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Twin Peaks - Ridge and Meadow Loop
Trip Report

Twin Peaks - Ridge and Meadow Loop

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Page Type: Trip Report

Date Ridden: Jun 18, 2011 12:00 am

Activities: Cross Country

Season: Spring

 

Page By: Tangeman

Created/Edited: Jun 19, 2011 / Aug 19, 2011

Object ID: 281264

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El Report...

School's out, and I already went to a party, so now it's time to do something more sensible. Like mountain biking. My friend Luke and I went up to Twin Peaks today and rode the Ridge and Meadow Loop, with Suspended in Paradise added on.

There's a lot of flowers blooming, including lupine, paintbrush, balsamroot, daisies, penstemon, and one called trumpet-something-or-other. All in all and awesome display.

I didn't bring my SLR but I did bring a video camera, so I made this little edit of out trip. 95% of it is me in the video (gray shirt), but Lukes in it a bit (purple shirt). Enjoy! :up:

Twin Peaks Mountain Biking from Matthew Tangeman on Vimeo.

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RayMondoMore Air

RayMondo

Voted 8/10

Keep working it up. More air, though we are not expecting the triple backflip ! Good to see the wise use of helmets. You only crack a head once !
Posted Jun 20, 2011 9:57 am

TangemanRe: More Air

Tangeman

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Yes, we'll try...there are bigger jumps we kinda wimped out on them. And we always could've hit them with more speed...we're working on it!
Posted Jun 21, 2011 3:46 pm

RayMondoRe: More Air

RayMondo

Voted 8/10

Just remember that the bike is as hard as the ground. The bars, especially, are perilous. A full-face helmet will save a broken jaw. That's a rotten thing to damage.

Incidentally, bones become stronger the more we shock them. For example, karate people develop super strong bones, because the bone matrix becomes more dense. So the more we bang and bounce around, the stronger we become.

The long bones are more easily broken by side impact, but on the other hand, compression fractures create more complex breaks. So learn to roll if you guys tumble - like parachutists or judo people. This way, the body's momentum is disipated, instead of coming to a sudden halt.

Happy riding.
Posted Jun 27, 2011 6:01 am

TangemanRe: More Air

Tangeman

Hasn't voted

Well isn't that convienient. I'm actually a black belt in Shudokan Karate.
Posted Jul 13, 2011 12:39 am

RayMondoShudokan Karate

RayMondo

Voted 8/10

Dude ! That's awesome. Had to look that teaching up. Strangely, I went to a place in Japan called Toyama.
Posted Jul 23, 2011 5:43 pm

TangemanRe: Shudokan Karate

Tangeman

Hasn't voted

Any relation to Kanken Toyama? I'm sure it is...
Posted Jul 28, 2011 8:17 pm

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