Trail storys

[zmtber]

hey i was wondering how many of you guys have some cool trail storys. My story is one that happened two weekends ago.I was coming to the end of a trail, and my bell had recently fell off my bike because i had crashed, and a hiker comes up to me picks me up by my armor and startes saying f**k you and things like that, right to my face because i did not have a bell. i told him palitley what had happened and why i did not have a bell and that i was sorry and all he said in respond was."if i ever see you or your friends on this trail again without a bell i am going to throw rocks at you and spike the trail!" Right then i probably would have pushed him off of me, but the hickers are already trying to making it imposible for bikers to ride the local trails (Like puting bolders in the way of the trail, and complaning to the county), so i just ignored it and finished up the ride.

Do any of you guys have a story like that. If you do, share it i want to make sure i am not the only one.

[Pat...]

Did he seriously pick you up/grab you?

[SXtrailrider]

yes he did

[SLAPSHOT]

Picked you up? What are you 12. When your bell falls off (allegedly), try riding slower, so you don't spoil it for the rest of us.

[menachite]

I took a huge jump, my pants fell off, and I landed with my penis right inside of Jessica Alba.

[droplover]

I took a huge jump, my pants fell off, and I landed with my penis right inside of Jessica Alba.



You too? :D :D

[Ciaran]

yes he did
Is this the incident that was "discussed" in the 5050 thread? You all have some serious user conflict issues up in SB. You would think that the bell program would help to satisfy the hikers and that they would be nicer.

Down here in Pasadena at Mt. Wilson there is an old lady that yells at bikers. She'll cuss you out and tell you the trails are closed to bikes (they aren't) and all that. Luckily she sticks to one trail and most of us avoid that one anyway since it's filled with hikers. personally I wear a bell when riding multi use trails (Well, I TRY to wear it everytime. Sometimes I forget), it seems to help with the user conflict thing. Sadly though many hikers and policy makers seem to forget that we have as much right to use the trails as they do.

[Jayridesacove]

:stosh:

[boostindoubles]

i was riding porcupine rim in moab utah this spring, and my buddy toasted his rear deralluier. We pulled up and were in the process of making it single speed for the rest of the ride when this pack of chicks rolled by and stopped to chat. Mind you, one was this fine looking blonde wearing spandex and looking good too. Well in the middle of our conversation she leans over and blows this huge snot rocket onto a flat rock. keeps talking like nothing happened. I remember telling her something like "i think i'm in love" or "thats the hottest thing i've ever seen"


whats this about bells on bikes? like a cow bell that jingles as you ride?

[Ciaran]

whats this about bells on bikes? like a cow bell that jingles as you ride?
Yup. lets the hikers know you are coming so they can ambush you.

[boostindoubles]

nice.

[zmtber]

yeah... let me make this clear i am not twelve. this guy was just really pissed off and i was on a cliff edge and didn't want to loose my bike so i held on to it instead of pushing him away. i ride with a cow bell 90 percent of the time.

[YoungOneNC15]

You too? :D :D

Damn that's happening to everynow. First me, then my friend, then my friends mom, and now you all. She gets around!

[spectaculardark]

i was riding porcupine rim in moab utah this spring, and my buddy toasted his rear deralluier. We pulled up and were in the process of making it single speed for the rest of the ride when this pack of chicks rolled by and stopped to chat. Mind you, one was this fine looking blonde wearing spandex and looking good too. Well in the middle of our conversation she leans over and blows this huge snot rocket onto a flat rock. keeps talking like nothing happened. I remember telling her something like "i think i'm in love" or "thats the hottest thing i've ever seen"

omg thats funny as crap :D :D :D :D :D

ahhahahahahahah omg i cant stop laughting

[caputo1989]

I been chased by a bobcat. Long story short I met a realy cute trail runner, and told her about it and she gave me a nice big hug and kiss.








The hot runner part is a lie.

But realy I was chased by a bobcat.

[caputo1989]

#2 I was downhilling in vail when some FAT XC rider was riding w/ his dog (off leash might I add). So I was riding down the fire road to the 94 worlds track, and this guys dog comes bareling at me. I couldent stop in time to avoid hitting the thing and gently bumped him.
I kindly told him that vail had leash law and that he chould keep better controol of his dog.
The guy told me to F-off and it became a heated dispute.
As we were argueing a trail matinance truck came by and decided to intervien. I told him the story and he gave the guy a $1,000 fine on the spot.

[pangeist]

I was backpacking on the Appalachian Trail and was off on a side trail kinda lost and came across a hillbilly in a barn on a stool fuucking a horse. No lie.

