Hello everyone I just wanted to introduce myself.
I grew up on a lake community in stokes state forest. Woods rd on Kittatinny lake for anyone who knows the area. From when I first learned to ride until my late teens I spent a lot of time riding around the trails behind woods rd and down near tilmans ravine. Destroyed about 5 department store mountain bikes during that time. I liked to ride hard, and crashed a lot doing it.
Once I moved out of my parents house I left my last surviving bike behind and forgot all about riding.
A few years ago I starting talking a lot about how I miss mtn biking. My girlfriend was listening and bought me a cheap mtn bike. Unfortunately the bike brought me nothing more then frustration. The front shock squeaked relentlessly and the disc brakes never worked right. Again I forgot about biking. Even left that bike behind in the storage basement when me moved out of that apartment.
Last year the mtn bike bug bit me again. Once again my girl ( same girl, now shes my wife ) got tired of hearing me talk about it and decided to get me another bike. This time she didn't bother with the Walmart bikes and went down to Cycle Works in Byram. She came home and surprised me with a 2011 Giant Trance X4. Awesome bike. Love my wife!
Currently living just outside of Stephens state park I've been making it my goal to get out riding every day I can weather permitting. Having not rode in over 10 years I am definitely a beginner, but striving to build my endurance and skills back up. Just yesterday I got totally lost in Stephens but I had a great time doing it. Pink trail = evil. To many damn 3 way intersections with pink blazes going every direction! Despite that, Pink trail = tons of fun! Didn't even care that I was lost. Even crashing once and being catapulted over the bars when my front wheel got stuck was kind of fun. Definitely going to try and avoid that in the future...but once was fun.
I found mtbnj.com while searching the internet for riding information. I joined in the hope of learning from others who enjoy riding and hopefully finding people to ride with once I build my endurance and skill up a little bit.
Thanks for having me and I hope to meet some of you out there on the trails!
-Jon
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I grew up on a lake community in stokes state forest. Woods rd on Kittatinny lake for anyone who knows the area. From when I first learned to ride until my late teens I spent a lot of time riding around the trails behind woods rd and down near tilmans ravine. Destroyed about 5 department store mountain bikes during that time. I liked to ride hard, and crashed a lot doing it.
Once I moved out of my parents house I left my last surviving bike behind and forgot all about riding.
A few years ago I starting talking a lot about how I miss mtn biking. My girlfriend was listening and bought me a cheap mtn bike. Unfortunately the bike brought me nothing more then frustration. The front shock squeaked relentlessly and the disc brakes never worked right. Again I forgot about biking. Even left that bike behind in the storage basement when me moved out of that apartment.
Last year the mtn bike bug bit me again. Once again my girl ( same girl, now shes my wife ) got tired of hearing me talk about it and decided to get me another bike. This time she didn't bother with the Walmart bikes and went down to Cycle Works in Byram. She came home and surprised me with a 2011 Giant Trance X4. Awesome bike. Love my wife!
Currently living just outside of Stephens state park I've been making it my goal to get out riding every day I can weather permitting. Having not rode in over 10 years I am definitely a beginner, but striving to build my endurance and skills back up. Just yesterday I got totally lost in Stephens but I had a great time doing it. Pink trail = evil. To many damn 3 way intersections with pink blazes going every direction! Despite that, Pink trail = tons of fun! Didn't even care that I was lost. Even crashing once and being catapulted over the bars when my front wheel got stuck was kind of fun. Definitely going to try and avoid that in the future...but once was fun.
I found mtbnj.com while searching the internet for riding information. I joined in the hope of learning from others who enjoy riding and hopefully finding people to ride with once I build my endurance and skill up a little bit.
Thanks for having me and I hope to meet some of you out there on the trails!
-Jon
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