Weekend Ride

photo by Denis

An Old Picture, When the Moment Was Freshly Off The Assembly Line

 

Shed Ride 4/13/08

Denis and I did many miles of fine Shed ride today (his computer wasn't working right, and I didn't even bring mine along). We started from the Hamburg lot, headed north via the right side trail, struggled through the Enchanted Forest/Tim's trail, little Canaan, flew down Fishing Creek, turned right on Mountaindale, ground up Death March, toured Super Sweet, crossed the Gambrill Park road, climbed up and went to the 4-way near Thurmont overlook, turned left, crossed the Gambrill Park road again, turned right at the 3-way, down and crossed fishing creek to blue, played in that huge rock garden a little :), climbed up to the pond, dropped down Crystal Clear, crossed Delauter Rd, followed the blue, took the freeride cut, then climbed the right side back to Hamburg lot. Three and half hour total time.

We even timed the trip from 15 to Hamburg. Apparently, from rt 40 exit to hamburg is 10 miles, and Hamburg to Rosemont exit is only about 8.1 miles. Both route took around 15 minutes.

Photo credit: Denis.

Frederick Watershed

Well, it was a beautiful afternoon for riding and hiking in the shed, and Denis had a little bit flavors of both.

We did the same route as last Saturday. Half way down the Lawnmower I heard Denis calling. When I asked "are you OK?" the answer I got was "no". So I turned around and found Denis standing there, one hand on handlebar and one on frame, but the two pieces were no longer held together. It turned out, the Manitou fork steering tube snapped, sending Denis to the ground briefly. It looked like an EOTR (end of the ride) situation, but I still asked Denis if he packed a spare fork just to be sure. Anyway, we did some trailside emergency care - to the bike - so at least Denis can walk with the bike. Nicolas and I then rode on and finished the ride, while Denis enjoyed the walk in the spring woods, sunshine, breeze, birds singing, dogs barking, all those kinds of things.

ps, nobody broke a chain today.

pps, a rock jumped up and hugged the derailleur hanger on my Moment, warranted a side trip to Avalon Cycles in Germantown.