Rocky goodness is the reward for long climbs:
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Shenandoah Solo Ride
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i bet that would be fun on a fatbike.
If you are not hallucinating, you are not trying hard enough -
Used to do a nice road ride a bit further south of Signal Knob out of Edinburg.
It is his word versus ours. We like our word. We like where we stand and we like our credibility."--Lance Armstrong. -
I didn't see a single car on Skyline Drive for the 15 minutes or so that I was on it. Really looked like a nice road ride if you can time it so there's little traffic.
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I miss the rolling roads out there in VA. Although I don't miss the Type-A-hole drivers out there that try to side-view mirror check you off the roads though. I used to do long weekend rides with Bartape and plenty of fat-tire action in the Washington National Forest area. Good stuff. I have to hit northern LA and southwest MS before I see hills worthy of shifting into the 39. Needless to say I've lost some of the suppleness I had riding all those rollers up north.
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Drove Skyline Drive once on way to visiting a friend in Charleston. Beautiful in fall with colours of maple leafs. Ended up sleeping in one of the trailhead parking lots overnight, just put the sleeping bag on ground, perfect snooze although my wife got a rude awakening when a wet maple leaf dropped on her face.
At south end, it spit us out near a hot springs town that used to be frequented by one of your former presidents (from long time ago). What's the name of that again?
Good memories.
The wise man said follow me...and he walked behind. -
Warm Springs and Hot Springs, Va. visited by TJ.
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that trail looks smooth as glass, rock on PA. rigid 69er?
not to thread jack - but I love it when non-locals encounter this kind of stuff. The key is tricking them into a point where they can't back out and have no choice but to ride it. always good for a laugh
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Rigid 69'er Moots 1x9 rock-crawling machine. That was the toughest section and it was very difficult. The rest was pretty manageable.
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seeing that thing finally gave me the courage to go play with my rigid ss. I have had a blast, I don't care about the suspension and I figured out I actually have 3 gears. sit, walk or stand
Full suspension ride is going on the block
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Sweet! Looks like some fine riding and communing with nature terrain.
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Just curious: does anyone from any other place in the world have the same "look" of these gnarled hardwoods and ancient rocks, both covered with lichen? One glance at PA's pick and I see the Blue Ridge mtns.
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The alleghenies, for sure, are similar. Also some areas of MA (not the Quincy quarries part, though). Some parts of NC (Pilot Mt. a little bit, Linnville Gorge a little bit). I still fail to see how one can ride that trail, regardless of what it resembles, however.
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i was just on the coast of croatia and the rocky, gnarly tree thing looks kinda familiar. no shortage of rocks there.
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Lochness, it is more trials riding than anything else at times.
But it is what we do on the East Coast. Rocks and roots, baby.
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And for those of us less psycho, there's also some buff and fast stuff around here. I had a barcam video of a ride at Fountainhead on Youtube but they said it was too long? and took it down (it was like 15:00).
The racing is a good mix - races in Michaux (PA) are in the crazy stuff, Greenbrier up near PA Biker (which is also close to The 'Shed, which has some NUTS terrain) is kind of a mix of fast and rocky, and then races closer to DC are basically let 'er rip.
For disclosure purposes, I am a partner in November Bicycles. This fact probably colors everything I say. I'm clearly not to be trusted. -
Fair Hill in MD is pretty mellow along with Raystown. Lochness, you sound like just the victim we've been searching for:)
not everything is crazy, but if you live here you have to get into it or you'll just be miserable. just get in the state of mind and find a rhythm - you will have a great time
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fountainhead is awesome. Probably one of my favorite spots to ride. I can get my speed on!
My wife raced Greenbrier back when we first met. I got a call at the shop, "um...I wrecked in the rock garden...don't panic, I didn't break anything and I am home on the couch. I don't think I am going to MTB race anymore tho."
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Ridden by many, “cleaned” by some, conquered by none - an apt description of Grave Ridge in Michaux. Clear cut a few years back and more or less gone for time being. you guys don't know what you're missing, seriously. Once you ride a bunch of this kind of stuff non-technical trails seem like a highway and not worth riding. Still miles of other great stuff out there, though
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I have heard that raystown is quite nice; I will stay on the roads though, except for hiking and climbing in rothrock.
For the non-locals, Central PA has wonderful riding of both road and mtb varieties. Pretty much jack for rock-climbing, alas, as all the cliffs have eroded into those scree fields that PABiker calls "trails".
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