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04-11-2019, 11:33 AM #176
Was curious enough to look at this
https://www.tellurideskiresort.com/e...age-bike-park/
Where does the trail you are working on fit in this spectrum?
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04-11-2019, 12:36 PM #177
What I don't like in a trail:
-pedally downhills. If it's going to go down, make it go down, not "kinda down but not really"
-a million tight twisty slow little corners. Yeah, you might need a switchback here and there, that's fine, but don't make a ton of tight slow stuff just for the hell of it. Shouldn't be an issue since you're building bike park trails, but this trend seems to be the latest thing for slowing people down on multi-use trails and it's fucking annoying.
Beyond that I can pretty much have fun on any style of trail. I like steep and rocky/rooty the best but I enjoy flow trails or other styles just fine as long as I don't have to mash on the pedals constantly or constantly park it to maneuver around some pointless little squiggle.
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04-11-2019, 12:54 PM #178
Don't get me wrong, lots of fun descents on TRT, I just find it's better to hit those sections and combine with other trails than do a longer TRT ride, or use the less fun descents for climbing to other trails. The section going into TC is fun (the old one was/is funner), best way to get to it is from Bunker in TC to Powerline. I usually do a bonus loop down Missing Link and up Wallternate, that section on the way back to the descent can be tough when the legs are tired, but I like some techy climbing here and there.
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04-11-2019, 01:44 PM #179
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04-11-2019, 02:35 PM #180Registered User
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What are your disappointing destinations to ride at?
What do you mean by the old one was funner? Surely you don't mean the glass mtn portion of trt trail before it got rerouted along the rim a few years ago??? That shit trail was brutal. The descent section into town hasn't really changed any as I recall so I'm kinda confused by that comment and it's one of my regular local laps
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04-11-2019, 05:44 PM #181Banned
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04-11-2019, 06:14 PM #182
ZOOM over my head...but the fact there are so many pages to this thread threw me right off
Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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04-11-2019, 07:33 PM #183
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04-11-2019, 09:28 PM #184
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04-11-2019, 11:20 PM #185
I'm not sure if the page loaded fully for me but what I saw there were the 'old' bike park trails.. mainly hand built years ago and barely maintained. We rebuilt 'no-brainer' a few summers ago. We are in the midst of a full on new build, working with gravity logic, to build a new bike park. A few machine built trails and then some new hand built, as well as revamping the old park, and taking over maintenence of the FS trails on the mountain.
We built a 5 mile long green trail with GL last summer and started on a blue/black jump trail. I'm confident in our ability to build enjoyable trail it just cracked me up to read how nearly every trail system nearby, that when I go there I have a blast and also look for fun features and elements to incorporate into my own building is...gasp.. lame!...tricks deserve applause, style deserves respect
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04-11-2019, 11:54 PM #186Registered User
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04-12-2019, 05:29 PM #189
The biking in telluride is kinda old school.. not much purpose built, a lot of janky off camber goat paths that aren't official trails. The best loop in the valley in my opinion is prospect trail to alta lakes to t35 to galloping goose. Super rad 25mile loop, the forest service just rebuilt the alta lakes section so when that gets ridden in and speeds up it should be really fun.
Expand your riding zone to beyond the valley and there are some bad ass sections of the Colorado trail, some rad big descents down fs trails around Rico, RAT trails outside Ridgway, and the 'whole uncolada' a super cool link up of trails off the uncompadre plateau down into montrose. 3800 vert over 20 miles or so. The spring creek section may be my most favorite section of trail in the area, and can be ridden on it'd own as a shuttle or loop usually by riding up the Dave wood road and dropping the trail....tricks deserve applause, style deserves respect
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04-12-2019, 09:13 PM #190Registered User
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04-13-2019, 01:43 PM #191
That's the one. I wouldn't call it brutal, more like a good challenge, but yeah the arms would be tingling on the older short travel bike. Pretty sure the reason it was rerouted was because very few people would ride that section, even though they blamed it on birds. Last 3/4 mile or so is original trail.
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04-13-2019, 03:44 PM #192Registered User
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What are your disappointing destinations to ride at?
I think you're the only person in Tahoe that misses the glass mtn trail. A seemingly endless hill traverse across shards of obsidian and baby heads. It is still there if you want another go at it! We'll expect a TR and strava report in early June
Seriously, you're mental if you liked that trail lol
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04-15-2019, 07:23 AM #193Registered User
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places I've mtb since the first of the year
and they all were the awesome
moab
sedona
metro phoenix:
south mountain, sonoran preserve, hawes, mcdowell
fruita, GJ
salida
will keep adding to the list once the weather gets better
hung up the baggies and got crazy full spandexed the other day, cause I look good in tight clothes specially with a team sponser all over me
did some soul crushing/finding, ass pounding fun
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04-15-2019, 08:07 AM #194
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I really hope that the new Palisade Plunge trail isn't disappointing. Really looking forward to a new big decent trail to go in closer to home and maybe more reliably fully open than the WE.
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04-15-2019, 10:43 AM #196
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