RabH
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C'mon Dave, you need to man up...Extra wimpy Dave got another foot of snow. So forget it...
It does look pretty though
Show us pictures of where you ride your ebikes!
It does look pretty though
Prairie Dog
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Yes, time to get serious, Dave. You know you wanna.C'mon Dave, you need to man up...
Nvreloader
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Hey PD
What is the snow bike called? I like the looks of that, wonder what the depth of snow is the max?
Thanks,
Don
What is the snow bike called? I like the looks of that, wonder what the depth of snow is the max?
Thanks,
Don
Prairie Dog
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It’s just something that I came across on the web and looks to be a conversion kit for an analogue MTB. I have no idea as to how it performs in deep snow but looks like fun.
Rome
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Pictures of my last commute ride to the workshop for 2022. I will ride thru here again but not to work. Workshop duty will commence 9 Jan 2023.
Life is good, I have a chiropractor re alignment appointment and touch up painting to do on my upstairs rental unit.
We was gonna go to the Bay Area but important matters needs getting done. I call it 'Staycation' Not Holiday or Vacation.
Merry Christmas Greetings you all.
Life is good, I have a chiropractor re alignment appointment and touch up painting to do on my upstairs rental unit.
We was gonna go to the Bay Area but important matters needs getting done. I call it 'Staycation' Not Holiday or Vacation.
Merry Christmas Greetings you all.
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mschwett
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technically this is off-topic, since it wasn't ridden on an e-bike. but hey, it's probably the last ride of the year!! i've also ridden this on my e-bike a few times, the range of time for the total ride is from 3:50 to 4:10 depending on conditions, with the e-bike not making much difference since i tend to use assist sparingly.
it's one of my favorite local routes, 57 miles, 4,500 feet of climbing, lots of nice scenery and a good mix of flat urban roads and climbing or descending mountain ones. the only negative about this route is that the descent is pretty slow - very tight turns and lots of pine needles on the road making for slippery riding sometimes! otherwise the average speed would be a lot higher
the initial climb up into the hills / redwood forests
the forest breaks for some rolling hills along a ridge approx 2,000' above the pacific.
and then the forest comes back for the descent!
i took one 5 minute break.
the faster part of the descent.
happy new year to all and enjoy riding your bikes, whatever type they may be!
it's one of my favorite local routes, 57 miles, 4,500 feet of climbing, lots of nice scenery and a good mix of flat urban roads and climbing or descending mountain ones. the only negative about this route is that the descent is pretty slow - very tight turns and lots of pine needles on the road making for slippery riding sometimes! otherwise the average speed would be a lot higher
the initial climb up into the hills / redwood forests
the forest breaks for some rolling hills along a ridge approx 2,000' above the pacific.
and then the forest comes back for the descent!
i took one 5 minute break.
the faster part of the descent.
happy new year to all and enjoy riding your bikes, whatever type they may be!
Rome
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Taking the backroads ride for soup and warned homeless people to not litter my path with shopping carts or I send the dog.
Joking around I actually gave it my left over red meat balls and leaves.
Joking around I actually gave it my left over red meat balls and leaves.
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DaveMatthews
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Nicely done sir. 4500 climb is awesome!technically this is off-topic, since it wasn't ridden on an e-bike. but hey, it's probably the last ride of the year!! i've also ridden this on my e-bike a few times, the range of time for the total ride is from 3:50 to 4:10 depending on conditions, with the e-bike not making much difference since i tend to use assist sparingly.
it's one of my favorite local routes, 57 miles, 4,500 feet of climbing, lots of nice scenery and a good mix of flat urban roads and climbing or descending mountain ones. the only negative about this route is that the descent is pretty slow - very tight turns and lots of pine needles on the road making for slippery riding sometimes! otherwise the average speed would be a lot higher
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the initial climb up into the hills / redwood forests
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the forest breaks for some rolling hills along a ridge approx 2,000' above the pacific.
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and then the forest comes back for the descent!
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i took one 5 minute break.
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the faster part of the descent.
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happy new year to all and enjoy riding your bikes, whatever type they may be!
Sadly it doesn't look like I'll make my 2022 target of 2000kms. I'm stuck at 1862. It's not much but I've been getting better from starting at 550kms in 2019, to 1500kms in 2021.
I'll make it up somehow.
DaveMatthews
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Successful last ride of 2022 today.
My meager stats 1909kms, 90 rides, 121 hours, and 3 PRs.
Today was 46kms.
It finally quit raining so I headed out on River Road with Ladner as the target...
Looks a bit nicer where I'm headed...
Cool trick if you can pull it off...
Fraser River Pile Driving ship...
Under Hwy 99 to Ladner...
Coffee outside at 8c?
Glad I got out. Felt better with a ride under my belt instead of going out with a whimper...
My meager stats 1909kms, 90 rides, 121 hours, and 3 PRs.
Today was 46kms.
It finally quit raining so I headed out on River Road with Ladner as the target...
Looks a bit nicer where I'm headed...
Cool trick if you can pull it off...
Fraser River Pile Driving ship...
Under Hwy 99 to Ladner...
Coffee outside at 8c?
Glad I got out. Felt better with a ride under my belt instead of going out with a whimper...
fooferdoggie
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hope my wife is up for one last ride before the new year may get rained on though.
Saratoga Dave
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No pics, it was a gray day yesterday, but almost 50 degrees on December 30th in the Capital region of New York, so off I went for my last 33 miles. Loved it after several weeks of no riding due to extreme cold and then ice.
Final numbers for the year are 3120 miles over 136 days, 112,000 feet climbed. As long as it breaks that 3000 mile line every year, I’m good with it!
Final numbers for the year are 3120 miles over 136 days, 112,000 feet climbed. As long as it breaks that 3000 mile line every year, I’m good with it!
