Christina Rinderle

In my last tale from the trail, I wrote about our girls Porcupine Rim ride. What I neglected to mention is that the bike I rode was a hard-tail with a front shock offered less than an 1/8” of travel. Fortunately I didn’t know any better at the time. Walker is always helping to make my mountain biking experience better, so this weekend he announced that he picked up a new bike for me to demo: an Ironhorse MKIII, full suspension bike with 5” of travel in the front and back. Not only is this a lot of bike for a little girl, but it’s a dramatic, 180 degree change from what I have been riding. And it’s bright green. Not a soft misty sage green, nor a dark forest green, but a bright, extremely vivid Kermit the Frog green. Maybe this was because he knew I’d be riding solo and wanted to be able to easily ask people what happened to me….

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