Ok on speaking to Damon about the jersey, thank you.

We are south of Rochester, NY. ( 1 hour East of Buffalo, NY ). Yes, there is lots of great biking in our area. We try to do differnt routes each week and over the years have created many of our own trails. A good combination of single track and logging roads. There are also some smaller parks with lots of good single track.
I am not familiar with RYE...do you happen to know where that is in relation to Rochester or Buffalo?

ken

Hi Ken,
Rye is about 40 minutes outside Central NY towards Connecticut. Rochester looks like a 5 hour drive from Rye.

Bummer it's so far from our area as I certainly would have showed you some local riding. I contacted the Rye recreation department mentioning a possible visit to Rye. They sent my message to a local Rye mountain biker. His response is pasted below and it sounds like you'll have no problem finding great riding in that area:

Ken,
You had e-mailed Sally Rogol (Rye Recreation) about Mountain Biking in the Rye area. She forwarded your e-mail to me, as I am an active member in the Westchester Mountain Biking Association. You will be happy to know we have 3 County owned Parks (all located around 30 minutes from Rye) with terrific legal Mt. Biking. They are Sprain Ridge Park (Yonkers), Graham Hills (Pleasantville), and Blue Mt. (Peekskill). Not sure where you are from but these Parks consist of classic East Coast singletrack.... AND MILES OF IT!!!!

Sprain is my favorite because its the most technical of the three parks (lots of rocks, drops, jumps, skinnies etc.). Graham is more of an afterwork/training type of place - great flowy singletrack but with a good pace you could hit every trail in just around 2 hours. Blue Mt is our crown jewel - its the farthest away from Rye but WELL WORTH the 40-45 minutes it will take you to get there!!! Blue is FULL of endless miles of singletrack (would be tough to do every trail in one day) that will challenge you in every way.

Check out our website www.wmba.org - join the forum and post up when your coming and I'm sure there will be someone around to hook you up with tours of all the goods. I post as fattireb.

ride on!
BRIAN GRAY

Ken, Thanks for that I will get in touch with them. If I make it up your way I'll drop you an email.

Thanks again. Did you manage to contact Damon regarding the jerseys?

yes, certainly look me up if you head further upstate during your visit to NY USA.
I have not contacted Damon yet...hope to sit down at my home PC this weekend and drop him a note.

Best Regards,