Keith B
Professional Lion Tamer
RR: San Juan to Blue Jay out & back.
Here’s a few pics and words from yesterdays ride up to Blue Jay.
Riders were Andy, Anne, Damon M, Eric & 6spot.
After last weeks all out thrash on the main divide this was a nice cruise of a ride. Eric was out to set his best time – so we only saw him at the half way stage and up at Blue Jay.
The dead fox at the top of the switchbacks reeked of death 4 weeks ago but today it just looked like it was waiting for some grungy hiker to make it into a fur hat or something – downhill winter mitts anyone?!
6 spot had locked his keys in his car before we started and he caught us up just before cocktail – Damon and I decided to nail the last section which resulted in a lot of expensive sounds from pedals and crank arms hitting rock. Got to love the way those 29er’s roll over the rough stuff.
From cocktail up to Blue Jay the trail is pretty technical and by the time we came back to cocktail rocks everyone seemed dead-beat mentally. Chasing 6 spot down from Cocktail was great fun. He set a ripping pace and keeping right behind him was the only way to keep out of the dust that was thrown up.
This has to be one of the best single track descents in southern California as it has a bit of everything; speed, hairpins, jumps, exposure and all manner of turns. I made it 3 hairpins from the bottom before wiping out by trying to carry too much speed through one of the hairpins. After telling 6 that it was easy to get out of clipless pedals one foot got jammed whilst trying to bail out and as the Stumpy made a desperate bid to bury itself in the bushes I flew off down the trail in true Superman style – except I discovered that I couldn’t actually fly.:lol:
Here’s a few pics and words from yesterdays ride up to Blue Jay.
Riders were Andy, Anne, Damon M, Eric & 6spot.
After last weeks all out thrash on the main divide this was a nice cruise of a ride. Eric was out to set his best time – so we only saw him at the half way stage and up at Blue Jay.
The dead fox at the top of the switchbacks reeked of death 4 weeks ago but today it just looked like it was waiting for some grungy hiker to make it into a fur hat or something – downhill winter mitts anyone?!
6 spot had locked his keys in his car before we started and he caught us up just before cocktail – Damon and I decided to nail the last section which resulted in a lot of expensive sounds from pedals and crank arms hitting rock. Got to love the way those 29er’s roll over the rough stuff.
From cocktail up to Blue Jay the trail is pretty technical and by the time we came back to cocktail rocks everyone seemed dead-beat mentally. Chasing 6 spot down from Cocktail was great fun. He set a ripping pace and keeping right behind him was the only way to keep out of the dust that was thrown up.
This has to be one of the best single track descents in southern California as it has a bit of everything; speed, hairpins, jumps, exposure and all manner of turns. I made it 3 hairpins from the bottom before wiping out by trying to carry too much speed through one of the hairpins. After telling 6 that it was easy to get out of clipless pedals one foot got jammed whilst trying to bail out and as the Stumpy made a desperate bid to bury itself in the bushes I flew off down the trail in true Superman style – except I discovered that I couldn’t actually fly.:lol:
