{"id":803,"date":"2011-02-04T18:05:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T02:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2011-02-04T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T02:05:34","slug":"sycamore-and-santee-playtime-or-plague-aholic-rides-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Sycamore and Santee playtime or &#8220;Plague-aholic&#8221; rides again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday afternoon I got out\u00a0for a ride out at Sycamore Canyon and the Santee\u00a0area in\u00a0general.\u00a0 Steve had been off the bike for over\u00a0two weeks with what he described as\u00a0&#8220;The Plague&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Last week\u00a0 the germal infestion caused\u00a0an aborted attempt for a ride with Steve, but this week\u00a0&#8220;Plague-aholic&#8221; made\u00a0the show.\u00a0 Not wanting to push his recovery luck we opted for something much more XC oriented and mellow than the typical Wednesday stoke rides.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/641e4a1ffa87d2241b789ba8e3b2f103.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/641e4a1ffa87d2241b789ba8e3b2f103.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This area is pretty singlespeed friendly\u00a0 so I decided the bring out my one-geared steed out today for a\u00a0little bit of trail luvin.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/9881d2191c8f6cabce5ace68ecc4b627.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/9881d2191c8f6cabce5ace68ecc4b627.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>XC mellow day or not Steve has a passion for rocks, so I made a point show him a couple of play spots<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/abf536530d89610c9315eab2d8372389.jpg?resize=683%2C911\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"911\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/abf536530d89610c9315eab2d8372389.jpg?resize=683%2C911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The steep head angle of this bike was not most rock hounding capable rig (for my skills) so picking the lines carefully was the name of the game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/624fb13340727656038d34d9432d9d02.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/624fb13340727656038d34d9432d9d02.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We ventured over towards Santee and did some more line scopeage and rock play.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: black 3px solid;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/1e0eef5e3027061477e7af4604155b6b.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" imagescaler=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/1e0eef5e3027061477e7af4604155b6b.jpg?resize=840%2C630\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The texture of this rock was pretty freaky and we could not help but want to call 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