This might hurt a little
The dirt riders of the team gathered out at Scappose yesterday for a little singletrack exploration and early season leg stretching. For some of us this was our first trip out to this area and after riding the trails for a bit I can say this surely won’t be the last.
Anyway, the group of us headed out from the cars at the first pull out as you head up the hill and warmed up by climbing the gravel road to the first singletrack trail that we came too. Now you should know that the gravel roads acts as the glue to this entire network as all of the trials launch off of it; either to one side of the road or the other. Certainly one of the best features to this area is how well the trails stay dry even when it’s been downpouring in PDX like it has for much of the previous week.
Along with the trails being in great shape they are full of fun, swoopy, fast sections and short punchy climbs, although some of the climbs are certainly longer that others, none of them are too bad. These trails are also full of fun little technical sections such as log ramps and rooted out areas that require a nice bit of balance and finesse to get over without getting off the bike.
After criss-crossing the road a few times and working our way through several of the trail networks we ended up back on the road and a couple of the guys who’d been out here before thought it would be a good idea if we kept going out until we hit the next network; it was here that a bad thing happened. Along the ride we came to a downed tree and after working our way around it and in the midst of everyone regrouping, I decided that since I am such a “master” of the bike I would ride a little wheelie, which started out just fine, however the little wheelie quikly went horribly wrong as I began tipping over backwards. the tipping over backwards in itself should not have been a terrible thing, but couple the tipping with not being able to get my feet out of the pedals and you quickly see the problem; I took this little wheelie and rode it to it’s conclusion which constituted pile driving my a** into the ground and bringing me to that wonderful place of pain where your body isn’t quite sure whether it should throw up or soil your britches. It goes without saying that my day was prematurely brought to an end by this mishap.
I would like to thank my teammates who quickly rallied around and began divying up my gear as they came to the immediate conclusion that I should be “put down” to end my misery.
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2 Comments on This might hurt a little
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jeff on
Sun, 31st Jan 2010 11:48 am
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Paul on
Mon, 1st Feb 2010 1:45 pm
LOL. Nothing an ice pack an a few beers can’t fix, I hope! 
Yeah, it’ll take more than an ice pack and beer to fix this boo-boo!
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