Mountain Biking at WWC

Sunday 10/21/2018 2:30 p.m. at US National Whitewater Center
There is a group text that goes around every so often to a few guys who ride mountain bikes. This text is usually from someone who decides they are going somewhere to ride and would like to see if anyone else is interested. This has never been a formal arrangement but it seems to be that in the fall, the meetings are more regular. This meeting starts in the large gravel parking lot a few parking rows past the bathrooms. After discussion with the group, this can be a weekly meeting, provided the Whitewater Center Trails are open (check their website). If they are closed, we can move it to Poston Park in Lowell. We had very fast guys (Swimmer, Floppy Disk, Two Stroke, Gumby) and pretty fast guys (Sidecar, Wojo, etc.) and kinda fast guys. We don’t need to name them, we know who we are! The great thing is the faster guys always wait on the slower ones so each guy gets to push as much as he can without the group leaving him. I really appreciate that the faster guys do that. I volunteered to do a “backblast” and we’ll see if the Weasel Shaker will consider this a legit AO. Certain skillet chasers may disapprove but we will defer to the all-knowing Weasel Shaker. I assure you this is a tough workout. We rode the “Parkway” trail to the “Prairie Dog” trail. We then tried the new trails across the highway. The “Smokey” trail was first. This was a nice short trail that led back to the road. We then rode the “Bandit” trail which seemed long and hilly and was a little muddy but should be much better after it is broken in. That was enough for me. Several of us stopped then and returned to the parking lot for around 7 miles. A few others connected to the Academy trail to got in over 10 miles. We had an FNG (new to F3 but not to riding with us) named Nathan Freeman who is a friend of Gumby. He was nicknamed Clown Car due to his funny clown horn on his bike. Consider this your invitation to join the rides. FYI. Mayor stood me up today.