Please give your bike a good going over tonight for the race this Saturday at Ponca. Maybe I'll follow my own advice instead of having to ride Platte with a bad bb.
Received a trail report from Martin who rode Ponca with Dameon and Rick yesterday:
Basically the same trail as I rode up there 4 years ago but the tread is much better. Really smooth once you get past the swimming pool to be exact. One log crossing and its really a log skip over because your going to make a right turn and punch up a small hill. Trail quality I would say is primo. Gone is the switchback in the field by the pool before you go into the last single track climb, they are using the road for about 150yrs it looks like. The road part is like the only place you can drink with out stopping, everything else is either your climbing, decending or zig zagging really fast just about everwhere.
The best find of the day was a resturant in Ponca called Oscars. Its at the four way intersection in the heart of Ponca and the food is awesome and quite large prices, cheap beer on draft too. The place is huge.
Martin
Wednesday, June 18
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I like Ponca a lot. It's even more fun if you back it off a notch to save for the hills on the last lap. I prerode the course one year the day before, and it made a big difference mentally race day.
For those who haven't been there, I would say it is like L&C with more contour sections to recover. All climbs are makeable, though I end up walking here and there b/c of lack of fitness.
There is a "discovery?" trail we don't race but is narrow with exposure that is fun to ride, too.
Another nice thing is we can use the pool showers post race for free! Fee to use the pool but something to consider for the family.
I like the sound of Oscars for post race food.
I was checking my bike over like you said and I found a slight crack in my rocker arm. Do you think duct tape will work or should I go buy some super glue?
Red Green says duct tape but I would double your chances and use the superglue too.
We could remove the shock and install a nonrocker rockerarm to the downtube shock mount. Hardtail is better than brokentail.
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