Kansas City Tacoma Crew - 816/913

We need bikes v.v we have so many nice places to ride around here

 

they are great me and my sister went out to blue springs lake and rode the path they have last weekend i just gotta be careful with my knee lol

 

Which lake? We seem to have a bunch of them. I need to get out and explore.

 

the one that was very boringly named blue springs lake lol

the trail is the lake vista trail its a nice path just make sure you dont grab a hanful of front brake when looking behind you lmao it ends bad

 

We live next to Jocomo; I have yet to be all the way around it. There are a lot of nice lakes around here so I hear. We don't get out much

 

Oh right. I keep forgetting that BS Lake and Jacomo are separate lakes.

Too much front brake is always a good time.

 

they have a few trails out there just gotta find them but stay away from tall grass! last time me and my dad went with the dogs we decided to cut through some grass and got covered in seed ticks

 

ya lol i was slowing down and not paying attention trying to see if my sister was good and got on this small patch of concrete and pulled the front brake and off i went lmao

 

I don't put myself in any sort of tall grass in the shade if I can avoid it. Did a mural for some guys who didnt mow their property and ended up covered head to toe in chigger bites 2 years ago. Still have scars. Turns out im a bit allergic, and having a bad heart I can't take steroids so. That was a magical couple of weeks.
I'd rather get chased by a swarm of bees.

 

haha i gotcha ya it sucked thou by the time we got home a lot of those little things wouldnt come off us so we had to use a scrubby to get them off they were so small they looked like a freckle it was awful then we had to wash the dogs so many times to get them off

 

yikes. I can only imagine there are prob plenty of deer ticks in there too. Driving through that section of Woods Chapel and over the bridge there are always ass-loads of deer

 

ya it wasnt fun lol

and ya ive seen a few deer when i decide to take that route instead of the highway home

 

I wrapped the center portion of the grill last night to see if I liked it. Kind of took the idea off tacodust's truck. Took too long so will probably leave it on for a while haha

 

Learning more every time I do it for sure.

 

Those might have been oak mites. The bites stick around waaaaay longer and we had a bloom of them a few years ago.

 

Okay hold up. I ride at least one of the northland singletrack loops almost daily. I'm actually headed to Bike Stop today to look at a new bike and get my wheels trued. Any recommendations for good shops on your side? I'm in the market for a new trail bike, my XC isn't cutting it anymore.

Do you guys do singletrack or the paved level type trails? I can vouch for the tailgate pad method of transportation because it's what I use. It beats the heck out of removing the wheel for the clamp type.

 

Cool beans. I'll check them out. I've been riding the same Gary Fisher Marlin for like 15 years that has all the upgrades it can handle and it's time for me to move on from that style. Plus, I took a big dive on it last year and I'm not convinced the frame is straight anymore. I've never been very interested in fatbikes, how does a rigid fatbike do on the trails around here?

 

This is what I've been using for about 4 years now to haul my Trek around.

 

i would like to do single track but i havent done anything like that because im worried about my knee

and the tailgate pad would work if i didnt have a camper shell

 

hmm interesting i could have it go into the side rails