I’m surprised that I almost never see other riders in Boulder, Co. I ride the twin Lakes Trail system in Gunbarrel on my 36er almost every week day during my lunch hour. Sometimes I’ll hit up the Valmont bike part and do some muni trails too (I have seen two guys hopping on rocks there…once).
It would be great to find some other riders!
You should’ve replied when I sent out a feeler for riders in Denver back in November. I was just visiting at the time, but sorta with a mind to move there. I’m still considering Boulder in the future.
How are the trails? Also, when you say “bike park”, do you mean “mtn bike skills park”?
Part of why i want to move is that Boulder is generally clear weather, from my understanding. More clear days = more uni days.
And I’m surprised that people continue to post unicycling threads in the wrong forum.
I live in Arvada. I ride muni at White Ranch and some other trails around the foothills of Golden. For some reason I have never explored any bike trails around Boulder… I ride a 29er and have a 20" street rig as well. I would love to meet up with some other uni riders, in all my years of riding I have never met anyone else who rides muni or street!!
I’m coming back to Colorado this Summer, not sure whether it’ll be early May-June or late August-September, would like to meet folks to ride.
There is a a lot of good riding up on the pass once the snow melts, on the Front Range take a look at the riding down in Fort Collins, more variety and tech stuff.
If you have the time, there is some great riding around Laramie, WY, slick rock areas, very nice and a lot fewer users; Boulder has wayyyy to many people using the trails.
Sorry I missed the feeler - I just joined udc.
There are some perfect trails all around Boulder for riding a 36er. They are smooth and rolling with great scenery. There is an incredible and huge mountain bike park in boulder called Valmont bike park (youtube it) with a wide variety of terrain for mountain bikes, bmx, trials, etc. I love to hit it on my 20" flat top uni. There are also plenty of aggressive downhill trails all around the foothills above boulder that are a blast to bomb down on a muni.
I ride bicycles, unicycles, and dirtbikes almost all year round in Colorado. With 300 days of sunshine the weather can’t be beat! Only a couple of cold snaps a year.
Let me know when you solidify your plans to come to Co. and let’s hit some trails! There is fun single-track in the area that isn’t crowded. I’ve ridden all around Laramie on a dirtbike, but never a unicycle. Could be fun. I just got back from riding dirtbikes on the western slope near Grand Junction last weekend, played around on the slickrock with my 20". It was fun and I wished I would have brought my other uni’s along.
I’ve got a mountain bike buddy who lives in Golden that tells me he often see’s a guy on a large-wheeled unicycle riding trails around Golden. He must be talking about you! I’ve never been to White Ranch. Is it 36er-able?
I have never seen anyone else in the area on a uni, so, it must be! Haha
I have never ridden a 36er, so I’m not sure what it would be like. I ride a 29er at white ranch and manage to make it over the majority of the terrain. There is a lot of smooth single track to explore at White Ranch, I imagine a 36er would be fun there. There definitely are a few steep, technical, rocky sections that I usually walk over, but I sometimes think if I had a brake or a 24" wheel I would be able to clear those bits.