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Trail 100 and Greg's inagural Turner DW 5 Spot Ride

When Gregs' 6 year old Specialized FSR bit the dust a few weeks ago, we finally got together for our own version of a bike 'demo' ride.

We hit Trail 100 at night and I loaned him my 2009 Turner DW Link 5 Spot. One ride and he was sold!

After some back and forth on the 'make vs buy' decision, he ordered up the frame direct from Turner Bikes (in California) and it showed up the next day.

Then we spent the next few days emailing back and forth over parts. I also left my 2005 Titus Motolite with him so he had something to ride while waiting for the new frame to arrive, and to get an idea of another mfgrs frame for comparison.

Got the bike built up last Thursday evening:


Hit the trails on Saturday for a shakedown ride on Trail 100 in Phoenix:

Trail 100 Turner DW 5 Spot Ride

A great video of the 5 Spot from pinkebike.com

Arizona Spring Fling 2009 Sedona

Sorry for the length.. just too much fun stuff/footage to cut here. This is from the Sat. MTBR ride this past March, 2009 in Sedona. Part of the whole 'Spring Fling' series of rides which happens every year around spring break time. Great day to be out riding, party at the Bike & Bean followed. Stay tuned for some fun/hillarity at the end of the vid. The music is from the SXSW 2008 festival, you can catch Artist/Track info in the ending credits... Enjoy! :)

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Az. Spring Fling 2009 - Sedona Ride from tim schneider on Vimeo.

Black Canyon Trail (BCT)

Mike emailed me the other night, said that his neighbor Rick and he were planning on riding the BCT loop, which is not far from his place up in New River. I wanted to see how the new bike would do on something more cross-country in nature, so I dialed down the shock and tossed it into the Honda Element and met them Sunday morning.

About 10mins into the ride, I was following Rick down a kinda fast section of trail when my front tire washed out. Murphy's Law was in full effect! I landed on the *only* bed of Cholla Cactus balls in that section of trail. That sucker was hidden from view, like a speed trap near the Mogollon Rim, just waiting for a lamer like me to happen by. Thanks to Mikes flat nosed pliers, I was able to remove the bulk of the spines. The other thing that I was thankful for, was the scrape down lower on my leg? huh? I'd kept re-injuring the same spot, so I wore the kyle strait knee pads and shin wraps for this ride, despite it being total overkill. My knee and lower leg was saved the nasty fate that my upper leg (thigh) suffered.

Caught the incident on video: (low res YouTube and blip.tv versions)

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Other than the cacti encounter, the rest of the ride was really nice! Saw lots of other folks out on the trail enjoying the cool, breezey day. Pretty soon, we'll be getting up at O'Dark Thirty for these rides! Harbor Freight Tools and Walgreens have all the supplies you need to deal with cacti! :-)

GPS Data for the ride here

AZSF 09 is here! T-100 Ride/Vid

Got out for a Wed. afternoon ride with Greg (MTBR handle 'steelmonkey') on Trail 100. The idea was to do a loop, then head over to Aunt Chiledas. Ended up getting over there before the rest of the MTBR crowd showed, and ended up havng to head home due to time constraints. Did meet up with Jeff and SuLing and some of the others for a quick hello and some cheap El Salvadorian beers! (thanks Jeff!) before heading home.

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AZSF 09 T100 Phx. AZ from tim schneider on Vimeo.

Above is a short video of part of the ride.. still getting the latest 'toy' dialed in. Kinda cool, but this GoPro video camera really eats the batteries! I picked up some 1000mah AAA rechargeables to see how they work. I really hope I dont have to buy the Energizer lithiums for this sucker. They are expensive!

Garmin connect data here: