Comments on: I suddenly wish I was pedaling

By: dave

dave — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:55:38 +0000

I rode alone yesterday on the Allegrippis Trail. Eastern singletrack of the very sweetest, I kid you not.

So I’m cruising along Dirt Surfer having a blast, and something goes abit wrong on the last whooptie. Yep, I ate it pretty hard. Still hurts. Bike was fine though. Checked it out before I checked myself out.

Too sore to ride, I limped out. Found the road down to the trailhead and coasted back to the car. Now I’m beating myself up for being so damned irresponsible. Hell, I didn’t even let anyone know where I was going.

Be safe out there, y’all, hear?

By: defoliant

defoliant — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:51:36 +0000

Too funny. I immediately recognized the lake in the second photo as being north of Rifle up on a plateau where I SHOULD have turned around to keep my ride down to a planned 3-4 hours. Instead, I kept going to the end of the road/trail where I THOUGHT I’d be able to follow a snowmobile trail down into a canyon and back to Rifle. Had to backtrack the way I came and never found the singletrack I sought. I had enough water for four hours but I wound up back at my friend’s house very dehydrated after a six hour ride. My wife was pissed and made me promise to find a riding partner the next time I wanted to get lost in the mountains.

By: ma

ma — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:44:53 +0000

IN the last pic…you are looking at the twisty ROAD!!! DID YOU MISS THE SICK NATURAL KICKER TO ROCK FUN TIME!!!

By: slappy

slappy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:29:15 +0000

Mustn’t miss the Gear Exchange in Glenwood SPringz,

http://thegearexchange.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post.html

yup NiRad one of the GEarX owners did a 109 mi training ride in the flat tops from the shop preparing for leadville106- the blogpost) learned later that he would have done well to train at twice the distance of the ‘event’… check ‘em out if you’re comin’ from that side and want to ride up there. Heading up coffee pot road at the east end of the glenwood canyon near Dotsero early-early is a lovely way to get atop the flatz, and having the fam and the beers out on one of the lakes sounds sniccceee

By: sommerfliesby

sommerfliesby — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:07:39 +0000

god I hate illinois. Although…I did have an awesome day trying out some new singletrack on an old singlespeed. Would have been much better 1000 miles or so west.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:54:07 +0000

I rode my bike in the woods today. I fell off and landed hard. It still hurts. Mmmm, Bourbon.

By: Baddcog

Baddcog — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:35:17 +0000

Yeah, I wasn’t sure but I thought that was up on Dunkley. The Ripple Creek Pass I mentioned starts at the bottom of Dunkley.

Look at skunk’s blog, the first pic is about the best view of the Flat tops Wilderness area you can get. All those tall peaks are the wilderness.
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@ George W. Hayduke,
Just to clarify, there is the Flattops Mountain Range (which is forest, legal to bikes on all marked trails) and there is the Flattops Wilderness Area (in the middle of the mountain range) which is the off limits to bikes area. Most of the Wilderness is really rough terrain that is mostly unrideable anyway.
But great hiking and camping are there.

I don’t condone riding in wilderness or any non-bike areas.

By: bikesgonewild

bikesgonewild — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:45:06 +0000

…wow…how i’d love to just amble along that road, through that gorgeous landscape on my cyclo-cross rig…breathing in that fresh air, letting my mind scrapbook those visions for days when the pressure of life starts crowding in…

…nice…

By: Buck

Buck — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:18:31 +0000

dat’s effin’ purdy!!

By: skunk_cabbage

skunk_cabbage — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:24:28 +0000

hey Johnny;
that’s the forest service road near the top of Dunkley Pass. it goes from the town of Yampa on the east side to Meeker on the west. as evidenced by the photo, there is no shortage of beautiful scenery. it’s less than 10 miles from where i live and i consider myself to be extremely fortunate because of this proximity.

i just hope that it never makes it to the cover of Outside Magazine.

here’s a link to my ‘blog (admittedly a blatant, self-promoting plug) which features a lot of photos of local riding and racing.

http://south-routt-velosport.blogspot.com/

all cyclists are invited to give a shout and join in our local road and mountain bike rides- and like Baddcog says, there are some epics to be had.
and as an added bonus, the vehicle traffic is almost non-existent.

By: uglyyeti

uglyyeti — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:55:10 +0000

Can we lobby to get bikes reclassified as inline wheelchairs?

By: George W. Hayduke

George W. Hayduke — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:51:42 +0000

It’s Colorado’s 2nd largest area. No roads with bikes or cars allowed in officially designated wilderness areas (no exceptions, other than wheelchairs).