Smiling and riding dirty! Yep, gravel riding is our passion. At Dirty Freehub we document, review and publish great gravel and mixed gravel routes. The best of the best! Our playground is the western states of the USA and Tasmania. You can find our on-line to great gravel rides at DirtyFreehub.org
You cannot imagine how relieved I was to stumble upon your video. Having just purchased a new Garmin Edge Explore 2 I was losing the will to live after several days of unsuccessfully exporting GPX files from the source to my Garmin device. There are many tutorials and sites out there which attempt to remove the faff from this what seemed impossible and complicated task however, your short, concise and easy to follow process was such a relief. So I would like to express my gratitude and say THANK YOU for your invaluable video which I will gladly share with anyone and everyone who is facing the same problem as myself... thank you again Gary Melhuish
What a blast! Thanks for posting. We did the exact same ride and the creek crossing was amazingly completely dry (but very sandy). We loved it. My profile picture is from that ride. You should do the Smith Mesa loop in Virgin, UT, about 33 miles and 3000’ elevation gain. I started near the Fairfield Inn in Virgin, and went clockwise. I hope to do it for the second time this fall.
Beautiful area! I had the good fortune to house sit last summer for a family member living in Corvallis. I spent a lot of time riding my gravel bike in the paradise of the McDonald Forest system above town. I saw the gravel route out to Florence on my go to gravel website and have been jonesing to do the ride ever since. Loving that sweet banjo playing in the background too btw. Another high end video and route. Thank you!
Just did this exact route today but we started further up by the campground further east. The ride down was fun . Did it with 650b wheels with 47 wtb riddlers . Killer ride and amazing rips through the canyons. I highly recommend this ride . ❤
How common are rattle snake bites for cyclists? My worry is inadvertently running one over and having it act in self defense and bite me. Or descending and not being able to stop or simply not seeing the critter and getting bitten while riding alone (which I do a lot). I’ve been considering getting a place in Tucson to get away from NE winters, but my biggest hurdle is rattle snakes. I’m terrified of rattle snakes.
Recognized the large cedar (?) tree and Rabbit Ears rock formation about a minute into this. I did your Rabbit Ears route (near Crater Lake) last summer and it was great! Route culminated at the Herschberger Mountain lookout with fantastic views of the high Cascades in Southern Oregon. Lots of fun! Thanks for the route.
Currently, we are super slammed with work. Work from grants! A super good thing. This is the next ride on our Arizona list to be published, but it will be out after Christmas at the earliest.
Looking to replace the SID Brain fork on my Epic HT. Was just wondering which Fox fork Linda was running and what she thinks about it. Really appreciate the videos! Wish they were longer 👍🏻
She is using the Fox Stepcast 32 Pro. 3 settings, fully open, half open, closed. 100 mm of travel. We are also looking at Fox's new gravel fork with 40 mm of suspension for our other gravel bikes. Note, with the Stepcast 32 and specifically using it for gravel riding, we are using less air than recommended by about 10 to 20 psi. With this set up, for rough high frequency washboard we run the fork fully open, for gravel road in general run it half open, for paved run it fully closed. Enjoy!
Yep! We try to tag routes with the closest (i.e., ~ the tilde mark) large city most people can identify with. Vegas happened to be it in this case. Ride dirty & smile!
