I attended my first weekly ride with the crew down in Eagle, Colorado (Mountain Bike Capital of the World). Went out by myself for a quick warm up on Bone Yard to the first gate on the forest road where I joined PFD (Peter Davis). We descended back down to Mountain Pedaler Bike Shop to meet up with the rest of the red coats and a few blue coats (Ronan Murray and Chris Cook). At the shop we waited for 10-20 minutes for our group of 4 to grow into 15-20 riders. We headed out the back alleys of Eagle into Eagle Ranch to the race course (Bailey's connector) to the 4th of July parking lot so we could ride Pipeline. Once we got to the Pipeline Trail, John Kish "I love pushing hard and riding fast", put the hammer down and turned the ride into a stop-n-drop (Elgee - Larry Grossman term from the Father's Day ride 2005). So the ride pace was high so it turned into the dirt version of the Ride of Silence in honor of local rider Brett Malin! The reason for the silence was no one could talk since we were all breathing hard from the pace being set up front!
At the top of Pipeline we re-grouped, temporarily, then set out to try out a new cow/game trail (soon to be single-track) that takes off of hardscrabble road to the east that the Pete's recommended. The new loop was about 2-3 miles in length, unnamed so far, and included a few winter run off stream crossings. With minor trail cleaning this could become a nice little addition to the already famous single-track in Eagle.
Ride ended with a dusty decent down Pipeline to the Dusty Boot for a few cold Beers!
Thanks to all for a great ride!
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