The Official GMR Thread
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The Official GMR Thread
One of the best rides around. With it's different routes, climbs and distances, I really hold it in high regard. Post up anything and everything about GMR. Photos, ride reports... whatever.
I'll start.
This ride was the type of bad idea that only comes along every so often. Labor Day '07 was forecasted to be one of the hottest days of the summer. Temperatures of 110 were forecasted in certain spots, possibly higher. In our infinite wisdom, we decided to ride to Mt. Baldy. It still goes down as one of my favorite rides ever. Good friends, a big group and a challenging ride. This was only a few days after Team Bearclaw was formed and we all had our new kits. Everyone that started finished (I think) and our good friend Fritz (one of the fastest Cyclocross racers in SoCal) met us at the gate with water, gatorade and other good stuff.
Me:
Rest stop:
Jason:
Brian:
Bill:
Freddie in the back, guy who I can't remember in the front:
Almost to the top:
Cole, close to the ski lifts:
Bill:
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This ride was the type of bad idea that only comes along every so often. Labor Day '07 was forecasted to be one of the hottest days of the summer. Temperatures of 110 were forecasted in certain spots, possibly higher. In our infinite wisdom, we decided to ride to Mt. Baldy. It still goes down as one of my favorite rides ever. Good friends, a big group and a challenging ride. This was only a few days after Team Bearclaw was formed and we all had our new kits. Everyone that started finished (I think) and our good friend Fritz (one of the fastest Cyclocross racers in SoCal) met us at the gate with water, gatorade and other good stuff.
Me:
Rest stop:
Jason:
Brian:
Bill:
Freddie in the back, guy who I can't remember in the front:
Almost to the top:
Cole, close to the ski lifts:
Bill:
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Pt. II
Party at the Ski Lifts. Even up there, it was HOT:
Baldy Village (where Cole earned some serious man-points by drinking 2 NewCastles before heading back home...):
Such a fun ride. More pictures to come in the very near future. Feel free to contribute.
Baldy Village (where Cole earned some serious man-points by drinking 2 NewCastles before heading back home...):
Such a fun ride. More pictures to come in the very near future. Feel free to contribute.
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Awesome pic:
GMR is one of my favorite rides too (I haven't attempted the lifts yet)... there have been many organized through the SoCal forum, with tons of pics and ride reports. Good stuff!! Some of my favorite pics come from GMR rides, I'll have to dig some up.
GMR is one of my favorite rides too (I haven't attempted the lifts yet)... there have been many organized through the SoCal forum, with tons of pics and ride reports. Good stuff!! Some of my favorite pics come from GMR rides, I'll have to dig some up.
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Yes indeed.
Here's another ride my friend Alex and I did. Alex rides Semi-Pro XC for the Subaru/Fisher/Helens team, and does a lot of training on the road. I know there were more pictures, but I can't find them. This was after the first snow of 2007. It was a beautiful day, and really windy at the gate. We started in Pasadena and turned around at the intersection for E Fork. Awesome ride with clean air and great views.
I had an (awesome) mustache for about 3 weeks. Little photograpic evidence of it exists, which makes this photo incredibly rare:
Alex, motoring up the climb:
Snow Day:
Here's another ride my friend Alex and I did. Alex rides Semi-Pro XC for the Subaru/Fisher/Helens team, and does a lot of training on the road. I know there were more pictures, but I can't find them. This was after the first snow of 2007. It was a beautiful day, and really windy at the gate. We started in Pasadena and turned around at the intersection for E Fork. Awesome ride with clean air and great views.
I had an (awesome) mustache for about 3 weeks. Little photograpic evidence of it exists, which makes this photo incredibly rare:
Alex, motoring up the climb:
Snow Day:
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I'm working on it, trust me. My appetite for Italian food should catch up with me someday soon.
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Somewhere near the top of GMR looking over 39 and the lake. - From the bloat ride in 06
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Awesome, thanks. It looks like you guys consistently get a good turnout. I need to bring a camera on rides more often.
This was last Friday, the 11th. It was a really hard ride (for me, at least) 3 of us left from Pasadena and motored over to Glendora. We met our friend Mike at the bottom of GMR and Sierra Madre. I think we got there in less than an hour, which is a pretty good pace when you take stopping at lights into consideration. We took off and I went really hard for the first 4 miles, and took it a little easier until we got to the gate. Then we rode in circles trying to figure out if we were going to go back down GMR or go to East Fork.
We decided on East Fork, and we went pretty hard all the way back down to Pasadena. Thats probably the fastest I've ever done the "lap" from Pasadena-GMR-39-Pasadena. Great ride, great weather (a little cold at the top, but not bad) and good training.
Posing = Good training:
Jason, Chepe and I:
Riding in circles while we tried to figure out where we were gonna go:
Thats all the pictures I have on my HD from GMR rides. I'll post more when I can.
This was last Friday, the 11th. It was a really hard ride (for me, at least) 3 of us left from Pasadena and motored over to Glendora. We met our friend Mike at the bottom of GMR and Sierra Madre. I think we got there in less than an hour, which is a pretty good pace when you take stopping at lights into consideration. We took off and I went really hard for the first 4 miles, and took it a little easier until we got to the gate. Then we rode in circles trying to figure out if we were going to go back down GMR or go to East Fork.
