A Noble Saturday

Last Saturday a couple of me and a couple friends went out to shuttle Noble Canyon. Other than the hot temps in some areas of the canyon it turned out to be a pretty good ride. Here are the stats from that day:

# of riders: 3
# of flats: 3 (1 per rider)
# of crashes: 6 (2 per rider)

I would say that the stats are pretty good, considering the trail. If you not familiar with it, Noble has some pretty techy sections. All in all I cleaned most of the major areas: "Widow Maker", "Barney Rubble", the upper and middle switch backs, "The Roman Wall" and the rest of "Extra Credit". I couldn't get through "Stairway to Hell", but that's just how Noble is. It wreaks havoc on the bikes and it's never the same ride twice. I was only able to get a few shots off during the ride (too busy riding). Here's what I captured that day.

Permanent Gloves?

So why "permanentgloves"? It probably started around 2004, that's about the year that I got bit by the MTB bug. So what does that have to do with "permanentgloves"? Pretty much everyhing. You see I wear full finger gloves when I ride and as the years and my MTB habit progressed, being from Sunny San Diego, a glove tan burned it's way onto my hands. I'm not sure if it's as noticeable as it really is, but if I showed you my hands, more then likely you would be able to see a significant difference in skin tone starting from my wrists. I guess I could of just as easily made it "permanentsando", but that's not as viewable daily as my "permanentgloves". Anyways pictured above are my favorite gloves.