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Translation: Drivers can be dumber than rocks.

Riding on the road won't be making my list of things to do. The number of variables at play are too staggering to contemplate, plus, the way that over time, as more successful rides are completed, familiarity seems to breed contempt for the risks. I won't argue about it with folks anymore. All I have to do is recall two people with whom I had long conversations about how potentially unsafe that type of riding can be. Both of them over a short span of years after our conversations are dead from separate collisions with distracted/blinded motorists while road bicycling. Everyone has to make their choices in life, you deals the cards and takes your chances. I'll wait for dry weather as I trust familiar trees, roots, and rocks significantly more than I do exposure to a high number of random (potentially deadly) people in cars that will be encountered on any given road ride.

Carbon OK?

Yeah, I completely get that. In that regard we all have to do (or not) what we feel comfortable with. And as the city has grown and cell-use has become so much more prevalent, my road appetite has changed and evolved too. Counterintuitively, I've found myself feeling much more safe riding urban 'commuting' route into town, rather than heading out past the suburbs (especially when riding solo). On big group rides that usually occur on the weekends, I'm not nearly as bothered with traffic and such. But I can get 35'ish miles and 2.5 hrs when riding from my house (near WC) south to downtown and back. And I feel reasonably safe (for me) the whole time. YMMV -CJB

I know I'll be in the minority here, but we all live in the same weather conditions, and we all want to be riding.... In short though, the roads don't get muddy. So with all this rain we've had over the past 6 months or more, I've actually 'BUILT' fitness during this time. And I've had a good time doing it. Just yesterday I had a killer ride with my youngest son. We rolled through town to one of his events (on our road bikes). I dropped him off there, and then went and did hills through Rollingwood and then 360 and such. After which I swung back by his event and picked him up so that we could ride bike home. He did close to 20 mi and I did around 42 (w/ 3.5hrs of pedaling). And if the trails are wet for a few days, I'll happily do something like that again. https://www.strava.com/activities/2105573014 Later, -CJB

Went to WC to scope out things. Worse than I thought. Point 6 was a mess and not rideable. Some of the others were rideable but instead of getting into a discussion of what you might be able to ride I recommend giving it some time to dry out this week.

New video from BKXC chronicling his time spent in Austin. He did a really nice job featuring NFB at reveillie and Eric walking the viewer through the creation of the deception trails. Overall the editing on this video is very well done and even though im not a BK regular, he's definitely taking it to the next level like Seth has done with his stuff.

I was confused till I realized that there is part of the conversation I have blocked. LOL.

Cat dries pretty fast 🙂

RPR? -CJB

I see what you did there.. funny Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

I hear these are coming back into fashion

Get to Performance Bike on South Lamar before it closes in week or two. For a new rider, at that price point, just about any bike will do the job and be fine for him for at least a year until he starts wearing stuff out or upgrading a lot. A deal at Performance (if they still have anything) will get more bike for the buck but he loses dealer support. A good local shop will help him set up the bike and stick by him with maintenance issues.

Can't argue with that. There was very little standing water, which was surprising. Looks like Burnet got less than 1/2 an inch of rain Saturday night, so in addition to RPR draining well, it got less rain than a lot of other spots in the area. Seems like they are in the process of bulldozing some new roads out there in the vicinity of several of the enduro lines. Does anybody know what they are up to? I was hoping maybe they were creating roads to make it possible to shuttle people up the enduro runs. Seems like with Spider Mtn opening (eventually, probably), RPR would be smart to capitalize on the increase in gravity riders that will be heading out that way...

im loving the wahoo kickr. Also started kickboxing and krav maga.

Me too, and loved the *healthy* lunch out there. I miss cheese burgers.

Same here. Country rides are OK, in-town rides are OK. Suburbs in the flatlands are scary. I used to ride out to Andice on Parmer/RR all the time. I totally understand those who don't want to do it on the road anymore. Half the time I get on my smart trainer instead of heading out. I also think I gain fitness when not riding on trails.

I'm glad sellers remorse doesn't come paired with buyers remorse, cuz I got none...haha.

After my near death Ducati wreck I quit riding on the street. I'll gravel all day long but no roads for me.

You riding around your hood or over @ Plugerville? There is a pump track that apparently gets no love over at Blockhouse. I bought a Sunday Model C last yr. Fun thing although I don't ride it nearly as much as I intended. And I was shocked at how exhausting it was and how sore I was after. Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

I'm 60, and still being stupid out there.

I'm enjoying it! I've spent most of my time practicing manuals. On the BMX I'm using muscles that I just didn't use very much. I hope the payoff will be better control and skills on the mountain bike.

I think I may join @tomreece and pick myself up a bmx bike to mess around with.

I dont know if he would still be attached to the bike 4 days later, but he'd probably be at home talking about how awesome of a run down that stage he had. lmao but seriously though - my honest guess is that if his foot hadn't come off the pedal mid-air, he probably wouldn't have freaked out, or lost body position or his orientation and would landed that drop and finished the stage gracefully... as a matter of fact, let me ask him directly what happened and I will update this thread with his side of the story and whether he blames the pedals or not by the way everyone: I was just being cheeky with this post but holy smokes its easy to pour gas on fires around here! long live bikemojo!