Friday, April 30, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Awesome Art Work - Scott Dickson
Check out more of his other awesome works at:http://www.scottdickson.ca/Scott_Dickson.html
Friday, April 16, 2010
BEER
Honda's new electric scooter can carry beer.http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/694/6645/Motorcycle-Article/Honda-Plans-Sales-for-EV-neo-Electric-Scooter.aspx
Sunday, April 11, 2010
MTB - San Juan to Viejo Tie to Chiquito
The Mag 5 has a mantra, that it can't be a good trail ride unless there's at least some fear of not making it back.
Marlon, Loc, (yes, Loc) & I headed out to the Cleveland National Forest to hit the San Juan Trail in an effort to find some of the less used Chiquito and Viejo Tie trails. Staged a truck at the "Candy Store" and shuttled the bikes in another truck to the top of San Juan.
Once on our bikes and on the San Juan trail we "got our flow on" and, of course, we missed the turn offs and didn't realize it until we were almost down the entire San Juan Trail. The team decided it was best to turn around, ride back up and find the Chiquito trail turn off.
We found another single track, and frankly we don't know what it was, but it "had to go somewhere". It did take us to the Viejo Tie trail. At the top of this trail, it was 5:15pm, the team made another decision to go ahead and take Viejo Tie as it must just quickly drop us down to Chiquito and we'd be at the truck in no time. Well, we completely underestimated how far we were. The trail was truly EPIC but way, way, way longer than expected. Technical downhill single track the entire way, with rock drops, jumps, ledges, and finally ending up in the canyon with flowy single track following a stream.
After a total of 20 miles of single track we finally reached the truck at 8:00pm. Legs dead. Dark. Knowing that phone calls to wives/girlfriends wouldn't be pleasant. Alas, no cell service. Didn't get service until at least 1 hour after dark. Marlon's fiance was so worried she called the Sheriff to come look for us. (Don't think they did). My wife was just worried, but knew her man can get in and out of the woods.
Didn't get video of the Chiquito trail, but you can see some great riders hitting here:
http://www.btrails.com/trails/southern-california-chiquito-trail-cleveland-national-forest#/files/imagecache/342x513/trail_photos/Chiquita_Ryan_Leech_Alan_Davis.jpg
(click the link then scroll down to find video)
Pics from our ride and video at the bottom:
Marlon, Loc, (yes, Loc) & I headed out to the Cleveland National Forest to hit the San Juan Trail in an effort to find some of the less used Chiquito and Viejo Tie trails. Staged a truck at the "Candy Store" and shuttled the bikes in another truck to the top of San Juan.
Once on our bikes and on the San Juan trail we "got our flow on" and, of course, we missed the turn offs and didn't realize it until we were almost down the entire San Juan Trail. The team decided it was best to turn around, ride back up and find the Chiquito trail turn off.
We found another single track, and frankly we don't know what it was, but it "had to go somewhere". It did take us to the Viejo Tie trail. At the top of this trail, it was 5:15pm, the team made another decision to go ahead and take Viejo Tie as it must just quickly drop us down to Chiquito and we'd be at the truck in no time. Well, we completely underestimated how far we were. The trail was truly EPIC but way, way, way longer than expected. Technical downhill single track the entire way, with rock drops, jumps, ledges, and finally ending up in the canyon with flowy single track following a stream.
After a total of 20 miles of single track we finally reached the truck at 8:00pm. Legs dead. Dark. Knowing that phone calls to wives/girlfriends wouldn't be pleasant. Alas, no cell service. Didn't get service until at least 1 hour after dark. Marlon's fiance was so worried she called the Sheriff to come look for us. (Don't think they did). My wife was just worried, but knew her man can get in and out of the woods.
Didn't get video of the Chiquito trail, but you can see some great riders hitting here:
http://www.btrails.com/trails/southern-california-chiquito-trail-cleveland-national-forest#/files/imagecache/342x513/trail_photos/Chiquita_Ryan_Leech_Alan_Davis.jpg
(click the link then scroll down to find video)
Pics from our ride and video at the bottom:
Tour de Castillo
A loop around the property and a lap around the track. Again, still struggling with optimizing video quality with file size, but I'll get there ... eventually.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Daxelganger
Sent from friend in SF area; Zombie decension on the city....I wasn't there but my twin was.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Mag Five - One Two Five
Still struggling with optimizing GoProHD files. Mac saves as .mov and for some reason now YouTube doesn't like that format. When I saved it as a mpeg4, quality went way down. Apologies.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)