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Ten Reasons To Ride In The Gran Fondo Moab 2011
Test your early season legs against ours on May 7, 2011, in Poison Spider Bicycles’ second annual Italian-style “Big Ride”, aka Gran Fondo Moab 2011.
Get a righteous training ride and prepare to kick some booty in Durango’s Iron Horse Classic a few weeks later.
Ride your bike on the spectacular cusp between the snowy peaks and the red rock desert. Whew, the views!
Race if you want, and win awards for climbing speed. Top five riders, both guys and gals win awards in the King of the Mountain & Queen of the Mountain Competitions.
Ride your speed, if you don’t want to race, and still win lots of raffle prizes from the awesome Gran Fondo Moab sponsors during the post-ride party raffle.
Ride skinny with a bunch of locals who normally only ride fat. Easy to pick us out- we don’t shave our knees.
Enjoy full support, including Cullen, the kindly but devilishly motivating support van driver who knows when to keep you and when to throw you back.
Bond, through shared effort and adventure, with old friends, new friends, family and strangers. Endorphins are a magic elixer.
How many is that??
Oh yeah, The Lunch catered by our favorite ex bike mechanic and Love Muffin owner, Wes Shannon. Italian-style panini sandwiches on fresh baked bread. Worth the ride all by itself.
Ride the Gran Fondo Moab on Saturday take on a different Moab adventure on Sunday- float the Colorado River, hike the Devil’s Garden, or mountain bike the new Pipe Dream Trail.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE GRAN FONDO MOAB WEBSITE
Mountain Bikers Warm Up During Poison Spider Bicycles Spring Thaw 2011
What were you doing March 4, 5, 6? Hopefully, you were here with us in Moab at the Poison Spider Bicycles Spring Thaw 2011. We were stripping down, one leg warmer at a time, exposing that pasty winter skin to desert sunshine, riding, partying, waking up the sleeping urge to cycle.
Friday night featured cool beverages and buffalo sliders at the Love Muffin Cafe. Saturday’s weather was perfect for a full day of riding on free 2011 mountain bike demos from Yeti Cycles and Kona Bikes. After the traditional pancake breakfast served in style by Magpie Adventures, Thawers took bikes out for laps on the sweet variety of trails and slickrock at the Moab Brands Trails Area. Newly opened trails include the technically challenging Deadman’s Trail, as well as the fun and swoopy Lazy EZ Loop. In between laps, riders could nosh on delicious hot pasta and cool salad at the party scene between the Yeti and Kona vans, compliments of Pasta Jays Restaurant of Moab.
People came to ride with us from Green River, Wyoming, all over Colorado and parts of Texas, California, Arizona and a few other states. There were kids and road bikers checking out fat tires. There were first timers, enthusiasts and a couple of pro racers blending together to talk about suspension lengths and wheel diameters, as if size matters. There were people who have come every year since forever, and folks stopping by just to see what the fuss was about.
After the day of riding, everyone gathered for dancing and lots of free schwag at Frankie D’s Bar & Grill in Moab Saturday evening. Prizes were earned by answering trivia questions if your number was chosen. The grand prize was a Yeti DJ Dirt Jumper Frame, but there was lots of Poison Spider schwag and some Rider Mel’s Mountain Bike Guide to Moab books.
The Sunday morning gathering was at Amasa Back Trialhead, with a light “hangover” breakfast presented by Rim Tours owner Matt Hebberd. Yeti Cycles offered demos for the Amasa Back group ride and Thawers chose their poison from options that include Jackson’s Trail, Rockstacker, and Pothole Arch, all outstanding and challenging trails to wake up the hibernating mountain bikers for a new season of fat tire fun.
And true to the promise of the Thaw, the sun is bright and warm in the desert now, spring has truly sprung. All we need are more happy bikers on all our trails, new and old. Come to Moab and show some skin.
Thaw out with Poison Spider and Yeti Cycles!
The annual Thaw 2011 is here!
Join us, the Poison Spider crew, and Yeti Cycles for a weekend of fun, food, riding and “thawing out” from the long cold Utah & Colorado winters. This is an annual event that includes guided rides from Magpie Adventures and Rim Tours, shuttles provided by Porcupine Shuttle, food & drink from the Love Muffin Café, and demo bikes from Yeti and Kona.
Huge party Saturday Night the 26th after dark at Frankie D’s – Including FRAME GIVEAWAY
That’s right, we’ll be giving an undisclosed BRAND NEW mountain bike frame from ? You gotta show up at Frankie D’s Bar & Grill to find out.
Official poster with event info (click to view)
