Sunday Ride

Back down to Old Forge.
Planning a little enduro-style loop, so bring the full-squishes if you have them (or if they're working - mine's currently in pieces).
Ride at 9.

Hunting and Mountain Bikes?

Well, the guns are here for a few weeks....

I decided to search the internet for mountain bike hunters. I did not realize how much hunters utilize mountain bikes. Seems there is a hunting guide specifically on how to convert a mountain bike into a deer cart. Other hunters actually ride the bike. What got me was the fact that there are gun racks for bicycles!! Which made me wonder....Does anyone make a bike specifically for hunting?

You bet yer SS they do!

Here it is. The Beast Stalker. Complete with handlebar mounted gun rack! 

It's gun season. Be careful out there.

Sunday Ride

Laurel Lake parking lot.
Ride at 9am.

Happy Thanksgiving!

To all you bike riding turkey's....Have a good one!

For WMU 5A (Michaux): Bear season closes at sunset today. Archery is closed already.  Deer gun seasons opens Monday the 26th. So, for the rest of this week you are free to move about the forest during daylight. Don't take any chances, wear orange and leave the antler helmet at home. 

See you at a ride soon!

~Slow

Sunday

Old Forge, 9AM.

Emmitsburg Trail Work Days

The final two Emmitsburg Trail Work Days for 2012 are approaching.
Sunday 11/18 & Sunday 12/16 end this year's trail work series.
As always, free food will be available before and after the work for volunteers and their families.

Any consideration is appreciated. Even if you are unable to attend, it would be appreciated if you could
share the message with your family, friends and associates.
The 10/28 (Pre-Sandy) work day went well with ten volunteers on hand, a number of whom came because they got the word through a friend.

There is other good news to share!
A $30,000 grant was formally awarded from the Recreational Trails Program to the Trail Conservancy to build trails here.
This will allow the Trail Conservancy to hire laborers and machines to complete the beginner trail and build the intermediate trail, too.

 

A logical question is, 'Given the grant award, why have workdays?'
1- Workdays stretch the dollar by completing tasks that might otherwise absorb the pro's time and budget.
2- Workdays accrue volunteer hours, which satisfy the Town's match for its portion of the grant. This also saves taxpayers' money.
3- Workdays build community, and this is a great reward, too.

 

At present we have logged over 560 hours of volunteer labor.

The Trail Conservancy will begin their work in February, after hunting ends.
A trail opening event should occur later in the Spring or in early Summer.

Thanks for your time and things are looking better and better for local trails!

 

Join the effort on Sunday, November 18, 2012 from 9am - 1pm.
We will meet at Rainbow Lake on Hampton Valley Road.
Ample free parking is available. Free food will precede and follow the work day!
Please dress for the weather and dress for the work.

 

Tim O'Donnell
Commissioner,
Town of Emmitsburg
301-447-3839

 timnoreen@juno.com

 

Tuesday Ride

5:30 @ Old Reservoir Lot.
Start time is negotiable.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday

Ride will be from Big Flat.
Will leave at 9er.
Thinking maybe a little jaunt Scientology-way.

Thurs Night Ride

Riding from Mont Alto at 5 tonight.
See you there (I hear there may be a Chuck sighting).

Saturday Super D runs?

Anyone interested in meeting up on saturday for a couple hours of shuttle runs (either by bike or vehicle) on a downhill in Tuscarora? Maybe around 10am....2-3 hours. Keen trail is what I'm thinking of: it's super steep and pretty nice. If so, I'll go out and clean the leaves off of it.

Chainsaw Safety Course: 4-6-13

All,

I have arranged for Mike Nelson, a ranger at Gallitzin State Forest, to teach a chainsaw safety course for LHORBA members at no charge. The course will be held at the Babcock office of Gallitzin State Forest on April 6, 2013.

Please keep in mind that you must have chainsaw certification to run a chainsaw in any PA State Forest. Even if that was not the case I found this course to be highly informative and worthwhile to do.

The maximum number that can attend the course is 15. So far we have 4 LHORBA members attending. Please let me know how many of you would be interested in this course so that I can give Mike a total of how many people will attend.

Mike Mucker - Laurel Hills Off Road Bicycle Association

Why would I bother posting about Skinny tires?

