18 Hours 2010 is over...
Thanks to all who rode some 8.000 combined miles around Highline Lake State Park, lets do it again in 2011
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Join us for a MTB group ride the first Tuesday (June 1 - 6pm at OTE FU) from time change to time change...
Early in 1995 while the building was being remodeled as the future home of Over the Edge Sports. A few local riders were searching out riding opportunity's north of Fruita. Tom, Scott and Troy took turns setting the path of a new Singletrack just off 18 road. As the bike shop neared opening the "Prime Cut" reached from the current parking lot to the hills that now start Chutes & Ladders. Not much for mileage but gigantic sign of the coming Fruita storm...
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Posted Saturday, March 27 2010 @ 07:30AM | by
It's been a long time since my tires rolled along in the dusty singletracks of Fruita - Grand Junction. It was just after Turkey Day 2009 that the snow came and came in earnest for what proved to be one of the longest winters on record in our high desert world. In January after almost 2 months of...
Posted Thursday, April 23 2009 @ 11:15AM | by
It was several years ago that I had the pleasure of riding and hanging out in Tuscany with Andy Hampsten and Scot Nicol; I was traveling with Ed and Kevin and we met up for some road miles and some awesome tuscan dining. It was on the end of the long ride that we passed the vineyards of all 3 of...
Posted Thursday, March 19 2009 @ 09:59AM | by Troy
Well its official; Fruita Mountain Biking is joining the Dinosaurs and gold miners in the archives of Colorado history. Today the story of Fruita Mountain Biking will be told into the archives of histroy as Troy tells the story of Fruita Mountain Biking for the official record of the histroy...
Posted Thursday, December 11 2008 @ 02:51AM | by Troy
BIke Magazine is awesome! Great guys, great vibe, great publication and to top it off... the greatest video clip I have ever seen of Bruce...
Posted Thursday, November 27 2008 @ 06:43AM | by Troy
As I sit here with wet pants from my attempt at an ”Urban” ride around the streets of Fruita. It's a bit wet today and the indian summer of the past few weeks may well be finished. Oh well; it cant be comlained about when we rode at 9,000 feet a week ago. MOre than just ”not...
Posted Tuesday, November 04 2008 @ 02:52AM | by Troy
It's election might and I am back in Switzerland; just had a wonderful dinner with Fabian and Yvonne in Lucerne. Fabian is a key representative for BMC here in southern Switzerland and Northern Italy. We met; of course, riding in Fruita this summer. He and his partner Yvonne live near Lucern / Zug...
a perfect ending to a great beginning
Posted Monday, November 03 2008 @ 08:18AM | by Troy
San Pellegrino – Simrione – November 3rd 2008 I got my car out of the hotel garage; it was time to head back towards switzerland. No hurry but it was time. Don’t know quite what inspired me to look but they had dented my car when they kept moving it around. That sucked;...
Posted Sunday, November 02 2008 @ 08:16AM | by Troy
Cima Veronese… November 2, 2008 Riding...
Posted Wednesday, October 29 2008 @ 07:49AM | by Troy
It's time for my annual trip to ride a bike somewhere wonderful. Its a bit late this year to be riding in the Alps but I'm excited as usual for the prospect of new places and new roads and new wanderings in my life. IN the next few days I'll try to put up a few words about whats going on in the...