Road Ride 8/15 GMR to GRR to Baldy

7:30 AM at the parking lot off GMR/Big Dalton Cyn road. (also where you would park to go ride monroe TT if riding dirt).

So far:
DavidB, Myself....

The goal is to get to mt baldy road... and if we still have some legs left... Go UP baldy to the lifts to tack on more climbing. If not, we go down baldy.. down mountain and take baseline and foothill back to the cars.

 

Have fun maybe next week I can do a road ride with the group. I am thinking getting home at 6 am would be a bad idea plus I have no idea if my car will start I didn't mon trying to leave for airport

 

*paging graves.z!*

anywho, this should be a good ride with whatever route we take tomorrow. I'm a bit weary of this route but it should be a good one. Right off the bat we're climbing for a while but I see so many others out there climbing GMR so it can't be that bad. Not sure if/where there are places to refill, so bring as much water as you can.

 

Shoot... good call on the water. Go stash a cooler at the top of MTT today! lol.. there is nothing up there, probably until baldy village

 

We have to get to Baldy Rd, or else it's just an out and back down GMR.

If we do the extra climbing up Baldy, here's the route it will turn out to be
http://www.geoladders.com/show_route.php?route=17658

 

If I only had a brain (uh I mean gears...).

 

Dave,Aaron,there's a lodge or restaurant(I forgot which),open in Baldy village that you can fill up your water and get some munchies and cold drinks.-Lloyd :wave:

 

After thinking about this I'd rather do another ride in rancho and save all that climbing for when I get some gears! Have fun STUPIDOOOOOO!!

 

So apparently I'm working at 5am tomorrow. Id like to say I'm dissapointed but I'm really kinda relieved. :lol: 6500 feet would kill me. But you guys have fun, and hopefully see you on Tuesday...if you survive.

 

+2, get started without us.. hopefully we'll run into you guys... I'll be on a white TREK and red gear.. BRING WATER 3 Bottles...

 

roger that...

us weeners will be hard to miss (slow, and same bike paint scheme...)

3 bottles... CHECK.

I may go up early and stash water at the top of GMR

 

I ended up going with a local group in rancho, Cycling connection. Went up baldy road, total was 35 miles and 2111 ft of climbing. They were pretty amazed I was keeping up in the front of the pack on my fixed! Some of the guys are probably on STR

 

Glendora Ridge Road is badass :bang:

Saw Byron B as we were getting out of our cars, and eventually got to Baldy Village after some fun on GRR. Did I mention how awesome that road is?!

Got to the village, bought a water (restaurant didn't open until 11), chose not to climb up to the ski lifts, but did some extra credit over to Bonelli Park and took the streets back through Covina/Glendora.

Chewy brought Spam Masubi :clap: and that stuff cures the post ride hunger or something

The views up on GRR are amazing

 

Spam musubi = awesome trail food! protein, fat, carbs, calories... SALT, SUGAR! what else could you need????


Good bumping into you byron and friend!

Awesome ride. The ski-lifts are on the list for the next ride. We wended up with ~5100 Ft climb, and 51 Miles. Got up to 49MPH down baldy.... sketchy!

Good day for a ride! Hope its not as muggy next time. Pics!

Killer place to ride, no real traffic, good climbs, good road, beautiful views.....

Thoroughly enjoyed it!

Dave does however need to figure out which side of the road is the RIGHT side lol

the route:
http://www.geoladders.com/show_route.php?route=26955

 

change your geoladders route to Road Biking if you can, thanks

and what did you hit for max speed? I got 48.6 hauling ass down Baldy before your bottle came out and nearly hit me

p.s. best spam masubi ever.

 

Geoladder route corrected.....

49.3 MPH. Pissed we didnt make 50 LOL

My math says you owe me 2 musubi's on next ride....

 

damn thats fast! I hit 41 today going down Euclid.

Cool pics! Can't wait to get a geared bike so I canz climb and descend more!

 

We went and rode a little ways over from where you guys were. We did 39 to Crystal Lake But we did go by East fork:



Good Ol Slappy was kind enough to wait up for my sorry ol butt. We did around 30 miles and I hit 80 going down 39. I think we got over 3K in climbing.

Yep, that's right 80 as in 80 kilometers per hour :lol:

Dizle I was going to ride with CC today too but I thought they were just doing their normal route up to Sheer Road and I wanted to get some climbing in. To keep up front with that group is a major accomplishment even on a geared bike but you doing it on a fixie.....well, that just ain't right. :lol:

Great job, I'm impressed!:bang:

 

I was talking today with Chewy about how cool the 39 is to climb, but I've only ever taken it to East Fork (then over to GMR). Is the climb up to Crystal Lake as bad as people have made it seem?

 

riding up there makes you feel..... very very small in the gran scheme of your surroundings.

I'd be down to check out the 39 to the 2 climb....