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Urban ride.

Good day on my personal trails.

I rode the whole 28 mile loop for the first time this morning and I'm so glad I did the south side first. That trail is no effin joke. Brutal but fun as hell. I started at Tejas and went counter clockwise. Really fun ride and I saw no one outside of some hikers and a couple bikes around Cedar Breaks and Tejas. If you like 20 miles of cheese grater rock gardens and tech climbs this is the trail for you. Bring your patch kits! I didn't get any punctures and I was shocked considering how sharp some of the rocks are in the gardens.

Doesn't he like pumpkin ales? 😄

Shiner knocked it out of the park with this one!

At the Mall on the Drag

That design was specific, there are two bolts on the dropout so the large cutout at the top would allow the plate to be secured by both and prevent the piece from moving back and forth. There is another option that I am thinking about: Basically get a pair of these and use the bolt plate: Two of these plates, one from each dropout mounting and then joined together by the V at the bottom could probably do the trick. I'm gonna hit up the hardware store tomorrow and see if I can find something that might work. I could probably also double up and use four total for extra strength.

Hey Antonio, Thanks for the kind words and the feedback. Swamp Trail, ha ha, that would be a good name for it, but we just made it all part of Karaway. That area began collecting water after they cleared everything uphill while mining gravel. It is a bit of a mess, for sure. The fact that we had an inch or so of rain in that storm last week was the biggest "Swamp" factor. I have a few ideas for dealing with that trail. Building ladder bridges will be the last resort. First plan will be to try and divert hillside drainage from collecting on the trail. Second plan, if that doesn't work, is a trail building technique I've read about called a Turnpike that uses landscape fabric, small diameter Cedar, and gravel to build an elevated path that won't sink into the muck or wash away. Not sure where we'll find gravel, or the Cedar, but I'm sure something will turn up. 🙄 In the long run I expect it will be solved with a combination of all three methods. That bit with the whoop-dee-doos is probably Litterbox, and it leads into Black Trac. I was concerned folks might not like it, but feedback has been great so far. We needed the mileage and I didn't want to spend a lot of it in open prairie either. So, I used what I could find to spice it up.

I got lost a couple times on the pavement portion in Cedar Breaks trying to find the road to the dam(I went toward the boat ramp initially) and a couple other spots where I took wrong turns and had to back track. Agree on the second lap. I'll definitely do it again but just one lap. 🙂

Great, glad to hear you liked it so much. Sounds like you need to sign up for the DS this coming fall! 😉 Cheers, CJB

I finally went out to ride it. It was a little sad not having OTL and MM, but the new trails are pretty nice except for the swamp trail. Is the plan to build a massive ladder through there? I liked Lemonade and the loop before Black Track the best. The open pasture area without features is OK...a nice change of pace to let the thighs cool off a bit (rode it SS). I like the features in one of the open fields, the steep whoop-dee-doos add a nice break to what would otherwise be boring flat boring stuff. The start is still the good-ol' lung and thigh busting RHR of old. Great job on all the work out there!

Examine your tires closely. You will probably find some marks that didn't quite go through.

RHR

You must have added almost 2 mi somewhere because the full loop is just over 26 mi. I ride a lap at least once per year, and love it. Still, I would never consider a second or third lap in a single day like they do in the DragonSlayer. One lap is plenty enough punishment for me. I've also only gone clockwise. I need to try a counterclockwise lap one of these years.

High Roller II

Rode a lap today to record wheel mileage. It is up to 11.7 miles with the newest stuff. I was expecting more. Now have figured out where the guesstimating went wrong. Uno: Forgot to subtract the length of a fence line section that is bypassed by Litterbox. B: I think the mileage provided for the machine-cut section might have been from the machine's odometer. which likely included all the fiddling around it drove while building trail. Essentially, this resulted in doubling the actual trail length. It is actually 1/4 mile long. Another section running across the field and around trees was added to it for a total of 0.5 mi. for both sections, rather than the mile that had been estimated. Still, very happy with the progress. Conditions are good. A few wet spots, but nothing sticking to the tires.

This blew me away the first time I heard it. Got me looking into other nation/ethnicities "folk metal"

Something a little too avant garde, for some. Clowns make fucking great music.