Chad & Colleen · Colorado

You won't hear
us coming

Electric dirt bikes in the San Juans. The bikes are silent. Chad is not.

The honest version

Every ride starts the same way. The electric bikes really are quicker off the line — that part is true, and we bring it up constantly. We come off the bottom of the hill ahead of the gas bikes, silent, smug, insufferable.

Then they catch us. Then they pass us. Then we spend the rest of the afternoon explaining that we let them.

Colleen is the better rider. I'm the one doing the talking. These two facts are related.

Evidence

Colleen kneeling on a trail with a hand saw, cutting through a fallen aspen. Two bikes parked behind her. — Colleen, clearing the trail. I documented it.

A rider on a dirt bike with an animal skull balanced on top of his helmet, giving two thumbs up. — Meanwhile. I found a skull and everything else stopped for twenty minutes.

A dirt bike lying on its side on a narrow trail through an aspen grove. — The bike did this by itself. I wasn't even near it.

Colleen on her bike in the trees, purple gear, throwing a peace sign. — The better rider, being gracious about it.

Rider's view down a singletrack trail through aspens and wildflowers, another rider ahead. — Behind her again. Great view though.

A rocky two-track climbing through late-spring snowbanks toward high peaks. — San Juans, mid-May. The snow gets a vote on where you're going.

What's here

Friends & family

The rides

Video from the trail — 4K, searchable by rider, trail, and date. It's behind a gate because there are real people in these, and the music isn't mine. If you rode with us, ask and you're in.

videos.chadman.net → Free

WolfPack Dash

A dashboard for our electric bikes, built because I wanted one and nobody was selling it. Free, no account, no ads, nothing to sell you. Works with gloves on, which was most of the point.

get.chadman.net → Non-profit

Trail work

The trails we ride stay open because people cut deadfall and fix drainage. That's WestCore. Saws, fuel, and time — donations buy the first two.

westcore.co →