Banging around those hills: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclotourist/4456793002
And of course the payoff for making it back down to Santa Monica: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cyclotourist/9992144054 On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 1:20 PM, dougP <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote: > Patrick: > > Thanks to local land conservancies, the Santa Monica mountains are NOT > filled in with housing tracts. Lots of excellent trails & riding west of > Sepulveda. A wonderful source of information is Franko, as in: > > http://frankosmaps.com/santa-monica-mountains-trail-map > > Right now, there may be areas that are closed due to high fire hazard. > There are also areas reserved for hiking only, but there is plenty of room > as long as we respect one another's space. Enjoy! > > dougP > > > On Saturday, June 27, 2015 at 11:11:30 AM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> I was just talking to someone on the CR list about the area east roughly >> of the Mulholland HW and Las Virgines road intersection, where 40 years ago >> there were a number of winding, hilly, very well built canyon roads perfect >> for energetic cycling. >> >> Are any of y'all familiar with riding here? I suppose that in the last 40 >> years the entire landscape has been filled with tract housing. >> >> My college, Thomas Aquinas, now just outside of Santa Paul, at the time >> ('73-'77) rented the ex-Claretian seminary occupying the lovely grounds of >> the old Gillette mansion (I think it's now a state park). Across Las >> Virgines was the old Fox Ranch (where I worked as a night watchman to keep >> cows and vandals off the Swiss Fam Rob and Mash sets) and hit 70 mph on the >> tiny, winding dirt tracks on Fox lot beaters at 3 am. (We destroyed many >> vehicles that way -- great fun.) >> >> Anyway. There was a coterie of roadies who would share these canyon roads >> (Cold Canyon? Liberty Canyon?) with the choppers on weekends; an ex student >> from TAC got into trouble by taking a brakeless track bike up into those >> hills.* >> >> I myself was then sans bike; I'd sold my 10 speed when returning to the >> US, but I'd borrow bikes and ride the canyons -- great fun. I recall once >> bombing down Mullholland Hwy on the other side of Las Virgines on the way >> to the Woodland Hills shopping center, and being passed (after a long >> pursuit) by a motor vehicle whose drive yelled, "You hit 45!" >> >> At the Woodland Hills shopping center, along the Ventura Fwy, there as a >> bike shop that had a very early CF bike in the window. >> >> *Doug Gilles, whose family owned at the time a well known Santa Monica >> bike shop -- Helen's? He was an ill fit at conservative Catholic TAC, with >> shoulder length hair and Buddhist beliefs. One anecdote: the college, a >> very small startup at the time, had its coterie of devotees of the more >> marginal and exotic old fashioned Catholic cults. One Halloween Gilles went >> around the dorm rooms dressed up as the Infant of Prague. He'd knock on >> doors and say, "Bless you my child" and then hit the occupant on the head >> with his scepter. Gilles was 6'3" and 300 lb at the time (he lost weight by >> the time he had the track bike accident). >> >> >> >> -- >> Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. >> By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >> Other professional writing services. >> http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >> www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten >> >> ************************************* >> *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a >> circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and >> individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu >> >> *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle >> >> *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Cheers, David Member, Supreme Council of Cyberspace "it isn't a contest. Just enjoy the ride." - Seth Vidal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
