La Viking VTT - Bonnières sur Seine


  • 50.2 km

    Distance

  • 819 m

    Elevation Gain

  • 824 m

    Elevation Loss

  • 140 m

    Max height

  • 10 m

    Min height

  • Road

  • Equip

  • Skill

  • Effort

Trail Description


My first mountain bike ride of the year 2013Dimanche 28 avril 2013I'm back - Having broken my Van Nicholas Ti frame last October 2012 and only receiving the replacement end of February 2013 and at the same time have a  operation middle of March 2013 for a hernia, all this means that I've not been on  my bike for six months now.So with a little trepidation (its only six weeks since I've was operated on and the scar is still a little tender) I decided at the very last minute, actually 06h in the morning to get on my new Tuareg and ride it for its / my first real ride.The morning was chilly only 3° dégrees but dry, I had done this 'rando' last year but had no real memories of it except the start at the parking in the middle of the town center.With my usual buddies we started at 9am and for 3 hours enjoyed a very good almost single track only 45 kms ride, The rando offered either a 45 km or 80 km ride but I opted for the 45km (my friends did the 80km but told me after that it wasn't very interesting)Nothing overly difficult during the ride, only two downhills that I didn't want to try and so walked down them, as usual I'm pretty useless when it comes to scary downhill stuff.The singletracks were good, many real singles where you can't overtake, needing to wait to be able to zoom past the guy in front. The ground was slightly damp but not wet and so almost perfect for adherence, which was great as I was trying out a new tyre on the back, a Hutchinson Cobra which is only for dry riding. A shame that being still a little weak and not very fit, I couldn't ride them faster or better, as cross country is what I prefer and love.No roads no over wide tracks with no interest what so ever, so in all a good ride, little riding over fields, just forest. A good rando that was just perfect for a first ride after such a long break.Sportstrack gives me a 44km ride for 1009 m 'dénivelé' (ascend/descent) this is about  the same my Garmin 05 gave me , the ride took us 3h exactly (plus 34 mins for eating and fixing a puncture, Emeric buy some decent tires ....) which I consider not to bad for a first ride, should be able to do it less, maybe 2h45 (and 30 mins for a A good ride, a good 'parcours' perfect for those who love XC riding with a food break at abouts the 20km mark, fruit, chocolate, cake and drink, the 'rando' though is expensive as it was 9 euros to do it, which I find a little over the top a decent amount of uphills to tire the legs, in all a better than average Sunday ride.le 'parcours' is available for download on Everytrail as usualSometimes I find that french words are better than English ones so :Parcours = course or  itineraryRando = a bike ballad, not a raceDénivelé = ascend/descent
Parking at the market place, ends at the same place

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