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Sunday Ride

Dry Reservoir parking lot. Ride time 9am.
Everyone welcome. Bring plenty of water its going to be hot hot!!

There is a nice place to jump in the stream near the end of the ride.

Feminine Fire Road Fitness

Saturday @ 10:30am
Old Reservoir parking lot. (its on the parking area map)

Cancelled due to zero interest. I tried. 

Some Pics, Yo!

http://s1145.photobucket.com/albums/o516/drwod/

Lots of Mt Biking photos i've taken over the last year or so . . .
I figure this is easier than emailing them to everybody individually.

Post ride report from 6-24-12

We had a good turn out for todays ride with some more new faces, but clearly not new mountain bikers. Great weather, good trails, good company made for a nice sunday ride.  The dip in the creek at Woodrow Rd. was especially refreshing, and those that did not partake really missed out!

Here's a link to what we rode http://app.strava.com/rides/11630018

And here's some pics taken at the end of Graves Ridge.

Here's a link to some more pics on graves ridge. Grave Ridge ~slow

Sunday Ride

MudBanks.
Map is on the sidebar.
Ride time 9am.
See ya then!

New Member

Hello All,

I am a new member and my name is Jeremy. I have been riding at Michaux off and on for years but I'm getting back into riding after a long hiatus. I live in the Carlisle area and I hope we can link up for a ride and or adult beverage some time.

Jeremy

non-honey stingers

a word of caution.... hornets have taken up residence on the out and back of tumbling run.. right before the final rock garden....or at least, as a first timer, what i believe is the final rock garden.

right before this......

Wednesday 6-20 Evening Trail Work

5pm. Meet @ Old Forge ride location (see side bar) and go from there.
Useful tools will include loppers, pruners, leather gloves, small rakes and beer.
See ya there!

More from Slow: I'll have extra tools. I put a map link to the meeting place below.
Old Forge parking lot

Tuesday Ride

Caledonia lot @ 5pm.

Sunday 6/17 Ride - Pine Grove Furnace

We're heading back north people!  9:00am start at the furnace parking lot.

Trials bike For Sale

Parts list available on tartybikes.co.uk, upgrades include:

Trialtech cranks

Avid single digit 7 rear brake

Avid bb5 front brake 160mm rotor

Because drilled front rim/hub

Avid speed dial 7 levers

Echo freewheel

Maxxis holyroller tires

Heatsink rear brake cnc housings

Heatsink yellow pads

$700   text me for specific questions or pics. 717 491 9737

Thanks a ton Larry.

-trey

Wednesday Ride

Big Flat, rear lot, 5pm.
Be there.

Thursday ride - Long Pine Reservoir 5p

How about having the upcoming Thursday ride at Long Pine reservoir, instead of Mont Alto? Update - Thursday ride will start at Long Pine as long as Sue does not shoot me for changing it.

Tuesday Ride Big Flat 5p

Will be riding from Big Flat at 5p.

Post group ride report 6/10/12

We had a nice turnout this morning with several new riders to the group showing up to join us on a nice spin through the southern end of the forest. Virginia and Southern Gas were sweet as they always are.  We need to schedule a club trail workday for Rocky Ridge, it is in serious need of some trimming and pruning.

Here's  a link to the route we rode

http://app.strava.com/rides/10517697#

A turtle on Rocky Ridge

The view from the end of Virginia

A few of the 12 riders from today

 Jason cleaning a tricky uphill section of Rocky Ridge

 Hughey with an epic fail

New guy Austin schooling us on how to do it

Hey Wilson, what line is that?

Dave went on a search & recovery mission looking for Ken who had multiple flats today and got seperated from the group, and ended up getting a flat himself.

Sunday Ride - Old Forge

Old Forge. Ride at 9.
Parking at camp on Old Forge Road - map is on sidebar.

Crash visits Rockburn Skills Park and learns to pump

Tuesday night ride???

Anyone interested in a Tuesday night ride?  Location negotiable.

Sunday Ride- Sand Flats@9

Watershed ride on Sunday at Sand Flats. I think Dave will be setting up a carpool from Chambersburg. If you need directions let me know.

I added two Watershed parking areas to the parking location map in the side bar. -slow

Grand Opening Rockburn Skills Park - Patapsco, MD

Here are some brief details about the skills park:

Phase 1 - complete
-Pump Track (Thank you Clif Bar and IMBA!)

Phase 2 - Grand Opening Saturday 6/2
-Druffel Shuffle: Easier smooth flow trail with berms and rollers. This can be ridden by beginners just learning how to ride a mountain bike. It can also be ridden by an advanced rider that likes to catch air on anything from a bmx bike to a 29er. This trail is like a downhill pump track.

