Road TripHome Ardmore ride, Dec 9th, 2000Pictures and text: Marcel Slootheer Walt, Chris, Paul and I drove up to Ardmore to meet with Greg, Sean, Jeff and others for a Saturday ride. Greg lead the ride and showed us new areas with some nice single-track and cool drops. We played around on a number of technical sections, riding them again and again while taking pictures. The leaves made it all the more interesting, hiding most of the rocks on the trail (no off-trail riding here!). All in all we rode 20 miles in 4 hours and had a great time. Thanks Greg, for showing us around. Check out the earthbike list for future rides!  Pre-ride activities. Walt's Kona single speed in the foreground. OEF's new prez is a crazy single speeder...  Lake Murry after riding a bunch of single-track. This is near the Park Lodge.  Chris Larson doin' a drop. It's a lot steeper than it looks, really.  Our host Greg on the same section...  This picture of me shows that it's actually pretty steep. Pic by Chris.  Next obstical, a simple looking rock. It's probably 8ft tall and requires level cranks
to roll over it and ride down the other side. Knarr had some problems with this last time, he managed to
hit his pedals on the rock, stalling his bike which resulted in him falling down the other side. Here Sean shows how
it's done. Pic by Chris.  Greg in the rockgarden. Most of the rocks are hidden by the leaves...  Chris trying to ride up the rockgarden.  Walt going down it...  Chris on the next drop. The run out leads to a small jump...  Here's Walt on that jump. Last pic. See ya next time. |
