gopherhockey
05-22-2005, 07:38 AM
Anyone catch the July 2005 issue of Mountain Bike? There is an article called Riding Urban Grime - "The Mountain Bike guide to eating, sleeping and playing in 10 great American cities - and the riding is world-class too." in which Minneapolis/St. Paul, of course, was included.
Better yet, they wrote up a nice little review of Lebanon and mentioned MORC (and the web site of course).
Not sure how legal it is to quote the entire article, but here are a few sections:
"Thirty minutes from downtown Minneapolis you can ride on 8 miles of the best technical singletrack in the area. The 80-acre Lebanon Park has four, one-way loops to accomodate all abilities. The hard-pcked ground is fast, but good luck keeping a race pace when you're weagine tight turns through a forest of maple, ash, cottonwood, pine and red and white oak. Hit a clearing and you'll bounce through rock gardens and bunny over logs. Should you want to try a few stunts, push your limits on Minnesota's interpretation of North Shore-style stunts. The roughly mile-long, bland beginner's loop serves as an appetizer to the increasingly hearty intermediate, expert and advanced-expert (or XX) loops to come. before the turn-off for the expert loop, you'll bomb two-thirds of the intermediate trail. The XX trail contains ditch spanning bridges that range from 1 inch to 2.5 feed off the ground, as well as tabletops, twisty-turny technical singletrack and enough 2-foot drops to keep you guessing. The trail creators, Minnesota Off Road Cyclists, have made bypasses around each obstacle, just in case the mere sight of a stunt leaves you murmuring for your mama."
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I'm sure the north-shore guys aren't packing their bags just yet.. but it is fun to see us get mentioned all the same. Penn Cycle and Doolittles Cafe got props too.
Better yet, they wrote up a nice little review of Lebanon and mentioned MORC (and the web site of course).
Not sure how legal it is to quote the entire article, but here are a few sections:
"Thirty minutes from downtown Minneapolis you can ride on 8 miles of the best technical singletrack in the area. The 80-acre Lebanon Park has four, one-way loops to accomodate all abilities. The hard-pcked ground is fast, but good luck keeping a race pace when you're weagine tight turns through a forest of maple, ash, cottonwood, pine and red and white oak. Hit a clearing and you'll bounce through rock gardens and bunny over logs. Should you want to try a few stunts, push your limits on Minnesota's interpretation of North Shore-style stunts. The roughly mile-long, bland beginner's loop serves as an appetizer to the increasingly hearty intermediate, expert and advanced-expert (or XX) loops to come. before the turn-off for the expert loop, you'll bomb two-thirds of the intermediate trail. The XX trail contains ditch spanning bridges that range from 1 inch to 2.5 feed off the ground, as well as tabletops, twisty-turny technical singletrack and enough 2-foot drops to keep you guessing. The trail creators, Minnesota Off Road Cyclists, have made bypasses around each obstacle, just in case the mere sight of a stunt leaves you murmuring for your mama."
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I'm sure the north-shore guys aren't packing their bags just yet.. but it is fun to see us get mentioned all the same. Penn Cycle and Doolittles Cafe got props too.