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nope not how it works at all actually. apples to oranges here. the apple being this fine piece of private property with a land owner and patrons who respect the work of the trail builder, and don't seem to mind challenging themselves, or walking what they dont feel comfortable, or just avoiding the gnarly trails they dont prefer altogether. the orange being your examples of public property and patrons (yourself) who seems to feel entitled to have the trails built around your needs, and skill level. all at the expense of someone else's labor, or just disrespecting other's hard work and changing it as you see fit whenever you please. I also ask what he would like, and try to add trails for him to enjoy as well with everyone else. but the terrain there determines the characteristics of the trail before I get to decide.. Walnut Creek type smooth flow trails will never show up there because the terrain says otherwise. I work with the land, not against it. a common misconception about cat Mtn is that its nothing but a bunch of crazy whale tails and nitro circus type shit everywhere. which isn't true at all. the overall trail system is definitely advanced and not for beginners, but there's trails there that can be enjoyed by a good variety of people.

EnduraRace is pleased to welcome TEXAS Air Conditioning & Heating as the headline sponsor for the Full Gas on Peddler's Pass time trial. Marc Cook, the owner of Texas A/C & Heating and avid MTB racer, repaired my A/C unit last year. He was honest, fast, and undercut the competition by hundred$. By the way, if you have not signed up for the race, now is the time. The race is only five weeks away! https://legacy.usacycling.org/myusac/index.php… https://www.facebook.com/Texasacandheating/

Sounds just like something and industry insider trying to get free marketing research would say......😁 I answered your damn poll.

Whip it. Whip it good.

The Ranch at Cameron Park is a private mountain bike venue adjacent to the Cameron Park trails, and open to the public: Wild Wheels: Mountain bike course gains fans among daredevils, novices

Peddlers Pass Update. Progress is moving along nicely and KOM is over the halfway point. There are about two weeks left of building. The West side of the trail is currently closed because of all the rain we've had and is predicted. Lots of damage will happen If it's ridden in its current state before the final adjustments and compacting happen. The goal was to keep the trail open as much as possible, but the weather has put a stop to that. It will lightly remain closed until building has finished. I promise you the wait will be worth it. What's been built so far is like nothing else I've ever ridden in Texas. The sectionKOM just finished from the highest point on the trail next to the entrance to the Sports Park all the way down the hill to the tight S-turn at the lowest point on the trail is amazing. Also, Northwest Construction & Remodeling inc. started work on replacing the skinny triangle bridge. It's going to be replaced with a 24' long, 4' wide bridge, with an 8' flat section on top then gently angled ramps on each end. This should stop people cutting through the creek which was causing drainage issues and keeping that area constantly wet. The 1st pic below is the start of the replacement bridge construction. The 2nd picture gives you an idea of the size of the berms been built and the number of rocks KOM is having to deal with (the berm pictured is not a finished one with the rocks removed). Even though the Westside is taped off, blocked, and signs up, people are still trying to ride it. Pass the word to stay off it.

How was everyone’s afternoon? My bro Alan, my dog 🐶 mack, and myself had a relaxing 5 hours ⛏😛

If you or your company EVER needs their "story told," Woody Harrison Films is the only choice. I love how this video shows how biking has shaped NFB's life, not the prosthesis. That's the story to be told. Kudos, Pulpwoody!

I wish I was an industry insider, you guys are easy. Every few months just add another gear and new wheel size/axle spacing. My boss, er, I mean I thank you.

I think every b-line should have an additional B line (maybe call it a C line) and then that C line have a D line, and just to make sure that EVERYONE is able to ride the trail and NOBODY EVER has to walk their bike.. and then maybe even put a little miniature concrete path next to the D line just in case the D line is still too challenging for whatever individual didnt want to get off their bike won't ever have to worry about doing so.

logorrhea is real!

Weren't we talking about one wheels?

