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Oh wait ..... this is the Brushy Creek thread! Glorious 1.5 hour lunch ride today. No douchebag encounters that I can recall, but I don't recall much these days. I do recall hitting Rim, PicnicX, Picnic, 1/4, and DD. None of it was too wet to ride, but needs a little more drying time to reach optimal conditions. Couple of inches of water still running through Dave's Ditch. Will definitely be back out tomorrow before we get another round of rain on Wed.

Lunch date with Emma and the boys!

since I usually have walkers pass me, it's generally not been and issue 🙂 "Walker up"

Update Have multiple rides on this airliner and can say it's well worth the money and time. Totally calmed the back of this twitchy bike down and made these uber-harsh enve wagon wheels bearable. Was tinkering with volume reducers/pressure on the EVOL shock before the insert to no avail. Now it's back to stock and is just right. Probably gonna buy another airliner for the wife's bike. So far, no leaks, wobbles, valvestem issues, and the 150 gram penalty is worth the confidence of having a more stable ride.

go ride Dana Peak at lake Stillhouse, its a blast: https://www.trailforks.com/region/dana-peak-park/

Wife and I ended up going to RHR and was able to get in around 17mies. Trail conditions were great and we only saw one guy on the trail and maybe 4-5 others on the greys highway fire road. Perfect weather to be out there.

Building 9:00am Saturday on the new trail (the temp trail name is Bob Ross). Bring rakes, shovels, pickaxes, buckets, gloves, and water.

We were there a few weeks ago and the guy checking people in at the pavilion recommended that we park at the shooting range. Worked great for us that day, but on a subsequent visit we tried to do the same thing and the range was closed. Fortunately, someone from RPR was doing some work down by the jump lines and saw us as we were turning around to go back to the main parking area. He let us park in the open space inside the RPR fence, but I don't think that's going to be a permanent option. We talked to a woman at the range and she told us that they had plans to make it possible for riders to check in at the range so you wouldn't have to make a stop at the pavilion. I'm not sure about the timeframe, but it sounds like they are trying to implement some changes that will make things better for the mountain bikers - especially those that want to concentrate their riding on the jump lines.

I'm a paramedic so it's a nearly everyday thing. Wife and I went hiking on NY day for our first First Hike. Cameron Park wasn't that bad. A lot of puddle on the low trail but that was it. I went riding yesterday there and the upper trails are good. Still a little damp and there is a lot of leaves on the ground. So much so that a couple of times I couldn't tell the trail from the non-trail. I ended the year with a big crash so I'm working on slowly getting my confidence back. Yesterday was good.

Don’t get too fast so I can keep up 😅

whitewalls...phht

That kind of chit will catch up to your azz.

It's a different kind of interaction than it is in urban and suburban area, and maybe had something to do with the region (east Texas) as well. I grew up in Phelps (East of Huntsville), and have also lived in Oakhust/ Point Blank, as well as Trinity, and generally the farmers and ranchers themselves are great, usually the nicest people you'll meet anywhere... but those same areas are also full of "white trash", methy types, as well as an obnoxious younger generation. I've had trash thrown at me (including bear bottles), spitting tobacco at me, vehicles trying to run me off the road, diesel pickups that will pass, slow down, then floor it, leaving me in a cloud of black smoke, etc... mostly because they think it's funny, not because of any perceived inconvenience (as would be in suburb and metro areas). This wasn't just road biking, either; as a kid I would ride my BMX bike from Phelps to Huntsville on FM roads in the summers, several time a week, to visit my friends in town... every ride was an adventure. On my commutes to Austin, Jollyville road was the worst, even with the bike lane; no one respected it, and I've had box trucks come within an inch of my handlebars. My last couple of years commuting here I hung the road bike and rode my MTB along 183 instead, riding sidewalks, the foot paths worn along curbs, and parking lots, and I actually cut about 10 minutes off my commute doing that instead of navigating back streets. On my return I would cut through the double track trails that used to be between Avery Ranch and 183, dropping down what is now called "Dave's Ditch" (this was pre-Deception). The nice thing about trails, is that you have the opportunity to be nice to people and interact with them, helping shape their attitudes toward bikes, unlike riding on the road.

Definitely worse near metro areas, but that's what makes South Mountain Park in Phoenix such an anomaly, and it also seems to have the highest hiker density compared to other metro parks I've visted. Brushy is its own phenomenon, which I attribute to it's proximity and immediate accessibility to so many surrounding neighborhoods, and the fact that it's the only convenient option for the northern communities. No doubt, I used to commute from Leander to Mopac/Steck on my road bike, but that commute is what drove me to get off the road completely, it just isn't worth it. With that said, I also had a few problems in rural areas too; rednecks can be real pricks (coming from someone who grew up rural).

Might have been the glove box, not the radio. I was a mere twinkle in my father's eye when he was terrorizing the streets of Austin with a firework armed VW Bug.

Applies to road cycling as well.

Yeah, I don't know why there is such a regional difference in hiker attitudes, out there but AZ hikers have overall always been really cool, even in groups (there's a group in one of my videos where they were clapping and cheering me on), but conversely in some places like CO, people do not want you on the trails, and the tension is palpable. This is especially true on trails close to Denver, like Apex Park and Dakota Ridge, and to some extent, even here. CO hikers just don't want bikes on "their" trails, period, whereas here it just seems to be more about the inconvenience of having to deal with us.

Cameron Park is fifteen minutes away from where I live. It does have an extensive network of trails. I recommend a good map like trailforks to get around. Trails range from green to double black. It's all up and down, barely any level. It mostly feels up. I rode yesterday for 2.9 miles and had 358 feet elevation. Good trails, I highly recommend them.

Not something that I'll be looking for in the future but worth trying. If you like Saisson you will probably like this beer.

Pretty good first album and Joe Perry.

I have far less experience than it sounds X has but I'm pretty happy so far. It helps that the frame wasn't in good shape to begin with.

Upper rim. GTG Rim to DD connector. Just barely Rideable and needs more time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m about to saddle up and pedal to brushy from my house. I’ll reply to your Twitter for better visibility. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Finally got my cheap Chinese 24” disc wheelset in today from Ali express and was pleasantly surprised in what I got! Sealed bearing hubs with what feels like a decent amount of engagement. I haven’t put them on the truing stand yet, but to the casual spin seem reasonably true. And i might be wrong but I think I can make them tubeless easily. After I take the kids for a ride tomorrow morning I’ll start stripping down my daughter’s bike and building it up with the good stuff! Hope to have some pictures up of the build by Monday evening.

1/2/2021 Talked to a family on Rudolph today at 2 pm. Tall guy with a vandyke beard, woman, and baby in a stroller. Discussed our problem. He said he runs that trail all the time. "I'll keep an eye out." I go up the trail and find three blockages. Not that they did it, but interesting that they didn't clear those easy to clear things. But I know that hikers rarely do any sort of trail maintenance at all.

I've had this album on rotation. Really good. This song sounds a bit like if you crossed Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.

So many choices

I designed and printed a few cable guides for my dropper. Routing is pretty limited on this bike so the guides are needed to keep it out of the suspension, rear tire and pedals. Testing two styles, hopefully tonight if the weather holds up.