Onegear
12-09-2003, 05:01 PM
Well, sit back and i'll tell y'all a story
I moved out here from Alberta few years back and was looking for places to ride. So people at the various shops pointed me to the shore, It was good I'd go solo riding like I'd always done. I'd meet lot of wicked riders and have great days. I love it. I ain't the best and don't claim to be, I just do it because I love riding. I bought my first (and only so far) Dully a RM6, a few years after I came to B.C .
Fast Forward to October 2003, after many years of hearing the storys about Moab. I and a friend set out on a road trip that would be the king of all road trips. We get to Moab and promptly find the SLICKROCK TRAIL, and start givin'er. That trail takes endurance, 12 miles long with only a handfull of flat spots you're never lacking in traction, but it all rock and sand. Man, was it tireing. We thought that was cool but what else is there. so we spend 4 more days in Moab and fing more of the same rock to jeep trail. Porcupine rim trail was cool, the views were amazing.Jeep trail up to a bit of single track, a lift accessed area that was neat to do once. It all seemed like a bit of a let down, from the build up that moab recieves.
It was great to see how it's done in other places. but it just felt like another era gone by, in biking
So here we are today. I came back with a renewed enthusiasm in the Shore. and a broken hardtail from all that climbing, heh heh.
I went to Fromme my 1 day off back in Canada and rode up. The thing that strikes me now, is that the trails down in Moab were something else before (ie hiking trails)like alot of the trails on the Shore.
But what seperates our style up here is the builders that see something that's missing or something that can be improved upon. It is improved on here, unlike the traditional Moab trails where people are all still riding a trail that was laid out by a 90cc dirt bike in 1982(ie slickrock). And as importantly,as the builders is the riders that keep progressing the lines and the moves. look at an old school trail like grannies, which is great and flows beautifully, then go to circus also great and flows but completely different. a progression and constant improvement by builder and rider, now a style invented in BC is influncing the world of biking, including area like Moab
What we have here cannot be taken for granted, but I see it everyday on this BB. the Riders against the Builders threads seem to be popping up more and more. I know that it's human nature to get upset when things don't go your way. but let it go, it sound cliched(sp), but it's true.
I ain't a saint out there. I've been to trail days, built on my own, moved rock, skidded when I shouldn't have and gotten yelled at when I rode down Incline(my bad, I just didn't want to interrupt the builders on Corkscrew). So i'm no better or worse than any of you out there.
We all need to remember why we ride, I could be wrong but most, if not all people ride the Shore because it's Fun, and they enjoy it.
Please feel free to comment rip me apart, disagree, agree or correct me.
I had to get this off my chest and now..
I'm going for a ride :D
I moved out here from Alberta few years back and was looking for places to ride. So people at the various shops pointed me to the shore, It was good I'd go solo riding like I'd always done. I'd meet lot of wicked riders and have great days. I love it. I ain't the best and don't claim to be, I just do it because I love riding. I bought my first (and only so far) Dully a RM6, a few years after I came to B.C .
Fast Forward to October 2003, after many years of hearing the storys about Moab. I and a friend set out on a road trip that would be the king of all road trips. We get to Moab and promptly find the SLICKROCK TRAIL, and start givin'er. That trail takes endurance, 12 miles long with only a handfull of flat spots you're never lacking in traction, but it all rock and sand. Man, was it tireing. We thought that was cool but what else is there. so we spend 4 more days in Moab and fing more of the same rock to jeep trail. Porcupine rim trail was cool, the views were amazing.Jeep trail up to a bit of single track, a lift accessed area that was neat to do once. It all seemed like a bit of a let down, from the build up that moab recieves.
It was great to see how it's done in other places. but it just felt like another era gone by, in biking
So here we are today. I came back with a renewed enthusiasm in the Shore. and a broken hardtail from all that climbing, heh heh.
I went to Fromme my 1 day off back in Canada and rode up. The thing that strikes me now, is that the trails down in Moab were something else before (ie hiking trails)like alot of the trails on the Shore.
But what seperates our style up here is the builders that see something that's missing or something that can be improved upon. It is improved on here, unlike the traditional Moab trails where people are all still riding a trail that was laid out by a 90cc dirt bike in 1982(ie slickrock). And as importantly,as the builders is the riders that keep progressing the lines and the moves. look at an old school trail like grannies, which is great and flows beautifully, then go to circus also great and flows but completely different. a progression and constant improvement by builder and rider, now a style invented in BC is influncing the world of biking, including area like Moab
What we have here cannot be taken for granted, but I see it everyday on this BB. the Riders against the Builders threads seem to be popping up more and more. I know that it's human nature to get upset when things don't go your way. but let it go, it sound cliched(sp), but it's true.
I ain't a saint out there. I've been to trail days, built on my own, moved rock, skidded when I shouldn't have and gotten yelled at when I rode down Incline(my bad, I just didn't want to interrupt the builders on Corkscrew). So i'm no better or worse than any of you out there.
We all need to remember why we ride, I could be wrong but most, if not all people ride the Shore because it's Fun, and they enjoy it.
Please feel free to comment rip me apart, disagree, agree or correct me.
I had to get this off my chest and now..
I'm going for a ride :D