Southern California - Who are you? Where do you ride?

Welcome -- I was on the other Synapse. The white one (not nearly as clean and stealthy :rolleyes: ;) )

Welcome -- I was on the other Synapse. The white one (not nearly as clean and stealthy :rolleyes: ;) )

I remember that bike, too!

Mine's not that clean today, but it hides it well.

GO CHARGERS!!!!!!

:beer:
That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

i'm me

i commute most days of the week (home is in silverlake, work is west la)

i'm me

i commute most days of the week (home is in silverlake, work is west la)

Welcome! :D

My name is Andy, I lived in loma linda for about 6 months. Yucaipa for a year before that and northern cal before that.


I mainly ride a mixture of sunset and Oak glen with some ranger station/angelus oaks to onyx thrown in sometimes. Sunday rides are a mixture of redlands to yucaipa and back in different variations as well as a riverside run that I did last weekend which was a blast.

I'll be an accountant in a few months...

I'll be an accountant in a few months...

So sorry to hear that. Can the doctors do nothing? Live life to the fullest while you still can! :D :D

sup clutchy.

So sorry to hear that. Can the doctors do nothing? Live life to the fullest while you still can! :D :D


hehe, no way accounting is great fun. no more beans and green visors. :eek: ;)

sup clutchy.


Howdy! I was just in your neighborhood last sunday. Orange grove park or something near victoria.

Matt,
Are you familiar with the Riverside Bicycle Club, www.riversidebicycleclub.org
We aren't that far from you, and we ride quite a bit. Check out our calendar on the web site and download the Newsletter if you're interested. We would love to have you.
There is also a Mountain Bike part of the club: http://www.teamdirtywork.com/

You'll find me pedaling one of these guys up Mustard at Whiting Ranch almost every weekend.

let me know when you want to Play at Aliso, I'll make the drive for that:D

Matt,
Are you familiar with the Riverside Bicycle Club, http://www.teamdirtywork.com/

Howdy, Jim. Welcome to the forums. I am familiar with you guys as I've met some of your members on rides (don't ask for names, please, as I'll never be able to provide them with my memory, but I can tell you that they were cute boys who rode well!). :D

let me know when you want to Play at Aliso, I'll make the drive for that:D

I finally rode Aliso today. Cholla/Rock It/Coyote/Dripping Cave. Fun place to ride. If I wasn't going to be out of town next weekend, I would ride it again, and again. hehe

My name is Pepe from La Jolla. I’m 55 years old. After 35 years, I quit smoking May 10th 2006 and start biking.
I’m commuting to work (20 miles each way) at least twice a week, long rides (40 to 50 miles) on Saturday’s and shorter rides with my wife on Sunday’s.
I’m planning to do my first century on April 14th (Hemet).
Biking has changed my life!

My name is Pepe from La Jolla. I’m 55 years old. After 35 years, I quit smoking May 10th 2006 and start biking.
I’m commuting to work (20 miles each way) at least twice a week, long rides (40 to 50 miles) on Saturday’s and shorter rides with my wife on Sunday’s.
I’m planning to do my first century on April 14th (Hemet).
Biking has changed my life!

I'll say! You've logged over 500 miles so far this year! :beer: Welcome! :D

Welcome to the forum peoples, if you dont know me...please search my name---I am married to Brandy and caligurl is my fling




and merider loves me but I don't love her

Welcome to the forum peoples, if you dont know me...please search my name---I am married to Brandy and caligurl is my fling
and merider loves me but I don't love her


Not to mention the P** uh, cat, on his avatar...

I'm a Geohydrologist in Claremont. Mostly local stuff - the Damn-Canyon route put together by a guy at work to cause max pain and suffering in as little time possible (up and down canyons along baseline), Figure 8's of bonelli, up GMR and down baldy. Trying to find people to chase and longer routes.

Welcome, Grasshopper! You've found the right place for long route and we do get up Baldy as well. Hope to see you on the road. :D

Hiya grasshopper. Snatch any pebbles, lately?

Hi there I'm Aaron and I'm a bike bum. I'm 25, live and work in Anaheim and enjoy going waaay too hard up hills in La habra heights and riding the sart on weekday afternoons.

