RR: Str Bbq

[CC]

Well I guess we just couldn't get enough. Someone actually said..."Just one more run"....And you know how that can go...

Well It started to sprinkle on the lift up, and the drops got consistently heavier and heavier as we made our way up. We start to roll off the summit with a pretty good down pour. But the one thing we notice, there's no dust...the trails are pretty sweet, Its not exactly grippy, but without the dust the trails are clear and you feel like you can hit it a little faster without dirt in your eyes. The rain let up and we hit another trail head.

We had a few flats, but no real problems to speak of. It turned out to be one of the best runs of the day.

Here's a pic of Stephen (my son) on the way down the lift, I guess he had enough riding for the day.
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The crew at the Pirate trail head
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Neil
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Art & Shu
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Willie
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Pamela
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Dean
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Shu...checking out a possible teeter totter
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Shortly after we hit the bottom of the trials and onto the fire road back the sky started to open. I ended back at camp totally soaked and ready for some dry clothes.


Thanks EVERYONE!! I had a great time!!

[ohyeah89]

What a BLAST! I was looking forward to riding in Big Bear for what seems like FOREVER and wow, I was not disappointed!

Saturday morning, Mark and I drove to the park to get our magic ticket and I finally got to meet Traci. Traci, it was great meeting you and thanks for organizing this whole thing!

We then drove up to the lifts and Mark took off and I joined up with the Newbie CROSS COUNTRY ride (lol). Ghixon (thanks for leading), Steppie, Willie, Lety, Laura and I along with two others (Permagrin! I didn't know that was you (until you posted) great to meet you!) made the trek (haha ok, in all honestly, it wasn't that long at all)


Rode up the lift with Laura.

It was a great ride. A little more climbing than I had expected (I was riding Mark's Gary Fisher Fat Possum which was a little heavy/big for me) but the downhills were definitely worth it! I had never rode in the mountains before so even the fire roads were cool to me.

One of our first single track excursions was up this real short climb I think it was called Grandview. It was indeed a grand view from up top.

Our group at the top of Grandview.


Even managed to get to take some bike porn while we were up there.

Then we were back to the fire road heading to Stonehedge. Now THAT was a BLAAAAST! It was definitely my favorite part of the day and my favorite trail! Thanks so much to for letting me follow your line! I really did feel like a kid in a candy store. It was SO MUCH fuuuuuuuuuuun!

We were then off to Pine Knot which was a really fun trail until I fixated on the drop-offs. I let the drops off the side of the narrow trail mess with my head so I walked a lot of what I could have easily ridden but hopefully it is just a matter of getting used to, which I plan to!

After a LOOONG climb back we were heading back down into the town. The last bit of the trail was paved with these big rocks (shale?) and I decided to go for it. I had almost made it most of the way when I started losing control and ate it HARD. 10 yrds from being done, LOL. I fell pretty hard on my wrist/hand. I was still able to ride, albeit uncomfortably, holding my bar loosely with my right hand and only using my front brakes (left side) back to the lBBQ at the lake park.

WOW, that was a lot of food. Good to see everyone and talk with you! I stayed for a bit chatting with everyone but was getting cold and KNEW I didn't want to ride my bike up to the lifts so I called Mark and he so graciously took time out of his DHing to come pick me and the bike up.


One of the cutest doggies ever in the midst of all the bikes.

I REALLY wanted to ride more, especially more dh oriented rides but although I could still hold the handlebar (uncomfortably), I couldn't squeeze nor grip very tight without A LOT of pain so there was no way I was going to ride DH probably even more tense/stiff then I already do and with only squeezing my front brakes.

So, that was probably the biggest bummer of the day, not being able to ride more but I made the best of it and took a book, my camera, and a sweatshirt up the lifts for the rest of the day.

YES, I was the loner girl taking pics of everyone on the lift... LOL


I SWEAR I thought I knew the guy on the right from Sunday Loop rides but as they passed I heard, "Hey that girl is taking a picture of us!" Haha... yeah awkward. I still think they might be STR'ers so here you go. I swear I wasn't stalking you or trying to pick up on you! LOL


Katonk and his dad


Chuck/Happy Gilmore, Boats?, Jay


From Afar...


Lee and Ko


DavidB, Freekngo, and Integradriver/Jesse


Stinkyrider


Willie and Dean

At one point they had the lifts shut down for a good 10 minutes, maybe 20, with tons of people still on them because one of the chairs got stuck.


Summit workers trying to "unstick" the chair

I walked a little ways down one of the trails to try to get some action shots...

Mark


DavidB


Freekengo


And Jesse... too fast for the camera.

Mark and I joined Happy, Katonk and his dad, and Jay at the Big Bear Brewery for dinner.

What a weekend! I had such a great time, on the cc ride as well as at the BBQ and ESPECIALLY on Stonehedge!!!! Thanks everyone to showing up, the people (well maybe the riding too, lol) is what makes these events so fun!

Lastly, my favorite picture

[2wheel_lee]

I'll admit that I'm terrible with names. Looking through many of these posts with pictures and names, I'm thinking "Oh! That's who that person is!"

Next event of this magnitude, we should all wear name tags.

Also, thanks to all who took and post photos. I had my camera in my Camelbak, but I forgot to take it out and take photos.

[art23rockpile]

Originally Posted by 2wheel_lee

I pinch flatted more times on Saturday than I have in the past two years - 5 times! My last flat of the day was actually two flats at the same time!

Do you remember what we were talking about when you got the first one? I was saying how the winning formula for D-ville was Schwalbes with 35lbs.+ pressure, and you felt my tires and said I should drop my pressure some.
Within minutes, your tire went flat!

