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imdragonslayer
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Registrace 13. 06. 2009
Bike Packing Adventure. A California Dream. Capitola. Santa Cruz
I’ve done many back packing trips over the years but have never done a bike packing trip. And today’s is the day. With just one week of planning and gotten all my gear ready, I’m excited to do this with two beautiful ladies. Uwen has done this many times and has traveled around the world on her gravel bike.
The plan is simple, starting from San Jose and ride over the Santa Cruz mountains, all the way to the New Brighton State Beach camp ground near Capitola. It’s a 40 mile ride with 2,600 ft of elevation gain. It’s going to be an easy & relaxing ride with beautiful scenery along the way.
We carried a sleeping bag, a tent, cooking ware, extra clothes, and some food.I don’t have a grave bike and will have to ride my Santa Cruz Tallboy mountain bike.
I bought this saddle bag from Aliexpress for under $20. Well, I can’t mount this bag securely to the seat post even with extra straps. It swings left and right as I peddal and that takes away your peddling energy.
I wouldn’t use this saddle bag again and later I bought a brand name saddle bag from REI. That’ the same one the WJ is using on her bike, and it’s super stable.
The plan is simple, starting from San Jose and ride over the Santa Cruz mountains, all the way to the New Brighton State Beach camp ground near Capitola. It’s a 40 mile ride with 2,600 ft of elevation gain. It’s going to be an easy & relaxing ride with beautiful scenery along the way.
We carried a sleeping bag, a tent, cooking ware, extra clothes, and some food.I don’t have a grave bike and will have to ride my Santa Cruz Tallboy mountain bike.
I bought this saddle bag from Aliexpress for under $20. Well, I can’t mount this bag securely to the seat post even with extra straps. It swings left and right as I peddal and that takes away your peddling energy.
I wouldn’t use this saddle bag again and later I bought a brand name saddle bag from REI. That’ the same one the WJ is using on her bike, and it’s super stable.
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#挑戰中雙塔騎車 This is our final day of the 5 day tour of cycling in Taiwan. It’s going to be another hot and brutal day no matter what the distance is, but in my heart I wanted to finish this big and just do it all 106 km or 66 miles along the coastal area from Ping Tung City, going on HWY 1 and then HWY 26 all the way to the Southern Most Point of Taiwan, end at Eluanbi (Er Lu bei) Lighthouse. Don’...
Day4 (青龍瀑布): An Epic Two-Tower Cycling Tour of Taiwan. Green Dragon
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The original plan was a very aggressive one, to ride 190 km from Shizhuo all the way to Pingtung City with a total elevation gain of 5,000 ft. The majority of the route is downhill in the mountains but it's over 100 km on flat road at sea level going through many little towns on the inland. The inland temperature is expected to reach 100F. Again, we changed the plan and only planned to ride in ...
Day3: 塔塔加山 An Epic Two-Tower Cycling Tour of Taiwan. Climbing Tataka Mountain Taiwan
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On the 3rd day, we scaled back the ride to a more leisure ride of just 40km over an elevation gain of 5,800 ft by climbing the Tataka Mountain, which is by no means easy where the slopes can be as tough as 25% gradient. We started from the Heshe town and climbed non-stop to the summit of Tataka mountain in the Yushan National park. From there we'll take the mini-van to the hotel in the town Shi...
Day2: 北進武嶺. An Epic Two-Tower Cycling Tour of Taiwan. Climbing KOM Wuling Mountain
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#挑戰中雙塔騎車 2nd day of a 5-day epic two-tower cycling tour of Taiwan. We're entering the Wuling mountains from the north side, which is mostly exposed to the hot sun with very little shade along the path. Heat and humidity is the worst enemy that wears us down very quickly. It's a 70-mile route to the summit with a total elevation gain of about 12,500 feet. Check out the locally made bike jerseys ...
Day1 (long ver.): An Epic Two-Tower Cycling Tour of Taiwan. Riding a Lightening & Thunder Storm
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#挑戰中雙塔騎車 Every hardcore cyclist knows that Taiwan is a cycling paradise, with beautiful mountains, very steep terrain, ever changing weather conditions throughout the year, friendly Taiwanese people, great foods & drinks. Our tour guides and operators (pic) Xiao Guo and Zhi Hong Gu picked us up from Taipei city and drove us to a hotel very close to the northern tip of the island. And thanks to ...
