The past couple weeks in photos

I've been lazy on posting recently, been riding, just not motivated enough to post some of the ride pics.  So because I don't want what is probably my one sole reader out there to think I forgot about you here are some pics from recent rides I like alot.

Hastie with Mr. Savage

So fast my rotors are burning...

Ride with Ethan...we went from towsend, cades cove, over rich mountain and back to cars...30ish miles where oddly enough there was less snow than Knoxville had...

Dirty South Ride

Finally posting pics from our ride from the shop through south knox a few days back.  What I was guessing would be a 2ish hour ride turned into a 4 1/2 hr adventure all through south knox.  We rode from the shop to some trails that will remain unmentioned, through Hastie and where it really got good was from the top of Red Bud Rd their is this "trail" Jon had ridden a while back that was a screaming fast and slightly sketchy decent that me and him tried to follow which soon disappeared after dropping down a ass in the rear tire kinda steep decent that we didn't want to push back up.  We ended up bushwhacking maybe a mile basically pointing towards a street light we saw in the distance, popped out at some peoples back yards and found Jonathan and Contador waiting patiently with beer in hand at the BP station.

After that it was a chill cruise to the hippies place for some pizza, beer, and nerf gun battles.  From there on the pace quickly turned to seeing stars with random attacks and what not all the way back to the shop.  Good times were had by all...including Jonathan

Jonathan feeling a little sketched out on the mix of snow and ice we found near Iams

I promise Jonathan isn't checking out the Venezuelan sensation's ass.....

Me and Jon trying to find our way back to civilization

First real snow ride in Knoxville!!!

Finally, I can't believe it has finally happened but we got enough snow in Knoxville for it to have some "decent" accumulation.  So after work I decided to hop on the Gunnar and ride from basically Harpers to Hastie Park and back for a little mixed terrain action.  The ride was great, the snow reflected so much light that on the greenways I just shut off my lights entirely and only turned them on for road sections to avoid becoming a hood ornament.  There was maybe 1 1/2" of snow most places on the greenway and singletrack.

Highlight of the day was ridding up a hill on sevierville pike that a truck accompanied by the expected rednecks were having a hard time getting up....when I asked if they needed some help the responded with a short and quick "NO"  Ahh, I can't wait for the day the masses realize using a 4000lb vehicle to move 200lbs of human makes no sense at all when all you really need is a sub 30lb bicycle to handle the vast majority of peoples trips.  Anyways here some pics from the ride as pictures are always more exciting than me going on and on about daily nothings....