Two Wheel Blogs

It's been all to long since I've had a full weekend of great riding. It was nice to finally get one, I've been jonesing, feining, straight craving some good trail riding. I got that on Saturday.

So riding lately has pretty much been contained to two types, boring ass trainer rides, and colder than hell road rides. I sick of both, and I was finally glad the cards played out for a ride up in KC today.

The trail was comprised off all compacted snow. It was great riding, fast, and pretty. Here's a pic of a very sketchy river crossing. Not going to lie, a few times I got a bit worried hearing ice crack. But it was the only way I could get to the good stuff...

It's a winter wonderland out, now two weekends in a row. Luckily this is the powder type, not the slick ice and sleet alot of us got last weekend. I got to ride up at Landahl last Sunday, right after the storm. It was an awesome ride, the ground was covered in sleet, and it made for a good excersise.

Everyone's talking about the weather here.

I went out to run some errands last evening. We were getting a mixture of ice and snow. Streets and roads turned wet. Not slippery, just wet. It was enough to unnerve a lot of people though. I wonder what they'll do when it really snows.

Looks like the roads are out of my play book for a few days. That leaves the trainer or the trails. Tough choice.

No, not really.

I have seen this done before, and people have reported very good results. Among the results are unrivaled (even by commercially available studs) traction, and unparalleled rolling resistance. Regular studded tires just do not bite like these will, but they will roll better.

I decided to give this a go, so here goes....

People must have been looking for a reason to get out and ride last night. There were too many names to count on the front of the sign-in sheet; and the back of the page was about half full. Maybe we all knew about the lousy weather coming in for the next morning and wanted to get a ride in before it settled in. Maybe we just wanted to take advantage of an opportunity to ride on a clear and cold evening.

Whatever the reason, we rang out November in style. November's Castlewood night ride was practically standing room only. A hot ticket on a cold night.