{"id":8731,"date":"2015-04-30T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=8731"},"modified":"2015-04-30T07:34:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:34:49","slug":"adventures-in-snowab-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brickhouseracing.com\/?p=8731","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Snowab, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had full intentions of typing this up way sooner, but, spoiler alert, my ride following the big Sand Flats Road adventure was not particularly interesting. I really wanted to go ride the Captain Ahab trail, but, being Monday morning and all, I didn’t feel like I’d be particularly safe riding some of the features on that trail by myself (Porc Rim on a Sunday is like a MTB Highway. If you fall and injure yourself, someone is bound to be by within a few minutes. Captain Ahab on a Monday? Not so much). So, I ventured out to try some new-ish, non-tech trails called Navajo Rocks.<\/p>\n

I don’t regret avoiding the chunk & mild danger, but I quickly found myself bored with the pedal-y and non-tech Navajo Rocks… especially on a 6″ travel enduro bike. I took it as a nice recovery ride before hitting the road home.<\/p>\n

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The Mountains are always watching.<\/p>\n

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Later that afternoon, I was back in the land of green,\u00a0white, and bluebird…<\/p>\n

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I will say, my experience on Porcupine Rim was enough to confirm two things in my brain- 1) A long travel 27.5 bike is an amazing and capable beast that I will likely never outgrow, and 2) I feel much more confident about some of my downhilling skills that I wasn’t 100% sure about before. \u00a0In case you were wondering, 1+2 = selling my CX bike and purchasing one of these:<\/p>\n

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I’ll have the CX bike listed in the next few days. Basically, I don’t care enough about racing cyclocross to have more than my Surly Crosscheck singlespeed. And, if you’ve been around for a while, you already know that it was my first CX bike. There have been at least three others in the middle, but things have gone full circle for me with cyclocross.<\/p>\n

I’ll be racing the Moab Enduro in just over a week. Stoke level = high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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