Charlie193

Yeah, I’m trying to be patient with recovering but I’ve never been very good at that. I’m also not complaining too much as my problems aren’t serious in the scheme of things. Having said that- avoid rupturing your Achilles, the recovery takes far too long, especially coming from a nothing event. Hope everyone is out having fun on their bikes!

I should’ve checked out HCSNA already- I’ve driven past it enough times. Will put it on my list- slow injury recovery still has me months away from riding though.

The trail map was still “coming soon” when I posted- should have been more patient. My wife’s family has a cabin out near Utopia and I always feel like that area has a lot of potential for trails. Garner and Lost Maples don’t have much going on riding wise, and for whatever reason Bandera Bike Park didn’t take off, but I always feel like there should be something in that area (I’ve never been to the Hill Country State Natural Area).

Just stumbled upon this wasting time on social media. Hadn’t heard about if before and can’t see that many details, but it looks like opening day is May 17th: https://bushongmountainpark.org

Just on crutches at the moment, planning on borrowing a scooter from a friend who had the same injury. Will probably wait for my first post-procedure check-in in 10 days to start exercising the rest of me. Thanks!

Not a bike related injury but I ruptured my right achilles last weekend (if anyone asks you to try pickleball, say no). Surgery was yesterday, think it went well. For anyone who dealt with fairly long recovery times, how did you deal with having to be inactive, other than descending into alcoholism? I tend to get grumpy when I can’t charge around like a 5 yr old one way or another. Hoping I can swim relatively soon. Enjoy the spring/summer riding if you’re fit & healthy!

Do you mean this one: https://austintrailconditions.com

This is a bit old now but thanks for the input @AustinBike. In the end the grey/red color Occam that was on sale in my wife’s size was not approved, so we went with a Liv Intrigue instead. I’m probably more excited than the new owner. Also staying rain free for NBD in South Austin.

I know it hasn’t been the worst summer, it’s still gross out there though. That’s my excuse for running out of gas in about 5 minutes anyway.

Nice looking bike! I think a lot of the dislike for pedal-assist e-bikes might have transferred to Surrons and the equivalent. Think I remember you used to have a Bronson- always liked the look of that bike, did it have to go to make room for the Heckler?

I’m looking at a new bike for my wife, which will be used for mellow trails- easy parts of SATN, green trail at Reimers etc. There are some decent looking sales on Orbea Occam and Rocky Mountain Element and Instinct at the moment. Does anyone have these (I’m looking at the cheaper alloy specs) and if so would they be overkill for mainly green trails? I’m leaning towards more travel than necessary as we won’t be doing long rides so I don’t care much about efficiency, and I think a more plush ride will get us on the trails more.

I used to like that bridge, and I think it was rebuilt then promptly destroyed again at some point. Probably by the same spiteful little turds that installed the massive gate of doom just north of there. Think this picture makes it look higher than it was, and I also might have been a little late in the game switching to wide bars.

Sneaking out before the rain arrives.

First trail in town was BCGB main-trail when I moved here in 2010, as I was renting on Spyglass Dr it was pretty much the only place I went for ages. Coming from somewhere with roots and mud (where riding in mud is fine) I found the rocks tough going to begin with, even though the main-trail isn’t that bad in the scheme of things. Still ride BCGB but live south now so use different trailheads, and I did eventually figure out there was more to explore there.

Escape from the heat in Cloudcroft.