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Event looks amazing!

How are road conditions? Looked pretty packed in while you were filming but I'll be attempting the Lost Coast route on some 30mm tires later next Spring. Good enough or are there enough soft spots that I'd be hike-a-biking for significant portions?

What bikes and gearing are they riding in the video?

I don't know what gearing or legs you had for this, but I tried Josephine coming up from Big Tujunga with my 42T yesterday and that was unpleasantly steep for the first half....

One winter afternoon I made the mistake of climbing Mount lukens too late in the afternoon. I got to the top and it was getting dark quick. I was on the tujunga side and there's quite a bit of snow. Much of the first part of the climb was destroyed from winter storm rain. Ended up deciding to ride the road down to highway to and then into La crescenta. Only problem was, I didn't have a light, I was on a road bike with 700 25 c tires, and Shimano look petals. Riding in the pitch black, on a road bike, clipped in was a fucking nightmare. I ended up puncturing front and rear tubes. I ended up writing down highway 2 on rims only. Ended up taking a taxi home. Sort of fun thinking about it now, but I didn't get back home to the valley until about 1:00 a.m..

Are you rolling on WTB Resolute 50s on your Lauf? How do you like them? I’m rolling on Conti Race Kings and it’s really opened up the fun door for my Lauf around the So Cal mountains.

Excellent video, as always! I think it's time for me to hit Josephine again. My last time up there (over 20 years ago), I crashed on one of the switchbacks and broke my collarbone. I need a happier memory.

Very nice! Bummer indeed not being able to get to the summit 😕 Were you tempted to resort to the "do you know who I am?" line? 😊 On a related note, tell us a little about Dave's sweet bike

I have recently been watching your videos and the places you share are exactly the locations I want to visit. Thank you very much! Can you also please include information on where we can park the cars? Subscribed and Liked!

That was a super fun ride!!!

Looks awesome looks like some bikepacking opportunities

Great views and awesome dirt. Thanks for reminding me how much this place sucks.

Uh so would you say this is doable on 45mm, gravel slicks or should I put on my gravel wheelset with 55mm tires?

I require higher BB just for longer cranks.

Aren’t all these fire roads shared with cars? By cars I mean the hordes of Jeeps and Tacomas that routinely jam up every other fire road in So Cal.

Great talk here. Setting the right pressure changed gravel riding for me. I have gotten totally hooked on bikepacking but I introduce most with a hotel bikepack first and that has gone really well.

🎉 excited

Do you ever switch to a road wheelset for when you do dedicated road rides?

I want to say you do a great job riding bike all over the country so nice and relaxing with your friend family

Right on! Glad you enjoyed our local gravel and single tracks. Definitely one of my favorite loops. ✌️

Awesome video as always. I'd love to join next time you're up in the Bay Area!

Great video , love to see sunny rides , especially from a snow covered north east here in england

Great video. We used to do harding, black star, old camp and whiting on our cross bikes in the early 90's.

Good, to the point narration will a positive tone, considering some of that looked more mt bike than gravel;). Look those little canyon villages, I lived in Majeska for a couple months in the 80's, they've seen their share of fires and floods lately.

In your video, you show an open magazine, an article titled ‘the lost coast. What’s the magazine if I may ask? Thxs.

Great video and great ride. Thank you for all you do. Modjeska Grade and Harding are tough on a MTB with the easier gearing, I wouldn't be able to make it up either on my gravel bike...yet... I did go up Maple Springs on my gravel bike Once and had the same thought--even though I think of Maple as just a fireroad, the fact is that it's chunkier than it seems and I found myself definitely feeling underbiked / wishing I had my MTB when coming down Maple, whereas my gravel bike is perfect on Blackstar. I had to stop to take breaks and shake out my hands like the guy in the video did coming down Maple... I use my MTB on Maple, but avoid that trail now (even when open) due to all the motos--seems like that's increased in recent years, maybe due to social media or population growth, or both. Descending Harding probably would have been funner, but you would have missed the Silverado road descent. An alternative would have been to go from 4 Corners to Silverado Motorway via Main Divide, but that would have added some more climbing (~ 6 miles ~ 1,000 feet), but you would wind up at the bottom of Maple Springs (near the gate) after descending Motorway and could descend Silverado road like you did. I've never descended Motorway on a gravel bike, but I've seen riders post rides down Motorway on a gravel bike and post videos and from memory, it's not as chunky as Maple; however, tire choice would be VERY important as Motorway is covered in "baby head" rocks. Others may be able to weigh-in on Motorway as a realistic option to Maple. I plan on riding Motorway again when it opens on my MTB to see what I think. Most riders do Blackstar Motorway as a loop, but Harding-Motorway is about the same elevation, maybe ~ 500 feet or so more.

