Remember pitching a tent and camping in your back yard? A few weekends ago, that’s exactly what some of us did!
The All Women’s Spring Ride turned to the trails this time for a fun day of mountain biking out at McDowell Mountain Park and Brown’s Ranch.
Now onto Part 3 in our series on Group Riding. We’ll wrap up with a smattering of techniques and tips to help you master the skill of group riding. Let’s start during our preparation for the ride.
Welcome to Part 2 of Group Riding. In Part 1, I wrote about why we ride in groups and how it’s safer and more fun to know and abide by the long-established rules and techniques. This time, I’ll get into the various formations, or pacelines, we use to stay organized.
With more people showing up to the Saturday morning MMC group ride, it’s a great time to tackle this topic. Riding in a group, just like any language, becomes second nature with regular practice of proper techniques.
Since retiring in July, 2015, my wife and I have been spending most of our time in Durango, Colorado. Durango has a reputation for being a mountain bike town with many big name pros past and current living in the area. We live 10 miles north of Durango in the Hermosa area.
I love riding in and around Fountain Hills and that is a big part of why Diane and I choose to live there. Fortunately, there is another very similar place Bozeman, Montana.
Ed note: I think it would be interesting to hear from MMCers about where you ride when you’re not in the Phoenix area, so I’m doing a “Where I Ride” series for our newsletter.
We knew our Summer Ride would be our tough one, so when we got such a great turnout of awesome riders, new and experienced, we were pumped.
One of our goals in starting McDowell Mountain Cycles has been to help people rediscover what great exercise and good fun riding bikes is. Part of the allure of it is being outside and not stuck indoors like we are for much of each day, but being outside brings certain challenges when the weather turns on us.