Monday, March 7, 2011

Dragon's Tale is a month out

SMT's first event is just a few weeks away on April 3rd just west of Roanoke, Virginia in New Castle on Craigs Creek. It's a delightful time to ride your bike in the Jefferson National Forest. The route is very challenging singletrack once you roll up Rt. 311 for the nuetral start and dash threw a few creek crossings on the fireroad as you climb towards the narrow singletrack. Register HERE and VOLUNTEER NOW!


We have some cool videos from last years ride you must check out

Check out the video as Chris jumps in behind Sam Koerber (Gary Fisher 29 Crew) on the last bit of ridge on Ferrier Trail just before he flats allowing Tim Mosher (Champion Systems/Cannondale) to pass 1:30 into the video! Chris rolls the last of the ridge with Tim and 5 minutes in, the clip starts rocking as Tim rolls a sweet downhill section and David Wood latches on and challenges for the lead!


After hitting the downhill with Tim, Chris catches up with second place David Wood (Gary Fisher 29 Crew) heading up the last short climb before rocking the last fast downhill before the short road section to the finish. Check out David's solid climb HERE!


With the last climb over, the excitement continues as David Wood obliterates the downhill with his smooth, flowing, action! It took Chris 40 some seconds to catch onto David so be patient or jump ahead to the good stuff!



Now in third place, and not wanting to give in after his flat, Sam Koerber really turns it on and puts in a HUGE effort on the last section of road leading to the finish. Chris jumps in to film all the action, speeding his way to the finish with Sam. See Sam's all out effort below.



Come down and camp with SMT and enjoy a great early spring mountain bike weekend in the Jefferson National Forest.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Oliver brought the boys out for a quick rally session at Massanutten

Gotta get back to the top for another sweet drop on the other way on the Ravine Trail!
Rowdy trail ride at Massanutten Resort - pass holder priviledge!
Yep, time to get your pass now from SVBC
The Ravine Trail - traction is king!
Oliver Quinn gave us a preview of what spring training will be like
We like what we saw, it was sweet!
Carp, Thomas and Ollie were railing the hardtail's
Matt and I were rolling the 29er trek dualies
good stuff!

Sunday, February 27, 2011

3 hrs of relaxing in the parking lot waiting for my front skewer to arrive. Not a bad place to be, gotta love the mountains!

Big Schloss Tour stage day will be only be a 3 hr ride today
Everyone else may get 7-8 hrs
The 3 should be fine after the fast 3 wrecked me yesterday
It brutal to try and sit in on Jeremiah Bishops SVBC points ride
Carpenter kept the pace high when the fools weren't attacking
There was a lot of tomfoolish trickery going up the road and any given moment
Hope I get a chance to try again next week!

Mike Capraro, Susan Musante and Sue George are chainsawing and clearing the Long Mountain Trail today
The LMT is a great drop in to Trout Pond
This trail has been used in many bicycle events and group rides in the Lee Ranger District of the George Washington National Forest
It is also a trail used to get to some great camping facilities if you are riding through on the Virginia Mountain Bicycling Trail
What a ride!

Friday, February 18, 2011

Dragon's Tale is 6 weeks out - clearing trail today with Winston! and others!

A new trail sign at the bottom of Ferrier Trail
Thanks USFS!
Winston and Chris Hoy are doing recon on Ferrier
Matt Smith has Kirby, Sue, Chase and Jake on the ridge
What a day for it
April 3rd is the event just west of Roanoke in New Castle, VA
There are some great videos of last years event on youtube
Search for it or check out our channel
Smtvidnstuff

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Spring like road riding in Feb in Virginia

Amazing evening ride in the Shenandoah Valley last night
The moon is about full
The air remained warm after the sun set
Looks like a few more days of this
YEA!!

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Sierra La Laguna - Baja Bicycle Crossing

The crossing was super hard. There were some nice singletrack moments
when we weren't shouldering our bicycles up super steep sections of
trail.

Baja bicycle crossing of the Sierra La Laguna - what an adventure!

The Baja crossing did happen. It took Todd and I 8 hrs to get to the
singletrack downhill to Todo Santos. BRUTAL!