Hi there I'm Aaron and I'm a bike bum. I'm 25, live and work in Anaheim and enjoy going waaay to hard up hills in La habra heights and riding the sart on weekday afternoons.


Hi Aaron the bike bum!!
Your among friends here...

Welcome!!

thanks:)

We ride the Santa Ana Mountains in Orange County, CA. From Black Star, down to San Juan Trail and coastal stuff too, Woods Canyon, El Morro etc. Many of the trails are hundreds of years old. Millions of people live here but we are the lucky ones who spin amongst the spirits of coal and silver miners, Holy Jim & Helena Modjeska.

John: F1000, Disc's, Hollow Tech II, XT Dual Control
Other John: '04 Superlight original XT Components, Stick w/ what works.

Sunday morning cross country riding, usually ~2 hours. Always happy to add a person or 2. We are over 20, also over 30, 40 & 50, but we can climb.

Jtfind

Welcome, John! :) I love your description of the trails you ride on...you obviously appreciate the history.

Well..... I am Aaron
Live in Colorado Springs, CO
Ride many bikes...Most are schwinn

Top 3 - Schwinn Rocket 88(MTN), Schwinn Super Sport(road), Schwinn Preditor(BMX)






And here is me!!!(Bad pic....but only currently on my comp....LOL)

Hi bike peeps, I'm Erik. I ride mostly with my gf, usually around the Rose Bowl area here in SoCal (at a leisurely pace). She's on a blue Raleigh comfort bike and I'm on either a Giant fcr or my new baby, a Bianchi 928.

This is a great forum and it's nice to see local rides and everyone's impressions of them. The century type rides sound really cool and hopefully we'll be in good enough shape to try a half century soon.


Cheers,

Erik

Hey Welcome Erik!

I'll be doing a little riding around the Rose Bowl this evening before heading out to Griffith Park and joining the gang on our weekly social night ride up to the observatory. Join us one of these days...:)

Welcome Erik and other new faces to So Cal! Hope those who are close enough to ride will come out and join us. We have a shorter ride scheduled for next Sunday and BBQ if any of you want to come out and meet folks who post on here. :)

Hi bike peeps, I'm Erik. I ride mostly with my gf, usually around the Rose Bowl area here in SoCal (at a leisurely pace). She's on a blue Raleigh comfort bike and I'm on either a Giant fcr or my new baby, a Bianchi 928.

This is a great forum and it's nice to see local rides and everyone's impressions of them. The century type rides sound really cool and hopefully we'll be in good enough shape to try a half century soon.


Cheers,

Erik

Welcome Erik!

When do you ride around the Bowl?

Thanks for all the nice words of welcome. I've had an eye on the weekly Griffith Park rides and I have vowed to give it a shot one day (i.e. when my legs and lungs can handle a group ride). We usually get out to the Rose Bowl on Saturday or Sunday mornings. Hopefully with daylight savings time coming up, I'll be able to get more weekday riding in as I do believe I fallen in love with riding a bike:eek: :D

Well, I'll be at the Bowl with my daughter this evening. Actually, we'll be in the parking lot learning how to ride in a straight line and use brakes (instead of feet) to stop. So Fixer, if you see a guy screaming at his 9 year old in the lot that'll be me.

Have a great time at the Observatory tonight folks, I saw some pics from a previous ride and it looks gorgeous up there.:)

sweet beard man.

My name is Jon and I'm a cycloholic. When I'm not on my bike I'm thinking of my next ride, which is usually with Bramwell's OCW Saturday Century guys or with my club Veloce Santiago or on Wednesdays with BCI in Fountain Valley. I started riding again last year after a long time off the bike and I'm hooked again. Last year my goal was to get a Planet Ultra KOM jersey and I did it, this year is to do it again and get the California Triple Crown jersey. My first double will be Solvang and they say it's a good first one so I'm looking forward to it.

I ride a White Carbon Token. Token? Never heard of a Token until last year when I crashed my steel Marin an bent the frame and needed a new frame so I went to ebay and found this beautiful white carbon Token. I built it up with my components off my Marin and I've logged 2000 miles on it and I love it!

