TwoWheeledWorld

I rode my bike 14 hours since Friday afternoon. That's a lot of saddle time. Sunday was particularly joyful because I returned to the Super Loop with a couple of old friends, Eric L and Eric C who also grew up on mountain bikes.

The Super Loop is a ride introduced to me many moons ago by a good friend Alan. He was a Pro riding for Manitou at the time he showed me this ride in the early 90's (and on a Manitou fork BEFORE Johny Tomac, I might add) and I was an underdeveloped junior racer. He basically taught me how to suffer for hours on end on a mountain bike and I'd bonk just about every ride. Like, melt snow in your water bottle type bonk. I had no idea where we were I'd just follow him. I try to ride this loop at least once a year, but it had been 3 years since I'd done it last.

This Super Loop is extremely secretive and also extremely obscure. So I can't tell you where it is....but the pictures below, for those who are local to the Springs, might recognize some of the scenes.

You also might gather that there's a lot of climbing in this ride: 5 hours 15 minutes, and we only went 20 miles. Daaayymmnnn!!!

Looking downhill, towards the east. This track is actually really really steep.

This is a section of the trail........................seriously.

This is another section of the trail. There are literally miles of this.

At this point it's pretty much all downhill-- from about 10,000ft down to Manitou Springs all on trails. We didn't drive at all today.