Seneca Trail Near my House

It has been well over a year since I've biked on this trail but i have however run on this trail for a while now. Riding here was a whole new terrain because it wasn't built exactly for mountain biking but more for a hiking or running trail. This trail was built with lots of ups and downs and it really made a different impact unlike Schaeffer Farms where it is built more explicitly as a mountain biking trail. It wasn't as fun because getting up these hills were verrrryyy long so i ended up walking a lot of the up hills. The downhills although were very fun and made it still enjoyable. These trails went through the forest behind houses near my neighborhood and was less crowded so it made the riding a lot more peaceful

New Side of Mountain Biking

I decided to try and take the mountain bike trail today going the opposite way and taking new sections of the the trail. When you change it up that little it changes the whole trail and make everything new to you. It makes the terrain unknown and lets you explore the trail in a whole new way. This time i found an area like the expert trail yet it was hidden on the side on the trail. Even though i had biked for a few months i still had not explored the full area of the trails. And so i went through a different side where I've never been and came across something quite cool. I have a picture i took below.

It was just something cool that even though i have ridden through multiple sections of the trails but i stil have not discovered the plethora of different trails.It was a great change and i know there were sections of the trail where the corn that had once been all over was cut there were still sections where it is still green around even though it was starting to get very cold. Overall it was a great day out just exploring new areas.

10/12 Riding Some EXPERTT TERRAIN

I'm sorry that i haven't been able to update right after i have ridden I am dead after riding and once i get home i end um just sitting around and doing work for school. Again we go to Schaeffer but we haven't even explored the whole trail completely yet. The terrain at Schaeffer is really nice but there is one section that really takes the cake with mountain biking. There is a mountain biking course half way through the trails and it lets you go down insane pits and come back up hills and continue through what must be at least 10 dips in the ground. You have to maneuver your way through this little park and you could actually catch air if you end up getting enough speed. Some of these drops however really go near a 90 degree decline which is insane. This day i didn't spend long on the trail because it was supposed to rain but i spent a little time riding through this section of the Scaeffer trails. All the pictures below are from different sections of the (expert terrain) but honestly i would only worry about having a decent bike so you don't break anything.

10.15.13 New Used Bike rack

I decided it was about time i switch from just throwing my bike into my my car to strapping it down on a bike rack that would hold my bike on the trunk. I was tired of tracking mud and dirt from the trails into my car. This made me get a tarp that i kept inside my car for whenever i biked but i did not like loading and unloading one bit. I also felt that the bike was being slightly damaged since it was laying down in my car but i was also hitting bumps so i felt it wouldn't do well for my bike. I researched far and wide for an appropriate bike rack for my car and came across many that would fit my car. I looked at roof racks that would hold my bike but i felt that after riding i wouldn't want to lift a 30 pound bike over my head to attach to the roof rack. So trunk racks were my best option because i didn't have the money to buy a hitch to also get a hitch mount. I looked at reputable brands of bike racks from Thule to Yakima to another brand called Saris. Waiting on days end looking for when a deal would pop up on craigslist i eventually found one that i felt was a GREAT price and decent in condition. I found a Saris Bones 2 bike rack online (pictured below) and it was only 25 bucks unlike the $125 retail price. A link to the item is also available here Saris Bones 2 Bike

I had originally wanted a 3 bike rack so it would be more stable with two bikes but i couldn't pass up the deal of this bike rack. This bike worked for me greatly whenever i was riding alone or was driving with the bike alone. When i tried two bikes it didn't do as well it may just have been that two mountain bikes didn't fare well enough for it since they are quite heavy. I felt that the bike rack didn't hold my bikes as well and wasn't too sure how safe it would be to go over bumps and such with the bikes strapped on the back. I recommend people who ride regular road bikes or hybrid type bikes to get a trunk rack because with light weight bikes the trunk racks perform on a whole level higher than with heavier bikes. There are plenty of types of bikes out there and i recommend people going to check them out in stores or just shop around online there are tons of them available and for all types of cars.

NEW BIKE Nishiki Wasatch and testing the bike out

This is from a week  back but I received my bike on the day of my birthday and as excited as i was i still had to wait because i had to take the bike into dicks sporting goods to get it built. They didn't take long but still i left to go grab some lunch with friends and once done we headed back to Dicks. We got there and there didn't seem to be any problems with the bike and I was good to go to ride on the trails. I head to Schaeffer farms with my friend Steven and we are all prepped to go

Where I got my Nishiki Wasatch

We start riding and half way through the trails we end up seeing this little guy on the trail and ended up stopping to try to move it out of the trail path but it is already injured. We end up scooting it to the side out of the trail but not before i snapped a photo. We head on out and ride.

We hit this path where it goes down a long way and you catch alot of speed and go back up. There was a photo i posted a week back and the corn is completely gone from the fields and now and makes it look emptier. Riding through the trails we finish and home we go.

A little more than a week ago I spent my day with my friends at a bouncy house. Not your average bouncy house like a kids party but a building with an array of square shaped trampolines. Trampolines from the ground and diagonal trampolines from the side of the wall so you could bounce. We ended up going to SkyZone in Columbia, MD because it was the closest around. They offer jump times where it allows you to do whatever you'd like for a set amount of time but this time my friends and i spent only an hour bouncing around. Once you've paid you will be given these SkyZone socks which seem like regular socks but a very rubbery pieces on the bottom soles of the socks. Like pictured below.

This was one of the most fun things i have done in some time but it was very surprising how tired I would get from just jumping for a couple of minutes. There were areas where you could play dodge ball, basket ball hoops that were almost 15 feet tall, a foam pit, and just a overall jumping area. Its crazy to imagine how hard it was to stay actively jumping while still trying to keep balance as this was my first time jumping on large trampolines that can propel you a lengthy height.