Slept undisturbed in bank parking lot. Slept w/o heater again. 50 deg AMs are fine. Sleep well & not overly cold to live in.
Hit I-75 North again for Dausset trails. Sauntered my way up interstate. Trail review gave address of TH. Again the gps got me in the parking lot. Overcast day, kind of raw but better than heat of upper 60s in FL.
Pulled in, there was a woman with a bike kind of standing around. Hey, I think she might be a local and know the trails. Yes she was and she was waiting around for whatever riders for a group ride that her husband posted on club web site. I worked her until she said yes she would show me around. Torturous slow ride, stayed on easier trails. Her husband joined us until he said he was going to ride something else that was more challenging and I split w/ him & had a better ride. Trails were hand built w/ more technical features. This even had some climbing. No palm trees here. Both of them called out technical features like they were something big. Maybe for there they were and what they were used to riding. Couple little drops & steep short downhills presented some challenges.
I posted the Google earth picture on ride data. Perspective: I measured the area we rode in. It is close to 1 mile square, 640 acres. W/ some reriding trails I rode 14.27 miles, climbed 1374′ and burned 2125 cals in 2 hours 17 mins. There were more miles of trails to ride but they were too muddy. Area received 1.5″ rain Fri & Sat.
Squeaky front brake. New pads still produce noise. Unsuccessfully tried to adjust the pad clearance but the allen set is stripped out. Rear brake works great.
Drove further away from interstate towards Conyers, site of tomorrow’s ride at the Olympic mtn bike race course. Parked in cabled off entry drive of a failed to develop development. Out in country a few minutes South of Conyers.
Eating fresh oranges I bought fresh from the orchards. Had a navel orange tonight. i was expecting ahuge difference between store bought & fresh. Maybe orchard picked was more tender. Have a picture of me picking an orange from the orchard but I’m experiencing troubles w/ Picasa.
Feedback: tell me if the virus is still in the web site.
FATS was closed this weekend because of rain.
People I rode w/ today gave me some more ride ideas. Going to be riding in northern GA for awhile. I would like to get back to Brevard for PT on ornery knee before moving west.
Fruita has a bike festival in April need to look into being there for it, I might enjoy myself.
Crag, Virus seems to be cleaned up. If you don’t get this posting, it means I’m wrong.
Ditto Tom’s message. Virus is gone Craig. It sounds like you met some real friendly people in Florida…
Craig as for your squeaky brake, have you tried putting a little angle in the adjustment. Tilt the leading edge of the brake in towards the rim a bit if possible. Used to work when I worked in the bike shop.
Virus gone, but TZ’s computer is still sick. Been cold here, temps this morning in the single digits. Your complaints about temps in the high 60s sound pretty good here…ready for warm temps and Spring.
So, was this an outgoing virus/trojan or was it specific to the comments section? I ask because our McAfee® caught and disposed of a couple over the last few days.
Thanks for the virus feedback. Thanks to McAfee after the fact.
Lee, been awhile since you have been in a bike shop hasn’t? Almost all serious mtn bikes are stock w/ disc brakes that bring on their strengths and characters that are learned like your skill for rims.