NEKbiker

Until it's available in oil slick, it will never be 5% faster

"There's not really a need to wash your bike after every ride, especially if you're riding in dryer conditions'. Generally, bikes placed in the dryer would have been transferred from the washing machine first, limiting their need to be washed again after a dryer ride. Additionally, riding in a tumble dryer would have some consequential results for both bike and rider!

Never, never sniff the saddle.

There are three major parking areas currently. The Tiki Bar, the log yard, and Burke Mountain. The problem isn't available parking as the Burke lots could hold all of the visiting vehicles. The problem is that bikers are too damned spoiled and won't drive to park there and begin their rides there because they're so focused on a particular loop. Hell, there's even a FREE bike shuttle to bring you to/from the parking area if you're unwilling to pedal. And still, parking overflows at the in-town lots and riders feel like they can shuttle to other trail crossings and just park their car/truck there. Folks park in hay fields because they don't know the difference. Raising the price of admission won't help anything. There's more than enough money for trail maintenance and overhead already coming in Limit the number of tickets? How do you propose they enforce that when there's access to nearly every trail on the network spread over 11+ square miles of land? I seriously doubt that riders arriving for a planned day would respectfully turn around just because tickets are sold out for the day. That's just creating a larger problem. Volunteer days sound great on the internet, but again, I doubt the majority of riders would chip in for 90+ potential projects that would cut in to their riding time

I’ve heard that the trails in that area aren’t worth checking out. They’re narrow, in the woods, there’s bugs and ticks, and chipmunks that’ll scare you off the trail! There’s even an occasional other rider. Zero stars. Do not recommend.

Depends on where you live... The median household income for that part of Vermont is less than 48k/year. Now imagine real estate blowing up over the past few years due to second and third homeowners thinking prices were reasonable. Where can the locals now afford to live? Every resort town faces this issue because the tourism industry pays squat to it's employees. "Job creation" is a farce when everyone makes minimum wage and can't afford to own their own bit of land, let alone purchase someone else's. These properties have been in those families a long long time, they won't be sold any time soon.

@bishopsmike: Vermont has a landowner liability law which protects them from legal claims if they allow recreation on their property for free. https://uvlt.org/docs/landconservation/VTLiability.pdf for a brief overview. While everyone assumes that KTA should just pay the landowners and that's the problem, this isn't the case. I would imagine purchasing your own property insurance to cover the activities wouldn't come close to the revenue split that KTA would be able to offer the landowner. That liability law is the main reason these trails can exist they way they have for 25+ years. Yes, I understand KTA started before this was law, but there may have been a couple hundred bikers per season riding defunct nordic ski trails in 1994. That pales in comparison to the 100,000+ visitors the area sees these days.

Private video? Looks like Friday Fails came in another form this morning!