Lazy ride

Went on an extremely lazy and short ride to the bank and to the local Goodwill, and took this photo to commemorate it. The picture makes it looks like I'm in middle of a open field, but I was actually right off of a pretty large boulevard. They just have this strip of undeveloped land for the electricity towers.

1984 Alpina Ultima (4/22/12)

Pictures at the Nature Center

It's been raining a little bit lately, so I wanted to check out the trail nearby that has a creek at the start of it. I've been wanting to take some pictures of my mountain bikes at a more nature-filled scenery, but the creek's been dry all winter since we got little precipitation this year. The water level is probably embarrassingly low to be called a creek at elsewhere than Southern California, though. And unfortunately, you can't ride bicycles on this trail, so I just took some pictures and left. (I have yet to try riding my bikes on a trail)

The only mountain bike that's ready to be ridden right now is the Univega Alpina 5.7, but hopefully I'll get to work on the others and post them here soon.

Taken at the side of the street on the way to the trail (4/16/12)

I'm guessing there was once a creek under this bridge (4/16/12)

At the start of the Eaton Canyon trail (4/16/12)

Precious water! (4/16/12)

(4/16/12)

Exploring the Neighborhood

It's been 9 months since I moved to the "new" neighborhood. Even though I say "new", it's actually only a couple miles away from my "old" neighborhood. But it's up in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains, making it much more of a workout just to ride around the neighborhood due to all the hills, and deterring me from exploring much.
However, I was getting bored of my usual bike routes, so I browsed through Google Maps to find any interesting places in the neighborhood, without having to go too far. I saw a park about a mile and half away, so I rode there without expecting much. However, it turns out that the park is actually an opening to a trail into the mountains. I went there too late in the evening to explore much, but I did take some pictures.

Doesn't look like Southern California -- too much green... (4/12/10)

Looking south-ward (4/12/10)

Some kind of a reservoir? (4/12/10)

(4/12/10)

The creek was dry (4/12/10)

A Couple New Pictures of the Univega Sportour

I got off at a different Metro station on the way back from work, and decided to take a couple of pictures. That's the 210 Freeway before the rush hour in the background, and you can also see the San Gabriel mountains. Sometimes the smog gets bad enough that you can only see a silhouette of the mountains. When that happens it makes me think that I need to ride my bicycle more, but at the same time, I worry about all the smog I would be breathing in.

210 West on the left, 210 East on the right (4/2/12)

San Gabriel Mountains (4/2/12)

I used my phone to record a HD version of this: