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Joerg, I was wondering if you've ever ridden the Mosquito Road loop in Placerville. It's not that long (under 25 miles), but has a lot of climbing and descending with some pitches of 12%, whereas I am more accustomed to riding a grade of 6% or so. So I'm not sure if I'm really in good enough shape to do the loop. Any words of wisdom? Thanks a lot. Bill Crowell in Diamond Springs
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On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 7:36:21 PM UTC-8, wrote:
Joerg, I was wondering if you've ever ridden the Mosquito Road loop in Placerville. It's not that long (under 25 miles), but has a lot of climbing and descending with some pitches of 12%, whereas I am more accustomed to riding a grade of 6% or so. So I'm not sure if I'm really in good enough shape to do the loop. Any words of wisdom? Thanks a lot. Bill Crowell in Diamond Springs If I could inject myself; 6% grades are NOTHING like 12% BUT I really doubt that you can ride around Diamond Springs and do any rides of significant distance and not climb 12% grades. Unless these 12% grades are distances longer than a mile or you are not an experienced rider I would doubt that you could not do this. If everyone on the Grizzly Peak Century or metric can do a mile of 16% I'm sure that any experienced climber can so 12%. I was doing a couple of miles of 10-12% a year after coming back from a year and a half hiatus. |
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On Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 10:36:21 PM UTC-5, wrote:
Joerg, I was wondering if you've ever ridden the Mosquito Road loop in Placerville. It's not that long (under 25 miles), but has a lot of climbing and descending with some pitches of 12%, whereas I am more accustomed to riding a grade of 6% or so. So I'm not sure if I'm really in good enough shape to do the loop. Any words of wisdom? Thanks a lot. Bill Crowell in Diamond Springs thisit ? https://www.google.com/search?client...ito+ridge+loop bikepacker sites have information n video for the area |
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On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 4:53:39 AM UTC-8, DATAKOLL MARINE RESEARCH wrote:
https://www.google.com/search?client...iw=360&bih=560 Blue Bug also reviewed What does Jay say http://bestrides.org/mosquito-ridge-road/ http://bestrides.org/etna-loop/ |
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Hey all, thanks for the replies.
Here's a map of the route, done as a loop starting and ending in Placerville. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8i0rd2avfn...0ride.jpg?dl=0 Lots of climbing and descending on this ride! |
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several routes from bikepacking are relatively flat originally miner's path across the hills possibly done with handcarts. |
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Clean Gene the Wild and Crazy Machine wrote: "several routes from bikepacking are relatively flat originally miner's path across the hills possibly done with handcarts."
Well hell, Gene, since miners could push their handcarts along that trail, I don't see any reason I can't do it on my Paramount with Michelin 700-C Pro 4s, do you? |
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