[jeffj]

Rich hit this as though he could do it in his sleep.....



Ted follows Rich's fine example...

[Permagrin]

What a great time - Traci and Neil, thank you for organizing this get-together, you guys rock!

This was my first time riding BB and I had a blast! The beginner ride up to Grandview and then down Stonehenge and Pine Knot was great fun. And when Tara came down Pine Knot and we all asked in unison "so, how'd you like that trail?" She smiled from mountain to mountain and said "It was fuuuun!" It was then that I knew a future rider was born. Thanks to Greg for leading the ride and to Dean for sweeping. When we finished that ride Willy, Letty, Tony and I went back up and (I think) rode Upper and Lower Fall Line and man those trails were super fun, sand, dust, rocks and all. I wanted to keep riding but my stomach was telling me it wasn't going to let me, so we went in search of food and were not disappointed. I couldn't believe all the people who had shown up!

On the way home we hit serious rain and I was wondering if it worked it's way up the mountain and I guess it did, but for good riding .

JoeTruth, thanks for the taboleh, that stuff was goooood! And many thanks to everyone who showed up to make this such a great time. I met more folks to put names to avatars than I can remember right now but suffice it to say the day was a huge success all around.

[Magna_Graecia]

God, this looked like fun. I really wanted to go, but I had to make a decision between gas to the event, food until payday, or finish getting the last of my parts for my Chumba build... I chose option C. (^_^);;;;;

I really want to say my Chumba is now ready to ride... oh how I wish I could say that... but that's a story for another time. Let's just say I hate Truvativ with a fiery, burning passion.

Oh, is it my imagination, or are there a great many triple-crown forks in the preceeding pictures? I thought that was verboten by the skilift gestapo.

[2wheel_lee]

ALL of those triple clamp forks have less than 6" of travel.

[BandMan]

Originally Posted by JoeTruth

I took a little OTB and landed in some thorny bush and needed help getting out. Glad I bought me some knee and elbow pads, which minimized damage.

That's STR for you! We kindly helped out this transient that was sleeping in the bushes and kindly escorted him to the nearest shelter Dude smelled pretty ripe.


Unfortunately I didn't take too many pics since it was just too fun hitting these trails. Went on 6 lifts for $10. What a steal! Thank you Neil and Traci for putting this together. Everywhere I rode I just seen STR peeps with smiles from ear to ear.

I was mainly a bystander checking out all the log launching going on throughout the day.
Andy pretty much was hitting all of them.


Lee follows


I think it's Geronimo?


Lee with some stye points!


Noel and I carpooled with Andy who kindly drove both ways. Missed lunch but but Tobi and Joe were there grilling some tasty Bangers and Kabob. Tobi's wife surprised him as she left a nice bottle of scotch in the trunk for us to celebrate his B-Day (this Thurs. 7-17). Chris, Neil and the rest of the last riders regrouped at the table and it was party #2!!! Great freekin" weekend to go down in history!!!

[dubl_xl]

What a way to spend a Saturday! I had such a great time riding with a lot of really cool people. Special thanks to Neil and Traci for setting up the "First Annual STR Big Bear BBQ" (actually, I added the "first annual" but I could see it becoming one). I have wanted to ride Summit for a long time but have always been concerned that my bike wouldn't fit the "requirements" because of my double ring with bashguard setup. Rules stated that bikes must have 3 rings up front unless set-up as a singlespeed. I went so far as to consider buying a "fake" big ring to use in place of my bashguard. Imagine my relief when the first bike I saw at the lifts was an Iron Horse Sunday World Cup (dual crown fork nonetheless). My Kona Stinky didn't look so bad after all. The lifties were all pretty cool and I didn't see anyone getting vibed over their choice of bikes(maybe someone slipped them a 6er of their favorite beverages beforehand) Now I have the Big Bear bug and can't wait to hit it up again soon, it is great practice for my Mammoth trip coming up the first weekend in August. Thanks again Neil and Traci, the $10 lift tickets were the icing on the cake!

[Happy_Gilmore]

Thanks to Traci and Neil for setting up this ride, STR just doesn't get much better than this.

This ride was reminiscent of last years Mammoth closing day weekend, when the weather turned to snow, only this time it was rain drops the size of quarters, flash flooding, and very cold at the top of the mountain.

The trails were there usual selfs: eating tires, tubes, spokes, brakes levers, derrailleur's, body parts, I even lost my rear caliper (bolts backed right out), that's funny because I don't even remember using my rear brakes (chuckle, chuckle), I still have the brake level imprints on the back of my fingers a day later.

The trails did get nice and tacky just before the downpour, by the time we hit the bottom at the service road flash flooding was occurring, and did I get soaked.

We got in 8 runs totaling 32 miles of riding, not bad for $10.00.

The day ended with dinner at the Boulder Bay Brewery with Mark, "Tara", Jay, Tim, Tim's Dad. Caught a shot of a rainbow on the drive out, It was and end to awesome STR ride.


It was was great meeting and riding STR members

Mark / Stinkyrider (aka Glory0rider): Trail guide, Human GPS
Jay: You are getting way to fast, its time for a DH bike
Tim: You rocked the steep downhill on a 4" Trance
Tim's Dad: (Forgot your name, was great meeting you)
David B: Thanks for the pictures, and you did not need that front Derailleur it was just slowing you down anyway Mark / Mfoga: Good riding with you bro
Art23rockpile: I was the other guy (?) who bandaged you up, you rode off before paying your bill
Pato: Nice Foe's FXR 2:1 you were ripping it up, sweet bike
Ken/ freekengo: It would not be a ride without the sounds Bro
Sarboats: It was good meeting you