I dusted off my road bike, pumped up the tires, lubed the chain and headed out for my first road ride in over a year. The first couple miles were very strange, but I quickly relearned how odd a roadie bike is. I rode with Shane over to Sabino Canyon, climbing a few steep hills, [...]
The weather was too perfect not to ride. A bit cool cruising through town and a bit hot cranking granny gear in the sun. But still short sleeves and shorts. I climbed the Sentinel Ridge trail to the first turn, then headed further up the hill on the ‘Sentinel Challenge.’ Apparently I wasn’t up for [...]
Mark and I headed out to Colossal Cave mtn park again to fine tune the upper alignment and get another pair of eyes on my “highline” drop into the La Sevilla campground. The snow level was below 6000 feet, and the clouds cleared just enough to give us a view of the south side of [...]
The grand master scheme is to ride the Arizona Trail, Mexico to Utah. The culmination will be the big ride sometime in Spring 2005. But it begins now. Today we explored endless singletrack north of the town of Oracle. We jumped out of the pickup on Tiger Mine Rd around 8am. A huge “ARIZONA TRAIL” [...]
11/18/04 Out the door, late, heading off on my hardtail for the Rincon Valley. I sped through town around 17 or 18 mph until the slight uphill on Old Spanish Trail. As always, I underestimated how far it is from my house to Saguaro National Park and onwards down to the ‘valley. Try about 25 [...]
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