Passing on Canada Rd.

[JC w KC redux]

I'm surprised F4 hasn't gotten bored and changed the thread title to Passing Gas on Cañada Rd.

[F4?]

I fart in your direction!!!

I ride evryday, so I can associate with Noal and the jackasses he had encountered.

[JC w KC redux]

I fart in your direction!!!

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. 

[F4?]

Jeezus, wtf is up with folks Montebello preserve. My favorite trail Bella Luna...chock full of folks biking up it.

Looked for you Noal....

[NOAL]

Bella Vista is kinda weird choice to go up. Better to go down Canyon Trail up the Indian fire road, and go down Bella Vista.

I went for a ride today but just did up OLH and down 84.  Not that many folks out.  There were some Brits near the top of OLH wearing long leggings and long sleeves saying "oh it's  soooooo  cold where is the sun?"  They must have been using fake accents because there is no way they were from England with talk like that.  Could not see their teeth.

[F4?]

Ha what losers!!! It’s always cold up there.

Seriously, why climb up that trail. I am going to have to move the 1 way sign from

Today was not a strata PR on the decent....I
Need
To take
the wrong way sign from skid row and put at the bottom of Bela Luna.

[NOAL]

I have a garmin that wont sync and forgot to push the start button Strava.

Dont think I got any PRs either. Sure is nice to ride when it's not hot.


I've never noticed the wrong way sign on skid road .  I always go down that one too.

[JC w KC redux]

I have a garmin that wont sync and forgot to push the start button Strava.

Sure is nice to ride when it's not hot.

I've never noticed the wrong way sign on skid road .  I always go down that one too.

You guys ride on Skid Row? I had a similar experience recently.
I was in Glendale a week ago and tried to take a uni ride with Dave. Couldn't get going (15 tries to get on) and Dave didn't stop after he got going - so I never even saw him. Rode down a challenging, bumpy/eroded, paved, off-camber section to a pedestrian bridge and across that - then on a nice two-way paved trail that unfortunately goes right between the L.A. River and I-5 (super noisy and lots of cyclists with no courtesy). I forgot my helmet so I did not have my rear view mirror. One guy on an e bike went whizzing by with no warning at all. The trail was too skinny to do a U-turn, so I dismounted and turned around after riding farther than I imagined Dave would and never seeing him ahead anywhere. Turns out I stopped about a half mile short of where he went. He claimed he explained where he was going to stop but it must have been too many directions and too much information for my puny, pea brain that early in the morning. On the way back, I skipped the bridge and the nice trail passed through a homeless encampment. One of the campsites was on fire and billowing black smoke when we were starting the ride. Dave thought it was a car fire on the super slab and we couldn't see it from our start point. I rode through watered-down fire retardant and past all the other sordid sites - dismounting where the path met Dave's street.   

[Tuff Chik]

I have a garmin that wont sync and forgot to push the start button Strava.

Hey Noal - you might have already tried this, but my Garmin watch wasn't syncing a few weeks ago and after I did a complete shutdown (kept holding the power button down until it powered completely off) and then started it back up. I was about to give up but it started working properly again.
 

[JC w KC redux]

I think if you track Kat on Strava you can see her GIANT watch on Google Earth (no need to zoom in much - you can see it from space). 

[briham89]

Am I the ONLY old and crusty here who doesn't track their fitness electronically?

[F4?]

Yes, the Garmin's can be a pain.
My son had issues with his and it took getting an update forced onto it.
Off and on always works....likely to get the update to take hold.....

Skid Row is a connector trail from Steven's Canyon to Skyline road. It's a brutal climb out to Skyline.
But for some reason ( I refuse to stop and read) they have made the trail a 1 way trail. I never see anyone on it....so why 1 way, the way I don't go!!!)

[Brad Young]

Am I the ONLY old and crusty here who doesn't track their fitness electronically?

It's hard to answer a question when the premise is faulty.

You're not old and crusty. Definitely young and crusty.

And no, the whole tracking fitness with nagging, annoying gadgets is way, way beyond me too.

[JC w KC redux]

Skid Row is a connector trail from Steven's Canyon to Skyline road. It's a brutal climb out to Skyline.
they have made the trail a 1 way trail. I never see anyone on it....so why 1 way, the way I don't go!!!)

Sounds like a real bum deal.

[JC w KC redux]

Am I the ONLY old and crusty here who doesn't track their fitness electronically?

Don't worry...I'm sure someone is tracking you...

[F4?]

Always wanted Mr Mud to have live tracking....so I could watch him suffer.
Send him a text or 4......speed up.

[mynameismud]

Am I the ONLY old and crusty here who doesn't track their fitness electronically?

Depends on the activity. 

[NOAL]

My son had issues with his and it took getting an update forced onto it

This is the exact problem.  It's a 510 and won't sync up with the app or even with USB to the computer.

How did you do it?

Am I the ONLY old and crusty here who doesn't track their fitness electronically?

Do you track your fitness by other means?  This is gonna be a major contradiction coming from the guy that makes fun of tick lists etc but when I used to work out at the gym I did keep a notebook with notes. 

Strava is more like a game  where I am half ass competing with myself.  I realize I could utilize it better with the Garmin and a power meter but not having rode that long it is satisfying enough just to see faster times on hill climbs and not analyze it too much much. Just like climbing and other outdoor activities big gains happen for beginners.

[briham89]

I check off climbs in guidebooks, but that's it. I have used a computer to see overall distance on mtb rides, but haven't jumped into the Strava world. I think it mostly stems from riding in Santa Cruz for so long. The majority of the time I was riding illegal trails and I HATED when the strava world came to be and people were posted their strava rides on illegal trails. They were basically building the mapped data set of trails for someone to point to how many illegal trails there were. This really turned my off to it so I never really jumped in.

[NOAL]

Yeah that sucks.

It's a pretty evil app on many fronts and levels.