Today saw some light drizzle and a lot of wind. So I either took the mountainbike or I stayed home. I chose the former. The forest was still pretty dry and it seemed like I recovered well from the past 2 days of exploring the offroad. I set out in Heverlee Forest for a fluid ride along the bigger trails, interspersed by short venues into smaller singletrails. The BBW gave me hell , no suspension meant I had to take the most of the multiple small and big bumps, the wheels and frame filtering out only so much. Especially the alu/carbon combination of the Extralite handlebar and stem, coupled to a stiff pace carbon fork gave me hell. I should really change these for titanium. I have a Morati M-bar sitting idle for years and there are lots of titanium forks on Ebay. I might look into that once my Moots Psychlo-X is build up.
From Heverlee forest I set course for the Zoete Waters, into the Kouter forest and onwards into Meerdael forest. Still looking for different trails I zigzagged through to reach Nethen. Here the heightmeters accumulated quickly and before long I decided to move along in the direction of Valduc for a stretch along the Red Bloso towards Mollendaal forest. From here I turned west and made my way back into Blanden.

Endomondo track


Ride Stats : 40K and 475 heightmeters (Garmin) in 1h56mins30secs

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