[GumbaFish]

I dont know about you but if some damn fool grabbed me I would have to teach him some manners. No real incidents here, except once when I was coming out of a trail head some guy just started yelling at me because i was a young hooligan on a bike that was dangerous to people who walk like him or something. I was going like 4 miles an hour, not sure where that came from...then again I could hear him talking to himself before he even saw me.

[SXtrailrider]

I have another story. After that last trail ride where my brother got picked up by a guy, our friends and us went on the trail again hoping that their wouldn't be anymore hikers. This time though we rode late at like sun down and didn't see any mean hikers, but we did see traps for riders. The hiker we are guessing put rocks in the middle of the trail to try and make riders fall, and they also made a fake pass to try and get the riders lost, but the worst part was that we saw evedince of a line of ribbon that the hikers must have put across to try to close line the bikers of their bike. It looked like it worked or some nice hiker removed it for us. That is just some scary ****ed up ****.

[Kanter]

-saw 4 bears in one ride, while riding by myself

-saw a lynx cub in the grass next to the trail... no mother, by myself again

-had a huge white dog chase me and bite my leg armor and he was on a leash dragging the owner

[gemini2k]

onetime when i was urban riding downtown chicago with some buddies some girl shouted out "youre gay" to us from her car (there something homosexual about 12 foot stair gaps?), she didn't realize that theres traffic, so i caught up to her pretty easily, stopped right next to her window and just stared at her for about 20 seconds, and i'm kind of a creepy looking guy (6 foot 6 goatee and such). I think i sufficiently scared her, lol.

[black noise]

Not really a trail story, but here we go:

I was riding my fixed-gear roadie in town, on one of the few roads that is downright hostile to bikes, with absolutely no room for bikes and no bike lanes. Cars are passing me on the left and this one pulls up with the back window down, and these jackass kids point a big squirt gun out of it and spray me. I was mad and would have confronted them at the stoplight if they didn't have a squirt gun.

[Sir_Crackien]

well i don't hae any real storys about my rides, but one of the xc trails i ride on. one day somebody decided to put some piano wire across a fast section of the trail and i think that 2 people actually hit the wire at speed. i know it just about killed one guy. he had to be heli vaced out of the trails with his guts hanging out of him. the person how placed the wire was never found.

also there are some stories of some simuaar thing up at a place called the shed ( thing wooden spikes in the ground) no one hurt that i have heard of on that account

[/\/\att]

the trail trap stories are horid. i hate people who hate mtbs.

[DH SB RIDER]

Yea they guy that picked up zmtber was really crazy and using really bad words, " Get some ****ing bells morons, get ****ing bells blablablaa." So i told his wife that her husband had quite a foul mouth and she laughed! The guy really did not pick zmtber by the armor(close to imposible weighing at 208lbs) but he did yell alot and grab him. I was laughing at the time, if he touched me i would have pushed him off the 30 ft cliff into the dry river.

[Pat...]

You told his wife!!!??

[DH SB RIDER]

Yea i told that hoe. Patrick the dudes wife could have beaten the **** out of you.

[Pat...]

Thats beside the point, you told on him, what does that accomplish, other than making yourself look stupid.

[zmtber]

mtnbrider, the wife was right behind us when all it happened

[Rip]

I was backpacking on the Appalachian Trail and was off on a side trail kinda lost and came across a hillbilly in a barn on a stool fuucking a horse. No lie.

The person must have been making an ass of himself then. :nuts: :D

[Pat...]

HAhahahaha- thats so wierd.

[kinghami3]

The piano wire thing is starting to terrify me. There are a lot of places I ride that people don't want mountain bikes in, and some of them are the kind of people that would do that too. :eek:

[zmtber]

at least you have not incountered nails and tacks yet.

[kinghami3]

Nails and tacks don't kill people.

[black noise]

Haha, I'd be more scared by the piano wire than nails/tacks. I prefer lacerations and flat tires to decapitation myself.

[zmtber]

wow! would it really decapitate you

[Sir_Crackien]

yeah the piano wire is about the worst because it is thin and darkly colored mose of the time so you cant see it. also for those of you that don't know the wire is also increable strong and most likely will not break. it really is scary to think about and to think i still ride that trail to date :rolleyes:

[kinghami3]

wow! would it really decapitate you
It would kill you if not decapitate you, and it could decapitate you if you were flying down the trail. Piano wire is thin/ sharp, hard to see, and strong.

[black noise]

Strung tightly, piano wire could mess you up. When you're going downhill at 15+ mph it will have an effect on whatever part of the body it hits. It won't just clothesline you.

