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
