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It’s cold today. The clouds have rolled in for a little snow later and kept the temps to 26 degrees. At start time, there’s only three of us. The three M’s (Mike, Mike, and Mitch) are an odd lot. Betwwen us we have a singlespeeder, a clydesdale, and myself. It’s pretty much all three speeds of riding, but we keep the pace steady. One of the problems we face is that nobody seems to know the trail system here. So we wing it and right away find some single track.

The trails here are very sweet and perfect for testing the new Racer X. Right away I notice that I never leave the middle ring. It’s like riding on glass and even up hill!

We check to make sure we heading in the right direction and hear some other riders. We let them go by and decide that it might be a good idea to follow them.

Not a bad idea because they turn onto a very nice piece of tight singletrack. It almost looks freshly cut.

Mike follows us up the singletrack. What a trooper (literally)!

More singletrack awaits us. There is supposedly over 18 miles of it here, but we only found about 12.

At the top of one of the hills, the views of the Pennypack Creek make it all worth it. I look forward to crossing the creek in the summer.

I have to say, I’ll take this place over Wissahickon. The only regret is the lack of rocks. You have to really search this place to find some technical riding.