We decided on East Fork, and we went pretty hard all the way back down to Pasadena. Thats probably the fastest I've ever done the "lap" from Pasadena-GMR-39-Pasadena. Great ride, great weather (a little cold at the top, but not bad) and good training.
Posing = Good training:
Jason, Chepe and I:
Riding in circles while we tried to figure out where we were gonna go:
Thats all the pictures I have on my HD from GMR rides. I'll post more when I can.
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Enzo, did you just now discover GMR? I mean this with all due respect, by the way, and am just curious. It seems from this thread that you have (forgive me, I'm tired, and I may have misread). If so, I understand your joy and excitment to share (thanks for the additional pics too - you young men are awfully good looking!) When I first discovered GMR in 2005, I giggled all the way down it. It was still closed to traffic then, and I was immediately smitten with the views and such. It is beautiful up there and up Baldy - my favorite ride of all time.
I can't wait to heal and head up to Baldy again via big or little GMR. Hopefully, in the next two weeks...
I can't wait to heal and head up to Baldy again via big or little GMR. Hopefully, in the next two weeks...
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Enzo, did you just now discover GMR? I mean this with all due respect, by the way, and am just curious. It seems from this thread that you have (forgive me, I'm tired, and I may have misread). If so, I understand your joy and excitment to share (thanks for the additional pics too - you young men are awfully good looking!) When I first discovered GMR in 2005, I giggled all the way down it. It was still closed to traffic then, and I was immediately smitten with the views and such. It is beautiful up there and up Baldy - my favorite ride of all time.
I can't wait to heal and head up to Baldy again via big or little GMR. Hopefully, in the next two weeks...
I can't wait to heal and head up to Baldy again via big or little GMR. Hopefully, in the next two weeks...
I remember the first time I rode it, also. I saw 5 people towing street-luge boards up the hill by foot... about 5 miles from the bottom. That was pretty damn cool. There was nothin better than having an entire road to yourself. I still love the climb and always look forward to doing it.
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Nice thread
I don't have too many pictures from GMR/Baldy, I usually don't carry a camera. These are from Jan 2006, Pico and I did GMR to the lifts on a freezing cold day. We encountered ice patches on GRR, and Baldy Rd was frosted over much of the way from the village to the lifts. That final 15% stretch from the snack shack to the parking lot was brutal. You had to stay seated, or your rear wheel would slip on the frost. The way down on the switchbacks was a nail biter. This was the day I learned where Icehouse Canyon got it's name.
My old bike at Cow Canyon Saddle
Road conditions near the top
Nice view from the parking lot
Me and Pico ready to go back down
I don't have too many pictures from GMR/Baldy, I usually don't carry a camera. These are from Jan 2006, Pico and I did GMR to the lifts on a freezing cold day. We encountered ice patches on GRR, and Baldy Rd was frosted over much of the way from the village to the lifts. That final 15% stretch from the snack shack to the parking lot was brutal. You had to stay seated, or your rear wheel would slip on the frost. The way down on the switchbacks was a nail biter. This was the day I learned where Icehouse Canyon got it's name.
My old bike at Cow Canyon Saddle
Road conditions near the top
Nice view from the parking lot
Me and Pico ready to go back down
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I think this is one of the only pics of me from GMR/Baldy. There was a BF ride from Encanto up Hwy 39 that day, but I started alone on GMR...actually...I ran into several BF'ers who were riding up GMR instead of Hwy 39! Ran into the main group and ended up posing with Asia at the Village.
Edited to add...great pics Enzo. I love the B&W one!!
Edited to add...great pics Enzo. I love the B&W one!!
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Well i was perusing my friends collection of pics and found one of us at the top gate on GMR when i finally dragged him out there to climb GMR last summer. This was right before it opened to cars again...
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George, I've never seen you being that serious going up GMR.
As I remembered... you zoom pass me up GMR on your fixie, pulled over and start taking pics of everyone on their way up, zoom pass me again, take pics, and repeat.
As I remembered... you zoom pass me up GMR on your fixie, pulled over and start taking pics of everyone on their way up, zoom pass me again, take pics, and repeat.
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Enzo,
I can't say enough good things about the roads up there. Fortunately, I live close so I am up there at least once a week and sometimes 4 times in a week. This weekend I rode Azusa Cyn. to GMR both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I went down GMR and home and Sunday I went across to Baldy. Funny thing is the only pictures I have are from when I did the GMR road race as a junior. They are not digital and I don't have a scanner.
I can't say enough good things about the roads up there. Fortunately, I live close so I am up there at least once a week and sometimes 4 times in a week. This weekend I rode Azusa Cyn. to GMR both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday I went down GMR and home and Sunday I went across to Baldy. Funny thing is the only pictures I have are from when I did the GMR road race as a junior. They are not digital and I don't have a scanner.
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Hey do you have a macro setting on your digital camera, redal? I discovered that I could "take digital pictures" of my old pictures instead of scanning them.
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speaking of group ride up GMR, OC Rebels are having one on 2/23.
Enzo--I love the Bearclaw kits. One of the nicest ones around and I'm including the pro tour teams
Enzo--I love the Bearclaw kits. One of the nicest ones around and I'm including the pro tour teams