The annual prerace ride is scheduled for the Wednesday. Love to get some new faces to show up and check out the course, which is in great shape. 5:30 Newport High School for ride. 9+ mile loop with and excursion up and over Coit(elite/enduro section) for those willing.

PJ

Yes, everyone should find a way to be there Wednesday. The trails are in the best condition of the year and are begging for riders.
 
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I plan to be there.

I will lb e there too practicing my fire/burn prevention technique of dropping and rolling. This should help compact and widen the trail for the race.

I'm in also. It will be good that Ryan and I will get a chance to ride together ... he will enjoy hearing me whine and complain about some of what I think are more like goat paths (and I am talking fit for Rocky Mountain Longhorn Sheep ... not the garden variety, eat the grass on your lawn and head butt you in the fanny when you are not looking, kind we have around here) that he likes to call MTB trails. :D

Chris

PJ, if could you bring my light and helmet on Wed I'd appreciate it.
Dan, shouldn't you be practicing staying on the bike???

I can see I'm going to have to come up with something real special just for you Chris... hummm... there's a few real good cliffs coming down from Coit perhaps I could do something there? After all you can't get hurt in the air.

Let me just say here and now that before I ride/push/carry/drag/throw my bike along any of your new trails I will need to see Gurney ride them without body armor. Hey ... it has just dawned on me ... you could advertise the town forest as a bicycle pentathlon course!

Chris

Ryan, PJ, Brian, and everyone else who has worked so hard to maintain the town forest trails,

This is an important footnote to my irreverent comments about the trails. It is absolutely amazing what you guys have done through your dedicated efforts to create a varied trail network. Often times I think I get distracted by the elegance of your stone placement/path selection and cannot believe the hours you have put into the trails ... then I get jarred back to reality by some stupid rock/stump/root/etc. that sends me sprawling to the ground with a string of obscenities running through my head (Sorry ... I could not help myself).

Chris

yes I will bring your light. WE need a computer to measure the distance, and also I want to split up to see which way is quicker the Elite Loop or the Regular loop. SHould be close.

We can have a Dab contest. Faceplants count as 2.

PJ

Horray ... my favorite ... a baD, I mean Dab, contest. When I decide to take the *Hike-A-Bike* option, do I get an additional Dab every time one of my feet hit the ground?

PJ, did you finally get Ryan's light to stay on for more than 10 seconds? If not, I have some ideas and we can try one more re-build tonight.
 
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I just kept pushing the button in and it finally stayed on. The button is a bit funky now, it works with Vice Grips.

You should be able to mount the vice grips on the helmet
 
"If you brake, you don't win." Racer Mario Cipollini

Ha Ha you guys, I guess I deserve that for some of my comments.

I have a bike computer but if we're going to split up someone else will need one too. I know it's almost exactly 1 mile from the Skunk Hollow junction up Coit Summit North to the top of Coit but don't know what the distance is back down Brake Burner, I'm guessing less than a half mile from the top to Hail Trail Connector where the course meets back up.

Ryan

never mind, the twins got ahold of it, it should be working fine now.

Will ride, have computer, have additional body armor (just to get Naimie's goat).

MG