Gambled with the weather, and went down to Brown County to ride today after work. Rode the Pine Loop, and the connector up to Aynes Loop. After a breather, I was thinking about riding it, but it's 3.5 miles, and the storm clouds looked pretty threatening. Decided to ride back, and live to ride another day.
The long hard uphill on the connector that about killed me was much more fun bombing down on the way back! I did bottom the front shock out a bunch, so am going to look and see if I can modify it in some way, or swap a different fork on it.
Guy in the lot at the trail head looked straight at my bike, and said something like "You're riding that on these trails?" I said "Yup. Just got back". He was suprised I didn't break anything. He was even more suprised that I'd ridden down here once before, and ridden 1/2 dozen times on other trails this year so far.
Talked to another guys who was a lot friendlier about it. Encouraged him to join up on the HMBA.org board and get in touch with me about riding together. Looked like he might be about the same speed as me.

I'm going to yank the kickstand off, and look at getting some riser bars. I seem to put too much weight on my wrists/palms. Might look into a carbon or aluminum baar and seatpost. Would like to drop a little weight off this thing at least. Didn't realize how heavy it was until I picked up a couple other guys bikes. Wow!
The upsdide is I'm getting a much bigger workout hauling the extra weight up the same hills!
Camelbak worked awesome. New helmet fit 10x better than my old Target helmet.
Just need some glasses besides my cheap sunglasses. It was too dark for them, but there were too many bugs to not have eye protection.