Moonlight Mountain Ride - Postponed - June 30th

[paul]

ride leaves santa monica pier @ 10pm on june 30th

[Gern]

Calling all Mountain Bikers!!

Full Moon Trails Dirt Ride

Lights...Dirt...Knobbies...FMT

Lets Roll!!

[Franz]

hope I can get the new Crankset on my mountain bike before this. Although you think I could do this path on my cyclocross bike? As far as I've heard there isn't a whole lot of technical mountain riding around here, but maybe I heard incorrectly.

[Gern]

way incorrect
there is alot of technical out there(here)
Mt Wilson, Rocky Peak-hummingbird, backbone, pretty much all of the san gabriels, I wouldn't do without suspension

[Franz]

Gern perhaps you forget how "hardcore" I am. Anyway I guess the real issue is how technical is this route, is it all singletrack?

[Gern]

No Franz it's definatly Not all singletrack.  Fire road climb, majority downhill is singletrack, the beautiful, rolling curvy stuff, that is like candy to sugeraholic.  No real nasty stuff.  I would think you could put some knobbies on your cross bike & clean all of it, i dont remember any chewed up sections. make sure you have newer batteries...
you have till june 1st to fix up your mt. bike.  I'd love to pre-ride the course during the day soon, then you could take the cross & see if you like it. maybe paul remembers something that would be hard on a cyclo-cross bike?
Gern

[paul]

i was thinking we could split the ride @ the backbone trailhead on the way down

those that want to singletrack down can take backbone and another group can take the fireroad to the palisades and all meet @ the bottom

i'll revise the map

[Gern]

If a person does the Santa Monica Critical Mass(Approx. 20 miles), then the Moonlight Mountain ride(Approx. 26 miles), they maybe very tired... We've got a month to get longer seat times.

[paul]

it's a decent climb too.. if you haven't done it b4 this might be a good time to try because we will be moving slow i assume

should a shot of whiskey be w8n @ the top 4 every1?

[Gern]

Yesh,
I'll port it