My college gives us one day off for “Fall Break.” I’m not sure how a 3-day weekend qualifies for a vacation, but apparently it does! I decided to make the most of this precious time, so I hit the road and drove over to Ellijay, Georgia to investigate a couple of trails I’d never ridden before.
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This essay is the result of an assignment to write a "letter to the editor" for my Intermediate Composition class during the summer of 2011. I also transformed this piece into a blog post on Cranial Collision.

While I don't normally relish getting this political, I'm happy with how the piece turned out. Apparently my professor was too, because I received an "A."







I just shared a link to a cool article and started a discussion thread over on the Singletracks.com forum, but I wanted to re-share here a few of the thoughts I wrote up:

But I'd also like to add that riding a mountain bike while on your commute also opens up an amazing number of route possibilities that just aren't open to a road bike. With a mountain bike, you can take short cuts across grassy parks and avoid traffic, ride stair cases, tackle curbs and speed bumps quickly and easily, and basically dominate the entire city instead of being worried about hitting a small dip in the pavement and throwing your skinny wheel out of true.

During my short commute to campus, there's one section where I routinely come flying down a hill, rocketing over speed bumps, straight over a sidewalk into a grassy hill, launch off of a man-hole cover that's right above a steep hill and catch some air, and them come blazing down that slope and merge onto a sidewalk at ~25 mph as I bust on over to the appropriate building. You just can't tackle a short cut like that on a road bike or urban cruiser...
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My Trail 401 ride report is now live on Singletracks.com. Go check it out!
I have a new product review of the Dakine Syncline short now live on Singletracks.com! Be sure to check it out!
My review of this hydration pack is now live on Singletracks.com... be sure to click on over and check it out!
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