Descending Glendora Mountain Road
Getting out for climbing and descending Glendora Mountain Road is a great experience in more ways than one. Without its other intangibles, GMR (as locals call it) is an essential climb in and of itself […]
Epic Rides
CiclaValley’s rundown of epic rides throughout Los Angeles and beyond!
Gravel Bike California’s Verdugo Adventure
Gravel is good. There isn’t really much to it. Last month, our Gravel Bike California monthly ride had ballooned to our largest crowd yet, so when February came up being in the Verdugos, I didn’t […]
VIDEO: Gravel Bike California rides Eagle Rock & Topanga State Park
Say Eagle Rock to most Angeleno urbanists and you think about the neighborhood tucked into the northeast hills beneath that boulder looming by the freeway. To those (like me) who prefer dirt over pavement, then […]
VIDEO – Choose your own adventure: LA Tourist Race
Year two of the LA Tourist Race launched Saturday as a couple hundred riders converged on Golden Saddle Cyclery for the first big ride of the year. With gravelers, mountain bikers and combined setups on […]
VIDEO: Cycling Elysian Park
Elysian Park doesn’t get the due it deserves and most are fine with that. Mind you this isn’t the first time I’ve written about Elysian Park, but each time I go I get a different […]
Cycling in the Snow: Mount Lukens
Yes, you can write an article both about Los Angeles and cycling in the snow. This area is a special place for the variety of terrain, but our mountains are one of the most underrated […]
The Journey to Climb One Million Feet in One Year
Climbing a million feet is an experience no one will ever forget accomplishing. It can’t be done on a whim and is really a process that takes a dent out of your life. It blows […]
VIDEO: Biking Crystal Lake
I’ve written about this many times before, but biking Crystal Lake should be an essential climb, but for reasons brought up many times just misses the criteria. In terms of epicness, it would easily rank […]
Gravel Bike California: Mount Lowe
Our Send it Sunday Gravel Ride series continued with yet another epic ride up Mount Lowe. This has been our fourth ride so far and even though the routes change, they have all scored high […]
VIDEO: Cycling up to the Hollywood Sign
You would think biking to the Hollywood Sign would be a thing, but there’s a couple good reasons why not. The first is access. Not that there isn’t any, but the neighbors have tried to […]