Thursday Night MTB Skills

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Ana-Maria Bogatan

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Jul 13, 2018, 10:05:54 AM7/13/18
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 I thought that only CX brings together road riders and mountain bikers but it seems that practicing skills at a BMX park does that too. 
Tom, Carolyn, Alain, Joanne and Del came out for the first time. Chris, Tabi, Peter and Rob returned because they can't have enough of the jump course.


With so many star riders I  was a bit intimidated and I felt like I am running out of tricks. Good thing that Peter can bunny hop and there are always young guys hanging out at the park to show us how to jump.
I assume Alain will follow up with a video or two and  Lauren  took some action pictures too so I guess we will see those at some point.

 

Ana-Maria


Mathew Gallagher

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Jul 13, 2018, 10:10:11 AM7/13/18
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Looks and sounds like fun. Hope to be out next week

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Tom Cauduro

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Jul 13, 2018, 10:12:59 AM7/13/18
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FYI, I'm not smiling in that picture.  I'm grimacing... after a good wipeout on the jump course.  Feeling it today, but that won't scare me off from coming back out.  Thanks for being the lead Ana-Maria! It's people like you that bring us all together and get us roadies excited to try something new.

-Tom

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Joel Rose

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Jul 13, 2018, 10:15:05 AM7/13/18
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Awesome! Looks like a blast :)

Joel

Sebastian Grela

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Jul 13, 2018, 10:23:48 AM7/13/18
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Definitely want to see Alain's RM in action. I am putting together my 1996 Stumpjumper as who knows maybe there will a special occasion to race only retro bikes some day :) Your rides look more like social events, time to get back to my MTB roots I guess.

Sebi

Alain Francq

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Jul 13, 2018, 10:51:22 PM7/13/18
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Well, well, well....

Look who I happened to capture in the corner of the GoPro...





With Lauren pointing out that, "Hey!! that's exactly where Buckaway broke his ribs last week!"



Not to be deterred....Tom got back on his bike and took flight again.





On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Sebastian Grela <evaripr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Definitely want to see Alain's RM in action. I am putting together my 1996 Stumpjumper as who knows maybe there will a special occasion to race only retro bikes some day :) Your rides look more like social events, time to get back to my MTB roots I guess.

Sebi
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:15 AM Joel Rose <rose...@gmail.com> wrote:
Awesome! Looks like a blast :)

Joel

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 10:05 AM Ana-Maria Bogatan, <ambo...@gmail.com> wrote:
 I thought that only CX brings together road riders and mountain bikers but it seems that practicing skills at a BMX park does that too. 
Tom, Carolyn, Alain, Joanne and Del came out for the first time. Chris, Tabi, Peter and Rob returned because they can't have enough of the jump course.


With so many star riders I  was a bit intimidated and I felt like I am running out of tricks. Good thing that Peter can bunny hop and there are always young guys hanging out at the park to show us how to jump.
I assume Alain will follow up with a video or two and  Lauren  took some action pictures too so I guess we will see those at some point.

 

Ana-Maria


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Alain Francq

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Jul 13, 2018, 10:54:22 PM7/13/18
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So did everyone else for that matter...











Alain Francq

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Jul 14, 2018, 12:30:48 AM7/14/18
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iMovie seems to be crashing will editing the video.  Will see what I can do.

But, some real PRO advice and practice demonstration by our ride leader...Ana-Maria.   Soon we will be able to do a "Manual" as good as her.

Sorry, Anna-Maria.  I have the perfect picture of you doing a manual, but Google says I've run out of space to post it here.

You'll just have to wait for the video evidence.  ;)

A.



Ana-Maria Bogatan

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Jul 16, 2018, 8:37:19 AM7/16/18
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Very nice picture Alain, and thank you for your vote of confidence..."PRO".  I am far from that but my hope is that if we keep  practicing eventually we will all become a little bit better/skilled riders.

Yes I am waiting for the video :-)

Ana-Maria

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