Sycamore Canyon - Riverside, CA

We drove out to Riverside this past weekend and had some fun at Sycamore Canyon Wilderness Park.

This was a different ride, not a typical trail type ride (out and back / loop), more of a go where ever you want trail system.

We found some cool rock formations and hung around and tried different things.  Overall is was a very fun area to ride.  We rode about 9 miles total, I'm sure there are many areas we did not get to see..

Riders: Me, Eric, Hiep, Carlos
Total Ride time: 2 hours
Distance: 8.6 miles
Elevation Gain: 850ft

Here's a few GoPro videos.

"New" Wheels

I found some new (to me) wheels on Craigslist yesterday and picked them up for $100.

They are Specialized Roval Traverse in black and gray, so I can give my friend his black and yellow front wheel back and also upgrade my rear wheel.  These are super light and very nice looking in pretty good shape.

Tubeless specific so I can go tubeless as soon as I wear out my current tires and by some UST tires.

Update:
I sold the tires that came with those wheels and my old wheels for $40. not bad!

Luge!

Eric and I did the Luge trail yesterday.

It was a pretty intense descent.  My brakes got a good work out and i could not feel my fingers when I finally reached the bottom.

My new love

Pivot Mach 5.7

What a beautiful bike, wish I had the money....but for now, I do not.

These awesome photos were borrowed from here...
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Pivot-Mach-57-Test.html

Aliso Woods, CA - Rock-it trail

We convinced two of our friends to come riding for the first time.  Was a really good time, very fun ride.

Bike Build - GT Marathon 2.0

Our friend Hiep had been riding a GT 29er hardtail he didnt like very much and decided to upgrade a little bit.

He found a GT Marathon 2.0 frame on ebay, bought a Rock shox fork, a headset, and brought over an old Gary fisher to swap parts from.

"New" Frame

Parts bike

We made some good progress on our first day in only a few hours.  We pressed the headset, cut the tube on the new fork,and put put on the fork, stem, bar and mocked up the wheels.  Its looking good so far.

UPDATE - 9-22-12 

We did some more work on the GT this weekend and almost finished it up.

We put on my old hydraulic disc brakes we had laying around, pulled the crankset and bottom bracket from the gary fisher and put it on, routed the rear derailleur cable, seat, seatpost, seatpost collar, pedals, etc. 

We just need to get a front derailleur that fits, hook that up, put on the chain, and that should do it.

Back to Big Bear (September 15, 2012)

We made it back to Big Bear!  This time Eric, Carlos and myself.

We got 4 runs in, lots of GoPro footage, but most is not very good.  Our camera angle was too low, but we got some good crashes on camera.

Eric breaking in his new Ibis Mojo

Eric's cleat came off his shoe and got stuck in the pedal

It was pretty funny, everyone who wore the GoPro camera, ended up crashing. 

Short video of my crash

 

Short video or Eric's Crash

Carlos Crash...