Lake Hodges, Sunday 8/12 @ 3 PM

[bjammin]

no problem

[sladnas]

Sounds like I missed a good time... I was just too tired after getting home from Ocotillo. I'll be there in the future though.

[allison]

Originally Posted by PacMan

Final tally for both sides was 21.89 miles with 1,569' of verticle gain, which I feel pretty good about considering I did it all on the SS

Nice!!

Andrea didn't come out?? If you see Franky again tell her she should've gone on the road ride instead

[Evil Chocula]

Originally Posted by PacMan

Extra thanks to Ben for showing my dad and I around the south side. We need to ride that again when we have more time.

Hells ya... I've never ridden the South Side, I vote to start it off with that next week

PS Pacman- Next weekends gonna be tough on the legs.

[PacMan]

Originally Posted by Evil Chocula

Hells ya... I've never ridden the South Side, I vote to start it off with that next week

PS Pacman- Next weekends gonna be tough on the legs.

Ya, we can absolutley do the south side first next weekend.

Ya, we should be logging some good miles next weekend. LPQ Saturday will be around 15-ish miles. Midnight Madness that night is supposed to be 20 and then another 13-20 Sunday afternoon. Sounds like good times to me

[allison]

Originally Posted by PacMan

Ya, we can absolutley do the south side first next weekend.

Ya, we should be logging some good miles next weekend. LPQ Saturday will be around 15-ish miles. Midnight Madness that night is supposed to be 20 and then another 13-20 Sunday afternoon. Sounds like good times to me

No Snow Summit for you bubbs??

[Evil Chocula]

Originally Posted by allison

No Snow Summit for you bubbs??

Haven't you heard? Hodges is the new Snow Summit

[Evil Chocula]

Originally Posted by mechmann

Not without a lift to take you to Bernardo Peak!!!

Lift!?! Shuttling is against everything I stand for

[PacMan]

Originally Posted by allison

No Snow Summit for you bubbs??

My guess is I'll be too tired to make the early start. How long will you guys be there? I'd like to go, but I don't think I can get there that early. If you guys will be there for awhile, maybe I could come up around noon??

[allison]

Originally Posted by PacMan

My guess is I'll be too tired to make the early start. How long will you guys be there? I'd like to go, but I don't think I can get there that early. If you guys will be there for awhile, maybe I could come up around noon??

We'll be riding from 9 am to 4pm ~

Justin got hurt, so we bailed around 3:30 last weekend (still could've gotten 1-2 runs in, since they are open til 5pm on Sat's).

Let me know. I'll give you my cell # if you want to call us in the a.m.

[mtbcat]

yo peeps keep up the hodges training rides and in two weeks when my dislocated shoulder is all better we can do the 40 mi west , south, east ,north loop 3500 ft . ill be out of shape and we can all suffer together. "auhh !!my dog just farted ". but it feels great when your back at the car havin a cold one. also going to put a ride together for PQ. ride from the shop probuiltwheels.com aprx. 18 mi then beer and bbq. keep riding mtbcat.

[PacMan]

Originally Posted by mtbcat

we can do the 40 mi west , south, east ,north loop 3500 ft .

I can see the mileage, but to get that kind of elevation you gotta be throwing in Elfin??

And yes, Hodges is a good training ride on a SS. After all, the only people who need gears at Hodges are kids and newbies.

[Evil Chocula]

Originally Posted by PacMan

I can see the mileage, but to get that kind of elevation you gotta be throwing in Elfin??

And yes, Hodges is a good training ride on a SS. After all, the only people who need gears at Hodges are kids and newbies.

So, am I kid or a newbie then?

[PacMan]

Originally Posted by Evil Chocula

So, am I kid or a newbie then?

Take your pick

[bjammin]

I've been enlightened by the "machine" as to the hidden gems at hodges. We can set something up when your better Woody.

[mtbcat]

Originally Posted by PacMan

I can see the mileage, but to get that kind of elevation you gotta be throwing in Elfin??

And yes, Hodges is a good training ride on a SS. After all, the only people who need gears at Hodges are kids and newbies.

you will soon find out grass hopper its there just ask ben and he's only done a 3rd of the ride we do we even skiped bernardo that day but when we do the 40 mi we warm up first then climb a couple of mole hills then bernardo, south side , east then back behind the rb golf course plenty of climbing here then down and out to rapter ridge and back to hernandez and if you want we can throw in a tractor pull near the end I love it that peeps think hodges is flat . keep riding mtbcat.

[PacMan]

Originally Posted by mtbcat

you will soon find out grass hopper its there just ask ben and he's only done a 3rd of the ride we do we even skiped bernardo that day but when we do the 40 mi we warm up first then climb a couple of mole hills then bernardo, south side , east then back behind the rb golf course plenty of climbing here then down and out to rapter ridge and back to hernandez and if you want we can throw in a tractor pull near the end I love it that peeps think hodges is flat . keep riding mtbcat.

Sounds like fun--in a sort of masochistic kind of way. As soon as you heal up. this grasshopper would like to be "enlightened about the ways of Hodges".

I love the (what seems to be) majority opinion in SD that Hodges is a joke, but if you know where to look, there's lots of good stuff out there.

[mtbcat]

Originally Posted by mechmann

dude... dislocated shoulder??? no way. how did you hurt "The Machine"???!!! must have been like a 50mph crash!

nope just ended up nose heavy on a huck poped out clean then I put it back in place. then rode back to truck . ice .then next day had it looked at $40.00 he said i was lucky it was clean and that i did a good job putting it back in place cleanly. I take ibp's to get me thru work cant lift heavy objects unless its a large bale washed up on the beach . and of course cant risk riding and falling on it . sucks but it could have been worse. so now i just chase the budweiser bottle hanging in front of me on the stationary bike not!!

[sladnas]

Originally Posted by PacMan

Sounds like fun--in a sort of masochistic kind of way. As soon as you heal up. this grasshopper would like to be "enlightened about the ways of Hodges".

I love the (what seems to be) majority opinion in SD that Hodges is a joke, but if you know where to look, there's lots of good stuff out there.

Hodges can be as flat and boring as you want it to be...but try to tell that to the several that have lost their lives on the trails there. Hodges claims many injuries on its "flat and boring" stretches.

I personally love it and all the connecting systems.

[PacMan]

The deaths that I know of were caused primarily to the rider not wearing a helmet.

Justin--your crash was at the creek, at the bottom of the really steep hill not far from the marina, right?? I have heard of 2 people that died there, both not wearing a helmet.

Countless others have been seriously hurt on the 3' high jump/kicker on the upper singletrack. My dad is one, Evil Chocula's buddy another, I've read 4-5 different stories on MTBR about people getting messed up on that jump.

There used to be a jump/kicker at the bottom, where the upper singletrack drops back down to the fireroad and I heard that people were always getting hurt there and when one rider died, the rangers bulldozed it.

Granted, I heard all these from other people and who knows where they got the info, but I know one of the guys who told me really well. He is a long time San Diego resident, a long time MTBer and has no reason to lie to me.