This February has been full of great weather and even better riding here in California. Connor and I took a few days to capture the good times and conditions. Hope you enjoy!
Ok harmless question here - do you youngin’s actually listen to vintage rock/metal, etc. . .or is it some kind of ironic thing? Don’t get me wrong, I’m stoked the ‘good stuff’ gets used in these edits but I can’t help wondering about it a bit. This is the stuff I spent hours a day as a kid learning to play on guitar!
@Narro2: Yah but many think they only went back to Black album or maybe Justice and are clueless about stuff going back to 1983. I’m impressed with the youth I tell ya! (old guy raspy voice)
@jeremiahwas: does it matter? I started listening to metallica back in 2000 cuz i bought the MI2 soundtrack cause i wanted to hear limp biskit and there i heard the I dissapear song from metalica and it was pretty catchy, aftwr that i listned to a couple of albums and songs, enter sandman for example, and thats it. My millenial younger brother told me about a song called call of ktulu, so i started exploring ride the lightning, and i am almost 40, and i still consider myself a metalica fan. Age doesnt matter
I mean some of us just have better taste. Sorry but cardi b and all that is well garbage? Personally (21 years old) my dad raised me on 80s hair metal and now iron maiden metallica and all the "heavier" mainstream 80s bands are staples on every playlist.
@jeremiahwas: the youth is indeed good these days. It’s the students of social sciences and dinks that drive me nuts... It’s as if by average the post millenials were really ok and the last batch of millenials born in the 90s had some deficit and this developed all this SJW mess, cats instead of kids, whacky diets and training, general pretentiousness and fun police.
MY 18yr old son is well into it, he's also in a rock/metal band, more than likely I influenced him when he was a lot younger with all the rock music I listened to,
I took him to see steel panther about a week ago, it was definitely worth it, very entertaining live
When I was a kid we rode through boiling lava on bikes with square wheels 1,000 miles just to get to the neighbor's so we could listen to metal on the wireless.
@danashane: Luxury! When I was young we had no lava and we still built an island in South Pacific and rode all days there on BMXes and some weirdo named Lock would come and comment on our short knobs, and we were getting away from him, and then we learned he invented Highroller and that was the moment when we thought it all got weird
These trails are not in Santa Cruz, they are likely in San Jose or some where else I’m valley. I’d skip ridding Santa Cruz the only thing akin to moutain biking is the brand. Check out riding in Tahoe or SoCal. Don’t bother with Santa Cruz you will only find boring fire roads, red ants and cougars.
Crazy warm temps in NorCal. Took a regular trip to AZ in Feb, and the temps were about the same back here at home. Not the rocks and sand tho. May tie things for the driest Feb on record since mid-1850's
was.actually good January was dry in socal as dec was really wet, and now after this weekend rain its epic! last year was really wet of course, making the invasive crap a real pain. its primetime of the year!
@Cman05: Those are winter sets, I use to ride black XXRs 527 in summer but will change to black Fifteen52 Turbomacs since I fitted the STI front brakes, the calipers were in contact without spacers...
@nicky-d: oh. you're one of those knobs that thinks no one should speak about the double secret trails that definitely don't exist anywhere near the Rincon Lot on highway 9, right? LMAO. you're precious.
@derekmccuistonsc: why is it so frowned upon when people expose trails? let me tell you a story, i lived in germany for a year for work, i always saw mountain bikers on the roads or on the woods but never found a trail, and everytime i asked they would just give evasive answers, i was 9 months into my trip and still no trails and then one time 2 busstops from my place I found a dirt jump little park, it was mainly filled with kids so it felt kind of akward to be shreding with 13 year olds but it worked, they were happy, they used my bike to do their tricks, they practiced their english with me, they taught me how to improve my jumps and stop being afraid of doubles, one day one of the kids tells me about a track he found in the woods (riding distance from my apartment), but it was already too late, i only had one month left on my trip, i only rode it that one time and it was a pretty good trail. It stills bums me down everytime i go there on business trip, no bike and no MTB friends to lend me one.
This is the stuff I spent hours a day as a kid learning to play on guitar!
I took him to see steel panther about a week ago, it was definitely worth it, very entertaining live
I feel you
(IG @qblambda)
Aren't you on Strava on these trails?
Shout out to boomers... I aint one yet but I ride with a few and they're some of the most fun in the crew.