skinned elbows

We actually met Shredded Elbows or some such - I think he has been posting on here. He had rather unfortunately boarded Barry's 'Express Monorail to Nowhere' and had gotten dropped pretty quickly. Oh, well - you missed the after-party, Elbows!

Same here. We've had absolutely zero interruption of any utilities throughout this mess. Feel lucky but at the same time kind of guilty given what others have had to deal with. My biggest dilemma right now is finding milk! Had to resort to Almond Milk - so will see how well that goes with my cereal in the morning.  

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I've been waiting to see the results.  4 hours 26 minutes running.  Impressive.
https://results.raceroster.com/en-US/results/g2ryn7k3vnx9btr2

I dropped my bike off the other day to get the service done I had a coupon for when I bought the bike from bss...a stumpy..they still honored it... having them replace my whole drivetrain shifter and derailleur. You can walk into the shop and what's good is they're not busy right now since just opened ..Should have bike back by end of week.

I was dealing with Jake who had been there with bss, he was helpful and brought to my attention I have a big ass and needed a wider seat ....never thought I would of needed to measure my ass bones before.

I always felt like I needed to adjust my self when riding so hopefully it will help.

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The Round Rock

Haha I was just laughing about how we have to use drainage ditches for our sledding hill...dusted off the snowboard and made a nice size tx snowman

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There is a foot race happening on Jan 30 just fyi in case anyone plans on going out there, it might be little crowded with marathoners so another day may be better

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Went to snail today, its been awhile and man it's looking awesome out there..good work guys I appreciate it.


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This is my experience as well.  I've had some HS kids going the opposite way dart across the center to try to scare me.  I stopped, they stopped, I called them back to me making a "diamond" shape with my hands.  They kept on moving.

I have a redneck buddy that likes to throttle his diesel and blanket black smoke on Roadies... I call him out for being an assshole but he finds it Amusing and just chuckles to himself

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I've only had someone get uppity with me once on goodwater loop when it was crowded with hikers and she was in a big group and thought my slow ass was going to fast by them ...I tried to give them fair warning but people get confused on where to get out of the way...I told them to pick a spot and stay...maybe she didn't like that ...I ordered me a timberjack bell after that but still hasn't showed due to usps complications

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Of all the chunk and trail on goodwater loop the worst part for me, in more ways than one, is the final road climb to cedar breaks after dam...very anticlimactic and I despise long gradual road climbs

Edit: im not a road biker so not sure if that even fits into category of long gradual road climb but it felt like one...

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I'm pretty horrible at manuals on my mtb but I was sessioning the pump track and used my brothers 24" and felt like a new manualling man...until I manualed to my back off a jump and have some skinned elbow scars from it ...I haven't tried much since ..

Track stands I feel would be pretty helpful but its not just stands but coming from a stop to dynamic movement that's the hard part for me on the trail

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even tho it's Christmas I'm calling bs on this one. There is no way in hell. Nut is pg13, Jorge is xxx.

I've probably done north of 800 laps at City Park, maybe a thousand. Done a few dozen under an hour, but not by much (0:59 is under an hour...). Generally trying to hit a time on that trail can be a big mistake. The older I get the more I appreciate the ride, and, being able to ride for the next 8 weeks because I am not in a cast.
I've done Thumper a lot, but I walk more of Thumper than City Park. I walk City park mostly out of the danger element (to me) and walk Thumper because of the physical challenge. The sharp ups and downs are more difficult to me, CP has more gradual climbs and drops. Ultimately in Austin, 100ft of elevation per mile is the standard based on my riding. The greenbelt is ~100, Walnut Creek is ~70-80, Lakeway is ~120. Elevation can have a big impact on overall challenge.
Also, watch who you call old. While I'm not the best rider, I regularly smoke 20 year olds on trails for a variety of reasons. Don't ever assume that the old guy can't ride as well as the kids. In many cases, because they've ridden those trails and features hundreds of times they can do a better job of clearing things than the young kids.
Ultimately challenge is what you make of it. You can make Walnut Creek pretty harder (for instance trying to ride up Endo Valley). Most trails have an easy way and a hard way. If you want to challenge yourself try riding trails and features in a different direction. Just don't do that at City Park because that one is a one-way trail.

You sound like you’re a youngster - go ride em both, and post back up. Learning by doing!

Pull off a sub one hour lap of City Park and get back to us! Then we shall show you Thumper.

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Rad was a Great flick...

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Some trails in the area vary quite a bit in difficulty over many miles, so the scale doesn't make much sense.

So how about what you think is the most difficult section of trail that is around 1-7mile range?

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Cool river...or cougar river ...

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I don't have near as much experience or have ridden all the trails around here as most of yall so I'll use double down as a base line.

I guess it's hard to break down between trail system and individual trail segments but ill just lump together for mine....

The three hardest for me have been:

1. Double down/inception

2. City park but overall I think double down tougher but city has some tougher individual

3. Mt. Lakeway trail

I haven't rode much south and I would put lake gtown in the mix too,not for difficulty but just grueling length.

Whats yalls list of favorite difficult trails..

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For those with kids...

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