weekend ride reports - where'd ya ride?
10-25-11, 12:53 PM
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Started my weekend early. On Friday it was a low key club ride around San Ramon in the am followed by a loop around Pine Canyon/Shell Ridge on the trails. Saturday was all trail, 20 miles doing the full Chabot loop with a visit to Bort meadow. Pretty hot going up Brandon. Sunday I visited a Pig and some Bears with the club, great ride, weather was warm but oh, so nice. Lots of bikes out. And for a finale did a night ride at Chabot on Monday. Love this October weather, cool in the am, and then toasty in the afternoons.
10-29-11, 07:28 PM
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First time to ride Alameda De Las Pulgas to Woodside and do the Portola Loop. Hung out at the Woodside Bakery and grabbed a banana and some water.
Pretty fun stuff, but started cramping near the Ralston bike trail. I hope I'm ready for Giro D Vino next week.
https://app.strava.com/rides/2148203
Pretty fun stuff, but started cramping near the Ralston bike trail. I hope I'm ready for Giro D Vino next week.
https://app.strava.com/rides/2148203
10-31-11, 08:58 AM
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Did a club ride to Davis. The official start was the Mtz train station, as we were returning on Amtrak, but I rolled from WC in the dark. Really great weather, big group, but a few of us got out and rode off the pack. Stopped for lunch at Steady Eddy's and then faced the winds for our run into Davis.
11-12-11, 06:39 PM
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Went up to the Jnct. on Diablo and back.26 mi. w/ 2,000 ft. Wore a heart rate monitor for the 1st time, it was suprisngly comfortable.
11-13-11, 09:03 AM
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11-13-11, 04:01 PM
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started at ignacio and bancroft. went to southgate (via roundhill cc) and turned right. yes, away from the mt. then down blackhawk to peets in danville. then home through walnut creek. felt like i was going downwind and downhill the whole way!
11-13-11, 04:52 PM
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Today was a fun ride hitting up a few of the Auburn Area hills. https://app.strava.com/rides/2319682
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11-13-11, 10:39 PM
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Then you're not doing it right
Now, granted I have no clue what the data means for the most part. ha ha
11-14-11, 11:16 PM
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OLH, 84, Stage, 1, Tunitas Creek on Saturday, Canada and OLH on Sunday. I never noticed my HRM. 
https://app.strava.com/rides/2305767
https://app.strava.com/rides/2305767
11-15-11, 12:17 AM
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Shop ride Sunday, Vacaville to Winters through Dixon; 38+ miles, avg. 17.8 mph, avg. cadence 88 rpm. Yes, it's small-chainring, sit-in-behind-someone-really-big ride-time. 
11-15-11, 01:25 PM
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Rode up Monitor Pass on Sunday.... Road was gated off at the bottom, but dry all the way to the top.... saw one other cyclist, one pick-up truck over the course of a couple hours..... The pass was perfectly calm, and perfectly silent.... cool !!!
11-20-11, 01:37 AM
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Stumbled upon low key hill climb up Kings today. I was very confused when I passed someone and they asked if I was racing. Good thing there was a photographer near the top I could ask what was happening, so I can tell people at finish line I wasn't part of the race. 
11-20-11, 04:21 PM
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Franklin Canyon loop and some, 40 miles: somebody dumped a speed boat half way on Franklin Canyon!!! Makes you wonder!!!
The hull is not cracked, but no engine and the inside is in bad shape--if I had a trailer--i would be tempted!
Amazing what people dump on a couple of those roads, the other one is Alhambra Valley--sad!!!
The hull is not cracked, but no engine and the inside is in bad shape--if I had a trailer--i would be tempted!
Amazing what people dump on a couple of those roads, the other one is Alhambra Valley--sad!!!
11-20-11, 04:35 PM
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It's raining today, so no ride. But yesterday, I went for a ride with a couple friends around the Livermore-Amador Valley on the latest addition to the herd: a 1978 Eisentraut A (significantly newer components on it, meaning Campy 10-speed). A lovely if chilly day. 50-ish miles, some mild climbing. The numbers are not more specific because I dropped and destroyed my Garmin at the Giro de Vino a couple weeks back. 
But the Eisentraut rides like a dream.
It's pretty, too.
But the Eisentraut rides like a dream.
It's pretty, too.
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11-20-11, 04:53 PM
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couldn't agree more
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11-20-11, 06:54 PM
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10 miles on Saturday with a coffee and carrot cake stop.
21 miles slow rambling miles Sunday chasing light sky with the wind at my back to outrun the showers.
March 3rd 2012 will come around soon enough and the Death Valley Spring Double is booked and paid for.
Until the time to train rolls around again it is cake and coffee time.
21 miles slow rambling miles Sunday chasing light sky with the wind at my back to outrun the showers.
March 3rd 2012 will come around soon enough and the Death Valley Spring Double is booked and paid for.
Until the time to train rolls around again it is cake and coffee time.
11-20-11, 07:08 PM
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Until the time to train rolls around again it is cake and coffee time.
11-20-11, 08:55 PM
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11-20-11, 11:26 PM
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went for a 73.8 mile road ride. Check it out on @Strava https://app.strava.com/rides/mental-h...cjs0PTQ3ODg%3D
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11-20-11, 11:41 PM
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As for build quality, take anything you read and double it. The lug work is beyond belief - the spear points all but disappear into the frame. And the mitering in the bottom bracket hanger show a level of care, attention to detail and smoothness in an area that you never see once the BB is installed that most frames don't have on visible joints. Not a whit of extra flash, but everything is done perfectly. It's one of those frames that looks better the closer you get to it, and that downtube graphic is just too cool for school. In the cycling world, anyway, Eisentrauts are probably the best thing ever to come out of Oakland.
Since I grew up in the area and had delusions of racing back in the mid-1970s, I've known about and admired Eisentraut frames for a long time. I was not in the market to buy another frame, but when this one came along, I had to do it.
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11-21-11, 06:46 AM
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Didn't you all love that saturday weather? Nice job on that Eisentraut..
11-21-11, 12:39 PM
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AE was definitely one of the premier custom builders around here when I got interested in cycling... mid 80's.
Very nice - rack and fencer mounts?.
How about a close up of that unusual seat stay configuration?
Is that a pump peg on the underside of the top tube? Don't think I've ever seen that before.
Very nice - rack and fencer mounts?.
How about a close up of that unusual seat stay configuration?
Is that a pump peg on the underside of the top tube? Don't think I've ever seen that before.
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11-21-11, 03:19 PM
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Eyelets on the dropouts, no other rack mounts.
Okay. See below.
Sho 'nuf is. The only time I've seen something like it was a simpler version on an Eisentraut Limited.
Okay. See below.
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