What's your MTB related New Year's Resolution(s)?

[MTBNate]

New bike? Epic rides? Learn moar skills? Drink more beer?

Mine is to ride the Placitas trails and maybe get to Moab this year!

What's yours?

[HighSpeedChase]

New bike for sure! Ride more in general and beer is ALWAYS good.

[jhazard]

Move to ABQ... Shuttles on Sandia... Move up to Cat 1 DH at the end of 2013(assuming there's going to be races) ... More pedal-powered riding (as opposed to gravity)...

[Fuglio]

Spend less money on bikes

[MTBNate]

Move to ABQ... Shuttles on Sandia... Move up to Cat 1 DH at the end of 2013(assuming there's going to be races) ... More pedal-powered riding (as opposed to gravity)...

Moving from where to ABQ?

[jhazard]

Good Question...

Durango.

[MTBNate]

Durango.

Welcome to ABQ - I do enjoy my visits to Durango.

[jhazard]

Welcome...we got a few good photogs that lurk here.

AndyN, Kevin Lange, Steve Hile....just to name a few.

Thanks - I often admire the photo dumps from your various rides. Think I've seen a couple of those names pop up in "The Rider's Eye" from time to time too

[jhazard]

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[jhazard]

Welcome to ABQ - I do enjoy my visits to Durango.

Thank you. It is a great place to visit, but I'll be happy to be in a city environment again

[LCdaveH]

My 2013 bike goals:

Ride more often
Ride harder
Ride longer
Get fit to put in some "epic" all day rides
Eat better (pretty much vegan)
Use a ride/fitness tracker. I made an excell sheet and just did my first entries for today's ride

Get a new bike hauler - looking at the new Subaru Outback wagon. If I take off the front wheel and take out the seat+post, I should be able to get two bikes, two riders and gear inside the vehicle. My bikes ride inside; just like my dogs.

Visit and ride Durango :-)

Happy 2013!

[skerry00]

Ride more. Build more trail. Take my "new to me" popup camper out and have some epic week and weekend trips. Moab this spring maybe Oregon this summer.

[mtbike52]

Hit bigger $h!t, Keep body parts intact. More out of town bike trips to cool places.

[TBarnaby]

1000 miles of dirt and at least 3 out of town riding trips.

[cabra cadabra]

Use a ride/fitness tracker. I made an excell sheet and just did my first entries for today's ride

If you have a smart phone try using Strava. Yeah you can use it to compete with folks but it is great for tracking all your rides/hikes/skiing... Break things down by month/year, hours, distance, # of rides,...

[nealpederson]

- Hopefully a long overdue return trip to Whistler
- Race USA Gravity Nationals in Angel Fire
- Build, build, build, and keep on building trails at Pajarito

[cabra cadabra]

2013 goals:

- enter 2-3 Enduro races ( Get Ready for Big Mountain Enduro Action - Big Mountain Enduro Series )
- do 100k+ of climbing
- ride twice a week
- learn to do tight switchbacks via nose pivots (Frenchy style, those guys are good)
Mavic Trans-Provence / Dates & Details
- make progress on new epic trail builds
- add chainsaw cert to my crosscut saw cert
- build some new water bridges off Winsor
- do a bunch of trail maintenance days
- organize some SFFTS/FOO and SFFTS/Taos club rides
- learn to jump
- drop most the ladders at La Tierra
- ride Red Mesa and session
- ride Cumbres Pass
- lose 7 lbs (see above )
- stay nice on the interwebz and ride with the Bandos more

Crap, I better write all this stuff down...

[Blister Butt]

I resolve to remember that being able to ride is a gift and not a competition or exhibition or any type of demonstration of a person's character or value; and I further resolve to remember and acknowledge that the world and all the trails on it are unique, fragile and nothing ever to be taken for granted, damaged or abused; and finally, I hereby resolve to remember that a seemingly endless fascination with electronic gadgetry is an absolutely useless waste of time and energy, and that pretty electronic pictures are nothing compared to having an actual experience in the physical world.

[90supra]

Whistler. Got to make it happen finally

[warimono]

Ride harder, longer, and more often. In general "Hit that ****!"

[makachut]

Keep the rubber side down and weld some tubes together in the shape of a bike frame

[TBarnaby]

Keep the rubber side down and weld some tubes together in the shape of a bike frame

You mean like a balloon animal? Cool and creepy in a way.

[m_dub007]

Compete in a race, do a 50 mile ride and get rid of some of my beer belly!

[wahday]

More riding!
Skills development
Some bike upgrades (incl. new wheelset)
More bikepacking, please...

[bsieb]

Build 15 miles of new trail
Build and install an IGH (8 sp) wheel on my rigid Coconino
Travel and ride for at least 3 weeks this summer
Ride the FSR at least 3 times
Stay up til at least 10 pm at least 4 nights a week
Party more and harder
Do a Baja trip this winter