My bad photos from Saturday’s 54 mile ride up one side of the Sandias and down the other side.

[Patrick Moore]

Chris’s photos didn’t post when I last looked so here are my very poor ones, FWTW. 

Train from downtown ABQ to Bernaillo, East climbing 10 miles past Placitas to the “Unmaintained Road Beyond This Point” dirt section, and “unmaintained” was empirically verified to be true. 

8 miles of very steep climbing, with sections up to 11%, on very rocky and, after the recent rain, rainwater-rutted and very rocky dirt.

Chris on his all-purpose Homer sitting bolt upright and smiling during the steepest sections in a 28 X 34, Tyler on his all-purpose triple-ized Rambouillet with 28x24 granny gear and 35 mm Paselas (but he rides this same bike in 3” sand with less problem than I have on 54 mm Thunderburts), and I on the Roadeo with a 34X32 bottom gear and 32 mm actual Stampeded Pass extralights.

The downhill on the other, paved, side of the mountain was terrifying as I have long lost any fast downhill handling skills after ~30 year of riding mostly fixed gears. I had new-to-me VO Grand Cru calipers that were certainly less anxiety-making than the Tektro 538s they replaced.

I told a fellow parishioner, young 30-something who was a high-end amateur racer in Greece, that I’d set a PB on a hillclimb, averaging 3.73 mph with multiple rest stops and perhaps 1/4 mile of walking, and he graciously laughed. Chris and Tyler would have averaged at least a mph or more faster without me — tho’ the oldest in the group with a 29” bottom gear — and very kindly refrained from telling me to hurry the eff up.

Altogether, at least after the fact, a fun ride, and I’m glad we did it. 

Patrick Moore, after blustery, 20-mile fixed-gear (72”) errand detour just now.

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[Patrick Moore]

Forgot to add that we got to 8,600 feet; my house in the Valley near the River is at 4,980.

[Patrick Moore]

Whoops, didn’t mean to include the bike shop Brompton.

[Gabe]

Beautiful, Patrick. Looks like an awesome excursion! 

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[Patrick Moore]

I hope Chris and Tyler will be able to successfully post their photos; much, much better than mine. 

The aftereffects were very surprisingly mild; not non-existent, but surprisingly mild.

Thanks to my 4-5 rest stops and a bit of walking, we averaged 3.73 mph up the 8 miles of dirt.

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[Tyler Johnson]

I didn’t take many pics on the ride, here’s one at the top. 

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[Patrick Moore]

The guy on the left has few wits left to gather after nearly 8 miles of steep rocky, rutted, muddy climbing at near heartrate max and being 71 years old, and he doesn’t have a jaw deformity, he’s only chewing on an energy bar.

But the view from the vantage show in the photo was truly breathtaking; the photo (good as it is) does not do the view justice. 8,600 feet.

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