Single track?

[lankydoug]

What do you consider is single track? I think that if a quad will fit on it it's not single track but I keep seeing YouTube videos that say (for example) "Joe Shmo hooking it up banzai style on single track" and when I click to watch it it looks like interstate highway or a guy riding around in a hay medow.

I made some single track in my back yard and there is no way my fourwheeler would do fifty yards without having to stop and break out the chainsaw. I have to walk it with a chainsaw every few weeks to cut back the jungle or my bike can't make it through (or my preferred method of riding it every day for an hour).... now that's single track.

 

[WoodsChick]

I'm with you; single track = a single tire track. I will use the term sometimes to differentiate between quad trails and motorcycle-only trails, even if the motorcycle-only trails are not truly singletrack. For the most part quads, by definition, will not fit on true single track.

This is what it means to me...

 

[water racer]

Single track in Tennessee is when you have to fit between two trees every 20 feet or so and very often you have to cock the bars a little to clear the trees.
GP

 

[BadMotoWeazal]

Single track = Rabbit trail or something a goat would have a hard time climbing.

 

[WHITEROCKET5.9]

ya i pitcure a tight walking path through the woods like yall are showin as single track....i reckon if your an atv guy and theres only enough room for one i can see where theyd call it single track too but ya single track is wide enough for 1 bike....

 

[BadMotoWeazal]

We keep ours a tight as possible (the type of woods we have here helps) to keep the ATV's out. They can surely mess up a good trail. To pass on our single track, you have to cut a hot-line & not tell anybody about it.
WoodsChick, once again you have an eye for the trail.

 

[lankydoug]

Single track = Rabbit trail or something a goat would have a hard time climbing.

Now that's single track. That looks a lot like the Ozarks in AR and MO.

 

[WHITEROCKET5.9]

Ozarks=awesome!

 

[Dirtdame]

Agree with most of the above, tight trails, too tight for quads. We used to have some great singletrack trails out at Corral Canyon back in the 80s, but they have been trampled and widened until quads could fit on them and then it was only a matter of time before jeeps started to squeeze in. They are marked as to what can go on them, but this doesn't stop anybody who wants to explore with something that takes up the whole trail and then some. When you meet these people coming from the other direction (or get stuck behind them going in the same direction) there is often literally no place to go to get around them....and they get so stuck at all the rocky extra narrow places....

 

[RLW]

Single track is not accessible to quads........when I hear single track, I envision trails anywhere from tire wide to 2ft wide winding thru desert, valley and/or mountains. Most around here started off as game trails and old pack trails.

Some pictures of my 2011 single track trail rides
(including one showing I do get side tracked looking around and make rookie mistakes)
.....and we do have desert single track around here too, but typically blasting down the trail and not taking pictures

 

[krieg]

Trails without room for quads.

 

[BadMotoWeazal]

Trails without room for quads.

some of that looks like trails without room for error.

 

[krieg]

some of that looks like trails without room for error.

I don't like trails without room for error. Been there, done that, too old.

 

[Dirtdame]

I don't like trails without room for error. Been there, done that, too old.

Same here.

 

[RLW]

I don't like trails without room for error. Been there, done that, too old.

I turn 53 in a couple weeks and have to admit, I'm really at that point too. I have been avoiding some of our really tight rocky technical trails more now.
Big problem I have is that my mind remembers how I'm suppose to ride, but my body just doesn't follow along as quick as it once did.......resulting in more little mistakes. And, I don't bounce back from results of some of those mistakes as quick now either.
Also finding the 510 feels about 10lbs heavier some days this year than last

 

[pvduke]

Hang a left, one wheel wide. Ducking down here at the entrance to the Elfin Forest.....gets real tight w/ some short chutes you can gas it on laying on the tank on the pipe with a canopy all around ya mreeep! Gota lay on the tank for several miles and, jerseys and plastic dont last long....dont go off either. (like I did once, got stuck in tree/bush tops 10' down, bike peeing gas on me and had to wait 15 mins for my wingman that went wizzing by to come back and get me lol).

 

[pvduke]

Pop out fer a breather...then right back in...mreeep! 125 heaven.

 

[ray_ray]

some of that looks like trails without room for error.

Takes the fun out of it if it gets too dangerous ....

No quads here really :0 ) ... Just small bikes or slow trucks on roads and trails ... Double tracks \ mountains roads are good as ST as most are gnarly and no traffic really ... They'll beat out a line on the easiest part of the road ... I'll just go off this beaten line and hit the gnarly stuff and have ~0 chance of disturbing anyone, if I meet anyone...

 

[BadMotoWeazal]

So would this be single trail IYO?

 

[Dirtdame]

So would this be single trail IYO?

In my opinion, that would be nutz.