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Kevin Mulvihill from Rensselaer on 7/2/2018 7:47:09 AM:

Hi.
Just finished the trail on Friday 6/29. (Valentine to Norfork) We rode a Fat tire Pugsley and 2 older road bikes with 1 1/4 tires
(In our defense we have used the road bike setup on the KT Trail, the C+O, the GAP and others without problems)
The Pugsley floated over everything! The 1 1/4s not so much...quite possibly because of the horrendous rains the area had received recently.(duh)
The trail was rough and our choice of bikes made it worse.
We ended up doing about maybe 25% on the trail and the rest on the road. Traffic was mostly light, gave us plenty of room and the shoulder was clean and smooth. The people we met and the towns we stopped in were all very friendly and supportive. East City Park in Ainsworth was very clean. Mill Race Park in Atkinson has a new hot shower! Hot shower in Riverside park in Neligh too! We finished up in Ta-Ha-Zouka Park (hot shower!) were we had left our car before being shuttled to Valentine by North Fork Outfitting. In short it was a good ride in a great area amongst friendly people.
I'll be happy to answer specific questions, if I can.

Anonymous on 7/5/2018 11:48:35 AM:

I have a road bike I outfitted with 28 mm Continental touring tires. Completed the Katy Trail this year, and the Sparta-Elroy trails (both crushed limestone) with no problems, and no flat tires. Are you indicating that I should have some wider tires? (Meaning, quite probably, a different bike.)

Kevin Mulvihill from Rensselaer on 7/5/2018 6:16:52 PM:

Hi,
I've done Elroy-Sparta too on my 1 1/4 tires, my point is that the Cowboy Trail is quite doable on bikes like ours, but just not as enjoyable as Don was on his fat tire Pugsley. Both of us 1 1/4 guys decided that maybe a mountain bike would've been the way to go. Then again like I said it could have been that the weather put the trail in less than ideal shape.

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