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.