Saturday, March 24, 2018
While the women folk in my house gathered for a bridal shower, I had the chance to take my mountain bike out and enjoy some of the warm Spring weather on a network of wooded trails in west Austin. Vegetation is sprouting, giving the trail a new energy.
More than road riding, mountain bike riding takes me back to when I was a kid riding trails in the undeveloped woods behind our neighborhood in northwest San Antonio. A lot of people think trail riding is safer than road riding because the odds are extremely low that you’ll get hit by a car. But mountain biking comes with its own set of risks. Most of the scars I have are from falling off a mountain bike in some form or fashion. If you fall when riding on a trail, chances are you will land on something that will scratch you, poke you, or cause a bruise – sometimes all three. In severe cases you can break something. Fortunately, that extreme has never happened to me on the trail, so my association with mountain biking is still positive.
Austin Bike Sherpa 