jeroen
Active member
In the vain of What did you buy your ebike this week? I like to try out a new thread, more of warning thread, so noobs like me avoid these situations instead of getting caught in it. As I noted in in that buy thread, I got myself a nice mudhugger, and thus thought "hey, lets do that cool trail I know, should be fun and muddy", and muddy it was....
Well at least the good thing was that it was a lot of fun, but for the warning part, when in .ch you see white-red-white, that is a mountain pass, and typically that means wearing proper shoes. Indeed, a emtb rides up on it perfectly fine, lots of fun, and much quicker to take in the sights; but at one point that white-red-white .... well, take a look at the pix:
It started out quite reasonble, bit leafy, but very rideable and amazing scenery:
oh yes, you can't go left... it is a 200m++ drop already at this stage.
Nice little waterfall, which we'll pass next at the top...
top, or actually middle of that waterfall, it goes up more to the right...
up to here it was a bit leafy with small rocks under it, all good fun and very nice.
and the 'top' (flat-ish section) of this part of the trail:
upto here, all good, see that dirt road on the other side though, that is where the first fun slowly starts...going more up there and we'll encounter the first wee bit of snow:
still a decent trail, though getting narrower:
and another waterfall, even narrower and a wee bit more steeper and rockier and rootier....
mmm, snowy bridges, had to walk as wheel kept on spinning (even with engine off) and sliding and did not want to risk going down the drop on the right...:
and then a bunch of no pix, as it would not make sense to even attempt to make photos during that section due to slippery and steepy.
thus after quite a bit of climbing, some 400m up..., left-hand bottom is where the above pic was taken... climbing meant thus lifting & pushing the bike as the roots where too much to either get a grip or get anywhere that would have been safe... btw "walk mode" is useful, just make sure you have grip yourself too...
and a wee bit further up from there:
which fortunately was the top of the trail which gave me these amazing presents:
bike still looking fine fortunately after having been dragged up the mountain:
and fortunately the proper road I knew was up there was mostly snow free (though downhill it was covered in snow, thus had to do some balance exercises
)
and as the climbing was not really done, a bonus pic from the ridge in the above picture:
bonus pic from the other side:
TLDR:
- in .ch white-red-white is a mountain pass, likely not very appropriate for a bike due to the small paths, possible snow, rooty paths, slipperyness, etc etc...
- thanks to Lupine SL X for getting me safely down again as night has properly set before I was down the mountain again and then all the way home
- thanks to Goretex (inventor, RIP) for keeping my feet dry, even though puddles of molten snow got me quite a few times...
- ensure your phone is charged, and that you have that walky talky with you, just in case..... and likely go with multiple people not alone
- thanks to my ribs for catching me for a few slips and not breaking....
- thanks to my amazing bike for making it up there... and not having a blown tire or some other malfunction
Now a little Q: anybody got tips on how to determine if a trail is doable by bike and what, other than white-red-white (and definitely not white-blue-white, aka alpine trail, which thus means ropes and possible climbing).
The fun thing is, the Bosch app thinks this is a doable path... even funnier it marks it as scenic, well scenic it is... but bikeable, not for me at least.
Tips/comments/questions, wanted!
Well at least the good thing was that it was a lot of fun, but for the warning part, when in .ch you see white-red-white, that is a mountain pass, and typically that means wearing proper shoes. Indeed, a emtb rides up on it perfectly fine, lots of fun, and much quicker to take in the sights; but at one point that white-red-white .... well, take a look at the pix:
It started out quite reasonble, bit leafy, but very rideable and amazing scenery:
oh yes, you can't go left... it is a 200m++ drop already at this stage.
Nice little waterfall, which we'll pass next at the top...
top, or actually middle of that waterfall, it goes up more to the right...
up to here it was a bit leafy with small rocks under it, all good fun and very nice.
and the 'top' (flat-ish section) of this part of the trail:
upto here, all good, see that dirt road on the other side though, that is where the first fun slowly starts...going more up there and we'll encounter the first wee bit of snow:
still a decent trail, though getting narrower:
and another waterfall, even narrower and a wee bit more steeper and rockier and rootier....
mmm, snowy bridges, had to walk as wheel kept on spinning (even with engine off) and sliding and did not want to risk going down the drop on the right...:
and then a bunch of no pix, as it would not make sense to even attempt to make photos during that section due to slippery and steepy.
thus after quite a bit of climbing, some 400m up..., left-hand bottom is where the above pic was taken... climbing meant thus lifting & pushing the bike as the roots where too much to either get a grip or get anywhere that would have been safe... btw "walk mode" is useful, just make sure you have grip yourself too...
and a wee bit further up from there:
which fortunately was the top of the trail which gave me these amazing presents:
bike still looking fine fortunately after having been dragged up the mountain:
and fortunately the proper road I knew was up there was mostly snow free (though downhill it was covered in snow, thus had to do some balance exercises
)and as the climbing was not really done, a bonus pic from the ridge in the above picture:
bonus pic from the other side:
TLDR:
- in .ch white-red-white is a mountain pass, likely not very appropriate for a bike due to the small paths, possible snow, rooty paths, slipperyness, etc etc...
- thanks to Lupine SL X for getting me safely down again as night has properly set before I was down the mountain again and then all the way home
- thanks to Goretex (inventor, RIP) for keeping my feet dry, even though puddles of molten snow got me quite a few times...
- ensure your phone is charged, and that you have that walky talky with you, just in case..... and likely go with multiple people not alone
- thanks to my ribs for catching me for a few slips and not breaking....
- thanks to my amazing bike for making it up there... and not having a blown tire or some other malfunction
Now a little Q: anybody got tips on how to determine if a trail is doable by bike and what, other than white-red-white (and definitely not white-blue-white, aka alpine trail, which thus means ropes and possible climbing).
The fun thing is, the Bosch app thinks this is a doable path... even funnier it marks it as scenic, well scenic it is... but bikeable, not for me at least.
Tips/comments/questions, wanted!
.... Fiddled about with it for a while, checked contacts etc, all appeared fine, still wouldn't power up. Was about to turn round and go home but decided to go for it after having driven all this way - use it like a real bike - no electric, no problem!!
)