Cause you can ride your fat tires too! Anyways, I heard that there's an underground cross race going on in Carlisle tomorrow night. Thornwald park in Carlisle @ the parking lot closest to the movie theater. Show at 5pm, race at 5:30pm. MarketCross Pub afterwards. If it's your thing, come on out!


Hope everyone is ready for night riding! Dang it gets dark early.....

The Way Back Machine--looking for a 26" fork

 

(not Larry's bike)

 

Everyone set your time machines way back...I'm looking for an 80mm travel suspension fork for a 26" wheeled mountain bike. That is rim brake compatible. Preferably air-sprung. And moderne enough to have a 1.125" threadless steerer tube. Yeah, I know that a 1" steerer tube and elastomers would be the coup de grace for this bit of retro-awesomeness. Anyone have something like this laying around that they would to part with? RockShox or Fox? Contact me!

SMCC Raven Enduro recap

Slow, Ho and I headed north to give the northern trails a run at the first annual Raven Enduro being put on by the Seven Mountain Conservation Corp.  These guys did a ton of work to get the trails in shape for the event after the storm last week, and I must say they have some awesome trails that they showed off to a relatively small turnout.  I hope this thing happens again next year and there's more interest because it's cool event.  Congrats to Ho for a 3rd place overall finish and I think I can say we all had a great time today.

Here's a few pictures my wife took out on the course

sunday ride

this sunday we will ride from the totem pole parking lot at 9am. the mountains are still very juicy so we will try to stay high and dry. it's also very likely we will run into fallen trees and debris from the storm so bring your folding saw if you have one.

Gravel Grinder

If anyone is interested, there is a group of about 8 of us doing a gravel road ride from the weiser's little strip of heaven on Saturday Morning. Cross or MTB, take your pick. Shooting for 3 hours at a chill pace. We'll have lots of options to add on more if we feel like we want it, or cut out early too. We'll wind down and across both ridges. 9am start.

We're doing the Cross race at Stoudts brewery on Sunday too, in case anyone is interested in that sort of thing.

Just let me know if you plan to show.

Thurs Night Ride

I'm hoping to strap a light to my helmet and hit the woods this Thurs. Thinking 6 from Mont Alto. Anybody interested in joining me?

Happy Halloween and other stuff

*NEW: The volunteer ride for the Iron Cross this Saturday from Seven Mountains Boy Scout Camp has been cancelled due to lack of interest.

I hope everyone made it through the storm OK. Just a few things before we move into the weekend.

If you go into the woods be very careful! There will be as much deadwood hanging in trees as there is on the ground. Look up often. The good news is "new logs everywhere!"
Also, the falls and the creek branch at Caledonia State Park should be a sight to see for the next few days. The water should be way up.

The SMCC Enduro is this Sunday. Good luck to everyone racing. MBM's fastest and some of the slowest (that would be me) are entered in this event. At this time I am trying to determine if the weather has changed the plan for the race. As soon as I know I'll pass that info on in a comment.
Here's the link for more info. I think reg is now closed so you must sign up on race day. http://www.bikereg.com/17501 BikeReg does not show mailed in entries.

Is anyone interested in posting a day trip ride? If so post a suggestion and lets get some interest.

Happy Halloween!  

Armageddon Beer!

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/10/24/scottish-brewer-unveils-brewmeister-armageddon-world-strongest-proof-beer/

10/28 ride

A few of us are going to ride from Big Flat tomorrow @ 9AM. If the weather is terrible I won't be there. We will ride in light to moderate rain but not high winds. Expect a 3 plus hour ride with lots of regrouping.

PROOF!

2012 Audit

On behalf of the officers and in accordance with our by-laws,
We would like a member-volunteer to represent the membership and audit the finances of our club. The findings will be delivered to the President and presented to the entire club in an end of year "state of the club" email.
If several people volunteer, the VP and Secretary will select one person from the pool of volunteers. This individual will work with the Treasurer to complete the review of the account.
Any member interested should contact me using the email address at the right for more information. The deadline to apply is noon on Friday the 26th. If there are no volunteers, I will accept a Treasurer's report as the audit and report that information to the membership.

