We have had a lot happening lately and realized we hadn’t made a blog post for about 9 days, so here is a catch up. Besides selling a handful of bikes and having rentals plus people doing the loop in Topanga for the first time, we have also had a couple adventures.
Thomas, who used to live in the area and we stayed with when we went to Eurobike, was in town for a couple days. When he arrived on Tuesday we basically kidnapped him into camping with us in the Los Padres National Forest. We went up to Pine Mountain (with Rover) and camped. After a normal camping breakfast, we hiked for UnPredict Your Wednesday into the forest. Super fun adventure including some trail blazing.
Saturday’s shop ride was the grueling climb up Red Rock because Scott (Now Scott 2.1) was doing his first ride on his new single speed Surly Karate Monkey. The views were amazing and we had a poetry reading on the top.
More bike sales and stuff led us to Tuesday this week when we went to Big Bear camping and riding with Alexandre on his first adventure like this. We found a great area up around Skyline Trail and camped in the middle of nowhere. Stars in the sky and noone around. In the morning we road the amazing trail above Big Bear for UnPredict Your Wednesday.
Here are photos of all of this in random order mixing up the adventures……
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- 3 More riders in Topanga
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- Thomas selfie.
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- Scott 2.1 in Big Bear Bikepacking and riding
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- Scott and Rover hiking in the forest.
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- Eating right never goes out of style.
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- Saturday Morning ride in the Santa Monica Mountains.
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- Nighttime on the mountain.
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- Scott 2.1 brewing up a bit of Latigo Coffee.
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- Alexandre is hooked.
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- View before the weekly poetry.
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- THOMAS
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- Scott 2.1 is doing a lot of wheel builds lately.
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- Day Hike and camping above Ojai
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- Topanga is about peace.
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- Bikepacking in Big Bear.
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- Directions for Kyle.
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- Tent, Scott and Rover.
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- Rover chilling at a different spot in the shop.
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- Skyline Trail in Big Bear is such a fun riding place for mountain biking.
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- Alexandre having coffee in the morning before the amazing Skyline Drive Trail above Big Bear.
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- Rover Shop Dog.
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- Peace. It is back. Please .
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- The 3 Muskateers.
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- The quick ride meant that the backpacks would be OK.
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- Riding in Topanga is ideal right now.
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- The Skyline Drive trail is so much fun.
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- A boy and his dog.
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- Thomas camping with us on Pine Mountain the day he arrived from Germany.
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- Chcking out the view in the Santa Monica Mountains
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- Our camping spot.
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- Topanga Canyon
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- Chris at the camping spot in the forest.
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- Los Padres National Forest Hiking
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- We were there.
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- Rover gets some water from Chris
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- Eat a decent breakfast before a ride and the day is nicer.
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- Topanga on our Saturday Ride
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- View from Chris’s tent on UnPredict Your Wednesday.
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- California has some great camping places.
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- Chris drinking from his Mellow Velo waterbottle.
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- Eating healthy is a great way to start the day. Field Nutrition
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- Breakfast Coffee and Oatmeal. We are encouraging people to remember to be healthy.
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- Rover is letting Chris know he is hungry.
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- Views everywhere.
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- Sott on the trail.
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- Coffeetime with Latigo Coffee.
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- Quirky or creative or both?
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- Thomas
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- Saturday Ride
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- Chris and Rover.
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- Rover relaxing at the shop
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- Grub. Healthy Grub. Field Nutrition.
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- We encourage healthy eating.
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- Tents, bikes, trails and the forest.
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- Morning coffee.
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- Foraging through the woods. UnPredicting a Wednesday.
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- Thomas is in town from Germany.
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- Chris and Scott on the adventure.
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- Hand laced wheels happening almost every day lately.
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- Steelcut oatmeal breakfast is field nutrition.
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- Field Nutrition.
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- Camping on Pine Mountain
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- Iceland Hockey Team.
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- Camping in Big Bear for UnPredict Your Wednesday.
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- Riding in Big Bear.
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- CONGRATULATIONS
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- Certificates of accomplishments.
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- Can you find Alexandre?
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- Chris waiting for poetry
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- Camping and riding bikes
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- Camping on Tuesday before the Wednesday hike.
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- Chris climbing through the woods on Pine Mountain. Hiking day.
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- Bikes and camping and mountains.
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- Meditation and coffee and coffee talk.
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- Dirk gets a Rocky Mountain. Thomas picks it up for him in every sense.
