Winter Freeriding?

[Luckybikes]

Were will the freeriding be going down once we get some snow on the ground. I like urban ridng but not the cop part so iam gonna stop urban for awhile anyways. MAyeb go to Rye adn fool around but i hear your gurdian needs to be there so that wouldn't wokr only being 16.

[gnurider1080]

nam, my friend. the riding there in the snow is awesome. i had a blast when i went on a snow ride there.

[EVIL BOTA]

Lucky is the pic from the widowmaker?

[Luckybikes]

You mean that rock in the DSF? Never new it was called the widow maker but it's from the playground on that trail with all the drops on it.
Oh yea why's it called the widow maker anyway's?

[Geoff G.]

acctually i think the offical widow maker is a road-gap in connecicut

[slapheadmofo]

Nothing wrong w/ riding trails in the winter and Lowell cops generally have a lot more to worry about than a couple guys on mtn bikes - hit the streets, build up some big ass snow jumps somewhere, or just get out after the snowmobiles have been thru and the trails have been packed down. Fun stuff ;)

The Widowmaker was originally the Cheese Wedge. I think somebody got banged up on it and it needed a more fearsome title. Nice little jump, just gotta make that left turn after...

[errollthin]

:o The widowmaker!!! Good eye coach ron. Luckybikes grande hueavos rancheros.

[Luckybikes]

Luckybikes grande hueavos rancheros.


Thanks my guess is that say's i have big balls iam i right? and that left turn can be hard to make sometimes and adds a hole new meaning to tree hugging

[bike187]

i missed a left hand turna t wompy once, during one of the trail maintenance days, i think the one going into the playground area, and went through a big thornbush. if i remember correctly, it was the one that geoff g was at with the guy on an old fsr and the other kid who led us on an undercover road ride throughout the park. ha, we broke and christianed the secret trail "certified good stuff". and the thornbush was beatened, cause i rode away, with some torn strands of it.

[bike187]

on a second note, i second nam during the winter. last year i went there with my studs, great stuff. warning: the part of the atv trail that goes dwon the center of the powerlines at the edge of the highway ices over and is fairly steep. i'd advise caution on it. i got halfway down, had to turn, and didn't. accidental sideways powerslides on ice with studs are interesting untill you fall, hit the ice, slide down the rest or in my case, until i slid into the rocks/chaperal ont he side of the trail. slid down the rst of the way on my butt with bike in lap.

[Luckybikes]

SO any ohter places other than keep riding were you normally due and Rye?

[MTBME]

"The Widowmaker was originally the Cheese Wedge. I think somebody got banged up on it and it needed a more fearsome title. Nice little jump, just gotta make that left turn after..."

Actually the photo in question does not look like the cheese wedge at all. The wedge is only one big rock. The photo shows several large rocks? Sorry. No Cheese.

[Luckybikes]

Are you guys talking about the one were you ride down the hill it the rock and need to take a left right away if so that is the one in the picture. The picture was takin by my dad who was standing of to the right of the rock.

[slapheadmofo]

That's the one I'm talking about; it's a fun little kicker. I think the blur effect in your avatar is throwing off MTBME. Not positive that it's the same rock that they're calling the widowmaker now or what the story behind the name is though. The trail it's on is the Sock Puppet.

I hear that usually the trails down near the Cape are clearer in the winter than the ones up here, tho I haven't been there a whole lot myself.

[Luckybikes]

Yea but i don't think the cape overs much freeriding isn't it kinda just flat down there?

[gnurider1080]

hah! flat! o youre a funny guy! the trail of tears is most certainly not flat. its pretty much straight and then straight down, repeat.

[Geoff G.]

the tot is in no way straight either, it's very twisty. many of the turns have mini-burms. it is really fun to rip down full speed.

[gnurider1080]

when i said straight up and down i was talking about how steep the hills are.

[Luckybikes]

OK maybe i iwll have to make it down to the TOT some time this winter sounds good.