[Aquaholic]

Awesome ride today. Viejo Tie, Chiquito delivered bigtime!

 

[Aquaholic]

4 more.

 

[SMOKEY]

forgive my ignorance but, what are those things around your ankles aqua?

 

[mateoway]

tiny parachutes

dragsters use to slow down.or possibly brush guards .

 

[Aquaholic]

forgive my ignorance but, what are those things around your ankles aqua?

Cankles.

 

[mtbbill]

Missed you by a day

Awesome ride today. Viejo Tie, Chiquito delivered bigtime!

No Viejo Tie or Chiquito today, just the SJT. I started the day with a bit of a bummer as right when I was making the final preps to click in I realized I forgot my FN helmet and their is no way in hell I would ride SJT without one. So we quickly formulated a plan, and the rest of my buds started climbing while I went to get my brain bucket. I would drive up to the top and meet them on thier way up to Blue Jay campground. So after burning up enough gas to buy a helmet I got to Blue Jay campground and meet them a few miles down the trail, turned around and went back up with them. I was feeling quite fresh, and I have no idea why these bunch of cardio-whimps were a little sluggish on the pedals

Anyway, I took a few shots on my really short version on the ride and here they are. (Funny how I take more pictures while climbing than when going downhill )

The creek at the bottom trailhead

John cruising by

Erik the Red

Billy swooshing by

Billy with his "I'm gonna make this climb" face on

Billy making said climb.

Erik on the way down

 

[mtbbill]

Cankles.

Yes, very WARM cankles.

 

[Yeti_Rider]

well heck!

if I had known you were going to shuttle it I might have come along!

the pan shots of Erik and Billy came out nice.

I hit up Martha's on a solo ride since it's all I could get in. The place is a freaking jungle right now! mustard plants and other weeds 6-7 feet tall totally covering the trail.

the Martha's drop is getting nice and chewed up by those riders who don't know what a front brake is for though so some of the old challenge is coming back. The rain also eroded a bit of the smoothing work that was done so the trail is gaining some of it's old character back.

YR

 

[Aquaholic]

Shuttle SJT??

You guy's shuttled SJT???!!! WTF? What a bunch of weenies.

Now, to really test your mettle, you must brave the PO guantlets on Viejo Tie and Chiquito.

Then, you totally tempt fate and ride Ortega Hwy back down to the lower trailhead.

That ride back down to the cars scared the crap out of me/us.

What's the best way to do this ride? Shuttle back up to Bluejay and then back down SJT?

Steve

PS Awesome pics, as usual, Bill.

 

[mtbbill]

You guy's shuttled SJT???!!! WTF? What a bunch of weenies.

Now, to really test your mettle, you must brave the PO guantlets on Viejo Tie and Chiquito.

Then, you totally tempt fate and ride Ortega Hwy back down to the lower trailhead.

That ride back down to the cars scared the crap out of me/us.

What's the best way to do this ride? Shuttle back up to Bluejay and then back down SJT?

Steve

PS Awesome pics, as usual, Bill.

The rest of the group did the right thing and rode up, I was the the helmetless shuttle weenie that day.

I would not want to do that ride back to the lower trailhead on Ortega Hwy unless it was a weekday. Too many nuts on the weekend. Shuttling from the Candy Store back up to BlueJay would be pretty cool and I would say for the most part guilt free. A double shuttle ride quite interesting.

 

[Trevor!]

Nice pictures. That looks like some nice riding indeed.

 

[noslogan]

I'm still down

Kinda wish I shuttled. Anyone else get sunburned or is that the burn from around Cocktail?

The rest of the group did the right thing and rode up, I was the the helmetless shuttle weenie that day.

I would not want to do that ride back to the lower trailhead on Ortega Hwy unless it was a weekday. Too many nuts on the weekend. Shuttling from the Candy Store back up to BlueJay would be pretty cool and I would say for the most part guilt free. A double shuttle ride quite interesting.

 

[noslogan]

I wish you showed up Yeti

Id'a liked to ride with someone up the hill.

if I had known you were going to shuttle it I might have come along!

the pan shots of Erik and Billy came out nice.

I hit up Martha's on a solo ride since it's all I could get in. The place is a freaking jungle right now! mustard plants and other weeds 6-7 feet tall totally covering the trail.

the Martha's drop is getting nice and chewed up by those riders who don't know what a front brake is for though so some of the old challenge is coming back. The rain also eroded a bit of the smoothing work that was done so the trail is gaining some of it's old character back.

YR

 

[Yeti_Rider]

well

Id'a liked to ride with someone up the hill.

you'd have been more than welcome to ride with me up the hill, but I think I'm the only one who can actually ride uphill that slow............

YR

 

[mtbbill]

you'd have been more than welcome to ride with me up the hill, but I think I'm the only one who can actually ride uphill that slow............

YR

Aaahh, but think of all that momentum coming down the hill

 

[Pain Freak]

San Dee-eggies

Yesterday after we got back from the Mexico ride I turned on Discovery Channel and lo and behold the video of Miles infamous descent was on "Sports Disasters".
Did anyone else see it.

 

[Winston]

A couple more Chiquita shots to add to the mix from yesterday's ride:

 

[mtnbkrdr98]

Sweet

4 more.

There's nothing like an epic ride in the Santa Anas and it looks like you guys got a nice one!

When I'm back in SoCal again, I'm definitely bringing my bike (RM Slayer)
and doing San Juan up to the Viejo Tiechiquito.

My next favorite is Bell Ridge via Holy Jim/Main divide