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Turkey Day Ride

Two of our newer members, Nick Holbus and Kris Puddicombe, are starting to get sucked into mountain biking this year.  They come to us from the recently disbanded Beans and Barley team and have mainly focused on road racing thus far. Aha, Pegasus' plan is going according to.. plan!

1) Acquire 2) Corrupt!

From Kris:

Post Turkey Day Trail Report

We were the beardiest mountain bikers for miles.

The trail was angry that day my friends. -Like an old man trying to return soup in a deli...

Holbus and I met in the Pick N' Save parking lot on North and Humboldt. It was from there that we mounted our attack. One of us was rusty to beat the band and the other was too green to know any better. I remember after about the first quarter mile remarking that the bike sure moved a lot more under me than a road bike on pavement. Little did I know the damn thing can sure stop on a dime when that front wheel hits the wrong root!

We made our way to Glendale without major incident, and crossed over the river at Port Washington and Hampton. Then the shit hit the fan... and our wheels... and the bottom bracket... and our legs, arms, backs, and faces. We churned our way through some pretty foul smelling river muck getting back.

As we both gained confidence we got faster on the trail. I think I gained a good feel for the trail and the bike as I went. Nick said he thought that by the end I was riding better than him. High praise I would feel better about accepting had I not totally wussed out on that GIANT downhill [the bowl] next to the oak leaf trail in Shorewood! With greater confidence of course came a lot more falling off my bike. And since I didn't go home with anything but my pride fractured, I thought the whole thing was unspeakably and hilariously fun!

We were not pros out there. (I'm assuming pros don't slide up and down hill after hill and push their bikes up the big ones because they were in the wrong gear.) but we did not, for the record, fall in the river so I'm calling it roundly successful.

I can't believe you guys do this after dark!!

Peace out!

~Puddicombe