Here’s pictures from my ride today on the Mount Lemmon trail Bug Springs. The beginning of the trail starts with about a 500 ft. elevation change (seem like A LOT more)… going STRAIGHT up!!! Stairs stairs stairs. Than 1,300 ft going down over five miles. But all those stairs are worth the ride.
My dad rode the trail with me on the mtb. His first time on in a few years. Took a little for our confidence to build but towards the end of the ride we were cruising. On a bike you can really bomb down the mountain so he would ride for a ways then let me catch up. Really fun father son excursion.
It’s a lot steeper than it looks.
The trail really goes over the log but…
Got to test my new center pull brake system during this ride. It worked very well.
Overall a great day. Had a few biffs and bails. Got my most awesome moment for that other thread. Shin guards saved me from a few bad pedal bites.
I’m afraid I did not live up to my signature the walking part. Some parts of the trail were just too insane for me to handle. However the second part of the sig was fulfilled to the utmost degree.
Yeah, you aren’t too far away? Tucson Uni (Andy?) is here. I am here but I’m not very good Quite a few trails strewn through here. The trail I rode today is part of a chain of trails that runs the entire length of Arizona called the Arizona trail. I think around 800 miles of trails? THat would be an epic MUni journey!
Man I miss Tucson! I studied at UofA in the 90’s and had a 20 mile mountain bike commute every day to Uni of which about 15 miles was on the most awesome singletrack. I wish I was into muni when I lived there.
Bug Springs is great fun. Hope to have another muni campout this summer. Camp at General Hitchcock, right on the trail! We typically do Bug Springs one day and the more technical Green Mountain on the other. Good times for sure! This pic is from the Bug, and so is my avatar.
I spent the Easter break on holiday with the family in northern Denmark. 2 out of the 5 days were wonderful sunny weather, the other 3 wet and cold! The first sunny day I had to lacquer the wooden deck of the summer house with my father in law, but I made sure that the second sunny day I escaped and got a decent ride in!
I went for a nice easy ride on the triton/schlumpf 36er on Easter Sunday morning. I followed a cycle route that runs parallel to the coast and cuts through pine forrests, before heading along little country roads. I made a detour out to the coast (pic 1) for some sandy muni action on the big wheel, and then continued north through some old farming areas (pic 2), and onto the coastal country roads up towards Skagen. On my travels I found a very suitable sign (pic 3), I then looped back and ended up at a nice set of lakes called Tversted-søerne (pic 4). Total distance was 45.3km. It was a great way to enjoy the sunshine!
I found a load of single track through the pine forrest and around the lake, so next time I am up there I think I’ll take the muni along as well.
I rode down Tritonvej, but it was a dead end, and there was no funny little man with a Russian accent (aka, the Triton Leprechaun) guarding a “Pot of Titanium” at the end of the Vej
Still, I would argue that the Tritonvej is the ONLY vej…haha.
This is a coastal path from the village where I live to the next small town called Saintes-Maries-de-la- Mer it’s a total of about 30 km from my house to the port there! I didn’t do all of it as there is a carpark 1 km from the lighthouse, so that leaves 14 km to st marie plus 3 km to the port so a total round trip of 34 km which I did in 3hrs 50min on my new KH 24. This area has it’s own beauty but it’s Flat! But this path is a great ride for a begginer like me! and I enjoyed being on the bigger wheel and just cruising along.
A long time ago I saw a vid from the Moab Muni Fest where near the end a guy ride up a 12 set , I think he was riding a 24 w/ a Gazz. The individual stairs looked a bit small, but I have no idea how steep it was since the vid was streight on. The last 4 or 5 steps he had to roll them in half revs.
I think it’s in Universe II a guy rides up 2 full size stairs, then another 2.
George Peck rode up several in one of his vids (they weren’t very steep)
I finished building my new 29" wheel for the Conundrum last night and took it out this morning for its first ride, about 7.3 miles to and around the state park.
Right now I’m in Arizona and today I had the chance to ride my uni a bit at Lake Powell and the Colorado River. It was a blast!
Despite of the rainy, very cold weather.
On a bike you can really bomb down the mountain so he would ride for a ways then let me catch up. Really fun father son excursion.
the walking part. Some parts of the trail were just too insane for me to handle. However the second part of the sig was fulfilled to the utmost degree.
Quite a few trails strewn through here. The trail I rode today is part of a chain of trails that runs the entire length of Arizona called the Arizona trail. I think around 800 miles of trails? THat would be an epic MUni journey!
, I think he was riding a 24 w/ a Gazz. The individual stairs looked a bit small, but I have no idea how steep it was since the vid was streight on. The last 4 or 5 steps he had to roll them in half revs.
