The Swan Crest

memories

did my first gravel hundy on this bike. came across on old pic. s-house is enjoying her now, with a different kit.

He asked for a bike ride

Mic is in town and asked for a good bike ride he (or turns out I) hadn't been on in a while. Since our ladies were busy entertaining themselves we had all day. Rather then waste a bunch of time on the car, we headed just west of the Peak to Peak and hit up a loop of trails high on technical goodness & big views. South St Vrain, Sourdough, Little Raven, Brainard Lake (and a beer), and then back down SSV for the finale.

Nearly 2 years and...

I'm on my wayu back to Nebraska for Labor Day Weekend. Staying at Mahoney with the family, so yes, I'm planning on a little Platte River action, and maybe whatever else. Anyone?

Sheep Mountain ride. Lots o singletrack.

Trailhead. We shuttled sheep mountain recently. The are loop options from town that I will have to check out soon.

Dave G. Looking toward the rattlesnake wilderness. First time to the Sheep mountain Heli pad for both of us.




Rattlesnake creek looking North.

Finally...

... found someone to help out with the bike work around here.

Wyoming

Weekend getaway, Two hours up the road in the land of wide open spaces. Things look a lot different when I'm not up there riding the Enduro, and when there's hours of fresh cut IMBA designed singletrack to ride. Things look really good. Can't wait to get back.





It's not all brown.





Big.





Bigger.






Fun trails. Goes right through there.









A little something from close to home. And my home away from home.

Unheathy Attachment

Seems everyone has had a set of tires that aren't happy coming off or going on a paticular rim. Tire levers come and go, and that's why I dug a pair out of my bag - the garage set seem to have gone somewhere I can't find them. As I was working the old tires off the rim, I broke a lever. Bummer.

It wasn't just any tire lever, but one of the pair I've been carrying for a while now. The levers form the top of a plastic box to hold a patch kit. If you've watched me change a tire on the trail, you've seen these. Remember that race in Kearney, at the golf course, with the rainstorm? Way back then? I got these there, and have used them since.

I've used them for 14 years. Done now. Got to get some new ones.

broke, then fixed

car felt weird. and car was making noise when encountering bumps in corners. got underneath and found a broken bracket to the driver side rear sway bar. the bar was flexing enough to smack the back of the mufler. a call to the salvage yard was successful. got home. put it on and car feels much better. it was pushing harder than i remember. no longer.

CB

S-house and I took a short (way too short!) trip over to CB this weekend, to see what all the fuss is about. Shhhh...let's try to keep this amongst our little group here, but the mountain bike riding in Crested Butte is actually pretty decent. The scenery isn't all that bad either....

I like cars too.

“I like cars,” Wills said.

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Perfect Cruise Da

It's Gretna Days this weekend and was a perfect time to take out the new Croll for a spin. SMOOOTH!

It"s just so SHINY!

In just 5 days (plus shipping)

bdiddy and mrs. bdiddy could be rocking twin bikes, eh. Chasing butterflies and holding hands while pedaling to a picnic lunch in the park.

Click buy it now, now!

limo style

I've been getting in a few hours of cross training lately. Going up even slight grades is more difficult than you would think. You can really get cookin' going downhill, though.

Video Virgin

This is my first take at video. Sorry it moves around a lot. I was climbing one handed and holding the camera in my other hand. Took a while to get it relatively dialed. Hopefully, I'll be learning how to take vids of peeps, edit them, then post. We'll see. I rode Lion Gulch today. It was good.



When the vid is almost done, you can hear my freewheel start to coast. That's about when I said, "Shit, gotta have both hands on the bar now"...

Weekend recap

We headed to Nederland for a quickie camping trip, just last night. This morning, we packed up and headed to a trailhead juat outside of the wilderness boundary. There's far away parking, and there's close in parking - the close in parking requires driving through puddles and a creekbed for a couple hundred yards - and it gets deep enough that the tailpipe on the jeep was burbling underwater. As soon as I'm committed in the first water fjord, I look to my left and see this lady:


















A bit over an hour in, we arrived at Lost Lake. Purty nice spot. Zana wants to backpack in here for a night.









Yesterday, I managed a bit of a bike ride from our campsite. A ran accross a couple groves of these - maybe 50 flowers in each. Stunning.







And yes, I did manage to ride some singletrack out there.

Saturday afternoon CT

After the Firecracker 50 the day before, BG and I thought we needed a ride that felt more like a day in the woods. So we packed a couple of Dale's and headed for the Colorado Trail near Breckenridge. We also found a little slice of formerly secret flowy goodness called Blair Witch. It was a great finish to a fun weekend in Breck.

Another road less traveled

I've had the local map up on the wall at my cube at work all week, knowing I only had a few hours on Sunday morning for a dirt ride all week. I decided on a trail I sort of knew existed but never quite decided to check out.

Oh, yes, I'll be back.

Rare Jackalope sighting

Hall, Ned, etc,

I kept seeing the Jackalope everywhere this weekend.

Watching and riding,

Last weekend was chock full of goodness, starting with the the not smallest bike shop's grand opening.



Which led into a Hall Ranch ride followed by the dirt jump portion of the Lyons Outdoor games. Seriously impressive riders doing seriously dumb things with no serious injuries.




Sunday was all about riding. Coulson, which for some reason I never set tire to last year was just what I needed. Backcountry goodness! As an added bonus, the crew I was leading was 3 guys and 4 chicks, who all hold their own.





I've got a mental health day planned for Friday, can't wait for another weekend away from the local stuff!