Mountain Biking

Last Tuesday Matt, TJ, Barney, and I attended the yearly planning and budgeting meeting for the Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site. We were there to bring attention to the existing trail (Radiant Trail) there and to work out what we would need to do to add some trail to the existing 3 mile loop.

Mark Hohengasser, the Central Missouri representative for the International Mountain Bike Association, and Missouri Department of Natural Resources employee also attended the meeting. I had contacted Mark about a month ago to find out what sort of assistance the IMBA could give us with the trail project and was very pleased with the response I got from Mark. [click to continue…]

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It was a bit rainy today and it would have been a good day to read a book. I’ve read a few books about cycling and I thought it would be good to share my bicycle reading list with everyone else. All of these books can stand on their own and there are plenty of better book review writers than I could ever be so I’ll spare you the hassle of reading a lame review that I would have written and give you this instead….I like these books and maybe you will too. Thats the extent of my review so here are the books with links to get your own copy. Oh, and these are not really in any particular order, there’s just 10 of them.

1. Positively False: The Real Story of How I Won the Tour de France - Floyd Landis
2. Mountain Bike Like a Champion - Ned Overend
3. Bicycling and the Law: Your Rights as a Cyclist - Bob Mionske
4. It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life - Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins
5. 5 Essentials for a Winning Life: The Nutrition, Fitness, and Life Plan for Discovering the Champion Within - Chris Carmichael
6. Bicycles Locked to Poles - John Glassie (Interesting Collection of Photos)
7. The Death of Marco Pantani: A Biography - Matt Rendell
8. The Quotable Cyclist: Great Moments of Bicycling Wisdom, Inspiration and Humor - Bill Strickland
9. Critical Mass: Bicycling’s Defiant Celebration - Chris Carlsson
10. Atomic Zombie’s Bicycle Builder’s Bonanza - Brad Graham, Kathy McGowan (There could be a tall bike in my future)

Please leave any thoughts or comments you have about these books or suggest other books to everyone by leaving a comment bellow.

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Today I rode the mountain bike trails at Rock Bridge State Park in Columbia Missouri. I actually managed to get out of bed and over to the trails before 10 a.m. to beat the heat. I had only hiked the trails at Rock Bridge before so I was pretty excited to get to ride them and I was not disappointed.

I would say that the trails are great beginner to moderate skill level with a few tricky sections here and there. Compared to Rhett’s Run that I rode yesterday this is a much better mountain bike trail system. The trail system at Rock Bridge is made up of shorter trails that interconnect. When you are ridding the trails you really can’t tell which trail you are actually on but it really doesn’t matter. I really liked the longer sections of smooth single track that follows the creek. It has nice flow and you can really go quite fast if you want. I also really like the longer climbing sections that reminded me of ridding Chubb trail in St. Louis. Inexperienced riders may have to jump off their bikes and hike up a few of them.

I really don’t have anything negative to say about this trail and I will ride them again and would recommend anyone to ride these trails if you get a chance.

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