Boy I’m sure glad I chose to ride this morning! It may have been a bit of a wet ride in, but the sun was bright and the clouds few as I rode home in 22° weather! I would’ve been mighty annoyed if I was driving home with weather like this…
As I started down into Peterson’s creek, the front brake started making a strange “click” noise when I pressed it. I’m thinking my pads are done maybe? The front was pretty loose, so at the bottom I tightened up the cable and moved the wheel-side pad in a bit and that seemed to get rid of the noise and the braking was good. I did, however, phone Taboo when I got home and they do have a pair of pads in stock so I’ll have to go and pick them up soon.
The ride down, through and back up Peterson’s Creek was pretty good. I had a tough time on the climb, both out of the creek bank and up the hill. But the rest of the ride went well. Of course, I continued to head up Frolek’s upper road to the new gulley trails that Phil showed me. As I came to the gulley trailhead, I caught up with two bikers (a father and son I think), but they kept going straight up the road. I didn’t talk to them, and the older biker looked like Brian? It wasn’t the same Brodie bike he rides, though, but I suppose he might have bought a new one maybe?
The new trail was sweet. Not nearly as steep as I remembered yesterday, but steep enough still!
Rather difficult to really capture this new trail with a cell phone camera. But you can sort of see how the trail banks up in front of the bike, then drops down to the left behind the trees and continues down. This part will be SWEET once I get used to it! At the lower bank, the trail goes under that fallen tree.
Glancing back over the trail as it winds and banks it’s way down.
Not much for steep here or anything, but still a cool, winding trail shot I guess?
The bike is just off to the right of the trail, just short of a bit of a drop (only about a foot) over some rocks, and then the trail drops and twists to the left. This is probably one of the steeper sections, but, again, tough to capture on this phone!
The rest of the ride was good. As I got to the top of the last hill at the Rose Hill pipeline section, I stood there catching my breath and noticed another biker coming behind me (quite a ways back). I thought about waiting around, but figured I just wanted to get going so I continued on. As I came down the main trail through to Juniper, I came across a bunch of riders (I think it was the beginner’s womens group called the “Chicklets” but I’m not sure). At one point, I had just passed two of them (going quite slowly), and noticed another girl going around a corner up ahead. Figuring I had the time, I threw the bike into the big gear and cranked the straight, only to come around the corner and find about 5 or 6 of the bikers stopped on the trail! Oops! I managed to slow down and not run any of them over, so that was good…
I ordered a few smaller things from MEC today (like a new bite valve for my water pack, and a new tube and repair kit) and I will try to get to Taboo soon to pick up the new brake pads and a new derailleur housing and maybe the tire if he ordered it in? Sheesh, putting this many miles on this bike is getting to be a constant expense… Still! Not as bad as driving by far, so that’s OK I suppose!
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