Fountain Head

I did a solo ride at Fountain Head couple Friday's ago. Yes, I took off work to go riding. Did 3 laps and 4000 feet of climbing. This is a pretty tough trail. The trail is filled with a lot of roots and a lot of hills. The hills are tough because several are steep and have roots and loose dirt/sand mixture. Unfortunately, this place has gotten worse over the years and starting to erode badly so more roots are appearing making it a less smooth ride (especially for rigid bike). It's still a great place for good hard technical ride and still a favorite trail for a lot of people. So check out the video. There is a new feature I didn't see before around the 3:30 mark.

Make sure to switch to high res for best video.

Fountain Head

Here's ride Henry and I did on Saturday Dec 4th.


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Titanium fork crack

This is not my excuse for not riding but... nuff said!

Fountain Head

My New Bike Van






How can I get me a Jones Bike?


One of two downhills at end - Expert Downhill


Ricky coming Expert Hill


This is other downhill. Supposedly easier than Expert Downhill?




Check Austin Out!!!


No handed hop


No handed hop


Austin, Ricky and Stu going UP Expert Hill


What???


GPS Info

Happy new years @ Fountain Head

It was pretty cold on that beautiful morning...I guess that's why they make winter gear. I was hoping to do 2 laps but we were content with 1. A guy with a geared bike was following us until his derailleur hanger broke. You gotta love the single speeder's simplicity!





Henry with his bodyguard, blue ninja (Lindsay) in the background.






Andrew...day 1 of 2009




Austin taking 5...or 10?

Fountain Head/Wakefield

On this weekend, we headed to two places. First was Fountain Head in Virginia. Then second was WakeField since it was on the way back. Fountain is always a challenge because this place seems like it's 80% uphill. It was fun but really tough for me(andrew). I look forward to going back in a month. I provided a ton of footage below of both places. These are all cam footages from my brother and I.

FOUNTAIN HEAD CAM VIDEOS



At the playground. From Lindsay's cam taking on the see-saw's.


Near the end of Fountain Head is a vicious downhill. First I'm recording Austin and Lindsay coming down the hill. Then 1st person view footage of me going down the hill. Then Lindsay's 1st person view footage of going down the hill.


Not sure why I put this in here. I thought it was funny.


Map of Route we did (from Lindsay's GPS).


Elevation of Route we did (from Lindsay's GPS). Only look at from 0 - 7.5 miles.



WAKEFIELD CAM VIDEOS





Austin doing some jumps in this one

Fountain Head

Here are some pictures and videos of Fountain Head.

Overall, the trail was a great training ground. It was very hilly. It felt like 90% of the course was going up a hill. There is also a viscious downhill at the end. I fell 4 times due mostly to the sand at various spots. It may sound like we didn't have fun but we all want to go back. It was such great training! ~Andrew


Parking Lot


Gearing Up


The guy sitting on back of truck kept staring at us.


Seesaws. All three of us did the right one. Randy did both.


Long log to balance on. Randy did the whole thing.


Roots on parts of trail


Downhill at end. Andrew fell at the top. It was very steep!

Lindsay taking on technical section


Lindsay on Seesaw


Randy on Seesaw


Randy on Log