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Having arrived in Houghton on Tuesday, I had to take the mountain bike out for a spin. After two hours of packing my belongings and loading them into the U-Haul, I decided to leave my downtown-Houghton hotel to ride up the hill to Michigan Tech’s Student Development Complex (SDC) where I could pop into [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
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Tags: Michigan Tech Trails, Mountain Biking
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I decided to quit writing for Examiner.com a while back because the pay became next to nothing. It was a no-brainer to write for other companies.
Examiner has made some improvements, so I decided to start promoting MMBA events. It’s the perfect news. I don’t want to exclude other events, though. [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: Michigan Mountain Biking Examiner
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I don’t have pictures. I am sorry.
I called for a group ride at Brighton, last Saturday. The first trick was getting there. Between the map and the instructions that I had, things were not jiving and there seemed to be some holes – missing information – for example, the part [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: Brighton Recreation Area, Mountain Biking
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Tuesday was great for one reason: I got to see Glen throw his bike.
Ali, Glen, and I rode Burchfield in Holt on Tuesday. The parts that were raked were greasy and difficult to ride. The parts that were untouched were fast and in great shape; however, Burchfield has many stunts, [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: Burchfield, Mountain Biking
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I love Highland. The Highland Recreation Area has some of the best mountain biking trails in Lower Michigan. In fact, Ali placed it in her top five in her blog post, “Loaded.” It is four loops of technical, climbing hell. I love technical. I love that I can climb fast [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: Beer, Clipless Pedals, Highland Recreation Area, Mountain Biking
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I originally posted this article on August 20, 2009 for my Michigan Mountain Biking Examiner column, a column which I have given up due to low returns for my efforts. I figure it’s best to put my energy into my blog when it comes to cycling. I will be publishing my Examiner articles [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
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Di finishing “The Crater.”
November 14 was a great day. I met with some of my fellow MMBAers to copywrite the new MMBA membership brochure that will be available at the 2010 Annual Meeting and Expo. This was my first copywriting job, and it was a great educational and social experience.
I met my friends [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: MMBA, Mountain Biking, Novi Tree Farm
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Thanksgiving morning started off perfectly! I drove to the Pontiac Lake Recreation Area where I joined a huge group of people for an annual turkey day ride. Robert Herriman took the group photo at the beginning of the ride. Check out his blog post to see this impressive group.
Jon Rose was kind [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: Mountain Biking, Pontiac Lake Recreation Area, Thanksgiving
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Great plans were made and commenced, today. Jon and I headed to Bald Mountain to meet with our friend, Brad. We were going to ride the Bald Mountain trails, then ride a couple of miles to Addison Oaks, a little trail system that I have been repeatedly told is lots of fun. [...]
Categories: Mountain Biking
| Tags: Bald Mountain, Jamis
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The clouds parted over Stony Creek Metropark bringing the rain to a halt over this great Southeast Michigan trail. I headed to the trailhead with Jon Rose of Knobby Tire Tours to witness Jon’s hard work as a tour guide. The following is a photo essay.
Categories: Mountain Biking, Photo Essays
| Tags: Knobby Tire Tours, Mountain Biking, Stony Creek Metropark
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