New to the Group - Looking for Gravel Friends in the Bay Area

[dpaulson]

I am a somewhat regular weekend road bike rider (analog) but picked up a Specialized Creo 2 in October as a gift to myself. I managed a few good rides before the rains came, but looking for other e-Gravel Bike riders in the bay area to ride with. Not looking for technical downhills (no need to injure myself) but nice fire roads, gravel trails etc. I rode up Mt. Tam a few weeks ago, and the bike did great. Ping me if you are in the area and want to meet up for a ride some weekend (when the weather is better).

 

[edobici_forza]

Welcome to EBR forum, dpaulson! I am on the peninsula, and since July I ride a Creo 2 (also a gift to myself...birthday.) In San Mateo County, the trails are not legal for eBikes, so I ride mostly road, with a few side gravel roads, etc. Driving 45 minutes south, there are trails which are legal. I have yet to ride those on the Creo, but have on my MTB. I know Tam, a bit, I tried a ride on a gravel bike, with a friend on a MTB. I immediately added a dropper post to my gravel bike, the basic manual non cabled type (when needed)
I'd be up to explore Miwok, Tennessee Valley, Railroad grade and related trails, on the Creo in the near future. I am just not an early guy, and it takes over an hour to drive there from here. BTW, I have yet to see another Creo in the wild here. but not surprised.

 

[Chazmo]

Welcome aboard, @dpaulson . You’re riding my old stoping grounds (back in the early ‘90s). Congrats, you’re very . I’m sure there’s gazillions of riders in the area. I don’t know how popular eBikes are in Marin, but maybe @PedalUma can point you in the right direction. I believe he’s in that area.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I am a somewhat regular weekend road bike rider (analog) but picked up a Specialized Creo 2 in October as a gift to myself. I managed a few good rides before the rains came, but looking for other e-Gravel Bike riders in the bay area to ride with. Not looking for technical downhills (no need to injure myself) but nice fire roads, gravel trails etc. I rode up Mt. Tam a few weeks ago, and the bike did great. Ping me if you are in the area and want to meet up for a ride some weekend (when the weather is better).

Welcome aboard! I'd ride road or gravel with you if I still lived in Sausalito. Put in many miles on and around Mt. Tam back in the day (Late Bronze Age). What a cycling wonderland Marin County is!

We'd love to see your Creo and the places you ride. My 3 favorite forum threads are the ones for sharing ride photos.

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[JGcycle]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[PedalUma]

@dpaulson, The Bay Area is huge. If you can get to Larkspur Landing you can jump on the SMART train. That opens up Sonoma Mtn. and Western Marin. You can do Anondale. The North Sonoma Mountain regional park is beautiful and connects to Jack London State Park in Glen Ellen. Helen Putnam park is great fun and it connects to Chileno Valley.

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[dpaulson]

Welcome to EBR forum, dpaulson! I am on the peninsula, and since July I ride a Creo 2 (also a gift to myself...birthday.) In San Mateo County, the trails are not legal for eBikes, so I ride mostly road, with a few side gravel roads, etc. Driving 45 minutes south, there are trails which are legal. I have yet to ride those on the Creo, but have on my MTB. I know Tam, a bit, I tried a ride on a gravel bike, with a friend on a MTB. I immediately added a dropper post to my gravel bike, the basic manual non cabled type (when needed)
I'd be up to explore Miwok, Tennessee Valley, Railroad grade and related trails, on the Creo in the near future. I am just not an early guy, and it takes over an hour to drive there from here. BTW, I have yet to see another Creo in the wild here. but not surprised.

Sounds good- I actually got rid of the dropper post on mine (which I may regret) and swapped in a carbon post that has more flex (good for my bad lower back). The reality is I don't want to go down something so technical/steep that I need the dropper post. I did go up RR grade on Mt Tam a few weeks ago, which was great, but I picked a bad route down, and ended up at Muir woods. Was very happy to have the e motor to pedal up the road and back to where I started, but it was super-steep with no shoulder, so not ideal. There are a few routes on Mt. Tam I have mapped out that I want to explore (up RR grade and down something that purports to be a fire road). I will ping you once the weather clears and we can pick a weekend.

 

[PedalUma]

Once I took a rootbeer brown 1970's Raleigh three speed up a fireroad from MV to the top of Tam. Sure am glad I have motors and a wide selection of gears now. It was a morning in early March I took off my shirt and was white as a marshmallow then got a sunburn.

 

[GMA52]

I do not miss the days of sun burns in my teens and twenties. I don’t take shirt off as I am scarred in front because of Triple Bi-Pass and other surgeries and all over my back with those surgeries. I am sure I am ‘white as a marshmellow” also. Dad, my younger brother and sister have the brown skin of Dad’s Cherokee ancestry from his grandmother and great grand parents who were from the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Me I got more of mom’s side white and freckled ugh.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Welcome mate from Vancouver.
Hoping to see your rides and experiences!