Juan El Evan has been doing great work on the trails I ride. Absolutely, positively do not miss having the changeable front gears in the least. 1X is most liberating, as when I now see steep I don't have to think about what ring I'm on, just hit 1 button till the cadence is right. I'm sure we'll have AI shifting soon that uses MTBProject and TrailForks data to chart what gear you were in on the last ride and shift for you on all subsequent visits to that route. Not sure I'd be all that keen on it, but the Millennials will like having things like that taken care of for them.

I met him at the Yeti tent at Fruita Fat Tire Fest just a week or so before his passing. Thanks for the reminder. His site is still there http://www.anthonysloan.com/

That is awesome. You'll have it ready for entry in the Tandem class at the PP event, right?

Sweet Polly purebred. I’ve loved all my dogs, but she was special.

I thought I was done fishing for klunker parts and then I ran across this thing yesterday. 1959 Schwinn Town and Country tandem

$2500 frame, maybe. ha. Besides, you're asking the guy who will ride a Trek Y-bike for an average greenbelt ride for a nuanced take. You're not going to get nuance.

That is a nice bridge, thanks for the clarification. I've been impressed with the bridges that have been built at Brushy, and I look forward to seeing what new bridges are constructed..

Hahaha. No just a light troll. We did make that just recently on a job up the road though. We aren't making the bridges on Peddlers. That's all Ronan and another skilled craftsman. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

Holy crap, that's at Brushy?

Here is the bridge KOM just built. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

That's Joe's shop. Monkey Wrench Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

TMW

In the interest of personal curiosity and the seeming inaccuracy of existing nearby online weather stations, I've installed a LaCrosse Rainfall and Temperature Monitor at the house. This installation and expenditure of personal funds is driven by my high enthusiasm and a burning desire to witness the magic of this new device performing as soon and as often as possible so that I may share rain stats with others considering nearby Rocky Hill as a destination. (in all honesty this is a ploy so Murphy will cease the inundation in order to thwart my desire and quell my enthusiasm to see this device in action)

Mine is spinny compared to most of the ASSes I know. This topic came up a few times previously and supposedly some are riding Lake Georgetown, 4C, etc on 34x17 and such nonsense. I've ridden everything with 32/20 previously and anything I had to walk probably would have also been walked if I had a big ol cassette on there. I mostly ride SATN and Walnut on occasion. Might go to 32x21 if I plan to ride something new/ techy and if I don't have to try to keep up with the monsters who push big gears. 38x16 on my CX bike with 35mm tires for roads and gravel races. Singletrack quickly overwhelms that bike but it seems some trails too. Everytime I ride BCGB, it's with a bunch of ridiculously skilled people who I hold back or I get lost/ injured riding on my own.

Hey, look....he's building community!

Other, much more rare, options: 1) gear boxes like Pinion (not sure how many gears it has) 2) Rohloff hub (I think this would be 1x14?) 3) Would SRAMs AXS (wireless shifting) be an option? It isn't any more gears but it is a change to shifting apparatuses. 3) Rotor has a 1x13 group: https://singletrackworld.com/2018/07/are-you-ready-for-1x13-rotor-is-and-its-made-a-humongous-10-52t-cassette-too/

Carry on then brother.

What's shown is just the middle portion (see post above for bridge dimensions). What you see in the picture is us making sure the alignment is correct.

Even that berm they built after you cross under Parmer and go down the hill is awesome. I used to wash out like a boss on that flat corner trying to get speed to climb that hill, now you can bank around that berm and launch up that hill. SO awesome!

And that's not the biggest one. When I've seen some of them for them first time all I could keep saying is Holy S!@#, Holy S!@#, Holy S!@#. Especially the ones on the section I mentioned above.

I'm going to harvest the hubs, put on a coaster brake steel wheel set and move it on down the line.

One thing I’ve learned from over a decade of R&Is is show up just in case. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All of my favorite bikes have been steel bikes. I used have 2 Gunnar Rock Hounds, 1 with vbrakes I had set up as a rigid ss and the other was a disc brake geared version. Every bmx bike I've ever owned has been chromoly. My steel Serotta road bike rides like a dream. Steel is real.

