Post Ride Beer Stream of Consciousness
PRBSoC #8: North Park Collab with Beachwood = Beach Fu!
Trail names are like beer names. Who and how and why … people come up with names and we’re sometimes left wondering what it’s all about, if there is any meaning.
Music often is in my head while riding, not in any earbuds and for sure not coming out of a portable speaker causing noise pollution and disturbing the critters and other humans.
Anyways … music and trail names …
Magic Power … what a song by Triumph back in the day … that needs to be a trail name, if not already, it is one. Only if it feels as good as the song does, meaning how it makes you feel when you’re belting it out.
Roots, Rock, Reggae … Bob … I sing this one to myself a lot when the trail gets fun…there is one section of one trail in Michaux that I always bounce to … this jam while pedaling … and smiling.
Ramble On … Zep … enough said. Make sure it’s a trail that is at least 10 miles long, and that it undulates.
Boom! … The Roots … make sure it’s a big, fast downhill.
Joan Jett … just call the damn trail that. She’s badass, always has been, and make sure it has some obstacle that can’t have a go-around built so that you have to ride it, or you have to get off and walk.
No Phone … Cake … a big ole remote trail that has you in the here-now.
1000 Miles from Nowhere … Dwight Yoakam … same theme as above … maybe somewhere in the desert southwest.
Rob Halford, like Joan above … make sure it’s a real “metal” trail for the master. Ha!
Anyway … and on and on …
Oh, well … one more … why not … Panic Switch … Silversun Pickups … probably needs a gap or a big drop or long skinny high off the forest floor.
That’s it. Drop yours in the comment box.
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