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Thaw 2012 At Poison Spider Bicycles With Yeti Cycles
It’s time to warm up in Moab with Poison Spider Bicycles and Yeti Cycles, Niner Bikes and Kona Bicycles at Thaw 2012. Yeti, Niner and Kona are coming to Moab with free demo mountain bikes March 2nd, 3rd & 4th. It’s going to be bigger and better than ever with fun events, fabulous food, and schwag flowing freely including a Yeti frame grand prize.
Friday, March 2 is all girl power. Women only, meet at noon at Poison Spider Bicycles for free demos, skills clinics and group rides, led by the amazing divas and angels who guide for Magpie Cycling Adventures, Rim Tours, Western Spirit Cycling Adventures and Moab Mountain Bike Instruction. All abilities welcome, with a big encouragement for first-timers to take advantage of this opportunity to try mountain biking. Gals, we need to know who-all’s coming, so please reserve a space for this event. Bring your girlfriends, sisters, neices and moms. It’ll be soooo fun!
On Friday night, Moab’s favorite coffee joint, the Love Muffin Cafe will again host the Thaw welcome party. Come get to know your fellow Thawers while enjoying yummy food and beverages and a taste of the weekend’s free schwag giveaways. Downtown Moab from 5:30 to 8:30 or so…
Saturday, March 3rd, ride all day on Yetis, Konas, Niners. Free demo mountain bikes will be available at the Moab Brands Trailhead. The Moab Brands Trails provide the whole gamut of mountain biking from easy to challenging single track and slickrock rides. Super fun for everyone! All the trails lead back to the central staging area where Pasta Jays Restaurant from Moab will be catering the free lunch again this year, back by popular demand.
World Famous Woody’s Tavern in Moab is the place late night Saturday night for music, dancing, and tons more free stuff. Just before midnight, Poison Spider Bicycles will give away a Yeti Cycles dirt jumper frame. Be there or miss out!
If you can move on Sunday, there will be another whole day of free mountain bike demos at the Moab Brands Trailhead. The 2012 bikes are amazing, the trails are crazy fun, and it’s Moab in the spring. Bring tailgates and lawn chairs. Bring sunscreen. Bring your boyfriends, brothers, sons and dads. Ride long, ride short or relax and laugh with Yeti Joe and Kona Willy.
Please contact billy@poisonspiderbicycles.com to preregister and get your free Thaw 2012 t-shirt.
Poison Spider Bicycles, Niner Bikes And Dirt Rag Magazine Throw Outerbike Party
Outerbike is back in Moab October 5-9, 2011.If you’re returning because Outerbike was such a great event last year, or heard about the fun and want to join in this year, Poison Spider Bicycles welcomes you!
All of our major bike lines will be represented for demo: Niner, Yeti, Kona, Rocky Mountain, Pivot. The bikes are all 2012 models, just introduced to dealers at summer dealer camps and Interbike, and you get to ride them now.
Poison Spider Bicycles is hosting a parking lot party and schwag-fest on Saturday evening before the official Outerbike gig. Niner Bikes and Dirt Rag Mag are bringing Miguel’s Famous Tacos and Salt Lake City’s Epic Brewing beers to Outerbike invitees. To become one, stop by the Niner booth at Outerbike or show your Outerbike wristband at Poison Spider Bicycles. Ride demo bikes all Saturday, then bring your invitation and your appetite to Poison Spider Bicycles in Moab, where Billy, Karla and Maurice will be doling out ridiculous amounts of schwag from 6 to 8pm. We’re walking distance to the next party, so no worries if you quaff a couple Epics.
Outerbike is about the bike, but it’s also about the riding. The Moab Brands trail system at the Outerbike venue is bigger and better this year with the additional challenging Deadman’s Ridge and Longbranch singletracks, and Rusty Spur Trail for the mellow ride. If you’re coming to demo the max number of bikes, you can choose a ride right from the booth, connecting everything on the superfun Lazy EZ Loop. Friday’s shuttle drops you off high above the Outerbike venue on another of Moab’s amazing new mountain bike trails called Magnificent 7. You descend on singletrack, slickrock and jeep road right back to Outerbike. With an early start, you could throw a couple laps. Saturday and Sunday shuttles take you to the always cool Moab classics, Amasa Back and Slickrock Trail.
Come ride! Come party! See you there!
Pipe Dream Comes True- Moab’s New Singletrack
Imagine riding your mountain bike around a blind singletrack corner high on the boulder-strewn bajada above Moab.
You might be nervous about what lies on the trail ahead, except for your experience on the last corner and the one before that. You have learned to trust the trail builder, so you make the turn with confidence, straighten out for a smooth drop down a rock ramp, then roll across a beautifully built stone bridge. Looking ahead, you see a banked switchback, leading to another, then the trail disappears between a boulder and a tree. No fear, just focus!
This is the Pipe Dream Trail in Moab. Long a dream of Moab locals to have an awesome mountain bike singletrack ridable from town, the years of planning and working through the land access issues have culminated in a year-long push to get it built. Moab Community Development Director and avid mountain biker, David Olsen hired a merry band of like-minded cyclists and other trail enthusiasts, who became stone masons under the guidance of Scott Escott. Together with volunteers from the community, including lots of Poison Spider Bicycles employees, these “cobblers” have turned their shared vision into an incredible trail in impossible terrain right in Moab. Boulder bridges cross dips and drainages. Rock causeways connect corners. Switchbacks climb to bench cuts which curve high above the Moab Valley.
The Pipe Dream Trail has become the favorite lunch ride for the Poison Spider Bicycles’ cross country riders. It’s not an easy trail! It was designed to reward technically skilled bikers with a great challenging ride, and some say it’s the best ever! With an elevation difference of only 500 feet between Moab and the south end of Pipe Dream Trail at Hidden Valley Trailhead, it may sound flat. However, the terrain is always changing, up to down, left to right, never straight, never flat. The climbs are steepest from either of the two Moab trailheads, Aspen Street or Jackson Street, but once some elevation is gained, the steepness mellows to easier grades for the rest of the trail. For a more “downhill” feel, riders can start at the Hidden Valley Trailhead and ride to Moab, either shuttling or riding paved and dirt roads back to the start. The singletrack is open both directions, so mountain bikers can choose any length and section for out-and-back rides. Plan on riding for an hour plus each way, end to end. Come in to Poison Spider Bicycles for directions and suggestions for your best choice.
The Pipe Dream Trail is a non-motorized multi-use singletrack. It has become a cool challenge for local runners and hikers who love this amazingly beautiful trail with its views of slickrock fins and the La Sal Mountains. All users share the responsibility to yield to each other as appropriate, due to the narrowness and technical nature of the trail. When a rider is “gettin’ it”, the runner steps aside. When the runner is flowing, the hiker steps aside. The biker who is hike-a-biking steps out of the way of others. Downhill cyclists yield to uphill traffic, but uphill traffic should always keep a heads up. This sharing attitude keeps it fun for everyone, and keeps it single!
The Pipe Dream Trail will be completed and signed by the June 17, 2011 Grand Opening Celebration and Ribbon Cutting, with cake and speeches and all manner of fun, sponsored by the City of Moab. After the party there will be group rides and hikes on this awesome new singletrack in Moab. Come join the celebration!