...was awesome! It was just a little double-track fire road with some grade to it - certainly far from a groomed mountain bike trail. There were fallen logs we had to move out of the way, and a couple we had to stop for and lift our bikes over. This was also the ride when my Jamis started having issues with "new bike cable stretch", and I learned real fast that I need to get a better feel for my disk brakes and shifting.

The shifting, outside of needing some adjusting, is fine. The problem is that now I have three bikes with three different types of shifters, and my two sets of triggers (Shimano and SRAM) shift opposite each other....couldn't figure out why I kept shifting the back the wrong direction, the solution dawned on me while driving home.

After that I hiked one of the easy groomed trails for the future - and glad I didn't try it today. I think I need to wait for the clinic before I try that - and that will give me time to work with brakes and shifters before then as well.