New subscriber here. I stumbled onto your channel and showed it to my wife too. We love the honesty about the ridding in the videos. It's nice to find someone who doesn't heavily edit the content and tells what the trails are actually like instead of sugar coating all of it. You are a damn good rider for sure. Love the vids keep em coming man.
It's funny you say that... I cut out a section at the end of the "BOC: Bunch of Chunk" video where I was saying how I thought it wasn't necessarily worth the drive from Bentonville unless you stayed there for a couple days and did some other stuff. I cut it out because I was worried people might not care/interpret it as me complaining... good to know you like to hear my thoughts (hopefully that means others feel the same). Thanks for the sub and encouragement! I'm doing my best to keep the videos coming.
I think 4 hours yeh. Not a bad deal at all. I can’t remember the name of the shuttle but I do know it’s a 3rd party and not the park itself. Weekends only if I remember correctly
They changed alot as someone out here it is different and in worse shape every month the only things that I still enjoy riding are main current ( which looks completely different) and gravity falls by the way when I say different looking at this video next to when I rode it this morning just about nothing looks the same and I couldn’t even tell this was river mountain
That's sad... do you know if they have any plans to resurface anything? I noticed last time I was there an entire 10ft section of main current climb was completely washed away from rain. It was a really fun little park not too long ago... I hope they work on it
They have a better crew out there problem is most Little Rock trails don’t have maintenance crews so it’s just people like me or crews from other trail building teams try to keep the trails together. It also doesn’t help when It hasn’t rained here in weeks also given I rode it 4 hours ago I might have exaggerated it a bit but it looks pretty different and still rough
@@Karnage_gg Yep I feel like that's generally how it goes... hard to generate revenue from something that' free to use. Without revenue, hard to pay for maintenance... and going through the city or parks divisions for funding is always a pleasure 😂. Good on you for getting involved and doing your part.
I rode this system on 8/16/23. It was pretty awful. Sooo rocky everywhere; slippy and dangerous if you fall. I didn't want to ride most of the switchbacks on Whirlpool b/c they're so steep, but w/o traction. Main Current was almost as exhausting to go down as it was to go up, b/c you have to pedal up the rocks and gravel and you can't really speed down them cuz that's a great way to get a flat. It's also really hard to find the system itself/ b/c the signage is really poor. I'd say definitely skip this one. It sure wasn't worth a 2-hour drive from Memphis. If i had just drove on to Northwoods in Hot Springs i'd have done about the same amount of driving i did looking for River Mountain Rd. and had a lot more fun.
Rode it for the first time today, so I don't really know how it was in the early days. It's loose and rocky, yes... it's potentially dangerous, yes.... it's a mountain bike trail. The berms were a bit loose but they weren't problematically steep, if anything they could have been a bit steeper to help carry speed. There is certainly some maintenance needed, but hopefully it stays as a mountain bike trail and not as a clay sidewalk.
New subscriber here. I stumbled onto your channel and showed it to my wife too. We love the honesty about the ridding in the videos. It's nice to find someone who doesn't heavily edit the content and tells what the trails are actually like instead of sugar coating all of it. You are a damn good rider for sure. Love the vids keep em coming man.
It's funny you say that... I cut out a section at the end of the "BOC: Bunch of Chunk" video where I was saying how I thought it wasn't necessarily worth the drive from Bentonville unless you stayed there for a couple days and did some other stuff. I cut it out because I was worried people might not care/interpret it as me complaining... good to know you like to hear my thoughts (hopefully that means others feel the same). Thanks for the sub and encouragement! I'm doing my best to keep the videos coming.
Sounds like $20 for a half day is a steal. Is that 4 hours?
I think 4 hours yeh. Not a bad deal at all. I can’t remember the name of the shuttle but I do know it’s a 3rd party and not the park itself. Weekends only if I remember correctly
I 100% agree with you, hit everything except Headwaters
Right? So much pedaling
They changed alot as someone out here it is different and in worse shape every month the only things that I still enjoy riding are main current ( which looks completely different) and gravity falls by the way when I say different looking at this video next to when I rode it this morning just about nothing looks the same and I couldn’t even tell this was river mountain
That's sad... do you know if they have any plans to resurface anything? I noticed last time I was there an entire 10ft section of main current climb was completely washed away from rain. It was a really fun little park not too long ago... I hope they work on it
They have a better crew out there problem is most Little Rock trails don’t have maintenance crews so it’s just people like me or crews from other trail building teams try to keep the trails together. It also doesn’t help when It hasn’t rained here in weeks also given I rode it 4 hours ago I might have exaggerated it a bit but it looks pretty different and still rough
@@Karnage_gg Yep I feel like that's generally how it goes... hard to generate revenue from something that' free to use. Without revenue, hard to pay for maintenance... and going through the city or parks divisions for funding is always a pleasure 😂. Good on you for getting involved and doing your part.
I rode this system on 8/16/23. It was pretty awful. Sooo rocky everywhere; slippy and dangerous if you fall. I didn't want to ride most of the switchbacks on Whirlpool b/c they're so steep, but w/o traction. Main Current was almost as exhausting to go down as it was to go up, b/c you have to pedal up the rocks and gravel and you can't really speed down them cuz that's a great way to get a flat. It's also really hard to find the system itself/ b/c the signage is really poor.
I'd say definitely skip this one. It sure wasn't worth a 2-hour drive from Memphis. If i had just drove on to Northwoods in Hot Springs i'd have done about the same amount of driving i did looking for River Mountain Rd. and had a lot more fun.
Rode it for the first time today, so I don't really know how it was in the early days. It's loose and rocky, yes... it's potentially dangerous, yes.... it's a mountain bike trail. The berms were a bit loose but they weren't problematically steep, if anything they could have been a bit steeper to help carry speed. There is certainly some maintenance needed, but hopefully it stays as a mountain bike trail and not as a clay sidewalk.