-Novara Way: Advanced flow trail with bigger table top jumps, berms, and other features for getting in the air.

-Diamondback: Advanced technical trail with a lot of rocks, as well as some berms, jumps, & log rides.

-Easy return trail: All of the lines merge into this gradual climb back to the start hill.

-Rocky return option: This branches off of the easy return trail to give you an opportunity to work on rocky, technical climbing.

Jason Wells (IMBA) designed these lines with plenty of options so that you can get creative.

Phase 3?
Fingers crossed. We may be able to add a phase 3 sometime in the future.

Keep in mind that Rockburn Branch Park borders Patapsco Valley State Park so you can combine a Skills Park session with a ride at Patapsco.

http://www.rockburnskillspark.org/Home_Page.php 

ride

I'm going to ride thurs. somewhere in the morning, so if interested let me know, I'll let you know what time and place

Harrisburg MTB Trails

There was some recent buzz on MTBR about the HBG mountain bike trails, so today we went out and rode them. I'm sure we found over 90% of them and although they have some fun spots, they are largely over grown and have tons of stinging nettle and other pointy vegetation. So if you might be planning to give them a try you better bring a weed wacker. Oh and Steph wanted you to know about the 4 foot black snake she almost ran over.

Friday May 25 ride.

I have off this Friday and was wondering if anyone would be up for a pre-holiday weekend ride?  I was actually thinking about heading up to Rattling Creek to ride, but if anyone is interested in riding northern Michaux or riding from Big Flat, I would be game for that as well.  I would rather not ride solo since it is still spring gobbler season.  I am hoping for a minimum of 4 hours of actual riding time if my legs are up for it.  I am hoping to start by 8:30-9AM regardless of ride location.

Jim

New 2012 Niner Rip 9 FOR SALE!

Up for grabs is my New never built Niner rip 9! I'm going to keep rocking the superfly 100. Asking $1495.

Let me know! Buck!

Sunday Ride

Ride is from Caledonia -- meet in the furnace lot.
Ride time 9am on the D-O-T.
See ya there!

Harrisburg Area Trail Advocacy Meeting

I know we have members and others from the Harrisburg area that visit this blogger house of ill repute, so thought it would be good chi to post up some information that could lead to good things for the region. Check it out:

On May 24th, from 7-9pm at Cornerstone Coffee in Camp Hill (2133 Market St, a few doors down from Holmes Cycling), IMBA will be holding a meeting of the minds about the potential of mountain biking in the greater Harrisburg area. The goal of the discussion is to talk about some new potential riding opportunities in the area as well as strengthening the Susquehanna Area Mountain Bike Association. As you probably know, SAMBA has been very successful working on the trails at Swatara State Park, Governor Dick and Camp Mack, but currently lacks the capacity to take on new projects. With the help of IMBA’s chapter program, the hope is to move SAMBA towards being a broader, more effective non-profit organization that can grow into the voice of mountain biking in the capitol region. This is where you come in – please come to this initial meeting with your thoughts and ideas and find out what steps are needed. Our goal is to come up with a steering committee that can follow through on these plans with IMBA’s help. If you aren’t able to make it, but know of someone who would be interested, please feel free to pass this invite along.

Interested in attending? Let Frank Maguire, PA's own IMBA demigod, know by May 20th.

Additionally, on Friday May 25th, from 6-8pm, there will be a social event at the Quality Bicycle Products distribution facility in Middletown. Come out, enjoy some bbq and beverages and find out what Quality is looking to do to help the local bike community.

bacon rocket

'Shed or MoCo ride?

Shed>Gambrill>Shed Ride this weekend by MORE.  Big Climbing
http://www.more-mtb.org/forum/calendar.php?do=getinfo&e=2181&day=2012-5-20&c=2

Regarding the below idea, why don't those of you who commented throw out same dates and whether you want to ride the Shed or Schaeffer/MoCo and I'll get it to Denis.


Denis (from MORE) has offered to lead a joint MORE/MBM ride in either the Shed or Montgomery County (Schaeffer Farm, Seneca Creek, and others).

I know many of us ride the Shed quite a bit and love it.  Is anyone interested in driving 30 minutes past the Shed to ride another type of fun singletrack?  Think Swatara style fun (and it's a shorter drive for some of us than Swatara is).

Denis is also the organizer of the MoCo Epic which uses about 65 miles of the County's finest trails, much of which was built by MORE.

If we have MBM interest, I'll get with Denis and set something up

Friday Fun

Howard was nice enough to show me a trail I had never been on that has some kick ass rock features and then we went and hit Spooge so we could try the two rock drops.  Enjoy the pixels and video.