Northern California - Diablo Saturday!

My wife has been interested in climbing Diablo, and we found a sitter for Saturday, so it's climb Diablo day!

I figure we'll do South Gate, as it's a bit easier on the lower leg. Meet at the Athenian school around 9 - 9:15 am. I think we're going to park in Danville and ride over for a warm up. Hope to be in Danville by 8:30 or so, pending traffic, etc.

Anyone interested in joining us for her first ride up the Devil Mountain?

Hey Joel, believe or not I may try to make this ride. Can't guarantee it, but there's an outside chance. I haven't been up to, or able to ride lately, so I'd like to try to get back in the groove. If I don't make it have a good ride though.

Pete, I hope you can!

I'm probably going to regret this (only because I've been climbing so bad lately it seems like) but I am a huge maybe for this ride. I am just itching to get out of sac for a day and diablo is something I've been wanting to try for a while. I was also thinking about riding around lake tahoe (75mi w/ 4600ft) but I don't feel like doing it alone. So right now I am about 75% on doing diablo with you guys, I'll let you know for sure in a day or two.

btw- Joel I have 2 bike racks and enough room in the back for 1 more bike if you guys want to carpool. If it's something you're interested in I would be happy to pick you guys up.

I'm probably going to regret this (only because I've been climbing so bad lately it seems like) but I am a huge maybe for this ride. I am just itching to get out of sac for a day and diablo is something I've been wanting to try for a while. I was also thinking about riding around lake tahoe (75mi w/ 4600ft) but I don't feel like doing it alone. So right now I am about 75% on doing diablo with you guys, I'll let you know for sure in a day or two.

btw- Joel I have 2 bike racks and enough room in the back for 1 more bike if you guys want to carpool. If it's something you're interested in I would be happy to pick you guys up.

If you can do 3 bikes, that would be great!

Would youy mind if I joined you on my recumbent Trike? I desperately need to get some climbing training in and its nicer if you are least start off with some friendly faces.

Not at all. I'll be riding up with Bess and she's not a fast climber. I expect we'll be motoring along at a slow and pokey type pace.

There's a better-than-average chance that Chris and I will join you. We're going to try to weasel out of working. ;);)

Where in Danville are you planning to park? We'd like to meet you there.

I'll likely be heading up on Friday (hooky day) as it's kids soccer on Saturday. Have a good ride guys.

thinking about it joel its very tempting as i cant get a ride to iowa hill

ill see what is up with saterday and get back to you

i may need a ride if you know of anyone else in the area that i can hitch with or if you have room in your car ?

thinking about it joel its very tempting as i cant get a ride to iowa hill

ill see what is up with saterday and get back to you

i may need a ride if you know of anyone else in the area that i can hitch with or if you have room in your car ?

If you can get to Vacaville we can give you a ride.

Anthoni, no room in the car. We're riding with Shiz. If he can't make it, I think we can make room for you.

We're planning to park on the street on Danville Blvd, just S of El Cerro. That'll give us an easy warm up ride to get to the Athenian School. Planning to be there and ready to go by 8:45 (pending traffic, dropping off the kids, etc.). That'll give us plenty of time to get to the Athenian by 9/9:15.

Ya go ahead and definitely count me in for this. Sorry Anthoni, I only have room for 3 people and 3 bikes (including myself.) If I had the room I would be more than willing to give you a ride. Joel send me a PM whenever you get a chance and we'll work out the details.

Sending a PM. We ought to work out a way to get Anthoni down there. I think he could climb it in under an hour.

Anthoni, got you a ride squared away. We'll meet at my place. Not sure of the time yet.

awesome thank you very much ....
i might have worked out a deal on a frame too ....nice bianchi like 1983-87 some where in there its red and its my size so i may just switch over all the parts and have a new frame to climb with

just call me with a time or post it and ill be there

i got the new frame set up .......did it in about 1hour ...i have some shimano components on it still i haven't taken off yet and swaped for my lovely sun tour superbe pro yet .... except the crank i have grown attached to myn at the peddle

i think though the next thing will be shifting levers there sti/friction down tube levers and i have them both in friction now (to accommodate my 53T big ring and my 8 speed cassette in the back)

im going on a ride with bike hikers tomorrow so we will see what needs to be switch and what is just fine the way it is

have fun guys. i am planning to do Diablo this Sat but will start later as i need to take the kid to swim class before that. maybe will run into (not literally ;) ) some of you on your way down.

