Got back Monday. Trend did epic battle with an epic trail and wound up dazzled by the awesome singletrack, cramping and puking a little. It was pretty hot. Pyrofloptic burned out three of the four climbs and called it a day.
I hung with Scott from uBRDO Cycle and Mountain in Kirkland WA most of the day. We did some wrenching, some BSing and some beer drinking. Good guy. Sounds like his shop is pretty much what TBS Bike and Sport would be like if such a thing existed…
There were a lot of fairly beat down people sunday. I suppose that was the point. I even got in on some of that action Saturday taking a hard slammer into the lower section of the Alpine Trail (?) which we rode with Nat and his crew from Seattle on Saturday. I think I broke (or bruised REALLY bad) a rib.
Oregon is amazing. The forests are SOOOO THICK!!! Ferns, evergreens, flowers, green plants EVERYWHERE!! And poison oak. Fortunately the had Techu for us in the showers. That stuff works pretty well. Doesn’t do shit for cramps though.
We met a dude named Kris from Seattle area who is an engineer for e13 components. He and trent helped pace each other in the first few laps. then Kris punked him with a can of Ensure. (We’ll get our revenge punk!!!) maybe pretty soon, Kris said he’s coming down for a Tahoe Epic, stay tuned…
I’m really stoked to get back up there and do more riding. Super bummed that TheRestlessApe and I got squeezed out of it due to being old and broken.
But what can you do. It’s the bitching and moaning that makes the difference between a baconstripper and a Creampuff… Good work TRENT!!
-M
Nice job sheik!!!! Good to see there were no TBS casualties…team is on a bad run so maybe this is the turnaround we needed! All I can think about is what McD said to me the nite the drunkard took him out….”your’e next Buster”. DAMMIT!
the Puff is TUFF! good on ya for making the most of it. i sure hope to get out next year to put forth a solid effort. we’ll see how Gromm and Mom are doin’ by then. heck, Mom may go for it and i’ll get to run the Aide 2 bacon burrito station, turning wrenches and suffering a few barley pops again. now that’s fun too, in a wholly different and special sort of way. i’d just have to ride the Mid Fork Trail way way way up to those lakes, then down Bunch Grass Ridge to town first. then i’d be pretty much useless for a few days, but not too useless to be a gud crew.
glad to hear you guys went up there and had some fun.
Mark