WinTaper
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So I had my first experience at Wharton on Sunday. I did the big Orange Trail loop. Wow, now that's a lotta singletrack. It was quite fun - and a serious workout getting through all of it. Definitely worth the trip every now and then - I ride Allaire mostly, as I am close to it, which is totally different.
The Penn Branch trail is hours of relentless twisty-turny singletrack with no break in sight. It'll wear your arms down in addition to your legs. Dunno if it was because it was late in the season, but it was so overgrown/narrow in spots I had to remove a lot of vegetation from the bike. Some of those tree gates were pretty tight for my 720mm bar - I got a little tired of those - and I wouldn't want to ride with anything wider.
It's nice that there are no real hills to climb - but that means there are none to go down either - the result is constant pedaling. I took several breaks throughout the ride and drank copious amounts of water to compensate.
All in all a great day and great ride - I'll have to come back again.
-Dan
The Penn Branch trail is hours of relentless twisty-turny singletrack with no break in sight. It'll wear your arms down in addition to your legs. Dunno if it was because it was late in the season, but it was so overgrown/narrow in spots I had to remove a lot of vegetation from the bike. Some of those tree gates were pretty tight for my 720mm bar - I got a little tired of those - and I wouldn't want to ride with anything wider.
It's nice that there are no real hills to climb - but that means there are none to go down either - the result is constant pedaling. I took several breaks throughout the ride and drank copious amounts of water to compensate.
All in all a great day and great ride - I'll have to come back again.
-Dan