Team No Fixed Income Diaries: Old Man and A Hardtail Mont Rigauld Phase 1 Oct 18th 2025

Just before October 18th got asked if wanted to ride Mont Rigauld on the weekend specifically the 18th. Of course I would. So on the 18th was up early and with friends we headed for the day at Mont Rigauld. A ski hill near Cornwall. Last time was this way was in 2013 for Substance Projects East Cup #2 race.

Again would bring the Stylus and the Starling like before. Stylus with the back u rear wheel and looking to see how many runs felt like getting in with it. Without even thinking about it was going to run a little experiment that only realized did at the end of the day. This also ended up being just before the date that one of my ski race heroes passing 32 years ago- Dave Murray. Sure it was mountain biking downhill runs it was fitting as 40 years ago it was at his summer ski camps that I found mountain biking. So fitting to do some gravity runs near that date.

Old Man and Hardtail Mont Rigauld

Mont Rigauld would and was interesting as it was at least to me more technical then Vorlage.Which is nice because made me ride differently then at Vorlage. And after wrecking the rear wheel on the Stylus a few weeks earlier could do a few runs on the hardtail.

The last run of the day on the hardtail would be down The Couloir trail. Which is a slower more tech oriented trail withe the last half full of bridges, And this would be my second go at it that day and admit the rough idea is to ride it as smoothly as possible and with minimal number of dabs.

This run ran the GoPro in case it turned out to be an ok run. And it did. I admit though I took the ride around the big rock section as at that point was a bit over my head. And better to save it for another day to slowly work at it.

In the end rode it well as in no dabs and minimal flailing. That was the tasking and the tasking was completed. As well as a bit of making up for when the rear wheel had decided to retire the previous trip. Then it was to my buddies truck to swap to the Starling as can say my knee was a bit achy. And the second half of the day will be a separate entry itself.