Northeast TW mountain bike meetup at Kingdom Trails (VT) - June 25-26

What's cush core?

 

Fancy pool noodle to stick inside your tubeless tires. They provide some better protection against impact/corner strike type of flats.

 

You youngins and all your fancy technologies.

 

I know I'm older than you

 

Get off my lawn!

 

I did a thing. Not exactly what I wanted, but basically a spaceship compared to my 25+ year old bike. And I just bought a big ass boat, and tires, and some misc maintenance stuff, and the wife wants a RTT, so the boss lowered my budgetary limits. And this was on sale.

https://www.rei.com/product/159855/co-op-cycles-drt-12-bike

 

Nice! Are you coming to VT or are you ducking out?

 

Like Quagmire, I'm coming.

 

Also going to break it in so to speak tomorrow morning. And likely break myself.

 

Break anything except for yourself!

 

I did not die. About 1 mile in this morning at Blue Hills my buddies tire popped, so we turned back. I went out again during lunch to Whitehall state park which apparently according to my watch is ~8.2 miles around and the ground surface made entirely of wet roots. That may have been the slowest 8 miles ever at just under 2 hours.

 

Wait, did you climb 4,700 ft?!?!

 

I think in aggregate yes. According to garmin.

 

Lake Whitehall is an interesting ride. I haven't been there in years though. How's it holding up?

 

That’s a hell of a ride…. Usually mine are in the 1,000 - 1,500 ft range. Climbing that kind of elevation is a hell of an accomplishment.

 

It's like a single foot wide in a lot of places, basically all roots, and some decent rocks that require carrying your bike. I'd say not very conducive to biking. Even trail running would suck due to the roots.

 

Gracias good sir. I would not recommend going there, it's not really fun. I'd say annoyingly technical and not really suited for mountain bikes.

 

Seth, what were you using to record your data?

 

My garmin watch. Garmin instinct. I usually use it for running, but it also has a biking recording mode.