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I love this connectivity! I can't wait for this to connect to the South Walnut creek Trail.

I grew up in that area. My dad used to take us seining for minnows in the creek below 183 before we headed down to the Montopolis bridge to fish. Since I started mountain biking, I've always thought that was a great area for trail. Sad to see the north side of it start to get developed.

Since both projects affect SN, I linked to both projects in this thread. Makes sense....

Here's the page for the Brushy Creek North Fork Trail and an interactive map that shows the planned route. While I know some are bummed about this trail's effect in SN, I'm looking forward to the connectivity and the opportunities for trail flow changes it might allow.

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Cool pic. (Not a mountain bike, though! This is what I wanted: "So, I want to see your first picture of you riding a mountain bike for the first time or shortly thereafter." I have a picture of me on an old bike around 1970 or 71, but it wasn't a mountain bike.) 🙂

Come to think of it, I think they even had the name of their group on the map. Edit: Yep, they did. Check the highlight (mine) at the bottom of the page. I hope my answers have been satisfactory. 🙂

Sure. That is how they identified themselves. I remember Josh posting up on MoJo asking if there were other Christians who wanted to join their group. If he belong to, say, a juggling mountain bikers group, I would have IDed them by that.

I reported this to Google, but nothing happened. Also, so many of the trail names were from the first person who made a map of the trails public, Josh Karnes. This was around 2001 to 2003. He used to be a MoJo, and he and his Austin area christian mountain biking friends named the trails on their map.

The initial plan was drainage work on Mark's Art. I believe we'll be working on the BMX Loop in a few places.

Sold!

Next Saturday, Nov. 6, is It's My Park Day, an opportunity to give back to the parks we use in the form of volunteer labor. We're meeting at the pool parking lot in time to be assembled for a pre-work briefing. You can sign up for the event, sign a waiver on the link, and even sign up to become a member of the Austin Ridge Riders. Potential work includes drainage improvement, raising the trail of a tread to improve drainage with culvert installation included, tree trimming, and other things. I hope to see you there!

They are not. Scroll down to Trails.

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I've been a member since 2005 when I lost an eye to a septic staph infection that almost killed me. Doctors installed a 17mm titanium sphere, and my ocularist constructed a prosthesis over the scar tissue that was my sclera. This surgery definitely increased the number of pieces of metal in my body!

I now have five pieces of titanium in me!

My 53 years of life includes five years as an active duty Marine, about 20 years of playing soccer up to the point of being invited to try out for the Olympic Development Team, and 29 years of cycling both mountain bike & road. Throughout all this, my major injuries include breaking my collar bone in 2008 when someone rode up behind me while I was on a teeter-totter, which resulted and me falling off the high end, as I fully expected it to drop like it did every other time. The next broken bone happened on Labor Day two weeks ago 33 miles into what was supposed to be about 55 miles of road spinning. Chuck and I popped out at the end of the Shoal Creek Hike & Bike Trail onto 31st St heading northbound. The "bike infrastructure" consists of dome shaped bollards cemented to the ground to delineate the bike lanes from the vehicle lanes. I took my hand off my bar to get water, struck a bollard, and was sent to the asphalt going only about 10 MPH. I fractured my femoral neck at its thinnest point about half way just below the ball and socket. The surgeon, a cyclist himself, installed a combination plate and screw with two screws through it and my bone and another screw above that. Two weeks after the surgery, I am walking with a cane but will not be cleared to ride off a trainer until Oct 25 at the earliest, which results in me missing a Bentonville trip with my buddies and riding in Big Bend with another group of friends. Bummer.

You had to set it up at some point! It's the same for someone sharing their location on Garmin or Wahoo. Set it up once and forget it. 🙂

My Wahoo Elemnt Bolt does, too, and my wife uses it to time opening the garage door for me as I return home from rides.

My brother found the picture from my first day mountain biking. City Park 1992. My brother, James, is on the left, and Chris Thomas is next to him. He used to be an assistant manage at BSS on Toomey Road back then, so if you saw a tall skinny guy that looked like him, it was. I'm on the far right. Edit: You can see me wearing that Middlebury jersey Chris is wearing in this picture in the first picture I posted to start this thread. Chris gave that to me at some point, and I still wear it.

Oh, actually, I won't be going out of town. I can help!

I did this one year. It's a cool, fun event to help in. @Shinerider, post up your Strava from last year!

Oh, I don't use bottles when I mountain bike and simply guessed on the size. I don't even have a bottle cage on my mountain bike.

What's complicated about a discussion of water consumption? It could've been a discussion about tire pressure or handlebar width. I thought this board is a place for discussion. Oh, and you can only drink if you have water on you, so the discussion follows well.

Yep, I like 75 to 150 watts, though my peak power is likely much more. Ang I don't think I'm a weak(er) rider. I've got some top 10 segments on Lake Georgetown and even had a KOM for a while. Not bad for 53 y.o.