Excuse me guys, but did somebody say something about Golden Eagle here???
(Please God, let it be so. Please God, I hope I did hear that place mentioned here, heck, mentioned anywhere. You know how much I want to do that ride!)
Setting cars for a point-to-point is not what I meant by shuttling. Both of those routes have thousands of feet of climbing. I am referring to taking a big bad bike up the hill by means other than locomotion, so that you can ride down the hill - then doing it again and again in the same day. i.e. DH Shuttle Runs. I am not necessarily advocating the practice, just wondering how many have done it.
I've been riding the Floop since '89, and braking bumps showed up with full sus, not smart phones. IIRC, when we were all hardtail/full rigid, there were skid ruts instead of braking bumps. And to put it in perspective, horses have been wrecking trails since long before the ancient ones started one leg drifting their klunkers down Mount Tam.
You forgot the part about the difficulty of riding with gravity and chunk. Some just got to stick to their guns, even if they're little. Awwww, cute!
Only SJT and from what is now known as ridge park down to Marguerite when I was a kid and my buddy's "house husband," step dad would shuttle us. Damn, that dude had it good.
