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Welcome to Extra Dirt!  What is Extra Dirt? This is a filtered look at my blog entitled "Beyond TrailCentral." Random thoughts and observations by me; the creator, owner, and webmaster of TrailCentral.com. What will I post? Most the time it will be about mountain biking, but sometimes it will be about random stuff I think about or I'm working on. Extra Dirt Articles: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next Tuesday Night Ride Schedule - May 09, 2008 Written by Email Contribution Please join Big Ring Cycles and members of the Feedback Sports Mountain Bike team for a friendly weekly mountain bike ride. The ride meets at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday nights and alternates among various trailheads throughout the Front Range. The pace of the ride will be set by agreement among those riders present. Generally these rides are suited for intermediate to advanced riders. For more information about the ride, please email FeedbackMTB@gmail.com.... Continue Reading Article 17th Fat Tire Classic Bike and Hike Event - May 07, 2008 Written by Email Contribution The race is back! After a year in intermission the festive bike and hike event of the year is back in a new format but with the same good atmosphere.... Continue Reading Article Picking My Hub, Spokes, and Rim. - May 04, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru So what parts do you need when building a wheel? The answer seems simple, right? You need a hub, a rim with the same number of holes as the hub, and spokes. How hard is that? Well, I later found that when actually making the purchase it wasn't that... Continue Reading Article The Bicycle Wheel by Jobst Brandt - May 01, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru I've been wrenching on bikes as long as I've been riding and the only part that I never touched was the bicycle wheel. The bicycle wheel is a truly magnificent piece of equipment that happens to be a black hole of mystery for me and many... Continue Reading Article Pearl Izumi One Day Sale - April 27, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru I heard through the grapevine that Pearl Izumi was having a one day "friends and family" sale that started at 9 a.m. yesterday. My friend said he was going to be there at exactly 9 a.m. and he'd see me there. I got there at 9:05 a.m. and... Continue Reading Article Dispatches From The Ditch - April 24, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru My long time friend and co-founder of TrailCentral.com, Dwight (pictured to the left), started blogging a couple weeks ago. After much hemming and hawing about what to name it he decided on "Dispatches From The Ditch." I believe this is the... Continue Reading Article Fat Tire Bike Week - April 23, 2008 Written by Email Contribution Crested Butte, a Colorado mountain community nestled in the heart of the Rockies, will be celebrating the world’s oldest mountain bike festival with the 28th Annual Fat Tire Bike Week, June 18-22, 2008.... Continue Reading Article Sometimes 14,200' Isn't High Enough... - April 21, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru Mount Elbert 14, 440' 04.19.2008 If you are keeping score: Mount Elbert: 2 Me: 0... Continue Reading Article Cyclists Consume Lots of Bananas... - April 15, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru Did you watch the show on National Geographic last night called Human Footprint? If not, let me catch you up a bit. It was a two hour show that unloaded statistic after statistic about consumption of a typical person from infancy to old age. For the... Continue Reading Article The Colorado Race Season Is Officially Underway... - April 12, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru Today at 8:30 a.m. the first rider leaves the starting line and with it kicks off the racing season for hundreds of mountain bikers in Colorado and many riders who travel from out of state to the premier events hosted by Mountain States... Continue Reading Article Tuesday Night Rides. Will You Be There? - April 06, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru It is Spring and if you are anything like me, it hasn't come a moment too soon. I stopped enjoying my workouts on the indoor training sometime in mid-December. Since then I've noticed my workout habits and appearance resemble that of Gollum... Continue Reading Article I'm On A Roll... Actually, A Mountain... - March 24, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru I'm on a roll. Actually, A mountain, but you'll get my point when I take the time to explain. I've just posted the second Trail of the Month for 2008, which given my record over the past year is an amazing accomplishment. For some reason in... Continue Reading Article Mt. Bierstadt - Slideshow and Map... - March 13, 2008 Broadcast from Beyond TrailCentral Written by TC guru On March 09, 2008 my buddy, Dwight and I hiked our first winter 14er, which was Mount Bierstadt. Honestly, by the end of the hike I was thinking this would be my first and only winter ascent. However, a few days of rest later and I'm excited to make... Continue Reading Article Extra Dirt Articles: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next |
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