Day1(short ver): An Epic Two-Tower Cycling Tour of Taiwan. Riding a Lightening & Thunder Storm
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#挑戰中雙塔騎車 Every hardcore cyclist knows that Taiwan is a cycling paradise, with beautiful mountains, very steep terrain, ever changing weather conditions throughout the year, friendly Taiwanese people, great foods & drinks. Our tour guides and operators (pic) Xiao Guo and Zhi Hong Gu picked us up from Taipei city and drove us to a hotel very close to the northern tip of the island. And thanks to ...
An Epic 5-Day two-tower Cycling Journey in Taiwan -- Introduction. 挑戰中雙塔
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#挑戰中雙塔騎車 This is going to be an epic bike cycling of my life. 5 days of consecutive cycling in Taiwan from the most extreme northern point to the most extreme southern point in the main island of Taiwan. We call it the Two Tower lighthouse cycling tour, and it’s not the same as the Classic Two Tower cycling Taiwan in one day. The classic one day cycling route is along the west coast covering 52...
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A Petite but Strong Girl is accepting the AIDS/LifeCycle Challenge
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A Duck Rescue Operation
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Is Henry Cowell State Park only for hardcore mountain bikers? Let's find out
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Another beautiful cycling route in the San Francisco South Bay - Evergreen to Coyote Crk to Metcalf
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Cycling up Sierra Rd twice, one of the steepest roads in the San Francisco South Bay
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Cycling up Sierra Rd twice, one of the steepest roads in the San Francisco South Bay
Another Beautiful Cycling Route in the San Francisco Bay Area -- From Fremont to Castro Valley
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The Best Rainy Cycling Day in the San Francisco South Bay
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Another Iconic Cycling Route in the San Francisco South Bay -- Old La Honda, Tunitas Ck, Kings Mtn
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A Morning Coffee Ride From San Jose to Pleasanton on a Very Popular Scenic Route
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A Morning Coffee Ride From San Jose to Pleasanton on a Very Popular Scenic Route
Cycling up one of the four mountains in the San Francisco Bay -- the popular Mtn. Hamilton
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Cycling up one of the four mountains in the San Francisco Bay the popular Mtn. Hamilton
A fast-pace route for endurance cycling, San Francisco South Bay. Ironman training kickoff
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A fast-pace route for endurance cycling, San Francisco South Bay. Ironman training kickoff
Another popular cycling route in the San Francisco South Bay -- Montebello and Stevens Creek Canyon
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Another popular cycling route in the San Francisco South Bay Montebello and Stevens Creek Canyon
A popular cycling route in the San Francisco South Bay- Palo Alto to Canada Rd via Portola Valley
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A popular cycling route in the San Francisco South Bay- Palo Alto to Canada Rd via Portola Valley
The Most Sought After Mountain Bike Trail in the South Bay -- The Flow in Soquel Demostration Forest
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The Most Sought After Mountain Bike Trail in the South Bay The Flow in Soquel Demostration Forest
Silicon Valley San Jose Turkey Trot 2023. 10km
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Silicon Valley San Jose Turkey Trot 2023. 10km
Is this the steepest climb in SF South Bay-- Mission peak
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Is this the steepest climb in SF South Bay Mission peak
Be great if you can add the route from Strava or Ride with GPS
I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing. Would love to join your group for a ride one of these weekends.
The woman on the new carbon fiber Trek needs to spin. Having said that I’ve never been a great climber, so I relate.
3:35 that man wow. Thanks for sharing the experience. want to have a try this year!
Turd world 🤣
Wow what a ride, nice work !
Yeah, good idea taking along a lady of Yuwen's experience - can't wait to see the next installment!
Beautiful route! Especial the Old Santa Cruz Hwy. Nice video!
Thank you very much!
Well done! Thanks for sharing... Crescent City California here :)
Thanks for watching!
Which one hurts more...Sierra or Quimby?
Both hurt! 😅 The suffering on Sierra is longer. Quimby is shorter but steeper. Pick your pill, the Red or the Blue pill ?😅
Love seeing the Bay Area roads!
Wow, how lucky you guys are! Can't have something like this in Florida, especially this time of the year. I missed the Alameda weather, guys. Enjoy.
