Seriously... I may be getting depressed but the Kickr is helping...

Nope still sitting in my closet.

It's a great road. It's closed to cars. It has fantastic views.

Indentured servitude isn't big in California.

Chaos doesn't need an invitation.

Sounds like a lot of people should not have dogs if poop is all over the neighborhood.

Note the lines on that road.

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Here is another road without lines that is closed to cars most of the time. When there are cars on it many drivers don't seem to be able to navigate without a center line.

I recall that it was super hot that day. Stopped in the shade to avoid heat stroke.

Ah bummer. I was hoping you would say that the used gear market is as hot as the used bike market was last year

Me. It's no fun. Bad for the blood pressure and maybe the vehicle.

Ive made appointments with three different people. All three have canceled within the hour of seeing it.
I don’t get it. Maybe when the stimulus money comes I will have better luck.

What about when their dogs are allowed to bark all night?

There is a dirt road called Westridge which is an access from an upscale area to the mountains north of West LA. There is so much dog do on it we called it the "Tour de Poop" when we rode up it. The stench is overwhelming and you have to slalom through it. We don't use that road anymore.

Lengthening days are helping me some, too.

There are crews of community service people picking up trash on the freeways. There was a crew cutting weeds and picking up trash near a trailhead a few weeks ago. I thanked them as I rode by. When we would see them on our club rides we would refer to them as drunk drivers.

Good thing they're vaccinated then!

Now that is a nice looking road. Back in the 00's, the Northern California sub forum here was really friendly and did a lot of group rides of varying sizes. One of them was organized by a guy who lives in Half Moon Bay, on the other side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, so a LOT less inhabited. He took us on some of the back roads south of town and WOW, they were fun! Zero cars, good surface, great views, plus it was spring so everything was green.

Sadly, that subforum has been pretty dead for the last, maybe 10 years. No group rides and hardly any new posts anymore.

Studded snow tires. They're noisy and they make neat scratch patterns on the shop floor at the dealership.

Sorry, but I've never experienced anything like that happening - there's always warning/cause for concern. The conditions necessary don't just spring in to being - there needs to be enough icy precip to overcome the ground warmth and accumulate (certainly enough time to adjust) or the ground needs to be very, very cold, which means long stretches of freezing temps and little-to-no sun... and then a freak rain storm moves in. I can't fathom what that would have to look like, meteorologically, but it can't be completely without warning.

It's far, far more easy to easy to explain a pile-up like that with negligence.

There's an MUP running down the Peninsula like that. There's access to it about every 2-3 miles for about 10 miles. We used to call it Dog Poop Trail, and joke about the distribution - not so much at the gates, then growing to a peak about 100-200 yards in, then diminishing to nothing by one mile in, then growing again as you approached the next gate.

That picture is Glendora Ridge Road on the way up to Mount Baldy. The roads end at 6000 feet. On the other (north) side of Baldy you can ride up to 8000 feet on the road.
The same thing happened on the SoCal sub forum.

The wife and I remarked on the ever earlier sunrise the other day. It helps some, but I'm still looking at topping out in the single digits for the next five days or so.

Very glad we don't have to deal with that.

They don't use regular tyres.
Like anyone in the quasi-north has such a thing.

Duh.