3/18
1:36
https://www.strava.com/activities/904826868
Happy St. Patrick’s day again. Corn beef and cabbage on the evening menu with the parents tonight.
@jimvreeland , who built these snappy Nextie rims below, suggested Six Mile at the crackadawn and it was just about perfect on the Fattie. Rode Blue from the canal and it was a little slow. About a mile in I lost the trail, circled back, and lost it again. At that instant also realized that it didn’t matter, because the bike was floating on top of the crust and I could ride anywhere.
I sojourned off the trail up to Blackwells Mills side:
I rode up on a stopped
@GHM73 and concurred on how great the Blue trails were then rode on. Just before the long wooden causeway bridge, I was trundling up a rise between two cedars, when my rear wheel slipped out and I dropped off the left edge of the trail between two other cedars. At that moment,
@GHM73 and Mike, who I had met riding the Cedar Shakes three years ago rode by. These were two of the only three other riders that I saw Saturday morning, blowing by me when I was flattened off the trail under my bike. The embarrassment...
Godsmack on the phones.
Red was choppy and starting to melt at 10am. Glen said that White was starting to deteriorate. Six Mile will be a mess for a week. At least.