Gravel rides of 2021

[Delicious]

I personally hate full fenders but that's probably from installing so many. However they're great for the bike.

I actually chose my bikes based on fender capability!

 

[wooglin]

Fenders and gravel don’t mix in my world. At least not a front fender.

 

[cantunamunch]

I actually chose my bikes based on fender capability!

Yeh, tomorrow's definitely going to be a fork fender kind of day.

 

[cantunamunch]

Does mono buttocked cementing along the edges count?

 

[Erik Timmerman]

Fenders and gravel don’t mix in my world. At least not a front fender.

I was riding with a friend that had metal fenders and not much clearance. gravel kept getting caught and dragged across them. Ouch.

 

[cantunamunch]

Hah!

I think all the Ski talk cozies should be repurposed.

#dodoggydothatbrownoozinggoo
#itstucktoyourshoe
#butnotyourwaterbottle

 

[cantunamunch]

 

[Ron]

Found a few dry spots -very few



Are any of you running downtube deflectors/ splash guards in the bottle cage area?

in CO, if a trail is that wet, its closed.

 

[cantunamunch]

in CO, if a trail is that wet, its closed.

Yeh, pretty much the only way to close a local trail is to have a 40F day in late April. Yesterday was a ghost town.

Putting a 'closed' sign on a trail? Might as well have it read 'Leave your dog doo here'.

 

[Ron]

Yeh, pretty much the only way to close a local trail is to have a 40F day in late April. Yesterday was a ghost town.

Putting a 'closed' sign on a trail? Might as well have it read 'Leave your dog doo here'.

not here, you ride on a wet trail, you run the risk of getting caught by rapid mtn bikers (not riding of course) its taken very seriously here.

 

[cantunamunch]

not here, you ride on a wet trail, you run the risk of getting caught by rapid mtn bikers (not riding of course) its taken very seriously here.

The trails our MTB riders do protect are also the ones too difficult to walk with your dogs on 16 foot leashes, 3 abreast. But if I post pics here, I get told to get a hardtail

Your MTB riders care about gravel trails, interesting. Does that include state/county roads or just non-road side paths?

 

[Ron]

are you saying post #35 is a gravel road? We would call that a kinda-sorta mtn bike, foot path.

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[cantunamunch]

are you saying post #35 is a gravel road? We would call that a kinda-sorta mtn bike, foot path.

I'm saying that every one of those sections is a county-approved and county-maintained gravel path, yes.

The middle one used to be an asphalted utility road, and you can still see the broken up asphalt chunks. Are asphalt chunks gravel? Then yes, it's a gravel road.

Not sure where in 'kinda-sorta' MTB rider activism begins to be called for, but please send them along. I'd love for someone to police the dog drekh leavers and the 16-foot-across-the-path leashers.

 

[Ron]

ok, we dont have gravel paths. carry on!

 

[cantunamunch]

carry on!

So, what do you say to some cozies with an upside down SkiTalk logo?

 

[scott43]

Are asphalt chunks gravel? Then yes, it's a gravel road.

Well technically..no... But it's partially composed of gravel....

 

[cantunamunch]

Well technically..no... But it's partially composed of gravel....

Asphaltenist!

Just because your schist gravel went through its metamorphosis 300 million years ago on Pangaea instead of 30 years ago in a Delaware refinery is no reason to be exclusionist

 

[scott43]

Asphaltenist!

I'm sorry..but it's simply a blob made up of lesser blobs!!!

 

[cantunamunch]

I'm sorry..but it's simply a blob made up of lesser blobs!!!

Unfortunately, I am too.

 

[Delicious]

Unfortunately, I am too.

Now this is getting deep...