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Dooh! after posting I realized that Gold Beach is the campground in Prarie Creek State Park. The park has 17 miles worth of trails and they are pretty darn good, so have fun.
Prarie Creek State park has some good trails. Be sure to check out Fern Canyon and ride through Rockefeller Forest.
Family comes first, two sons and Lucila my wife. My 8 year is just starting to get on the trails. The one year old is still holding out. Anyone have any suggestions for a good mtn bike for an 8 year old?
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You will love this. I was in Junior high trying to put the chain back on the bike while riding it. I got the chain back on and lost the ends of two of my fingers.
They were building some condos at the time and I asked the workers to take me to the hospital. They told me to quit dipping my hand in red paint and go to school. So I grabbed my hand and rode the rest of the way to school. The nurse at school freaked. I think I was calmer then she was. I ended up in the ER for five hours while the grafted some skin onto the end of my middle finger after cutting the bone down so it didn’t stick out above the finger nail.
My best crash ever. Well to set the stage this was before bikes had suspension and I had this wonderful Nishiki bike with ground control brakes(these were some stupid invention some engineer had, they put the brakes on the bottom of the frame on the lower bars of the rear triangle).
A week earlier I had hit a rock with the brakes down there and bent the post on one of the brakes. I had to remove the back brakes because the bike wouldn’t roll since the bent bar forced the brakes to always be engaged. The bike was now retired from mountain biking but I thought it was save for road riding, boy was I wrong.
My friend and I had run out of gas in his van but I had my bike with me so I jumped on it with a gas can and headed out to get some petrol. I was flying down this residential street and a car backed out in front of me. Instincts took over and I grabbed the brake handles. Big mistake. I flew over the bars and rolled over just in time for the large sprocket to hit me sqaure in the nose. I got three puncture scars from the teeth on the sprocket and a broken nose to boot. I think this beats the time when I cut off the ends of two of my fingers while riding a bike.
