Calling out all MTB (Mountain Bikers) in the San Diego area!

Not sure who's into night riding but we have a group that rides MTRP every Tuesday night. Meet at the dirt lot on the Santee side with a 6:30 departure time. We also do a Thursday night ride that's more challenging/longer depending on what people are up for. BTW, almost everyone has a Taco, Jeep, or other 4x4 that we take out and thrash on the weekends.

 

Great thread.

 

Albert, so is the SAT 1/11 ride on for 9AM or 1PM? Based on reading some comments, I'm a little confused. I plan on riding this SAT with my buddy (who was supposed to join last time at Sweetwater), but now we're just deciding time and location.

 

I believe the event at MTRP starts at 9AM. I can't make that ride because I'm still at work. So the main ride for the month is this event. I certainly don't want to remove it just because I can't go.

In return, I am going to ride Mission Trails that same day but I think closer to 1:30 starting from the Clairemont Mesa side. So essentially there are two rides at the same place (but different meeting locations) and at two different times.

 

Ill ride with you guys at 1:30pm. I think ill just cruise around in the morning.

In the meantime if you guys want to sign this petition would be awesome.

https://sites.google.com/site/missingtrails/home

Thanks,

Grant

 

Should I be expecting to ride with anyone today?

 

Did anyone show up? Sorry didn't ride I ended up at the 9 o clock ride till 12. Here is a look at the turnout videod by a friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhSJ3PcTRLo

 

^ That was an impressive crowd of bikers.

Yeah, I decided to still go. To my knowledge no one else went. I got there about 1:45PM and started to ride by 2PM. Surprisingly there were still a good number of people out on the trails. I was in and out though. I rode well even though I was by myself.

I'll take suggestions for the next ride next month. Thoughts?

 

Want to try noble again? Im down for some new places. All I really ride are PQ, MTRP, ATT, and TW.

 

Was noble the one with that bad ass YouTube video?

 

how about carrizo gorge??

 

That I posted earlier, yeah.

carrizo gorge is that the train/tunnel one? Id be down for that.

Took a night spin at PQ this evening and went OTB pretty good.



Ended up bending my handlebar and breaking the stem cap.

 

Damn!
I assume you're alright? Not enough light out there at night? Come on Grant, be careful. At least tell me you weren't alone... right?

 

Ya I was taking my friend on his first night ride since he just got lights. Was only riding with one light dimmed which probably didn't help too much. I'm fine solely because of the helmet.

 

Still no ride posted on the front page?

 

Went to Laguna beach with some friends and rode telonics, silver surfer, and backdoor. DH trails that are definitely a lot steeper than they look on video. Here is a short edit.

http://www.pinkbike.com/v/embed/349115/?colors=C80000

 

I know. I'll get it up later tonight.

That looked like a great trail. Did you have to caravan back up like Noble?

 

I'm in San Diego and would like to get into MTB. What's the ideal bike for riding the local San Diego trails?

 

Rode Otay with two buddies on Sat as an inaugural test ride on my new Giant. Shit was fun and hopefully ride with you schmucks sometime soon.

 

Those trails in the video we shuttled similar to Noble but there are a ton of cross country trails that you can loop, we where probably the only DH people there that day.

Depends on what kind of riding you want to do. If you want a bike that can do 90% of the trails in SD I would get a 5-6" full suspension bike. The majority of trails in SD are Cross Country.