1st Ride of 2012

Posted on April 19, 2012April 20, 2012 by Smoke

It’s been another great winter, and I’ve managed to successfully avoid riding, looking at, or even thinking about bikes since early November. Time to get back out there.

We hit up the 3 Blind Mice, as per usual, for a Freedom Bikes shop shuttle session. I brought along the trusty chainsaw for a little early season maintenance, and we managed to not only clear a few big downed trees but also this lost nugget.

I don’t know who built this originally, but Karl the Gnarl had the line zeroed in. It kind of peters out after the bridge, so we knocked together a quick group effort and cleared out a new option that leads straight into the lower half of Drops A Lot.

Also, our new friend Jason from California broke his big rock hymen on this one. We’ll make a Canadian outta that guy in no time.

Ridin’ Like a Girl

Posted on November 3, 2011November 17, 2011 by Smoke

Strong and soft at the same time. Doesn’t hurt that its warm and gorgeous out today either.

Just another shred in Naramata today, checking out a bunch more singletrack I don’t know yet.

After a bunch of wandering around like Three Blind Mice, we ended up on Jack and Jill, where the colours were just too good to pass up a photo op.

Oh, and the larches were in FULL explosion. Like riding on a carpet of gold…

Couple o’ Rookies

Posted on September 9, 2011October 3, 2011 by Smoke

Taking a couple of my sisters’ friends out today. Which is pretty brave, ’cause Blair doesn’t really ride much, and Chris may or may not be dating her. You’ve been treating her well, right dude?

Ahhh, he’s fine.

Didn’t really tell Blair what our riding is like either. We just threw him into the situation. Full props, he dealt with it; no worries. Chris has some mileage, so he was loving the trail.

I think having a bluebird day like this probably helped. Summer is winding down on the calendar, but it seems like there’s plenty of heat left. Here’s another one of Blair looking fly in those striped shorts.