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Hi All,
My son and I were able to go on a mountain biking trip in Davis Mountain State Park near Fort Davis TX a couple of weekends ago. My son likes to hike and tent camp so we did this along with some biking on a couple of old bikes that I fixed up. We took a trail that was 1.7 miles long with a 550' rise. I installed a 28 tooth front sprocket to go with the 19 T on back to give a decent low ratio. There was some riding up and good bit of pushing up as well
. The trail was pretty steep with lots of loose rock.
Near the top we found a bike rack which we had to try out of course, I guess it was there so you could park and take in the views for awhile. I was riding my AMF Texas Ranger klunker and my son was riding an old F.S. Elite.
Finally made it to the top and had our lunch in a little rock building with a nice view of the mountains. We messed around on top for a good bit looking at all of the old stone structures that were made there in the 30's before starting back down.
Finally starting spending some of the energy used going up to come back down, fun
My bike has a Sachs Torpedo Boy coaster brake that did well but got rather warm a few times so we stopped and let it cool off as needed...It's the only brake on the bike
.
Back at the bottom again, spent about three hours on this ride taking our time. Great day and great ride!!!
My son and I were able to go on a mountain biking trip in Davis Mountain State Park near Fort Davis TX a couple of weekends ago. My son likes to hike and tent camp so we did this along with some biking on a couple of old bikes that I fixed up. We took a trail that was 1.7 miles long with a 550' rise. I installed a 28 tooth front sprocket to go with the 19 T on back to give a decent low ratio. There was some riding up and good bit of pushing up as well
. The trail was pretty steep with lots of loose rock.
Near the top we found a bike rack which we had to try out of course, I guess it was there so you could park and take in the views for awhile. I was riding my AMF Texas Ranger klunker and my son was riding an old F.S. Elite.
Finally made it to the top and had our lunch in a little rock building with a nice view of the mountains. We messed around on top for a good bit looking at all of the old stone structures that were made there in the 30's before starting back down.
Finally starting spending some of the energy used going up to come back down, fun
My bike has a Sachs Torpedo Boy coaster brake that did well but got rather warm a few times so we stopped and let it cool off as needed...It's the only brake on the bike
.
Back at the bottom again, spent about three hours on this ride taking our time. Great day and great ride!!!
