And not quite Wine Creek, either.
My neighbor and I went on our first mountain bike ride in quite some time. I really enjoy it every time I go, but for some reason my perceived effort from desire to ride to actually riding seems higher with mountain biking than with road biking. That’s partially due to inexperience, so I just need to ride more!
I certainly can’t blame the adventures of this ride on poorly adjusted equipment, but the adjustment on my rear derailer is completely botched. The limits seem reasonable because I can easily switch to the highest and lowest gears on my cogset, though to be fair shifting in to the easiest gear seems more difficult than it should be, but in between easiest and most difficult, the gears jump around crazily any time they’re under load. The limit screws seem to be okay – according to Sheldon Brown’s derailer adjustment guide I should check to see if I bent the derailer or the hanger during one of the tumbles I took on that ride, or the previous time I was off-road, on FATS.
No, our problems on Sunday’s ride were completely due to me not carefully reading the directions to the trail head, leading us to ride on Modoc Trail, called out on the SORBA CSRA site as one of the most technical trails in the area, rather than on Turkey Ceek, which is supposed to be pretty easy.
Sorry, Jeff!