Time to attempt to ride MTB in some mucky, yucky quad & moto trails and some barely used old doubletrack stuff....in unpredictable weather....and wearing some god awful punk get up.
This year's trails and loop didn't hesitate to please those that came out.....just as unrideable as usual and the weather gave us some freezing cold to go along with it. Trails were a mirage of frozen puddles, mud as slick as oil, and DH full of rutted water runs.
We decide we haven't utilized the tandum to it's fullest this year, so we decide to haul it out for the event. We most usually choose to ride this thing on trails that are quite forgiving......otherwise JP ends up in the doghouse for quite some time after the ride:-) But this day, I knew if I said 'yeah' to tandum, I had to actually agree to stay on the seat for whatever the driver was wanting to do. If we ended up walking all day, I am pretty sure I would have been sent to the doghouse.
The tandum is often referred to as 'the red sledd'...therefore we decided to use it as a 'sled' as part of our costume and be the Grinch & Max the Dog. This worked out ok:
Overall, everyone did some walking on the loops, but we attempted and rode a lot of mucked up stuff a little better than we would have thought. The Red Sledd can surprisingly barrel though like a tank. Other than a few DH that I totally put the nixay on by jumping off the bike, I think JP was proud of my braveness today:-) & happy that each loop led back to the beer. I see a tandum MTB hundie someday.....lol...that is a joke.
thanks DR for another good punk bike on the books! (dirtragmag.com)
You and the red sledd riding punk bike this year??
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