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Issue Number 5 : January 10’ Issue Number 5 : January 10’ PUBLISHER : Brandon Watts EDITOR: Silly Anne (Priscilla Watts) CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: CON Stephen Dempsey TRIBUTORS Lorraine Blancher Patrick Augustine Katie Lindquist Bill Boles Trevor Kaiser Brandon Watts Ryan Wilson TJ Gumz CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Mason Mashon Ryan Kirk Josh Poulsen Karen Myers John Goeller Todd Barber Wade Youngblood CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS: Trevor Kaiser, www.FineTunedSignatures.com WEB MASTERS: Sean Hreha, PHP, HTML and Flash Man Wes Broadway, HTML and PHP Maniac CONTRIBUTING SHOPS / COMPANIES: Rays MTB, Cleveland, Ohio Crater Cycles, Kahului, Hawaii Outspokin Cycles, Columbia, South Carolina Kent Eriksen Cycles, Steamboat Springs, Colorado New England Mountain Bike Association, Acton, Mass. OTHER SUPPORT: Drew Reger, The GPS Store, www.theGPSstore.com All rights reserved to FREEHUB Media, LLC. Copyright 2010. FREEHUB MEDIA, LLC Bellingham, WA 98226 www.FreehubMag.com [email protected] Freehub “Reader Photo Contest” winner [1st place] Photo by Ryan Kirk TRAIL & RIDE REVIEWS 8 Cleveland, Ohio by Rays MTB Kahului, Hawaii by Crater Cycles 10 ISSUE NUMBER 5 JANUARY 2010 12 Columbia, South Carolina by Outspokin Bicycles RIDER RANTS CONTENTS 16 Stephen Dempsey, XC 24 Lorraine Blancher, Freeride & DH CREATIVE PEEPS 28 Trevor Kaiser RIDER . RYAN MEYERSN PHOTO .JAYSINCLAIRPHOTO.COM INDUSTRY HANDS 30 Kent Eriksen Cycles, Colorado FRIENDLY FRONTS 00 Memphis, Tennessee (Printed Annual Only) COMMUNITY 34 New England Mountain Bike Association This Issue is our SHORT issue, and will be the last content in the 260 page annual that will be released at the 2010 Sea Otter Classic in April. To everyone that has helped make our dream a reality, THANKS! Freehub “Reader Photo Contest” winner [3rd place] Photo by Wade Youngblood Todd Glasgow, of the Black Rock Mountain Bike Association ripping Sicter Gnar at this years Demo Day. Indoor Playland CLEVELAND, OH 120,000 SQF of Ripping wood, dirt and rocks! Dirt Room, and Troy Lee Rhythm Room. This one of a kind fantasyland has the big jumps for the guy looking to rack up air miles, and the low skills skinny stuff to keep new riders on edge. As a matter of fact, there is riding in every corner of this eather can play a huge roll in the amount of time facility that rivals some of the best bike parks in the world. some riders spend on the bike, but for the “die W hards”, weather is never an issue. These guys are Ray, the man behind the idea started this park 6 years ago, in usually proud of riding in all conditions, but some of them an old rayon factory. He has grown the park each year with have a trick up their sleeve. This trick is Ray’s Indoor Moun- new additions to the facility, and expanded it into new rooms tain Bike Park! If you live close to Cleveland, or have read a of the factory allowing more space to flow. These dedicated biking magazine in the last year, most likely you have heard past years of business have left a really fun maze that is best about Ray’s MTB. If you haven’t, you are missing out on the observed through the cockpit of a bike, and is seldom seen little information that keeps a great deal of dedicated riders anywhere else. There are not many “institutions” like this pumping year round. anywhere in the world, but Ray’s business model has been adopted by a few other bike lovers, and is starting to catch on Ray’s could be seem as an amusement park for the biking among bikers. He has created a haven for riders all year long, junkie, and its variety of terrain our smack. This 120, 000 to ride, rip, and air through an amazing facility, all while riding square foot facility has an indoor dreamland built for every rid- with other people that are there to do the same. ing level and style across the board. XC riders can session the loop that wraps around the rafters and perimeter of the mas- So, whether you’re a pro to play in the park, or a new biker sive facility, or play in the skills and XC rooms. The 20 inchers looking to learn, Ray’s has got the spot to ride. Check them and dirt jumpers have their space to play as well, one being the out online at: www.RaysMTB.com Harbison State Ride From COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA Words by Patrick Augustine Photos by Karen Meyers or riders on the East Coast, it’s easy to fall into the temptation of thinking F of ourselves as trail-impoverished in comparison to our brethren west of the Mis- sissippi. Lacking the templar vistas championed by Muir and Mather, riders in the Southeast outside of the Appalachians can come to view their local haunts with the same disdain