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[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

I ride year round, mostly off road right in the city of Cleveland. I am always looking for other adventurous riders for day or nightime rides. I know alot of spots that I will be happy to show you. I ride a WR426F plated. I have one other guy I ride with alot but I often ride alone. Sometimes I start riding in the evening and before I know it, the sun is rising.

[T_Reiner TT Silver Member]

We talkin west side, east side?

[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

T_Reiner said:

We talkin west side, east side?

HI T. We are talking East and West. There is plenty of riding on both sides of the river. One thing thats cool is some of the areas do not get too muddy so it does not matter if it has been wet.

[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

That warm south wind has been blowing all night and the temps are rising. If it is not raining real hard, Im riding Sunday in 50 degree temps.

[T_Reiner TT Silver Member]

My bike is i So Cal right now, it and I won't be back until mid January,, have fun.

[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

Thats cool T, there will be days this winter that arent bad to ride. Being from SoCal, however, you might freeze to death.

[ogdb1 TT Member]

mantua here, where do you do most your riding

[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

Hi og, I ride mostly in the city of Cleveland. Nobody bothers me or even cares. How is the riding in Mantua this time of year?

[GlennF TT Gold Member]

Speaking of Mantua, back in the days (70's) that I rode hare scrambles, there was an event called the "Spud 100" that coincided with the Sept. potato festival. The race was a dead engine start in waves of 25 starting at the bottom of the hill to the east of 44 where the festival was held, and running back through town on the railroad tracks crossing 44 with the police blocking traffic. The race track was about 6-7 miles through swamps, up steep ravines, and around lakes. I trophied in both 1976 and 1977, and the race was never run again. It would get national caliber ISDE riders, and for those that ran both, they considered the Spud harder than the imfamous "Blackwater 100".
Some of those old trails west of 44 and south of Mennonite road must still be there.

[ogdb1 TT Member]

some of the trials are still there, we ride our 4 wheelers through there were we can. It has gone very residental.

[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

Glenn, tell us more about those races. Conditions? What kind of machine?

I had a nice ride this morning. I climbed some hills and blasted a few berms. While stopped under a railroad bridge in the woods for a union break, I was looking at the Kenda Millville front tire on my WR and I remember being amazed that its been on there for a year now. Every other center knob is flat and the remaining ones are at about half. There are alot of side knobs chunked off too. For as bad as this tire looks, it hooks up really well. Damn good for a $40 dig.

[GlennF TT Gold Member]

The races had everything you could think of to make an off road race tough. One race was so dusty that 6 of us missed the first turn, and wound up in a gravel pit with as steep a bank as you could climb. I was thinking that after four hours, we would not be able to scale the wall. It was not part of the course! We wound up hitting the third check first, and lost 3/4 of a lap. Another time, there were 20 bikes stuck in the same quagmire. The race officials closed off that section and we removed every bike before anyone rode off.
I rode a Husky 360 auto in 1977 and a 390 auto in 1978. Those bikes were great for that kind of race other than freehwheeling on steep downhills. I know Ed Lojak took one of the overalls, and it may have been Terry Cunningham that took the other.

[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

Thanks for sharing Glenn.

I had a good ride on Saturday night in mid 60s. I rode Cleveland from 10:00pm to 4:00am. I was psyched to see another set of knobby tracks from earlier that day. I wonder who it was.

[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

Here are some pics from riding today.

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[GlennF TT Gold Member]

Wow! It looks like most of your riding is under the many bridges that span the Cuyahoga River and in the Flats! Who would have thought of that?

[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

Glenn, yesterday I decided I wanted to stay dry so I rode the not so muddy areas. I will get some pics up of some woods riding soon.

[monthos TT Bronze Member]

Nice pictures wobbley, some of that even looks familiar! Next time I am in Cleveland I will hit up that Quigley bridge, by far my favorite spot on that ride.

[wobblyknobby TT Silver Member]

Monthos, I remember you said you liked that part. Let me know when your back in town, we can hit up the kingdom, you will like it.