All Things Bikes and Tacos! (...and every vehicle imaginable)

Don’t you tempt me. I’ve already committed to dying in NC next month.

 

I just graduated from a school program today, and today is also 5 years cancer free, and it’s my birthday Sunday.

I finally have time to do something fun, I was planning a road trip up towards Santa Cruz and maybe PNW, but Utah also has me thinking.

 

Well double congrats and happy birthday!

 

Got the call a little bit ago that my first FS bike I ordered (Ibis Ripmo V1) will be ready tomorrow afternoon. After about 6 months of "research", stoked is an understatement.

 

Wow I have the same shot of my son and daughter on the ridge.

 

Congrats on all accounts! Take pictures of your trip and upload for those of us stuck at home.

 

Always Gotta say tho... I'm worried. This thing might make me a convert. Dammit.

Honestly, every person needs to experience southern Utah. It's way more than riding out there, which is absolutely awesome, but the Utah desert is magic. You can't find anything like it anywhere else. If you do come, don't just make it a bike trip. Take the time to explore the parks (Zion, Arches, Canyonlands, Bryce), slot canyons, float a river, sleep in the desert, drive some random road, wheel some Jeeps, find some ancient pictographs, take pictures of the Milky Way. It's something that sticks with you for a lifetime.

 

welp I’m sold

 

Hit us up. Plenty of us in the area that'll be happy to meet up.

 

how brutal are the summer months out there?

 

thank you both. It’s been a long time coming but I’m ready for a road trip or two.

I’m still working full time, I’m petty fortunate. But I’m a paramedic so it can get busy, but working 2 days a week for full time is awesome

 

Pretty brutal. You'd wanna be done riding by 10am most of the summer.

 

yeah man its great! Hyper smooth is amazing.

 

Went for a ride on my Evil today, but the derailleur gave me trouble, and trail-side "repairs" only made it worse. I had to limp it home as a single speed. Went back out on my fat bike to try and salvage the afternoon.



Then grabbed a beer and rode up to the high point on my land.

 

I did it.

 

The drop? How’d it go?

 

Another road ride in today, hit some doubletrack near some mtb trails about 15 miles from my house. I’m diggin this warbird a lot

 

Yes! I’ve got video to edit for posting but I didn’t die!

it was scary no lie, but it was smooth. I had a stranger tow me in for a run up to get a gauge for the speed. It required no lift, no really leaning back, or anything. Just some speed and go.

 

Nice! Towing is preferred for me too haha. Speed is definitely the way to go. Lifting/leaning back is more helpful at slower speeds so you don’t go over the bars. Sometimes you can’t get much speed before hitting a drop haha

 

I’m running a set of Spank oozy 345 trails and love em.