Gutted, seeing this area burn. I rode all these routes, many, many times. And when--in the late '90s--I rode them on my Salsa CX bike, shod with 34mm Tufo Tubulars...it blew the minds of all the MTB riders. Great to see this route featured; it will come back from the fire...it always does.

Bummed i missed it

I am going to do this ride on xmas eve to earn xmas dinner. I love descending from ridgecrest to the dam on a gravel bike, so much fun

Gravelstoke dude here. It's great to see this one finally go up! I often think about how lucky we were to ride this before it all dried out and before all the fires hit. I grinded this one out on the mountain bike. This climb humbled me! It does just keep going up and up. Crazy views though! The descent was rough. The canyon was beautiful. This ride really made me work for it! Not everyone was thrilled with the route, but I say it brings a sense of adventure. It's definitely a ride that I will remember positively! Great content as always. You're always giving me rides to add to my to-do list here!

Epic. This was my first "gravel" ride, back in 2010, took my road bike on 23f25r mm tires, from Irvine Spectrum to Maple Springs, up to both peaks, down the same way, with a stop at Cook's Corner, and back to Irvine Spectrum via Whiting Ranch. Going up was fine - just grind at my own pace, but coming back down I was on the brakes so hard that I couldn't move or feel my hands and wrists for a few hours afterwards. The time I went, Maple Springs was gated to cars so I had the mountain to myself. Thanks for posting your experience with this video - really helps me re-live the adventure/misery 😄

Awesome! I’ve done parts of this ride but not this specific route… for sure on my next visit to OC.

Great day of adventure learning that I can never have enough water!

Great overlay map showing the burn zone and route, very helpful to see what was impacted.

Let’s roll

One of the most beautiful town in California ❤❤❤

Excellent. Been to most of these same places and go to Scouts all the time for the best cookies ever.

Epic 3 part series and ride, congrats.

Nice to see your video. I’ve been mapping rides in this area for while. Either as a local loop, Eureka to Leggett, then bus back from Leggett to Eureka. Or, through ride down the 101/1. Nice video.

FERN PECK is the bomb

doing this ride on a gravel bike is intense, I like doing it on my MTB more.. lol

Count me in next time

Fern for the win!

Great route; great video. At 3:58, if you had looked down and to the left, you'd see my house.

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Great video. Welcome to my home of Fairfax. Love each of those trails. Have spent years riding them. And Bo-Fax road is my daily commute home in my work truck. One of the best parts of each day. And how could you come to Fairfax without going to G Haus. Even saw Ruffin working in the kitchen put a smile on my face Your editing and commentary was spot on. Cheers And please do come again.

Nice video and brought back memories since I rode that area many years ago. I remember this one part struggling to pedal yet the road looked like it was going downhill (why can’t I go fast?) but really was going uphill. The whole area looks the same.

As a long-time bicycle tourist, I was always looking for the smoothest roads, looking to reduce the watts I expended so I could go farther and preserve the health of my bike, - and then there are mountain-bikers and trail riders: always on the roughest, most bone-shaking bicycle-abusive trails, which suck out so many watts of energy as one rides, it has to be one of the least effective ways of traveling. Why? I could never understand the trend other than videos of the activity made it look amusing. It definitely doesn't feel amusing, esp. when the vibrations can knock screws loose, possibly stranding you in the middle of nowhere with a fractured rear dropout or some other non-repairable damage. I would rather hike such trails, it would likely be more efficient and pleasant. When I am on a bicycle, I do not want to waste my energy as one does on a mountain bike or some other fat-tired bike.

Another great one. I take my camper van to Sam Taylor all the time and ride these trails which always feels like hallowed (if not bumpy) ground. Thanks!

Start in Sausalito, hit the Headlands, go over Tam, take Panaramic Hwy to Bolinas Ridge and then add San Geronimo Ridge before heading back to the start and you’ve got yourself a really nasty ride. One of the best I’ve done.