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I ride because when its just me, my bike, and the trail (maybe some friends) I forget everything that clutters up my brain. Clarity. I ride because when I’m pushing myself up a nasty hill and I keep telling myself "just a little further and then I can rest (then just keep going anyway)," I like to feel that well-deserved smile creep across my face, then back to the grimmace and grind. Internal feeling of accomplishment. I ride because when my tires leave the ground, regardless of whether I stick it or eat it, my heart starts racing and I know that, if only for a few short seconds, I’m flying. Adrenaline. I ride to feel the wind in my face and nature all around. That’s why I ride.
Reads like a commercial. hahaha.
Just to let anyone living in the West Texas/New Mex. area know that there is a MTB trail (singletrack) in the works right now. Volunteers will be needed to help build. Please PM me if you would like info and/or to volunteer. Thanks. I live in Midland, Tx and this is the first singletrack that has been open here for over five years. If anyone has any input on professional trail builders, please post it. The group doing the trail is considering bringing in a pro. group to help build.
Thanks for all the input folks.
Well, I live in west texas but I have ridden in Oklahoma (around broken bow lake), Dallas, and Mississippi (mt. Zion trail and butts park). I am planning a Texas mtb tour to hit a bunch of the trails here and th I’d like to venture out to Moab and Colorado to tackle the big stuff. I am 5’7" if that helps. As for how I wanna ride, lots of jumps, long rides, some big climbing, and downhill are what I’d like to stick to.
I would rather not go over $3k if possible.
Well, not a whole lot to be honest. I basically got a really cheap-o bike first and completely destroyed it about the third time out. I was so stoked about the sick riding I got to do on it before smashing it that I wasn’t even upset. I just went out and bought a slightly more expensive (but still cheap) bike and was a little more careful with this one. I would like to ride harder and longer but I’m worried about killing this one as well. So, really I just started going a 100 mph with no training and had a blast. I thought I’d better get something better suited to take the beating that I’m probably going to inflict trying to learn how to MTB the hard way.