[gemini2k]

youre only hope would be some hard armor on your chest and stomach, but who has armor on their stomach

[boostindoubles]

or their neck for that matter

[Pat...]

Now companies like 661, rockgrden, etc. need to start making trail trap protection, like a piece of plastic that would connect from your helmet to your chest armor. Oh, we wouldn't be able to turn our heads w/o some contraption.

[Sir_Crackien]

actually the piano wire was on a fast downhill on a local xc trail. though the section you hit 20-30 mph

[Pat...]

THats F***k'in scary to think about.

[Kanter]

People that sting up piano wire should be arrested for attempted murder

[Sir_Crackien]

i agree with you kanter. because that is likely to happen

[zmtber]

hey what is the best way to fix a pinch flat, if your not prepared. This weekend i was riding and my friend got a pinch flat. We did not have a tube, patch kit, or pump that would work with his bike, and this trail is rocky (cold springs) so there is no way he is going to ride it on a flat (hardly no sidewall) tire all the way down the next 4 or so miles. I told him to fill his tire with sand and leaves is this the best thing to do?

[Kanter]

Best thing to do is carry the right tools.

[zmtber]

yeah but i had plenty of tool they just didn't work for him

[black noise]

I wouldn't reccomend putting sand in the tire and then riding it, that seems like it would be very corrosive and damage the tire and rim, not to mention it would spill out quickly. And leaves won't work unless you can pack 50 lbs worth into the tire.

The best way to solve your problem is to carry a tire, pump, tire irons, and any allen wrenches if you have a thru-axle. If this is too much hassle (which it is for me) you can just run heavier tires and tubes.

If you're not prepared? Be good at wheelies maybe. I did that at Mammoth. When my front tire popped (kevlar beaded Kendas won't save you from rocks) I had to ride down the service road from halfway up the mtn. I just leaned back really, really far and watched out for rocks. My rim and tire are fine now.

[Pat...]

zmtber- that is a stupid excuse, your friend dh sb rider has rides w/ a huge backpack ( there is plenty of room for the right tools), just get a small pump, a tube, tire levers, and an adapter for the pump if needed.

When I go on rides, I always take my camelback mini mule. It is small, but can easily hold those tools, gloves, goggles, and other tools w/ enough room for the water container.

zmtber, you completely derailed your own thread, haha

[zmtber]

i am not talking about dh sb rider i have other friends you know, his name is sean (not from vp) he is the one filming our team video.

[zmtber]

o yeah and talking about flats on trails at bad times is a trail story i am sure others have other storys like it, in which they had to walk/carry thier bike down a long trail.

[Pat...]

Its not hard, its a small pump (or even CO2 cartridges and valve thing), a tube, and tire levers.

You don't carry these. These are the basic, first tools you should have. A flat is usually common thought of thing, before something breaks.

[zmtber]

im going tubless i dont have to worry about that as much, but the reason why there was a flat was previously stated i was prepared my friend (not dh sb rider)was not

[Pat...]

Well,tell him to carry to tools. I am sicking with a tube setup because it is easy to fix.I don't have to worry about a sealant and all that crap.

HERE IS A TIP: While your bike is running tubes right now, put alot above baby powder allover the inside of the tire and around the tube. Since I have been doing this, the last pich flat or basic flat even was a year ago.

[vibiker]

I was backpacking on the Appalachian Trail and was off on a side trail kinda lost and came across a hillbilly in a barn on a stool f*ing a horse. No lie.

Sure that you weren't in Enumclaw?

[DH SB RIDER]

Hey Patrick......zac has (belive it or not) other friends then me...... I just carry a big backpack for me and i have all the right tools to fix my own stuff. So please stay in the vally, and dont ever go over the pass, or you will be shot. Thanks

[DH SB RIDER]

Ya my favortie story was when i was going down Cold Springs and we wouldent let any of the fast guys go past us(Trevor, Matt, Evan, Juilan) so the entire lower section of Cold Springs was really boring for them......Which was are plan.(They were waiting at the fire road for us and we just dident look at them we jsut went past them straight into the lower single track.) Then some 369 pound dude shot outa no were and he was riding this stinky dee-lux, dhx air, rockgardn armor, zoke decals up-side-down, ya he was so big i thought he was a bear......so i fell off a cliff.

[zmtber]

wow dh sb rider you are what gives the rest of us sb riders a bad rep now go to pinkbike.com we don't want you here

[Pat...]

Your thread has gone to hell and none is coming back to it, so all you can do is talk BS amongst your selves. HAHAHA :p

[todbanner]

I took a huge jump, my pants fell off, and I landed with my penis right inside of Jessica Alba.

hahaha i hate it when that happens! :rolleyes: