The Downieville Pre-Ride

[mrcrash]

My "A" race for the year was the Downieville Classic Downhill Mountain Bike race. The gf - who had some excellent XC racing finishes since picking up mountain biking late last year - heard good things about it and wanted to race it with me, so we pre-rode the course three weeks ago - a week before the event. A solid cyclist, she knocked out the 8

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[margotheangel]

That looks like a beautiful course!

[mrcrash]

It's beautiful, painful, and an absolute roller coaster - I don't think there's any place I'd rather be riding!

[demiraks_world]

Wow, that's beautiful!!

I think I'll keep my scaredy cat butt on paved trails through the suburbs though :)

[mrcrash]

That's where I started :) Paved trails, then dirt trails, then singletrack - it just kept getting better...

[mojojoey]

holy crap, that looks awesome! how fun :)

[mrcrash]

The trails are almost too gorgeous to race on...

which is why I love racing there :)

[nyrockcity21]

great photos!

[mrcrash]

Thanks! The last month or so has been one weekend after the next of great riding on incredible trails - I'm hoping to post more up soon :)

[tomatoe333]

Looks like someone's going to be shopping for a new frame... :-)

[mrcrash]

We found that on the side of a trail up in Northstar. People generally don't take bikes there with less than 5" of travel, much less skinny clapped out hardtails :)

[tomatoe333]

It kinda looks like the Nishiki I had in high school. I thought I was badass riding trails on it. :-)