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My deluxe accomodations for the night!<\/p><\/div>This past weekend I headed out to Gardners, PA for the Michaux Double Down Enduro put on by Zach Adams of Fast Forward Racing Productions<\/a>. The last enduro of my race season for 2013! I knew a bunch of friends were going so I was looking forward to it and I wanted one more crack at an enduro course this year. This would be a 3+hr drive for me so I decided to rent a “rustic bunk house” at the nearby camp ground. Luckily my cabin was right next to another occupied by friends, Brice Shirbach of Fattirefests.com<\/a>, Matt Miller, Callie Horwath and Chris Talotta. We ran into Tim Carson during the pre-ride and he wound up staying in my cabin. There were a handful of others that rolled up in vans and camped by us. This made for a great weekend, campfire, some brewskies and some laughs.<\/p>\n

Pre-ride<\/h3>\n

After getting to my cabin and setting up camp, Brice rolled up then we headed down the road to the race venue to get some pre-riding in. The logistics of the event were nice, the transfer climb was right across the street from the event parking lot and the two courses finished not far up the road.

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Rock garden early in the Moss trail.<\/p><\/div> The parking location would help me plan out my runs so not to carry any extra weight on me or my bike. Time to hit the road and see what we were in for.
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\"Fixing<\/a>

Fixing flats and checking lines. Left to right…Matt Miller, Chris Talotta, Brice Shirbach and Callie Horwath.<\/p><\/div>As we got to the top of the transfer climb we met up with Matt, Callie and Chris then rode with them. We stopped at various points along the trails to scope out lines through the rocks. We ran into a couple of issues when Matt punctured his rear tire and then I wound up with a small hole as well but the Stan’s<\/a> sealant wound up working to stop that. Getting input and advice from Matt and Chris was great. Chris used to race pro downhill so he has some serious skills on the bike. Matt is a smart and fast rider who rides for Giant Mid-Atlantic<\/a>, he loves the rocks so his insights were helpful. All in all a good day riding with friends. Here is a quick edit of our pre-ride (please excuse the quality, I tried using some software I don’t normally use to edit video and it wound up degrading the video in a bunch of parts. Also parts might make you sick from the shaky camera.)<\/em>…<\/p>\n

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