Lazy ride

Went on an extremely lazy and short ride to the bank and to the local Goodwill, and took this photo to commemorate it. The picture makes it looks like I'm in middle of a open field, but I was actually right off of a pretty large boulevard. They just have this strip of undeveloped land for the electricity towers.

1984 Alpina Ultima (4/22/12)

Pictures at the Nature Center

It's been raining a little bit lately, so I wanted to check out the trail nearby that has a creek at the start of it. I've been wanting to take some pictures of my mountain bikes at a more nature-filled scenery, but the creek's been dry all winter since we got little precipitation this year. The water level is probably embarrassingly low to be called a creek at elsewhere than Southern California, though. And unfortunately, you can't ride bicycles on this trail, so I just took some pictures and left. (I have yet to try riding my bikes on a trail)

The only mountain bike that's ready to be ridden right now is the Univega Alpina 5.7, but hopefully I'll get to work on the others and post them here soon.

Taken at the side of the street on the way to the trail (4/16/12)

I'm guessing there was once a creek under this bridge (4/16/12)

At the start of the Eaton Canyon trail (4/16/12)

Precious water! (4/16/12)

(4/16/12)

Exploring the Neighborhood

It's been 9 months since I moved to the "new" neighborhood. Even though I say "new", it's actually only a couple miles away from my "old" neighborhood. But it's up in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains, making it much more of a workout just to ride around the neighborhood due to all the hills, and deterring me from exploring much.
However, I was getting bored of my usual bike routes, so I browsed through Google Maps to find any interesting places in the neighborhood, without having to go too far. I saw a park about a mile and half away, so I rode there without expecting much. However, it turns out that the park is actually an opening to a trail into the mountains. I went there too late in the evening to explore much, but I did take some pictures.

Doesn't look like Southern California -- too much green... (4/12/10)

Looking south-ward (4/12/10)

Some kind of a reservoir? (4/12/10)

(4/12/10)

The creek was dry (4/12/10)

Morning ride

I took my Peugeot PH 501 with the new Mundialita saddle on a short test ride along the Historic Route 66, through parts of Arcadia, Monrovia, and Duarte. Despite having lived here for 10 years, I realized only recently that the Route 66 passed through this area. I've driven many times on what is now  Huntington Drive/Foothill Boulevard, but never really paid any attention to what "historical" things may lie along it. I wanted to document some of these sceneries today, but it got difficult with increasing traffic of people driving to work. I'll try this again soon on a weekend, and hopefully it'll be less crowded.
The Mundialita saddle wasn't so bad with my padded bike pants. I did start to feel a small uncomfortable pressure after about an hour of riding, but maybe playing with the saddle position will get rid of it. It's got a very different shape than my other saddles with the back raised much higher, so I wasn't quite sure how to set it up.

Santa Anita Race Track in the background; not part of the Route 66 (1/18/11)

Under the 210 Freeway (1/18/11)

In front of the Duarte City Hall (1/18/11)

Andres Avelino Duarte -- Supposedly a Mexican Corporal who owned a 7000-acre ranch in the area?? (1/18/11)

Westbound in Monrovia (1/18/11)

Westbound in Arcadia (1/18/11)

Sunday bike ride with my sister

I took my sister along on a 31-mile loop ride, mostly on the San Gabriel River and Rio Hondo bike trails.  I rode my Peugeot and my sister rode her "new" K2 Tradewind. It was a pretty relaxing Sunday afternoon ride for me, although my sister got pretty tired towards the end of the loop especially due to the bad fit of the Terry Liberator X saddle that I put on for her.

Entering San Gabriel River bike trail (1/9/11)

River to the left, forest of utility poles to the right (1/9/11)

(1/9/11)

(1/9/11)

The loop (traced on Google Earth)