Anthoni, be to my place about 10 minutes before 7 on Saturday morning. How'd the new frame work today? See ya then!

Joel
I am going to be able to join you, I need the miles badly. See you around 9ish.

new frame is awsome thursday night we went with a tandom down gold river road we hit 32 mph in some places and i was able to keep my line much better then with the bent frame ...still slowly changing out parts on it for what i want so far i have wheels my crank back derailer stem and handle bars and breaks on it from the old bike

i also might have a line on some parts to lighten up the bike also went to the shop and it weighted in at 22.5lbs but i may be getting some carbon forks handlebars crank break/shifters(durace) but there some what free so i'm very happy i feel like a kid on chrismas morning

See you at the school at 9am ish

Well, phooey, we both have to work tomorrow. :(:mad::(:mad:

We were looking forward to this as we need the hills for our tandem trip next week.

Cr*p. Can you tell how bummed I am? :(

Have fun, y'all. We'll join you on another ride.

Bummer Deb. We'll have to wait until next time. Foxy's probably. Hope you have a great day tomorrow.

Nice riding with you today. Sorry I had to leave early but I wanted to get back home before the heat kicked in. I failed miserably and It was nasty hot on the way back to Livermore and as a result I ran out of water. I was pretty cooked by the time I got home.
I took some video of the ride today but I cant import it into my video editing software. Dagnabit.

Fun ride! Bess made it. An hour, 38 minutes approx. Anthoni did it in 56 minutes. The compact sure was a help. Good for about 10bpm savings on the HR.

the hills never ended .....just went up and up and up and went flat and up and up and then you turn the corner and you hope your in the right gear

awesome ride though i think i can do it in under 45min next time but i need a 39 in front or a 28 in back just need one more gear some where

the hills never ended .....just went up and up and up and went flat and up and up and then you turn the corner and you hope your in the right gear

awesome ride though i think i can do it in under 45min next time but i need a 39 in front or a 28 in back just need one more gear some where

56 minutes was a great time. A sub 45 minute time on Diablo would be pretty impressive. Are you a Cat 1 racer ?

Current record (from 2008) was like 43:33. So under 45 would be right there.

Current record (from 2008) was like 43:33. So under 45 would be right there.

Chris beat me to it. I suspect I'll never see a 56minute climb of Diablo, you're already in rare company. If you can truly make 45mins or less, you've probably got a pretty interesting racing career ahead of you.

Edit: PS - extra kudos for doing it on a pretty hot day.

i was at 21 min i think at mile 9 then i had to switch from big ring to the 42 and then going up i keep on mashing down my down tube shifters praying that my cassette would poop out a 26 some where i feel like i was just one gear short of what i needed to keep pace up that last 3 miles '

i would love to try it again i think that i could make sup 45 ill just use the big ring for about 3 miles and then use the 42 and ill use less energy and wont be as tired

... then going up i keep on mashing down my down tube shifters praying that my cassette would poop out a 26 some where...

:roflmao2::roflmao2::roflmao2:

:wipes eyes: I guess I'm easily amused tonight! Great time Anthoni, and yay for Bess too! I'll be lucky if I see the view from the Summit again. :cry:

bess was awsome coming up that last hill ....you should come next time

ok i think my times are messed up 9 miles was not the half way point according to diablo challenge lol so it was more like mile 5 i was at 21 min

Most folks use the junction ranger station as their "mid point" check in - it's ~mile 7 or so, where the North and South gate roads converge. Fastest I've ever got there was 36min FWIW :(

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hSZo5vjiPmQ/RwPQTZtnN0I/AAAAAAAABgA/yfghwrEAzDc/s800/Diablo%20Challenge%20Profile.JPG

I cant figure out how to edit the video format but I uploaded a few snippets onto youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYFhTMCFEUM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYFhTMCFEUM)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ocMp3Dfhwk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ocMp3Dfhwk)

I cant figure out how to edit the video format but I uploaded a few snippets onto youtube



I think I saw you coming up - there were two recumbents on SGR as I was going down.