Starting off the New Years Right!

[Manuel Acosta]

Ride happened. Good weather, good folks. I'll start with some of my highlights.

Getting to the start of the ride I'm greeted by Rivendell folks and Grizzle Peak Cyclists. Apparently GPC does an yearly ride up Diablo for NYE. It was funny because I imagined chaos when our two groups interacted with each other. Like two rival gangs meeting at a hangout to have an old school brawl that involved steel and twine vs carbon and lycra. Sadly the truth was much more civil then you realized. We all exchanged New Year greetings as we tried to figure out who was the ride leader for our group. Despite designing a route for the ride I had no intentions on following it if Joe was going to lead the way to Green Ranch and Joe wasn't there. So we figured we would just ride to Joe's house and see what happens. We meet Joe along the way and he maps out a direction he was planning on going and if anyone else wanted to follow him they can join in on the fun. We headed towards the top of the mountain in a sea of cyclist making their way on the road. We continued onto Green Ranch to check out the old pool and chimney. We took pictures, Dustin shared his salami and I share my prosciutto -provolone wrap and we took off riding some gnarly, rutted, rocky descent near Frog pond. We found ourselves at a trail marker that said end of trail. Lost, we had Sean be the ginny pig to check up ahead if the trail really did end. It did, Sean rode back. Dav shared some of his Fig-Newtons and we had more salami from Dustin. Our climb out of valley turned more into a hike when the mud started sticking and fenders needed to get unstuck. Finally back on the road we made our way to some food. We didn't have tacos like those PDX guys we had sandwiches instead. It was cool to note that just about everyone on the ride was someone that I've ridden before on a separate ride. It was interesting how everyone reacted when all clumped together on a ride also it was great how everyone stuck together and were in good spirits despite not really knowing where we were going. Huge thanks to Joe for leading the way toward new trails. Adventure is good when you have company that are willing to get lost for a bit.

Pictures prove that this new year will be great:

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjDtASDU

-Manny "To more riding!" Acosta

[Michael Williams]

Manny,  as always,  great write up and pics!       It was the perfect way to start off the new year with good riding and great peeps!           -Mike

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[Jeremy Till]

Awesome pics Manny, thanks for helping get the ride together and documenting it.  That B&W closeup of me climbing the gravel might be the best pic anyone's every taken of me riding.  It looks like some fat guy wandered into a Rapha ad. 

I had a great time riding with y'all.  I was a little iffy about getting up that morning but once I was on the mountain talking with everyone, enjoying the climb, and taking in the beautiful scenery, I knew I had made the right choice.  David and I played Riv heretics with lycra on TIG welded bikes (Casseroll me, Rawland David), and I think me and Tom(?) got the underbiking award, descending the loose steep stuff down to the Ranch on 28's.  Michael and I got a good workout hike-a-biking back up to the road from there before bombing the paved descent back to Pleasant Hill. 

Once I got home though, I was done.  I demolished a plate of leftover ribs (yum!) and went to bed for the rest of the day. 

Jim M. and I were talking about getting a Quickbeam/SimpleOne (& friends) ride together, so maybe that should be next on the agenda?  We could do an SF/Marin Headlands ride, maybe meet in the Mission and head up the Wiggle, out through GG park, hit up the Presidio, etc....

[Manuel Acosta]

Sounds good to me Jeremy. Sent a date I'll be there.

[Tony]

Thanks for taking, annotating and posting the pics Manny. I think your
take on the Griz versus Riv gangs is funny and insightful; especially
so since I have one foot in each camp. I sure hope we can do this
again. Maybe Mike or the single speeders will show us the way around
the Marin headlands.

Tony

[Michael]

Thanks for the pics Manny! Always enjoy lookin' at them. You guys have some fun rides out there.

What kinda Carradice did that guy have on his bike in this pic? Did you catch the model name?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mannyacosta/8344521778/in/set-72157632429615166

[Allingham II, Thomas J]

Wonderful chronicle of the ride, Manny.  It was 25 degrees here in Delaware – not quite so much fun, by the looks of your pictures.  As always, they’re descriptive and creative.  Thanks.

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[Jim Mather]

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Michael <john1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What kinda Carradice did that guy have on his bike in this pic? Did you
>> catch the model name?

It's a Barley: http://www.carradice.co.uk/index.php?page_id=product&product_id=43

[allenmichael]

Manny,

thanks for the pics. I'm sorry I couldn't stick around and get lost with the rest of you. Would love to ride along again sometime soon.

Michael Allen

On Thursday, January 3, 2013 6:06:06 PM UTC-8, Manuel Acosta wrote:

[tommynguyen]

Great pictures as always, Manny. Wish I was there to join you, perhaps in the near future.