PedalTrout

Depends on whose ass she kicks! :P

Well, whether she kicks ass she'll likely come, as long as you guys don't mind have a less experimented rider in the group...

We welcome everyone regardless of experience.

Great, I'm pretty sure she'll be in then! What time do you guys normally start riding at? And if someone could send directions to Spider Lake our way, that would be much appreciated. We will be leaving from Prospect...

Are you guys ok with 10:30 am? We can be flexible, if that's problematic. Directions from Prospect to Spider Lake... I'll give it a go but hopefully if I make any mistakes someone will correct me. I'd double check my directions with Google maps just to be certain.

-Follow Prospect Road towards Halifax. Turn right at the end onto Prospect Road onto St. Margaret's Bay Road and head to the rotary
-Go up Chebucto Road and turn left onto Oxford, right onto North St.
-Follow North St. across the MacDonald Bridge (you'll need to pay a toll on the Dartmouth side)
-Hang a sharp right off the bridge onto Windmill Road.
-At the end of Windmill turn left onto Alderney Drive and follow through until it turns into Prince Albert Road
-Keep following Prince Albert until it becomes Braemar Drive (you'll pass a lake on your left, a Superstore on your right and then another lake on your left, then more lakes). Eventually this turns into Waverly Road.
-Keep on going and going until you see Spider Lake Road on your right. Turn on to the road and go to the very end - that's the trail head. If you cross under an overpass before you hit Spider Lake Road you've missed it. It has a habit of sneaking up, it's wily like that.

We'll be there in either an orange or silver Matrix with roofracks. I have red hair and a blue Yeti. Troy has no hair and a Haro.

10:30 sounds good, and thanks for the directions! Any idea how long it would take us to get there from Prospect?

Hey madknob, I am still up to a ride on Monday. From where you are situated it is probably an hours drive. We can meet up in Dartmouth. It is along the way and we can carpool from my place. I will send you a PM with my # on it.
Peace

I didn't want to contradict Bikergrl *gasp* but since Tommyboy already did, I think it's relatively safe to chime in. ;)

So, my take is this: If you want to have FUN, bring your 6" travel bike. 'nuff said.

Fine then, 6"it is. I guess I'm rockin' 5 through the trails now, so what's another inch?

Yeah, I made my mind, 6" it will be - it's a fun bike and it's not full of bling bling parts like the other 2 so I don't mind breaking stuff on it, not that I'm planning on crashing it all over the place but you never know...

Fine then, 6"it is. I guess I'm rockin' 5 through the trails now, so what's another inch?

Indeed. But you know us guys...we always want that extra inch.

Time to leave the Big Smoke - thanks to all of you for your input/suggestions and special thanks to tommyboy for offering to show me some trailage on the 5th and to bikergrl for organizing the July 4 Spider Lake ride - see you there!

What a great ride that was. Thanks all.

Indeed, lotsa fun! Hope you come back and visit us again, Francois!

Yep, that was a great ride - especially the first trail (Skull?), wish we had that kind of terrain back home!

Thanks again for organizing the ride and I'll be back for more, I"m sure!

Cheers!

Here's a video of you hitting the drop at Skull Francois.

Sweet, that was a fantastic trail.. How was your hiking trip guys?

Francois, glad you enjoyed it. I hope Maine was equally fun!

Our backpacking trip was fun but brutal. My backpacking boots are headed for the garbage after they mangled my feet but it was so nice to be away from everything for a few days.

Hope we get to see you again sometime, it was very nice to meet you!