Thank you,
Brian
MBM President 2012

You decide

Most of you have heard by now that Lance had every win he has to his name revoked. Regardless of the truth I just want to point out that no proof has been presented. Every piece of evidence is hearsay. If the 26 people making the claims have anything to gain by doing so then understand that they instantly lack credibility. I would also like to point out that Lance took 301 drug tests during 7 Tours and passed every one of them. Instead the powers that be chose to read a good book about alleged abuse which puzzles me. This is the same as a jury finding you not guilty and the judge sentencing you anyway. I'm not saying he did or he didn't, I would just like to see with my own eyes irrefutable proof to back the claims. A picture, a video, a failed drug test, any piece of physical proof would settle it. What is unsettling is that there is none.

So, please refer to the very first post on our blog in August of 2006. There you will see the greatest drug test taker in the world riding his bike. He won fair and square because he passed all the tests established to identify illegal doping. So you can take away the wins but how do you take away 301 passed drug tests??? The very least they need to do is demonstrate with certainty how he managed to defy detection over 300 times. Anyone can write 2000 pages of crap, just read the tax code.

I wish Lance well.

Post on my friends. I know many of you may not agree. That's fine.

Sunday Long Travel Ride.

Long Pine Reservoir lot again! Ride at 9am.
Enduro Style casual road climbs and bomb trails. Everything on the 233 side of the mountain. Should be lots of fun! Several options. Several cutout points.

Bring the full sussers.
We expect to lose at least half the group on the first casual road climb due to mechanicals, misdirection, lost riders and confusion! ; )

The last one to arrive is sweeper! First one to ask where we're going is ride leader!!

See you there.
~slow

no ride this week?

To follow up that post with Video

Watch more video of Jeremiah Bishop on cyclingdirt.org

I fell in to the Burning Ring of Fire...

They dropped down down down, and then climbed even higher. With moments of torrential rains, lots of fallen leaves, and a shorter day, Jeremiah Bishop and Sam Koerber had a lofty goal set ahead of them: a speed attempt on the "Ring of Fire".

What is the Ring?
Info about the ring here: http://www.shenandoahbicycle.com/the-ring/
The loop is here: http://ridewithgps.com/routes/1812888

68 miles of "barely rideable singletrack" as Jeremiah put it. There have been 2 people to finish it. Sunday night I was in the right place at the right time, and ended up driving around to support them on the attempt yesterday. This thing is cool. If anyone could do it in 12 hours, it was these two. With 15 miles of hell left to go (about 4 hours more), daylight was gone, and the attempt was over. They'll be back to conquer it another day though.

Can a Michaux rider be the next to conquer the ring of fire? All I can say is bring lights, full suspension, and be ready to suffer like you never have before.

Rothrock / Bald Eagle near State College

Our friends from up north have planned an Enduro. Take note that groups entering this event can ride together! (if possible) There is an address to mail entries also. If you are considering riding as a group you should mail the entries. Address is at the bottom of the post.

Register here: http://www.bikereg.com/17501

Sunday Ride 10/14

Long Pine Reservoir lot.
Ride at 9am.
We'll hit some trails we don't ride often.
See you there.

GRAN FONDO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

https://www.bikereg.com/Net/17125/source=PE

 

GRAN FONDO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Frederick, MD

October 14, 2012

Start Time: 7am

 

3 Loops to Choose From: 100 mile, 62 mile, 32 mile
Event Open to All

2012 Gran Fondo National Champions Crowned100mile category winners receive a Gran Fondo National Champion Jersey
4 Timed Sections – Best Combined Time Wins
Prizes for Age Group Winners
Awards for 62mile and 32 mile winners
In 2013 Gran Fondo National Championship Series^SM Will Consist of 6 Events

Ride with your friends, Race with your friends
Fully Stocked Aid Stations to keep you going
Over 10,000 feet of climbing in the 100 mile Loop

The Gran Fondo National Championship in historic Frederick, Maryland is your opportunity to earn the title of fastest rider in the incredible Gran Fondo arena. We offer some of the longest timed sections and most challenging terrain of any Gran Fondo. The rider with the fastest combined time through each designated section will have truly earned their National Championship jersey.

“Come Challenge Yourself”

Register at:
www.bikereg.com

Cost: $95, $75, $50
NO REFUNDS