Friday, July 29, 2011

Ladies Ride Cancelled Tonight

This just in...
Because of the upcoming rain predicted for tonight, Jennilee is cancelling the ladies ride tonight at Franklin Falls. Sorry for the short notice, we are working on setting up a better notification system for the ladies nights like we do with our regularly scheduled Thursday night rides, so bear with us.

See you next week.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011






LOOKING FOR MORE SINGLE TRACK TRAIL TO RIDE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE?? THEN COME OUT AND HELP BUILD SOME! ALL WELCOME.

SUNDAY July 31th
9:00 am-12:00 pm
FRANKLIN FALLS DAM
HWY 127 AND FEDERAL DAM ACCESS RD, FRANKLIN, NH
(HALFWAY BETWEEN I-93 AND FRANKLIN ON HWY127)

Check-in 8:30-9:00 am
TOOLS AND REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED BY:
NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION- CENTRAL CHAPTER
WORKING IN COOPERATION WITH THE US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS

DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR BIKE FOR AFTERNOON TEST RIDING!

This trail day is included in the: Jamis Bicycles/NEMBA New Hampshire Trail Care Series; this means that if you are a NEMBA member, participation gets you signed up for the end-of-season drawing for a Jamis full-suspension mountain bike.

For questions please contact:
Mike Geldermann: geldermj@yahoo.com 603-387-2592


(For detailed driving directions, use “FEDERAL DAM ACCESS RD, FRANKLIN, NH” as destination on internet map sites: MapQuest, Google Maps, etc)

Friday, July 22, 2011

Thursday Ride @Bow Trails

Ok, so I thought having lived in Central NH for 20 years I would know all the good rides in the area. Wrong! Sure, I know there is plenty of private stock stuff out there that people don't want to share, but we are talking public and totally legal here. Last night 9 heat stroke riddled riders got a tour of part of the Bow trail system thanks to the brothers Rhodes and I am blown away; it is fantastic. To top it all off, it is less than 15 minutes from downtown Concord.

The trails were a mix of really fast singletrack, some hills (it's Bow), and some really fun technical stuff. I'm already planning on coming back and exploring on my own to get to know the trails better. Also, from what I understand, there is a lot more to see.

Thanks again to the Paul and Peter Rhodes for giving us a great tour. Below is our GPS track and you can find trail maps online here

Friday, July 15, 2011

Thursday Ride @ Franklin Falls

Another great Thursday with almost perfect riding weather!  Smaller group this time around but again with a few new faces (to me).  Always nice to meet local riders.  We had a nice cruise around Franklin Falls and bumped into a few other small groups and individual riders.  It is great to see the amount of use that FFD gets.

We rode out to the end of Sniper and it is actually starting to ride in a bit already and its not even done yet!  Don't forget to come out on Sunday July 31st to help us finish it off, details on that trail day to come soon.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Thursday Ride @ Concord Hospital/Quarry

This recap is a bit late coming but I left for the Kingdom Trails Friday morning and just got back tonight.  I'm nice and tired having racked up about 50mi in the last 4 days with a little over 8,000ft of climbing.

And our Thursday ride was a great way to kick off my long weekend.  We had a great group of about 10 people with some new faces to boot.  We even lucked out and had some true locals lead the ride.  I had thought I had this area pretty well dialed but I would say almost half of this ride was new to me!  It was a treat to finally get back over to the quarry side of things as well.  I don't get over there often but the riding is great.  And so are the views!


Still need to iron out our next few Thursday ride locations, so stay tuned.  Hopefully we have many more rides like this left this season!