Love the ride footage. Do you have a strava or map of this route? I'm from castro valley and would love to do this route, but reverse and include castro valley to it. Thanks!
Can you send me a message to scott0357@gmail.com ? I’ll send you the Strava route
Hi, I emailed you too
I just finished watching the full series. What an adventure! When you are back in California I’d love to plan the next adventure for your group. Maybe cycling the Lost Coast down to San Francisco. Or for a smaller adventure come stay with Comova for a weekend of riding in Sonoma’s West County. Either way, I look forward to watching videos of your future adventures.
Thanks for the encouragement and good words. I heard of the Lost Coast trails. Must be fun cycling that route in a multi-day tour. 😊
I am exhausted from watching the video .... that's a hard ride for us MTB riders ..... 😢
Mtn biking with that kind of road distance is not fun. I’m also a mtn biker. 30 miles of mtn biking is already plenty 😅
Ang ganda nang route na iyan sa San Jose. Dito lang kami sa OCRT to Huntington Beach or Newport Beach, SGRT to Bolsa Chica Beach. Am on road Recumbents since 1996. Now as a senior citizen still on bents without pain and prescriptions drugs.
Enjoyed your video. When’s the next group ride?
Thanks but no coffee ride anytime soon because I’m not in training for Ironman 😅
Congrats on the ride and videos!
Thank you for the encouragement! Appreciated!
Good job! That's really not easy to ride under such hot and wet weather.
do you have a route you can share?
I was looking forward for this day-4 video! Hopefully some day I can the same thing in my home "town" Taiwan. By the way, I joined two running events back in year 2016 and 2017 for 12k and half marathon around this reservoir.
Your hometown is near the reservoir , that’s a very beautiful place. The mountains and the cycling route there is so beautiful. It’s a good training place for cycling as well.
@@imdragonslayer I like your videos especially for biking. Please continue to share your interesting videos. Thanks!
@@hung-yiyang3879Thanks for the encouragement. Will do !
What's with the big masks?!
Well. Some people‘s skin type can get tanned and dark very quickly and they don’t like to have too much tan especially they’re riding 8 hours under the sun every weekend. On other hand, some skin type never gets tanned no matter how sun they get , they just get sun burnt.
@@imdragonslayer Most of us use sunscreen. I've ridden bikes for forty years and have never seen riders wear full masks, although I mostly mountain bike these days. Seems like it would be really uncomfortable!
So much pains and fun. Thanks Scott to record it 🎉
So cool to see a group ride in this part of SJ/MILPITAS/Sunil/Pleasanton
So cool to see a group ride in this part of SJ/MILPITAS/Sunil/Plesanton
Wow, I have to try this ride. I'm in San Francisco. See you Sunday? ☕
You GUYS KEEP IT UP!!
You really look like shangzung from mortal combat the first movie. “Finish him”!!!! 👹
Did the girl with the face cover drink her coffee with a straw?
Don't want to catch COVID....lol
That doesn’t look like a very diverse group to me
By diverse they probably mean bike manufacturers
Hi, I’m in SJ, where do you usually ride, I love riding Calaveras
We don’t have any regular places that we ride on a regular basis. Some of the places are Mtn Hamilton , Canada Rd, Mt Diablo, Tunitas Creek, Page Mill Rd, Kings Mtn Rd, Mtn Umunhum, Santa Teresa Blvd
@@imdragonslayer I’ve been all those places. So do you meetup every week? Saturday or Sunday? What time?
we ride on most Sundays. Tomorrow we will ride from Woodside townhall to end of Canada Rd at 7:00am. And do repeats. It will be a training ride rather than a social ride.
I grew up riding these roads in the late seventies. The roads don’t change much- Niles Canyon, Mt. Hamilton, Sunol,…. Ride on!
Can i join your group?
Thanks. Where are you located ? We haven’t done another relaxing coffee ride for a while. Now that we are in training mode for some tri-athletic events. This Sunday morning at about 7am, we will be riding on Canada Rd doing repeats from Woodside to the end of Canada rd and back.
@@imdragonslayerouch! Serious training, I guess if you’re going to do the death ride🥵
@@lynndevos2278I’m not doing the DeathRide this year but some of them are !
