MTB cycling

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I finally hit our new gapped step up. As much as I hate dirt I hate gaps exponentially more! So this took me some doing and I had all my gear on. Turned out not to be that hard anyway and I should have done it weeks ago. I’m so bad at dirt.
 
On my first ride with the trail bike since the accident. My handlebars feel wrong. I might have bent them with my chest last time out. I wonder if this is something that can be fixed or do I need to replace them? I don't even know how to check them to see if they're straight. I might take it to the shop after this.

In the meantime, I'm going to try to get used to them on the ride back down.
 
Don’t even begin to try to hold onto questionable handlebars. Most om
MTB are aluminum or weaker like carbon. Not the cromolly a bmx bike would have. They’re mostly cheap as hell so it’s a no brainer swapping it. Of all the parts that can break, bars stems and forks are the last you want to take a chance on. For my dirt jumper I carry a spare set of bars in the car. It’s not worth chancing it.
 
I rode single-track for the first time since my accident yesterday. I did 8.2 miles between two parks. I did a lap through my home trail and it was awesome. Hero dirt. Then my buddy wanted to ride, so I met him by his home trail. That trail sucked. It isn't popular, because it's kinda short and kinda boring, so it is overgrown and littered with twigs. That was real mountain biking.

All in all, it felt good to get back at it. I took it easy and didn't really hop anything. I still need to get back into shape though. Some of those climbs defeated me. There was a lot of hike-a-bike up the hills, but I got back at it!
 
BeZo said:
I rode single-track for the first time since my accident yesterday. I did 8.2 miles between two parks. I did a lap through my home trail and it was awesome. Hero dirt. Then my buddy wanted to ride, so I met him by his home trail. That trail sucked. It isn't popular, because it's kinda short and kinda boring, so it is overgrown and littered with twigs. That was real mountain biking.

All in all, it felt good to get back at it. I took it easy and didn't really hop anything. I still need to get back into shape though. Some of those climbs defeated me. There was a lot of hike-a-bike up the hills, but I got back at it!
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Awesome! One step at a time....
 
BeZo said:
I rode single-track for the first time since my accident yesterday. I did 8.2 miles between two parks. I did a lap through my home trail and it was awesome. Hero dirt. Then my buddy wanted to ride, so I met him by his home trail. That trail sucked. It isn't popular, because it's kinda short and kinda boring, so it is overgrown and littered with twigs. That was real mountain biking.

All in all, it felt good to get back at it. I took it easy and didn't really hop anything. I still need to get back into shape though. Some of those climbs defeated me. There was a lot of hike-a-bike up the hills, but I got back at it!
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Climbers are nuts...Its crazy to see how many people like only that part.
 
That looks like an area where you can combine riding with herpetology, which you can't really do here...Jealous
 
I got 8 miles of single track in yesterday. Man, I was slooooooooooooow. I'm still working myself back, but my shoulder feels good.
 
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