Glendora Mountain Road - Fixed (Fork Plus 3.97)

"It's by riding a bicycle the you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them" -Ernest Hemingway

I learned this a long time ago. Hills, and inclines go unappreciated and unnoticed in a car, but by bike you feel them, you get to know them.  You grow to appreciate the apex of a climb and the imminent downhill.

Riding fixed gear has only enhanced my appreciation for the road. On a fixed gear bike you ride every mile, every hill climb and and every descent. 

Today I headed out on my bike to GMR.  My goal was to go farther than I did the last time.  So this means I needed to do more than Fork Plus 2.  When I left the house it was cold and it never did warm up.  I left later than usual so there were quite a few riders heading up with me.  I managed to drag my butt to Fork Plus 3.97 and them some.  I am getting closer to my goal, Mt Baldy Fixed.

Kevin rides Sundays so the whole time I was looking for him.  We never did cross paths but he rode to the First Saddle Plus 1.5.