California MTB Trip Report

Quoted message said:

Hi All,

For anyone thats interested I've just finished putting all the details
and pics from our California 2005 holiday on my web site
http://www.mtb-hol.com

Cheers

G

Great website... thanks. Looks like you had a very nice trip.

Dang, you guys experienced more of California then I; and I have lived
here 40 yrs :-(
_____
Slack

Slack said:

Quoted message said:

Hi All,

For anyone thats interested I've just finished putting all the details
and pics from our California 2005 holiday on my web site
http://www.mtb-hol.com

Cheers

G

Great website... thanks. Looks like you had a very nice trip.

Dang, you guys experienced more of California then I; and I have lived
here 40 yrs :-(

Ride more.

JD posing as MTBBill again

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 13:31:18 -0700, MTBBill <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Slack said:

Quoted message said:

Hi All,

For anyone thats interested I've just finished putting all the details
and pics from our California 2005 holiday on my web site
http://www.mtb-hol.com

Cheers

G

Great website... thanks. Looks like you had a very nice trip.

Dang, you guys experienced more of California then I; and I have lived
here 40 yrs :-(

Ride more.

JD posing as MTBBill again

Aint that a fact.
_____
Slack

I have a similar pic hanging on one
of my walls in my house.

http://www.mtb-hol.com/California2005/pictures/Day_2/gg_view_from_headlands.jpg

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Quoted message said:

Hi All,

For anyone thats interested I've just finished putting all the details
and pics from our California 2005 holiday on my web site
http://www.mtb-hol.com

Cheers

G

Quoted message said:

For anyone thats interested I've just finished putting all the details
and pics from our California 2005 holiday on my web site
http://www.mtb-hol.com

Fabulous, long back, especially to Lake Tahoe and Downieville, when I look
at your images. We did something similar in 2004, but biking between the
spots with good singletrack
http://www.lowdin.nu/MTB/California/MTB_in_California.htm

We are going back to the US this summer, but unlike in 04 we intend to
drive, go enough of trudging along roads with heavy traffic. So we are goin
to rent a SUV. How do you manage car insurance when you are in the US? From
what I understand most rental firms don´t include it in their price quotes.

Per
http://lowdin.nu

Hi Per,

If you specify your country when your booking your vehicle - they
usually then add in the CDW to your quote

I know that Alamo & Budget do this - and this usually works out cheaper
than selecting a USA rate and then adding CDW (Collision Damage Waver)

Why dont you try it out on the Budget Web site www.budget.com - you
can get to the final costs without having to book the suv on the site

Companys i've used in the past without problems have been avis, alamo
and budget, its worth shopping around as theri pricing can vary greatly

It may not be as enironmentally friendly to rent a vehicle - but you
will get to the sweet singletrack so much quicker than on your other
holidays, and cover a lot more ground.

Plus there is much less chance of you becoming roadkill

I'm heading off to Colorado at the end of this Month and i'm going to
drive from Denver to Frutia, then Moab then Goosebury then flagstaff ,
sedona , Prescott and finally Phoenix all in 2 weeks I couldnt imagine
riding inbetween all of those place

any way happy trails

G

Per Löwdin said:

Quoted message said:

For anyone thats interested I've just finished putting all the details
and pics from our California 2005 holiday on my web site
http://www.mtb-hol.com

Fabulous, long back, especially to Lake Tahoe and Downieville, when I look
at your images. We did something similar in 2004, but biking between the
spots with good singletrack
http://www.lowdin.nu/MTB/California/MTB_in_California.htm

We are going back to the US this summer, but unlike in 04 we intend to
drive, go enough of trudging along roads with heavy traffic. So we are goin
to rent a SUV. How do you manage car insurance when you are in the US? From
what I understand most rental firms don´t include it in their price quotes.

Per
http://lowdin.nu

Quoted message said:

It may not be as enironmentally friendly to rent a vehicle - but you
will get to the sweet singletrack so much quicker than on your other
holidays, and cover a lot more ground.

The only place I could imagine the singletrack being sweet is Sugar
Mountain and it's ficticious. Dirt tastes like dirt everywhere I've
crashed and ate it.

Quoted message said:

I'm heading off to Colorado at the end of this Month and i'm going to
drive from Denver to Frutia, then Moab then Goosebury then flagstaff ,
sedona , Prescott and finally Phoenix all in 2 weeks I couldnt imagine
riding inbetween all of those place

Yeah, there's nothing at all in-between any of those places.

JD

Quoted message said:

If you specify your country when your booking your vehicle - they
usually then add in the CDW to your quote

Thanks!

Quoted message said:

Why dont you try it out on the Budget Web site www.budget.com - you
can get to the final costs without having to book the suv on the site

Just tried it, but it could only do it for 31 days, so I will have to phone.
Will shop around. Some say we should buy a car as we will be in the US for
so long but I am not too keen on it.

Quoted message said:

It may not be as enironmentally friendly to rent a vehicle - but you
will get to the sweet singletrack so much quicker than on your other
holidays, and cover a lot more ground.

Yes, well we did just that in Europe last year
http://www.lowdin.nu/MTB/MTBinEurope05/MTB_in_Europe.htm

Quoted message said:

I'm heading off to Colorado at the end of this Month and i'm going to
drive from Denver to Frutia, then Moab then Goosebury then flagstaff ,
sedona , Prescott and finally Phoenix all in 2 weeks I couldnt imagine
riding inbetween all of those place

Of course you would need a lot of time and you would spend a lot of time on
the roads. There is an MTB trail between Fruita and Moab, the Kokopelli
trail, but I would not bother, most of it seems to be on dirt roads.

You are lucky to be able to get off this season. We are going in July and
August and then Fruita and Moab is hot, really hot.

Have fun

Per