I would be interested in riding with a different group on Wednesdays, BCI is too slow for me and I end up riding alone anyways, which is usually SART to PCH to Newport Coast and back 53 miles from my house.

Oh, I'm an "At Home Dad" which is my job with two boys, ages 3 years and the other 10 months. I also sell remanufactured Inkjet and Toner cartridges from my house through my friends business. I play the French horn for the Fullerton HS program every year, this year is "Little Women" and opening night is Friday the 23rd at Plummer in Fullerton. These kids are great, every year they blow me away. I've been to Broadway shows that didn't have as much talent as the kids of Fullerton HS.

Well I hope to ride with you guys soon.

Jon Shellenbarger

My name is Jon and I'm a cycloholic.Welcome Jon! You must know M.E...?

You must know M.E...?

Nope, I met Brandy this weekend on GMR, she told me about this forum so I thought I would join.

Nope, I met Brandy this weekend on GMR, she told me about this forum so I thought I would join.

I thought you knew M.E. from cycloholics anonymous....:p:D

I thought you knew M.E. from cycloholics anonymous....:p:D


It's anonymous.. he won't tell..

It's anonymous.. he won't tell..

Oops, my bad.......I had no idea what that word meant....:p

Hi Jon, my name is M.E. Welcome to the BF So Cal Region. I hope you continue to come to meetings...um...I mean, rides! :D

Hi, my name is Mike and it is good to be here. On the weekends I will ride from So.Redondo to the marina or Santa Monica, with most of the trip on the bike path. On a weekday I will just ride around Redondo. Here is a pic. of my rig.




Hey Mike! Welcome.

I ride most weekdays on the same path as you. Manhattan to Ballona Creek and back. This is my ride: Small world :D





....wait a second I think we may have already 'met' on another thread ;)

I start riding Oct 2006. Last year my ride (the one I did most miles on) was my Harley V-Rod and this year the goal is to do more mile on my bicycle than the motorcycle. The Car left for (really) rainy days.
Riding with the SFVBC on weekend and from home (Encino) to work (Calabasas) 3 times a week.
I think, and my wife knows, that me too... I am a cycloholic.

My name's Dave, and I live in Central Orange County. Or to be more exact, I live in Garden Grove. I've ridden extensively around Central, North, and a little bit of South OC, as well as some excursions into Long Beach (including the San Gabriel River Trail all the way up to El Dorado Park), through the use of this program:

http://www.bikemetro.com/

Well, before the website short-circuited anyway.

I've ridden the Santa Ana River Trail many times, so you may have seen me. More than likely, you've left me in the dust, as I have been passed by a whole bunch of people on road bikes, and some on mountain bikes and hybrids. I'm the fat Chinese guy with glasses in a gray fleece jacket and swimming trunks, trying to haul ass on an old blue 10-speed road bike with suicide levers on the tops of the drop handlebars. Well, I was anyway, until the bicycle's rear wheel broke enough spokes to toss the rig away.

Currently, I'm without a bicycle :(

Hi my name is ovoleg, i ride my bike and I drop little girls on tricycles. Don't be shy, say hi to me :)

Hey guys, I am Brian. I just got my first road bike, '06 Specialized Allez Elite, and have been riding now for a few weeks. I live in Irvine so I have only rode around central Irvine and also the back bay. I think I have seen several BF members along the back bay trails, possibly Voltman a couple times. Since I am a noob I am sure I will have plenty of questions, especially about routes in the OC area. I am looking to eventually ride centuries, but for now will concentrate on not falling to the clipped in side. I will post pics of the bike tomorrow after building the 6 dollar bike stand, which I found on another BF post! Hope to see you guys around! Oh and HI ovoleg, I don't drop little kids on tricycles, I draft behind them.

My name's Mike and I live in east Palmdale. I usually ride Aliso Canyon Road and Mount Emma Road after work. On my "weekends", Monday and Tuesday, I like to head to up to the Angeles Crest near Wrightwood or go the opposite direction towards Gorman.

Hi FAt bike nut, entropy and BMW!!!
Welcome to the BF!!

Hi my name is ovoleg, i ride my bike and I drop little girls on tricycles. Don't be shy, say hi to me :)


Ovoleg, the girl said you at least called out " on your left" as you slowly
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