There is something really enlivening about flying over the handlebars of a bicycle and using the local rocks and your shoulder as an energy dissipation system to shunt off that 5500 Joules of kinetic energy I was pushing around. I went to Moab, UT last weekend and rode the famous Slickrock Trail (again, I have rode that trail about a dozen or more times). And I never grow tired of it, if the trail itself gets boring, you can always just explore the multitudes of whoops and whorls that have been petrified in sand stone for mountain bikers to play on. Moab is like my own personal Disneyland, and instead of $50/person to wait an hour in each line for a 3.5 minute thrill...you can pay a maximum (you could actually go free if you really wanted to) of $6/vehicle for 3 days to not wait in any lines and get 3.5-4 HOURS of thrill PER RIDE. The Porcupine Rim Trail is of course lots of fun if you can set up a shuttle (who wants to ride up 26 miles?!). Gemini Bridges USED to be fun, but they graded the whole damn trail so cadillacs and fiats could drive up to the bridges, so that really sucks beyond measure, who voted to spend money on that?! I hope they drove their stupid Lincoln up there then fell off and 1000 feet down into the canyon.
Does anyone else know any really exciting BIKE trails in Moab? Preferably something like Slickrock that loops back around and has some swoopy bobsled style terrain.
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