What is the attraction to singletrack??

[dirtflea]

Yah, I know I'm a sick individual but, I love to ride single track. Snow and rain just make it better! My wife says I can ride all I want so long as the medical and life insurance is up to date. Hark, is that single track calling to me.

[barton]

Ah, how I long for thee sweet single track. May the blood I spill upon you be evidence of the life inside me.

If I were a thief, I would use this for my signature. I like it.

[RiderX]

There's a difference (to me anyways) between both handguards dragging barkbusting barely able to squeeze the width of your bars through the trees track and single track. I love singletrack, not quite wide enough to pass, but wide enough to fly through and have fun. The tracks that are so narrow and windy that you have to ride them in first gear no matter how good you are suck.

[Bubie450]

Single track racer for life here!!! Dont know about yall, but I like it!!

[hevster1]

There's a difference (to me anyways) between both handguards dragging barkbusting barely able to squeeze the width of your bars through the trees track and single track. I love singletrack, not quite wide enough to pass, but wide enough to fly through and have fun. The tracks that are so narrow and windy that you have to ride them in first gear no matter how good you are suck.

Put it to you this way; I ride them in 1st as do most c riders. The b guys are 1st or second, the a guys 2nd and the guys like Lafferty ride 3rd and 4th. Lafferty does it with stock width bars as well where as mine are cut down to 30. Where Lafferty comes from there are miles and miles of twisty fire cuts that are whooped out surgar sand with trees with a 28 inch gap between them. Try spectating at a south jersey event sometime and watch the top guys do it and you will be amased. I dont particularly care for them either but you ride where you can.

[Hurricane]

I don't see what people see in going around and around and around the same track all day.

I hear that, I get bored right away on a track.

[tmckeown]

Hi,

Well I have gone tarmac circles with go-karts, saloon race cars, road racing bikes. Dirt tracks with MX-bikes and Endurobikes but I also do Enduro races in the woods. So what is the attraction of singletrack ? same as any other track, beating yourself

Timo Mc

[426boy]

single track is just awesome the challenge the cool trails u discover while ur riding its just bad to the bone riding

[Ridin150]

The best thing about racing singletrack is the rush u get when u r at the starting line and by the time u reach the first corner ur heart is pounding.

[zags]

This thread has been a great read so far. It reminds me of all of the reasons I love riding single track. It is pretty much all I ride. I hit an ocasional MX track with friends, but I would always rather be solo riding single track in the desert and mountains. BTW, I grew up riding woods in Wisconsin but now that I live in Arizona I can't say I like woods as much as weaving through Cactus, over and around house size boulders.

[ARin]

I enjoy ST, BUT, the type we have out in the desert is a bit different....no handlebar bangers, but lots of rocky hillclimbs and the occasional errant cactus to avoid.

[kxf17]

I don't see what people see in going around and around and around the same track all day.

ITS CALLED AIR!!!!! And you stick it between your tires and the ground

[eric roman herbertz]

i simply like, to be on a bike.

Last year on a single track, near the french alps, i encountered a wolf. well, that's what the folks down there told me it was. for me it was a big, tall and yellow eyed kind of Husky with no leash and neckless.

In Spain, some years ago on a very tricky down-hill passage, we had to pass a flock of real "Toros".

Every time, when we go to the Vogese-Mountains (east of France), we discover something related to WWI and WWII. Bunkers, spots of shot-down planes, memorials of the resistance. History is alive, when you are out there on a single track.

And - it's the smell of mushrooms, pine-trees and wild-strawberry (except you're folloowing a 2T).

That's to me the fascination of single-track riding, too.

[kawirider]

Man that sounds awsome, I love to study WWII and to be around all that history would be awsome. But, shipping the bike overseas, then flying overseas and riding is probably not going to happen anytime soon.

[YZFEric]

haha i agree about the quads. but i notice that it does empty out all the idiots from the true riders. it also teaches you alot about how you get out of small areas and theres some clutch use goin on to.

[glennb]

It doesn't matter how much it's rained the week before, woods track will be just fine muddy or dry. MX tracks are a different story.

[Knobbydude]

The best thing about racing singletrack is the rush u get when u r at the starting line and by the time u reach the first corner ur heart is pounding.

Yep, the most terrified and alive I have ever felt is the 'funnel' into the singletrack at hare scrambles. Thirty bikes all trying to occupy the same spot at the same time will definitely get your attention.

[Indy_WR450]

Whats there not to like? ?

[kawirider]

Whats there not to like? ?

You really do enjoy torturing me dont you? You and I both know that there is nothing close to that in alabama. (Right?) If all singletrack was like that, I think that the motocross tracks would go out of buisness.

[dirtflea]

i simply like, to be on a bike.

Last year on a single track, near the french alps, i encountered a wolf. well, that's what the folks down there told me it was. for me it was a big, tall and yellow eyed kind of Husky with no leash and neckless.

In Spain, some years ago on a very tricky down-hill passage, we had to pass a flock of real "Toros".

Every time, when we go to the Vogese-Mountains (east of France), we discover something related to WWI and WWII. Bunkers, spots of shot-down planes, memorials of the resistance. History is alive, when you are out there on a single track.

And - it's the smell of mushrooms, pine-trees and wild-strawberry (except you're folloowing a 2T).

That's to me the fascination of single-track riding, too.

Cruising around and seeing the war relics sounds awesome, post some photos if you have any.