After our first ride here not quite matching the hype, we (and by we I mean Emma) booked a shuttle that delived us to 8500ft, 2600m for you metric people. Moab town here is at 4000ft so we had a good descent ahead. After grinding up the hill for 45 minutes in a good old VW van we headed off in fresh air, maybe 15 celsius, which was nice for a change. Dirt surface for a start then onto some more Moab slick rock shortly followed by the first flat tyre of course, my front tyre, pinch flat. Soon after getting going we stopped to watch a snake slither away, nicer looking snake than last time, only half a metre long and a nice deep green colour and I was nowhere near running him over like the last one. Probably still deadly, ignorance is bliss! Saw a neat coloured lizard too.
This track, "Porcupine Rim Track", is probably the
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st ride we've done so far. I reckon it would be around 3-4 hours of gradual downhill with something for everyone on the way down. After a few hours we passed a couple of Canadians on motorbikes who had decided to take a shortcut out of the desert as one of them was suffering a bit. They decided the mountainbike track would be a quick way out to the road but they were wrong, after we passed them the track was sort of unrideable & very technical for a bit so we waited for them and ended up helping for an hour or two. If you know bikes you will know a KTM530 is one of heaviest pigs of a bike for this sort of stuff, this one had a nice but heavy 2 wheel drive setup to add to the weight, oh joy. By the time bike drama is sorted we have added a couple of hours to our trip and shared the last of our water with our new friends. Not a big drama as we know it's only half an hour to town but we did stop at the first crappy takeaway we came to for a lemonade and fries! Great mission and now we are heading out for free beers and to talk bikes for a while with the Canadians. Em will probably fall asleep after half an hour... Later.
st ride we've done so far. I reckon it would be around 3-4 hours of gradual downhill with something for everyone on the way down. After a few hours we passed a couple of Canadians on motorbikes who had decided to take a shortcut out of the desert as one of them was suffering a bit. They decided the mountainbike track would be a quick way out to the road but they were wrong, after we passed them the track was sort of unrideable & very technical for a bit so we waited for them and ended up helping for an hour or two. If you know bikes you will know a KTM530 is one of heaviest pigs of a bike for this sort of stuff, this one had a nice but heavy 2 wheel drive setup to add to the weight, oh joy. By the time bike drama is sorted we have added a couple of hours to our trip and shared the last of our water with our new friends. Not a big drama as we know it's only half an hour to town but we did stop at the first crappy takeaway we came to for a lemonade and fries! Great mission and now we are heading out for free beers and to talk bikes for a while with the Canadians. Em will probably fall asleep after half an hour... Later. 
Looks like you borrowed their boots, Brent.
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