“Double” Track

bobknh wrote:Interesting. I live rural NH where we have many old farm and forest roads -- sometimes labeled Class A or Class 6 trails-- I'm not sure of the difference. These "roads" are not maintained by the towns; and depending on the season, are open only to off road vehicles, or snow mobiles and shared by hikers, cyclists, and equestrians. Some are maintained regularly by local clubs, land owners, and conservation organizations; or actively used for commercial logging, which is still a major industry in our county. As such, in addition to our network of Town maintained dirt roads (I live on a dirt road), and single track mountain bike trails, we have an extensive system of inter-connected "double track" trails to explore on 2-wheels. I guess you could say, these Class A trails are somewhere between true single track mountain bike trails and hard pack dirt and gravel roads. I've been hiking regularly on these trails. While I'm sure that they are rideable on a good gravel bike with proper rubber; I've shied away. I fear that I lack the skills on a gravel bike to handle these routes. Instead, I plan to buy a mountain bike this spring to do some exploring. OTOH, Salsa just came out with a new series of reasonably priced "monster cross" bikes (Journeyman All Road) which take either wide tire 700c wheels, or fatter tire 650b's. This type of bike may be ideal for our local Class A trails. https://salsacycles.com/bikes/journeyman/journeyman_sora_700
The 650B version might just be my ticket to our flavor of "double track".