You gonna get dropped off at the LOB lot? Seems like a waste.xcguy said:I'd like this info not including any side trips at the top of Mt. Falcon nor originally parking at the Morrison lot and riding up Bear Creek Canyon Rd. which I'm never gonna do!
If it was dirt from the lower Mt. Falcon lot to LOTB I'd do the complete loop with the rubber side down. But I can't stand riding pavement with cars whizzing by, I just won't do it. Roadies have no idea why I feel this way but it's a given in my life.crashtoomuch said:You gonna get dropped off at the LOB lot? Seems like a waste.
I like parking in downtown Morrison and riding up the canyon, or up Mt Falcon. A little bit of road gives you a warm up for either ride.
I still flip a coin as to which way I like better - up Falcon and down LOB, or up the canyon and LOB and down Falcon. I like that going CCW makes it easy to add the Parmalee trail to the loop. I like going CW because you spend fewer minutes on the road, and if you have a buddy or two, you can pace line down the canyon and get a screaming leg burn to end the ride.
The entire loop is 2:15ish going CW as I recall.
Yes, pavement between Pence and Mt. Falcon but that's doable for my paranoia. It's another class of driver in that area rather than the crowd going from Morrison to Evergreen and I can feel them noticing and avoiding me. Hey, this paranoia I have of riding on pavement generates from the cellular level. I have no control of it, kind of like a phobia. 30-35 mph also is a phobia of mine!mountaingoatepics said:Cars probably won't be whizzing by you going down the canyon...I did Morrison>Mt. Falcon Pence>Lair the Bear>Little Park>74 yesterday..about 20.5 miles...Maintained between 30-35 mph going down the road and my top gear is 32-13. Maybe 2 cars passed me.
Between Mt. Falcon and Pence though you might have some cars whizzing by and aren't you riding the road there too? About ten cars passed me up there.
No freaking way I'm riding on that canyon road, too much of that situation is depending on other people watching out for me. My preferred route there is lotb > falcon > paramalee loop > lotb. The road between Pence and falcon actually has large dirt shoulders in spots and I can hear a car coming from a long way back and move way over in the dirt, and once you hit the side streets to the lot it's very low volume.Yes, pavement between Pence and Mt. Falcon but that's doable for my paranoia. It's another class of driver in that area rather than the crowd going from Morrison to Evergreen and I can feel them noticing and avoiding me. Hey, this paranoia I have of riding on pavement generates from the cellular level. I have no control of it, kind of like a phobia. 30-35 mph also is a phobia of mine!
If you park in Morrison and go clockwise (up Falcon, down LOB), the road isn't much of an issue because you're going almost the same speed as any cars. Its a quick few miles.mateomtb said:No freaking way I'm riding on that canyon road, too much of that situation is depending on other people watching out for me.
I like the part where you're descending Vail Pass on the "sidewalk" doing 40+ one minute, and navigating a 90 degree right-hander which passes beneath an overpass the next. I think someone actually shot off the corner onto the rocks below the year I did the ride.crashtoomuch said:Or, the part of the triple bypass
Yeah, that turn is dicey.Godzilla said:I like the part where you're descending Vail Pass on the "sidewalk" doing 40+ one minute, and navigating a 90 degree right-hander which passes beneath an overpass the next. I think someone actually shot off the corner onto the rocks below the year I did the ride.
Yep - '05 was the year I did it with my dad (the things we do for those we love, huh?).bad andy! said:I like the part where people throw down tacks on the lower part of Squaw Pass. Lots of flats and people walking their bikes for stretches. That was '05, and someone said it had happened a couple times.
