Friday, December 28, 2012

New Year's Day Ride: All Are Invited! (80, 66, or 48 mile options)

Let's kick off the New Year in style, doing what we love! Please join me on a road ride around and over the Santa Monica Mountains this Tuesday, January 1, 2013! There are three possible starting points and times, so your route can be 80 miles, or about 62 miles, or about 48 miles. This is an excellent route with a nice, easy first 1/2 to 2/3 and then a goodly amount of climbing in the final 3rd, up, along, and over the Santa Monica Mountains. (Got a steel bike? Ride it! Even better if it's a classic steel bike!)

Here's the schedule and route options:

80-mile route: Start / Finish in Woodland Hills (Map of Route, as above)
Meet-Up: 730am, Starbucks on Topanga Canyon at Dumetz: 4900 Topanga Canyon Boulevard, Woodland Hills, CA 91364: Google Map of the location. Departure: 800am sharp.

66-mile route: Start /Finish in Calabasas (Map of Route, as above)
Meet-Up: 820am, Starbucks off Las Virgenes at 26521 Agoura Rd, Calabasas, CA 91302. Departure: App. 840am, once the main group arrives.

48-mile route: Start / Finish in Westlake Village (Map of Route, as above)
Meet-Up: 900am, East Coast Bagel at intersection of Agoura Road and Westlake Blvd in Westlake Village. Departure: App: 915am, once the main group arrives.

Rain cancels (at least for me). Please come prepared with food, drink, bike repair needs, money, ID, map or GPS, etc. NOTE: The ride is unsupported and all are on their own. Further updates will be posted to my Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/ChrisKostman

See you "out there"!

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Mount Baldy ride this Sunday: All Are Invited!

Above: That's me on GMR in 2001. The road was snowed over that year, so a few of us just pushed our bikes and kept on going, and had a fantastic adventure! But this Sunday I am hoping and planning to ride the whole way! I was riding my 1994 Bridgestone RB-1 that day; this weekend I will ride my Rivendell Roadeo.

Please join me on a road ride to Mt. Baldy this Sunday, December 9! This is one of Southern California's absolutely best rides, and was also the first real ride I ever did, when I got my first road bike at age 14 in 1982! We will depart at 845am from Classic Coffee at 148 N. Glendora Ave. Glendora, CA 91741. (Or meet us en route, at the top of Glendora Avenue, at the intersection with Sierra Madre, at 900am.)

It's a 40 mile ride with lots of climbing in the first half: figure 3.5 hours total. The route will be: up Glendora Mountain Road (GMR), continue across Glendora Ridge Route to Baldy Village, then down the front of the mountain and bike across to Glendora via San Dimas. 


Pre- and post-ride refreshments at the above-mentioned Classic Coffee in the Glendora Village.

Rain / snow cancels. Bring warm clothes, food, drink, and bike repair needs. The ride is unsupported and all are on their own. Any further updates will be posted to my Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/ChrisKostman

Map of route (or here):


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