You can tell bike season is upon us with all the chatter around town about bikes. Not only riding bikes, but much more.
Friday night is the release of local Silver Moon’s Epic Trail Ale – a new Scottish-style ale to benefit Central Oregon Trail Alliance (COTA) as well as the Bend Paddle Trail Alliance and the Tumalo Langlauf Club. The party starts at Silver Moon at 6pm and should be a lot of fun!
Then in a few weeks is the first annual Bend Bicycle Film Festival on May 29th. We are all very excited for the festival, as locals are scrambling around town to get movies made, the rest of us are just looking forward to a night of celebrating our trails and road riding options. Here is a teaser for the night:
See you on the trails!! Or around town talking about riding..
The past fews weeks have been a ton of fun thanks to great trails and new bikes. The hubby and I both got Ellsworth’s this year, myself an Epiphany and the hubby a Moment. Another good friend got an Epiphany two years ago and no one saw her for weeks, well, unless you were on the trails, she spent a ton of time there and no where else until completely running out of steam. Now both of us understand – Ellsworth bikes rock and early season conditions are pretty cool too!
Currently the lower Phil’s trail area up to Lower Whoops, COD and Helipad are all clear and it GREAT riding condition. It is great being back on the bike after a winter of snow and snow sports and the lower trails are lots of fun to ride. It is such a big social hour, it might almost make sense to wear horse blinders as all your friends are also out on the trails.
Here is a fun video I made of building our bikes. We were not able to finish them in one go since our Shimano brakes did not include all the bolts we needed, but we got pretty far. Check it out!
