My new bike. More photos and a sensible choice of bars coming soon.

Thanks to Cinelli, BTI, MASH, Zipp, SRAM, ROAD, and Craigslist.

2 Days of Pigeon Point on Flickr.

I’m taking a couple days off this week. The plan is to ride to the Pigeon Point lighthouse, stay tomorrow night at the hostel, and ride back on Thursday. I’ll probably end up taking transit part (or most) of the way home since the 90 mile ride there is more than I’ve ridden in the last few weeks.

From Lake Merrit, I’ll go up to Skyline, down Redwood Road to Castro Valley, Palomares Road to Niles Canyon into Fremont, across the Dumbarton Bridge, through East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Stanford campus, Sandhill Road to Old La Honda, 84 to Pescadero Road, Butano cutoff to the coast, then a couple more miles down Highway 1 to Pigeon Point. Here’s the route.

Lots and lots of goings-on at Interbike. It was a long couple of days. I’m not at the point yet where I have actual coherent thoughts but when I do, I’ll post them. Here are some things that were part of the experience.

And these guys:

10 Degrees Latitude from Neal Mueller on Vimeo.

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On my way to watch the San Francisco Twilight on Saturday, I stopped at the top of Fillmore St. and made this little video, thinking back to the San Francisco Grand Prix. Then I shot some photos and video at the race.

 
Fillmore and Broadway from josh kadis on Vimeo.

Just felt like posting a photo of my desk, where I am currently working.

Posts related to things other than me will resume as soon as the bikes are put away.

I realize that Friday’s 7,100 ft elevation isn’t that high, but my natural abilities + a month off the bike + altitude ≠ great climbing. Saturday’s ride was about 7,000 feet in all, from Lake Tahoe at 6,200 ft, over the 8,900 ft pass at Mt. Rose, down to 4,600 ft near Reno, and back again. Ugh.

All smiles with maybe 15% of the day’s climbing done.

Mattias heading back towards Mt. Rose. I was not enjoying this part.

I’m up in Tahoe for the weekend with Mattias, staying on the north side of the lake at King’s Bay. Riding around the lake itself is … less than awesome. But we found a good climb yesterday up about 1,000 ft from the lake. We’ll be doing a lot more climbing today…

Taped on Friday in Chicago with Ben Raby, edited on the plane home yesterday. This probably won’t go on The Road Diaries but similar videos will.

I came across this framed 2006 Kodak Gallery/Sierra Nevada jersey at SRAM’s offices; it brings back a lot of memories, including how long it took me to lay out those cards. That was a fun year.