Legendary ride Scott - puts the rolling hills of Emilia-Romagna into perspective - Wow!!!
Thanks Simon. An incredible experience
Amazing 🎉you guys !
I did a very similar route back in February this year! We started in Taipei (so chaotic), went through the center of Taiwan, then back up the east side. I love seeing your recap - brings me lots of good memories from my trip. Taiwan's mountains are no joke, right?? 😵Your guy's ride seems so much harder with the heat and humidity. Good job to your entire group!!
Thanks for sharing your experience at Wuling. It was really hot and humid and the temperature stayed high even at high elevations. It only started to cool down as it was getting close to sunset time. Heat and humidity sucked the energy out of the body. Wow. You started from Taipei ! That’s a long ride before arriving at the base of the mountains.
I rented the Giant TCR pro from the Giant bike shop in Taipei. Reserved 7 weeks in advance for one week rental. About $200 a week. Good price. Yes. I brought my own pedals and the shop installed them for me. 立来旅遊doesn’t have a website. You can also download the Line app and search for their business and add them. Or call them. They speak Mandarin. Watch the Day1 video , one photo in the video has their contact info posted on the back of the minivan.
Thanks for the info. You mentioned the Giant rental store in Taipei in the Day 1 vid. You said you had to reserve 7 weeks in advance. Did you send them your stats in reach, stack, stem length, bar width, saddle height/offset when you made the reservation? So were they able to accommodate fitting out your desired bike size to your exact measurements(swapping out stem, bar, seatpost etc)? The thing is if I have to suffer that much, I want to make sure my rental bike is properly fitted just like my own bike at home. $200 a week for a TCR Pro is incredible. Shipping a bike on an international flight cost more than that. I probably would only do this type of cycling tour in Oct when it's cooler and dryer.
@@shaun4787I didn’t send them my spec. The technician fitted me to the bike on the day of pickup and that took about 30 mins. Excellent services they’ve provided. Next time I’ll bring my own seat and have them to install it.
Did you rent your Giant? Looks like it. I always think ship my own bike to Taiwan is a silly idea since it's the Mecca of Bike Industry. There should be plentiful Giants or Meridas for me to rent in Taiwan. Bringing my pedals and gears should be suffice. I'm also interested in this cycle tour. Having completed Wulin Climb multiple times on Rouvy, it's time to get real. So does this 立来旅游 has a website I can check out? I don't use facebook.
That steep "20%" section is a shortcut. You could have kept the main road, which actually has less traffic because many drivers take the shortcut. There's also no need to ride through the city at all thanks to the riverside bike paths. The roadworks that close the road except at certain hours have been there since a few years already. It keeps landsliding. I guess the RAIN slowed you down, but even without rain and given your starting point, you should have started riding at dawn to be able to make it on time. Besides, the earlier the better in hot and humid Taiwanese weather. Nice ride! Awful weather!
Thanks for taking the time to write. Now that we had done this ride , I’m 100% agreed with all of your comments and suggestions. 😆. The original plan was aggressive and we didn’t plan to ride 12 hours a day. We couldn’t had skipped the city by hopping into the minivan and drove to the base of the mountain. The weather was terrible that day.
Well Done From The UK 🇬🇧🖖
That is some rain
No kidding. The biggest rain and thunderstorm I’ve experienced in person. If that’s in California, there would be mudslides everywhere.
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hell yeah, I just rode my mob up Mission peak.
Thanks for inspiring me to go do this climb!
I’m glad that this video has inspired you to do it. Let me know how you like this route after cycling it. Have fun !
Gearing up to do the Santa Cruz 70.3 in September and I’m so happy to have found this video and hear about your experience. Super inspirational and touching, thank you so much for sharing it, man!
Glad it was helpful! Have fun and good luck !
Nex coffee ride???😅
No coffee ride is planned in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for asking 😊
Good job
I've just done a 195 mile training ride with 13k of elevation.....that was tough but I felt absolutely fine after....must be getting fitter 😃
Great job! Training is hard work
your videos are great motivation to try Mount Hamilton my self. It's a bit of a BART ride from Richmond to San Jose, but should be worth the trip !
Yeah. I think it’s worth a Bart ride down here , getting off at the Berryessa Station. It’s a very popular route on weekends. Start early in the summer days.