Originally Posted by Psydotek
Yeah, we'll be starting @ Encanto park for a nice warm up. Instead of doing the whole loop down little GMR and around East Fork, we're just doing an out-n-back route to the top gate. I need to go down that road at least once instead of having only climbed it.
I really prefer the road closed, but in my experience, even when it is open there is not a ton of traffic. The area (Azusa Canyon, East Fork, backside of GMR) has become more popular with the sport bikes and Initial D wannabes but if I am reading the ride reports from last week correctly, the ride went out Azusa Canyon. Azusa Canyon has way more traffic on a Sunday than I have ever seen on GMR and in my opinion you have to be pretty brave to ride south on Hwy 39. The impression I am getting from posters on here is that they aren't going to be able to ride GMR once it opens to traffic, but I don't think it will be as bad as people expect. The sport bikes will be there, but most of the import kids come up at night because that proves you're a better driver.