DaveMatthews
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Dave you went 2.5 times farther than me, so good on ya, nicely done!
I didn't think I'd get out in Dec again. Lucked out today and just couldn't resist!
DaveMatthews
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There are numerous buildings, piers, and other structures here built over water. One way to do that is to drive piles (large round tree sized pieces of wood) into the river or ocean bed, then build on top of them.
The piles are driven into the river/ocean bed with massively large hammer type devices. See here...
pmcdonald
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Last ride of the year yesterday. Nice warm 26C weather, fresh sea breeze, quiet NYE trails: perfect riding! I headed over to the nearby Glenrock MTB park, a 30-odd kilometer network of trails on NPWS conservation land.
It wasn't a long ride by EBR standards, but getting out on the trails is always such a workout: I'm either sprinting for the next corner or jump, grinding up a punishing reset, or breathless from a near death experience. The heart rate usually sits in the 140 - 180.
This little section of track is my current project. It's a chunky little 50m section of rock garden. I'm still working up to dropping over that top lip - can't quite work out how to do it without a motor strike or over the bars moment.
The blue trail (really green) winds and weaves its way along the side of the reserve from there. Professional track builders were commissioned by NPWS to rework a section of track in this part of the park. They built a cracking series of three tabletops with a reasonably fast approach. It was terrific. Apparently there was some misunderstanding around the brief so they were called in a number of months later to sanitise that section, leaving it as a more pedestrian flowly pump section. It was this section I was doing my best to hook along when I saw a goanna lazing across the track. They're very common in the park but usually have the sense to scamper off up the nearest tree. This one was a tad slow so I had to fully lock up to avoid running over the tail. It was a good 3 foot long.
I always duck down a black rated side track. Black feels a little bit of an overstatement - it's more of a badly rutted and maintained blue - but it's a fun descent. The only downside is a steep and technical climb back to the main trail, aptly called 'It Happens' (this track is located above the city sewage treatment works, see third picture in the sequence below).
The tail end of the trail led through a lovely stand of what may be Sydney Red Gum.
The next trail along, Shaft, is my favorite in the park. Nice descent, good flow, big wide berms and a couple of fun jumps to finish it off.
This is a very typical scene right up the east coast of Australia: gully with rainforest. You can find gullies looking pretty much like this from Eden in the south right up to Cape Tribulation 3000km north.
As with any of the local tracks, elevation isn't a whole lot, especially compared to some of you Rocky and West Coast folk. Most of these trails only drop about 50m, but that also makes the resets shorter. This is one of the not bad views from midway up the reset track. It has all the typical ingredients of a postcard Newcastle shot: beach, bluff, banksia, coal ships.
Looking back at Seismic, a blue ([cough] green) flow trail.
And I'm back where I started, finishing the loop. In addition to the official trails there's a network of unsanctioned tracks the other side of the access road. These up the difficulty and risk a fair bit and include big log jumps, faster descents and chunky sections.
It wasn't a long ride by EBR standards, but getting out on the trails is always such a workout: I'm either sprinting for the next corner or jump, grinding up a punishing reset, or breathless from a near death experience. The heart rate usually sits in the 140 - 180.
This little section of track is my current project. It's a chunky little 50m section of rock garden. I'm still working up to dropping over that top lip - can't quite work out how to do it without a motor strike or over the bars moment.
The blue trail (really green) winds and weaves its way along the side of the reserve from there. Professional track builders were commissioned by NPWS to rework a section of track in this part of the park. They built a cracking series of three tabletops with a reasonably fast approach. It was terrific. Apparently there was some misunderstanding around the brief so they were called in a number of months later to sanitise that section, leaving it as a more pedestrian flowly pump section. It was this section I was doing my best to hook along when I saw a goanna lazing across the track. They're very common in the park but usually have the sense to scamper off up the nearest tree. This one was a tad slow so I had to fully lock up to avoid running over the tail. It was a good 3 foot long.
I always duck down a black rated side track. Black feels a little bit of an overstatement - it's more of a badly rutted and maintained blue - but it's a fun descent. The only downside is a steep and technical climb back to the main trail, aptly called 'It Happens' (this track is located above the city sewage treatment works, see third picture in the sequence below).
The tail end of the trail led through a lovely stand of what may be Sydney Red Gum.
The next trail along, Shaft, is my favorite in the park. Nice descent, good flow, big wide berms and a couple of fun jumps to finish it off.
This is a very typical scene right up the east coast of Australia: gully with rainforest. You can find gullies looking pretty much like this from Eden in the south right up to Cape Tribulation 3000km north.
As with any of the local tracks, elevation isn't a whole lot, especially compared to some of you Rocky and West Coast folk. Most of these trails only drop about 50m, but that also makes the resets shorter. This is one of the not bad views from midway up the reset track. It has all the typical ingredients of a postcard Newcastle shot: beach, bluff, banksia, coal ships.
Looking back at Seismic, a blue ([cough] green) flow trail.
And I'm back where I started, finishing the loop. In addition to the official trails there's a network of unsanctioned tracks the other side of the access road. These up the difficulty and risk a fair bit and include big log jumps, faster descents and chunky sections.
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Saratoga Dave
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Holy smokes, that is a bike ride!
DaveMatthews
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Wow, what a cool park! Fantastic (and what @Saratoga Dave said)!
fooferdoggie
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we rode up to boring and it was boring its a easy ride when we down know how we feel 30 mile round trip. from 42 to 48 degrees.
the most excitement was this poor roadie who just ran over a razor blade and pout a long slash in his tire.
its a easy ride when we down know how we feel 30 mile round trip. from 42 to 48 degrees.the most excitement was this poor roadie who just ran over a razor blade and pout a long slash in his tire.
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