Sept 18/20 East TN - MTB Ride and Camp

Welcome fellow Knoxvillian

I'm Alex C - you have probably seen me around selling bikes and such

 

Is the general plan to arrive Friday afternoon and ride or just ride Sat/Sunday?

Also, looks like camping is limited at brown bike farms. Depending on how many stay the night(s) will we need to pair up on sites and is two vehicles per site even an option?

Going to talk to the boss about this tonight.

 

Dates are looking like September 18/20. Who all is coming?

Open to suggestions on Itinerary. Don't have to ride Windrock considering it's significantly harder than other area riding.

@GrundleJuice happy to catch an evening ride on Friday as folks trickle in.

 

You still on board Sept 20?

 

Sept 18-20?

 

You'd definitely recommend full face for windrock right?

 

If you have the choice, yes.

 

Is there a day we wouldn’t be doing windrock? I don’t have full face nor do I think I’m good enough to ride trails you think deserve full face hahaha.

I will be able to come up for at least 1 day!

 

Sure. Scotty doesn't want to go to Windrock either so we don't have to go there if nobody wants to ride it

I just know @Bannerman was wanting the full experience but he may not be coming anyways

 

Alex put me as a maybe plz, but if I am able to make it, I would very much like to ride Windrock Gnar

 

I think id be up for Windrock as well

 

If, big if I make it. I’d want to ride windrock. I’d rather ride very slowly downhill than have to pedal a ton uphill. Windrock does have shuttle service.

 

I'm cool with windrock (I think) for a day, especially if there is other trail/not full on DH stuff nearby that I could peel off and ride now and then. It's looking promising that I'll make it. Might stay Sunday night since it's a 8.5hr drive home for me, depending what time Sunday riding ends.

 

Totally in for windrock if I can just hit runs that don’t require full face. Can always just meet at the bottom!

 

For those going what’s the plan on sleeping. You guys doing hotels or camping?

If I’m getting my own room I’ll throw wheels off bike and put it in the beater crack dealer car, if camping I’ll do RTT and drive Tacoma.

 

Well then, that answered that i guess.

 

Def RTT camping. These weekend bike trips are fun because they are cheap.

That brings up a question that I brought up earlier but didn't get much response. Is everyone on their own for camping or does brown bike farms cater to groups since they have limited capacity? @honda50r are you familiar with how they operate?

 

haha, well cheap is me trying to find a way to mount the bike to some home made bed bars with RTT up there. I also have a bed cover, I thought about buying some professionally built bars, but that's more money.

I'm not really a prepared camper, so saving money from renting a room can go into what I may or may not need if I can make it.

 

I'm officially in. Will probably get there late afternoon on Friday and might leave Sunday before noon or might stay Sunday night and leave early Monday morning.