New off road motorcycle club forming in Colorado

Manco
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Edited Date/Time 5/9/2017 5:51am
The group is called Dirt Bike Club and has a page on Meetup. It's free to join though there are twenty rules relating to minimum rider skill level, rider preparedness and bike specs. The rules are in place to help form the club into something unique as well as ensure riders that come to events know what they are getting into and are prepared to safely enjoy themselves. Riders experienced with advanced off road motorcycling in the Rocky Mountains will quickly see that the rules are pretty much the norm for riding black diamond and higher skill level trails safely and in a fun manner. A majority of what the club will be riding when it meets is this level of trails and terrain hence the brick wall of rules forming the club.

Anyone in the Colorado area that thinks the club is something they would be interested in please feel free to join the meetup group. Here is the club's link on meetup https://www.meetup.com/Dirt-Bike-Club/ If anyone has questions or wants more info post here or contact the club through meetup.



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4/21/2017 10:02am
Congrats on your new endeavor.
If you were riding out of the Crested Butte/Taylor Park area....what trails that would fall under "black diamond" ?....if any.
Manco
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4/21/2017 2:16pm Edited Date/Time 4/23/2017 7:08pm
Congrats on your new endeavor.
If you were riding out of the Crested Butte/Taylor Park area....what trails that would fall under "black diamond" ?....if any.
Thanks. As for TP area my knowledge is limited to only one previous trip. A few years back I spent a couple days camping south of the reservoir. I rode north and east of Gunnison in the area south of the Collegiate Peaks on singletrack that was pretty epic. Above treeline on slopes it is really beautiful though seemed mostly intermediate. It can be tricky at times though as the singletrack can get pretty skinny and right up to abrupt edges that slide down steep slopes. This can cause exposure to be a factor forcing a rider to be more cautious. The single track sections in the trees in same general area were a lot more difficult. Going up some of those could be considered black diamond I would think especially in the wet rocky areas. One of those trails was downhill only if I remember correctly which is an indicator of the steepness potential in that area.

There is this other lone single track south of Fossil Ridge Wilderness I rode some of too. It was pretty rocky technical and might have sections considered black diamond.

Overall what I rode in those particular areas I would say was some intermediate, often advanced and punctuated by more difficult sections plus exposure that factored in now and again. There is a lot more out there then the limited amount I have experienced though. I am sure others more familiar with the area could guide you more accurately.
Jake_CR250R
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5/4/2017 9:48pm
There are definitely alot of difficult trails in the TP area. Timberline, some of the fossil ridge, horseshoe, waterfall trail (I think). Plenty of challenging but fun trails in that area.
izukisan
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5/9/2017 5:51am
guys great news

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