Photos of the North Ranch Mountain Bikers of Ventura County. Click on an image to see it full size.
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Steve inspects two ramps. You can ride whichever one you feel most comfortable on. In Steve's view, wider is better!
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A couple of other rides blew by as we were looking at this ramp
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The trailhead is well marked
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We could use signs like this around here!
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Kevin navigates another entrace to the the trail. This didn't appear to be an official trailhead
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This is the River that Runs Through It. It's bigger than it looks, being about 20 feet down.
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One section of the trail was distinctly rocky
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Typically there are a lot of roots
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This might give you a sense of how dark it is in the forest in the middle of the day
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We both elected not to ride this ramp. It doesn't look very high, but actually it's about 4 feet or so above the rocks. That would be a nasty fall if you went off the ramp!
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This was a very interesting ramp
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When you ride onto a teeter-totter on one side, the ropes and pulleys pull the teeter-totter on the other side down. You only have a fraction of a second to ride across the middle section before both teeter-totters spring back up. If there's someone behind you, they need to wait until you get across and the first teeter-totter resets before they can start. There's a video of Kevin walking across this so you can see it in action.
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