Hey dhbikerczar, I think you'll be more than disappointed in the riding around here. I moved to Boulder and live here currently....I moved here from Pasadena where i was on the trails every day, I'm sure you know of Mt. Wilson and the surrounding trails around the Pasadena, CA area, although all that stuff is dry and you can get Poison Oak like freaking mad out there.....since I've moved to Boulder, I have been very sad about the Single track riding. But just like you had to drive in the Socal area to hit trails, the same applies here. The areas Jimmy mentioned are the most ridden areas around here, and if you go on the weekends...we'll lets just say you'll NEVER EVER get to enjoy a downhill on those trails, I've forced myself to go to most of these trails very very late in the day to avoid the people, there always seems to be someone coming up the downhill’s that you want to blast down, but such is life, I understand and accept that crap, I mean we all want to MTB, so since there is such limited single-track you just have to learn to live with it. I will say though that the drives to the trails are not that bad, if you live in Boulder and go north to Lyons, west to Nederland, or south to the Golden area, the drives are really not that bad compared to some of the driving in Socal. The trails are tech. though, you won't be disappointed with that, but you might start to hate climb 1million feet just to get to the good stuff right from your car, I mean come on Front Range, can't we build some nice flowy trails without having to climb to the heavens before you can ride the good stuff......
Anyway, if you DH, you'll be happy with that here, since Big Bear closed while I was in Cali., my DH rig sat for a bit, unless I hit up Bootleg, but you can drive about an hour and a half to Summit county off I-70 and you'll fall in love with the DHing over there. I spent this past summer at Keystone and was hhaaloving it!!!...super serial...
But truly I was very disappointed in the single track around the Boulder area, although I didn't know all the BS (before I moved here) that went on here between hikers and bikers and the people who actually make the decisions about the trails and there access and the build of the trails, but MTBing is MTBing, you get what you can take. but seriously this is me when I go riding here :madman:
But one thing, is right, the road riding is great, you'll get in some great rides on the road here and there’s plenty of canyons to climb up and bomb down....plus if you do live in Boulder, you will love the how easy it is to get around town on the bike paths, I live on the east side of Boulder and can ride anywhere with almost no touching roads, its great, plus if you do have to ride on the roads, they almost all have bike lanes in them, so that is a super plus for this area.....anyway....come on out to the Republic of Boulder, its in my opinion one of the better areas to live around here.....I'm sure a lot of people on this forum will not agree with me on living in BOulder, but I've lived more then a few places and it does seem to be a good place to live, but I'll be the first to tell you, the majority of people that live in Boulder are
anyway, if you come on out to the east side of the west side...hit em up....
YEah Bro!!!