Thanks for the review. 30.9 x 125mm Cascade was installed last week. Fit's perfectly on the Blur LT. The little thumb lever that comes with the shorter travel posts is fine, but I wish I had the 1x style lever. Well, I took it to last weeks R&I and the lever kept getting stuck in the down/unlocked position causing my seat to stay up unless I tried sitting on it. I had to use my thumb to pull the lever back in order for the seat to stay put. Very frustrating especially for it being my first dropper post ride. I contacted PNW about it and they had some things for me to try in order to get it fixed with the comment that if it didn't work they would just ship another one. I take a close look at the lever and realize that my KNOG Oi bike bell was installed too close and the lever was getting stuck against the bell 😛 I felt a little silly. But when I tried to adjust it to not rub I realized that the lever for the bell and the lever for the dropper were not going to work well together. I got back to PNW asking them about the possibility of swapping the 2x lever for the 1x lever that comes with the longer travel posts. They got back offering me to swap them for no cost, or...they could credit me the cost of the 1x lever towards the purchase of their upgraded lever the "Loam Lever". That basically brings the Loam Lever down from $70 to $40. That seemed like a good deal to me, so they sent me a custom coupon code and they'll send me a return shipping label for the 2X lever when they ship the other one. The guys at PNW have been super easy to deal. Looking forward to seeing what they come out with next.

I don't think the OW on trails has any more potential for problems than any other trail users does. Dog walkers, hikers, people on any sort of bicycle imaginable use these trails. If anything, those fat, flat tires will pack down loose stuff. The problem is human behavior- sanitizing trails and hogging trail space, in this case. It does not seem that OW riders are interested in sanitizing trails... for now. As the use of OW and other similar motorized vehicles (including e-bikes) beckons more and more people further into the trails, the inevitability of sanitizing draws closer. Unfortunately, education ("leave that shit alone! Walk it or ride it but don't change it!") is the best defense we have. RA, thanks for posting that thought about B-lines versus cheater lines. I never thought about it, but there's a difference between intensionally creating a shittily-designed line because one lacks the skill to ride the main line and is too lazy to walk it, and a well thought-out, secondary line to create variety and an option for less skilled riders. A good b-line can mitigate cheater lines, but we should not need them in most cases. Again, human behavior.

I forgot they did a 2-9, yeah the Superlight was a flexy bike I just didn't know any better. Had huge tire marks on the chain and seatstays.

Back in my day, we used sky hooks!

Did not know that. I didn’t listen to this album for at least 25 years and now it is in heavy rotation. Billy Gibbons doesn’t get enough credit as a guitar player.

What do you mean I'm not up to anything.

Already using it. I was so stoked to find it that I kept asking myself “...why didn’t I see that before today?” Now if we can just get people to stop falling into the trap of discussions that have no value, we’d be getting somewhere. Al - I will investigate how to be a paid supporter of this site. You provide value my man. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That would rip me off the bike the first time I ride by a tree in Peddler's Pass.

Who else could it be. 😉 I don't mean a whole new site, just another section under Mountain Biking. Mountain Biking Discussion, Ride Calls, MTB Destinations, RA's threads, etc.

How about we create a new section/forum just for this particular user, where he can post his click bait/useless threads all day long and people can chose to visit his little world if desired. He can still reply to other's threads in the 'Mountain Biking Discussions' thread though. A good chunk of his threads only include himself anyway. win/win?

One of my favorite blues tracks of all time. George Harrison steel guitar solo in the middle and ending with a phenomenal solo from Lee.

Forum name change suggestion Austin Mountainbike Forum Reunited ... aka; those Austin MFRs just thinking out loud, move along, nothing to see here

If we are making suggestions for header photos, can I offer this up? We did a TF photo shoot about 10 yrs ago and wanted to capture something 'essentially Austin' and this was one of the shots. IMHO what it captures is pretty iconic to ATX riding.

Can we have edit privileges on our contributions? Edit: I guess we can, just not on every one for some reason. Is there a time limit that can be adjusted out, to, like, forever or something? Edit: Looks like Spicewookie is a Moderator over here and can edit my posts and make me look really smart or......