DaveMatthews
Dave's not here. Cheating since 2018
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As I was reading and looking at your lovely pics I was getting ready to ask how the new front tire was working out for you.The highlight of yesterday's 12 mi ride was a large bluff-top open space overlooking South Ponto Beach and Batiquitos Lagoon.
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Love riding the sand-coated hardpack up there as I take in the fantastic views.
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Coast Highway bridge over the mouth of Batiquitos Lagoon with South Ponto Beach beyond.
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Never saw this vessel move. Looks like a military workboat, but could be a research vessel out the Scripps Oceanographic Institution in La Jolla, some 20 mi south of here.
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Outer Batiquitos Lagoon with half-replaced rail bridge at left. Guessing they'll soon be laying track for the planned 2nd line.
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Once completed, the new bridge will also allow better tidal flushing of this much larger inner lagoon. Between the inner and outer lagoons, there must be 10 different shades of blue here in the water alone. I like blue.
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Nearly all offroad in this area is hardpack — all of it with at least a thin veneer of loose sand.
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Here, the sand's not always so thin — and it get much deeper than this in places.
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That new 40 mm gravel tire (Specialized Tracer tubeless) barely fit under the front fender. But it makes my bike vastly more sure-footed on this kind of surface than the 38 mm Pathfinder it replaced.
Awesome!









