mediocre mountain biker: the colonnade

Seattle mountain bikers have always been creative (being the smart people that we are). So when the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance decided to make a mountain bike skills park under the I-5 freeway, right in downtown Seattle, it seemed like a good idea. And it rocks. You can go rip for a couple hours and stay dry and get real better at your skills. Unfortunately, when GG and I went to check it out, I had a Ridley carbon single speed with 1.9 inch tires.

The Colonnade is a muntain bike skills park located right under the freeway, with all types of structures from beginner to pretty gnar level stunts. Teeters, skinnies, jumps, drops, rocks and bridges... It's pretty short and not for getting exercise per se...but you could easily kill a couple hours there getting better at riding your mountain bike.

Rolling there on the carbon single speed was kinda silly but we just wanted to check it out and roll around, turn the pedals a few

times. There were some underage kids there making us look silly, I offered to race one of the downhill bikers up the hill but he declined. It's a pretty amazing set up for a local group of people, tons of woodwork and very solid structures, and all very safe.