that some have for certain family members. Mountain bikers in Columbia, South Carolina are disabused of this notion on a regular basis by both the variety of places - singletrack, doubletrack, & fire roads. Easy access to the soils and short loop that only runs for seven miles or so. I might not in such a confined space. Splitting the terrain dif- to ride and by the wonderful year-round riding weather that forest also means that bikers can expect to share the trails suppose it’s a sentimental favorite due to the large role it ference between Harbison and Sesqui nicely, Lynch’s Woods we (usually) enjoy. Smack dab in the middle of our fair state, with other users like trail runners and hikers during most played in my own mountain biking education, but the sand has a lot of mixed pine and hardwood forest with some Columbia sits on what was, in prehistoric times, considered seasons. The different trail user constituencies coexist hap- that makes it annoyingly dry and boggy during the sauna-like sandy sections and road crossings thrown in. Expect to see the coast. The resulting geography and terrain of the ‘Mid- pily, and in tandem with campers, boaters, and everyday use summers. This also means that it’s perfect during our wet horseback riders in the warmer months too. lands’ lend itself to some fun and convenient trail riding. by the foresters. In many ways, it is this broad-based ap- winters when you might otherwise feel guilty about riding peal that has helped Harbison to weather challenges from at Harbison. An artifact of Roosevelt’s Civilian Construction Trail access is fortunately not a battle that many in SC have Nestled within the city limits, Harbison State Forest is the those out of touch with the necessity for public access to Corps of the 1930s, its simplicity and flow are worth discov- had to deal with very much, but the writing is on the wall largest such public green space anywhere in the eastern nature at the ready. Gov. Sanford’s proposal to sell the land ering or reacquainting oneself with. in terms of the need for a Midlands SORBA chapter in the United States and it’s our default locale for quick local rides, to private developers in 2002 due to budget shortfalls was near future. Both the Upstate near the North Carolina Its an 8-mile drive from downtown with easy highway access. a prime example of this Harbison’s proximity to the water Lynch’s Woods, located in Newberry, SC is a bit of a jaunt mountains and the southwest part of the state that bor- Harbison’s 20+ miles of trail are surprisingly isolated and can be a liability during the winter though, when increased north from Columbia on I-26, but even given the half-hour ders Georgia have their own chapters, but for now the only impressive considering that they are situated on only 2200 rains and flooding make parts of the trails unwise to ride. of driving it takes to get there, it would be unfair to leave it advocacy body that works for trail maintenance and access acres that abut the Broad River. Riders begin in a forest of off any list of South Carolina singletrack. Some local riders are the Friends of Harbison State Forest, which represents longleaf pines, but quickly find themselves among bottom- Fortunately, there are two other riding options in the im- even consider it their own personal ‘hidden’ trail, in part be- all trail users at the Harbison facility. land hardwoods near the river and even scrub oak stands on mediate area around Columbia for those hungry for their cause it sees so few riders and also because unlike Harbison, the bluffs which contribute most of the 1000 foot elevation singletrack fix. The first is Sesquicentennial State Park to it is not so beginner-friendly. The property comprises less Want more information about any of these trails, or riding in change on the most generic trail loop. Since Harbison is an the northeast of town, nestled atop one of those ancient than 300 acres, so the trail wends itself around like a seven- South Carolina in general? educational forest used to showcase good timber manage- sand dunes that betray Columbia’s former beachfront status. mile long rattlesnake sunning itself in the summer. Somewhat ment practices in a state where timber sales are the number Sesqui, as it is affectionately known locally, falls out of fashion unsurprisingly, the twisty nature of the trail provides its own Check out our Website or give us a call: one cash crop, riders are treated to a little bit of everything with each succeeding generation of riders due to its sandy set of technical challenges that a more flow-conducive route Outspokin’ Bicycles: www.outspokinbicycles.com I tried to keep up but just flat out lost it on a straight away.
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