Yesterday was my first official ride of the season, for mountain biking. YEsterday my friend and I did 20k (12.5miles) and today we did a bit bigger group ride with 6 of us in total....and we did about 15k (9 miles). It was fun.

Location: Durham Forest

Time: 11am-3pm

First day was problem free,no crashes, no breaking bike parts. and we had found new trails that were recently built. We even seen a couple Equestrian riders. Didn't think they were allwoed on the trails...but anyways, we also hit our regular trails. Though one thign we noticed, is that every bike ider we came across, was riding a 29'' wheeled bike. Me and my friend ride 26'' wheeled bikes.

Second Day., we got together with a few friends of ours, with their bikes and the 6 of us rode together for most of the day, until two of them had to split and go home. Which ust left me and a couple of our other friends with us. One friend was riding my winter bike, that I put back together, and another friend was riding a brand new Trek 29er that he bought today.

Today was also the day that things started happening...I was the first one to crash....I scrapped a tree with my handlebars, my handlebars are insanely wide at 780mm, makes it hard getting through narrow trail bits,which flung me over and caused me to body check another tree, and then I tackled a sapling. Though, I managed to stay on the bike the whole time...I had managed to reach my one brake, before going totally off the trail. This was within 10 minutes of starting the ride. I then yelled "First tree hit of the day!"

Then at the same part, another friend hits the same tree but fell off.

Then, after the other two riders left us, we went to our favourite trail "Ogre And Out" (pic below of the end of it). This is where the other three all crashed huge...though, no serious injures were had....just a bloody knuckle or two. One crashed at a sharp turn and ate dirt, literally. Another fell off the board walk during an uphill climb. and the other one went off the boardwalk near the end of the trail (Seen in pic below).

So yea, fun day over all. The day isn't complete until someone (or everyone) crashes.