Posted by Tiago Rocha on October 27, 2008, 12:15 pm
The trail was dry yesterday. Very dry. Lots of dust, but that does not
mean that it was any easier. All my muscles are sore.
I had an encounter with a hiker. Crazy woman jumped in front of me,
and I never stop if someone jumps in front of me. I figure if you are
crazy enough to stop a bike with your chest, let it be, I am always
wiling to let others test their teories... <g>. She jumped out right
when I was going to run over her. My friends stopped to laugh at her
and that made she very mad, but my friend only laughed and laughed.
This is the second time on this trail that I get an arguing with
someone. Once a woman was trying to avoid me climbing a step, because
she said she owned the land, that is, btw, owned by government and is
a park where riding is allowed, she cut a lot of vegetation and was
saying that I was going to ruin the step... Some people...
I got to get stuck on the only mud pit of the entire trail. Happens!
LOL! Riding buddy wasn't so impressed, he had to help me out...
Lunch was perfect as always.
I crashed into a stinging nettle bush (Urtica dioica,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinging_nettle ). With all the padding, I
got stung only on right forearm. Still itching as I type now...
Got home about 3pm, still daylight enough to wash bike and watch Shrek
III again :-)
No pix, I forgot all about charging it's batteries, but yesterday we
rode fast with very few stops. Probably that's why I feel so
exhausted.
-- Tiago
Posted by Volker Bartheld on October 27, 2008, 12:28 pm
Hi!
> Crazy woman jumped in front of me, [...] My friends stopped to laugh at
> her and that made she very mad [...] Once a woman was trying to
> avoid me climbing a step
Jup. Seems to happen. Keep your fingers crossed that you won't find barbed
wire, buried glass bottles, nailed planks and other nasties along your
trails. The more people get pissed, the higher the (possibly little)
fraction of idiots among them will be.
That's life.
Cheers,
Volker
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Posted by Tiago Rocha on October 28, 2008, 2:38 pm
> Seemed we gave those kids hell of a time. Why I'm telling this? Because I
> hope that those five will remember us when - later sometime - they should
> decide about criminalizing dirtbikers again themselves.
After the raged woman trail (LOL, I really liked it), there is the
large unpaved road to the lamphouse ruins. Well, I love riding over
the volcanic rock there. The view is astonishing. Well, a group of
tourists came to tell how responsible we were, riding slow, with
headlights, not going fast among the crowd... Dirt bike perception
here is not too bad, people actually doesn't mind much about trail
riders, as long as you're not threatening kids by going fast where
they are. If you keep your stunts to the single track when nobody's
looking - or looking from far - it's ok. They even sometimes applaud
when go down gaibu beach rocks... The real problem is with selfish
people who thinks that federal lands (and the raged woman trail is
federal land) belongs to them more than to others... Is with fear that
I see more and more houses being built near zombie woods and on
itapuama beach... I bet that in five years, these trails will be close
to unrideable...
-- Tiago
Posted by XR650L_Dave on October 28, 2008, 8:38 am
> The trail was dry yesterday. Very dry. Lots of dust, but that does not
> mean that it was any easier. All my muscles are sore.
> I had an encounter with a hiker. Crazy woman jumped in front of me,
> and I never stop if someone jumps in front of me. I figure if you are
> crazy enough to stop a bike with your chest, let it be, I am always
> wiling to let others test their teories... <g>. She jumped out right
> when I was going to run over her. My friends stopped to laugh at her
> and that made she very mad, but my friend only laughed and laughed.
> This is the second time on this trail that I get an arguing with
> someone. Once a woman was trying to avoid me climbing a step, because
> she said she owned the land, that is, btw, owned by government and is
> a park where riding is allowed, she cut a lot of vegetation and was
> saying that I was going to ruin the step... Some people...
> I got to get stuck on the only mud pit of the entire trail. Happens!
> LOL! Riding buddy wasn't so impressed, he had to help me out...
> Lunch was perfect as always.
> I crashed into a stinging nettle bush (Urtica dioica,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinging_nettle ). With all the padding, I
> got stung only on right forearm. Still itching as I type now...
> Got home about 3pm, still daylight enough to wash bike and watch Shrek
> III again :-)
> No pix, I forgot all about charging it's batteries, but yesterday we
> rode fast with very few stops. Probably that's why I feel so
> exhausted.
> -- Tiago
I read a few things here.
1) It was dusty
2) you were in front
3) when it got muddy, you didn't let someone else go 1st.
The Deeney rule only works when you follow all of it.
Dave
Posted by Tiago Rocha on October 28, 2008, 2:34 pm
> I read a few things here.
> 1) It was dusty
Multiply what you imagine as dusty by 1000x... <g>
> 2) you were in front
Not always, but I try to push it harder than most of my riding
buddies...
> 3) when it got muddy, you didn't let someone else go 1st.
Yeah, I was 1st when I got stuck... Silly me, I knew that was a big
mud pit, but it looked dry. The zombie woods have this soil mixed of
rotten leaves, sand and clay, that makes you think it's dry and clean,
but it is only a 2cm layer, under that hides the stickiest mud on
earth.
I told friend to go first on the raged woman trail (hey, I liked,
raged woman trail, it might stick), but he kindly let me first... I
like riding sweep, I should have stuck to my favorite riding position
on the group...
> The Deeney rule only works when you follow all of it.
Deeney would love riding here, but only during winter and with his
XR...
The nettle stings still itches... I knew that I should have tried
harder to find a tire shop saturday evening to check tire compression.
I think I had 20psi front and 30 rear, at least it felt like it. Or
maybe I should not try to pass someone on a single track trail on a
bike with 10cv+ more than mine. Or my tires are really worn out. Or
all three alternatives...
-- Tiago
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> avoid me climbing a step