Love this format - the best part about riding is the experience and this kind of content adds to that tremendously. May this new series be a huge growth area on your channel and give you lots of excuses to travel more.
You guys just made me incredibly happy! My mom grew up in LA in the 1930s and took me on this route in the 80s in our old Ford. I remember how steep it was and how we had to keep putting water in the radiator. It felt so remote and historical. Never saw a single car, so if we'd broken down (way before cell phones)... Impressive that you biked it! Brought back lots of great memories, thanks!
Nice video. I grew up in Ohio and moved to California for 41 years before moving back to Indiana last year (2024). I used to ride up Ridge Route a lot and would always go as far as that overhead pipeline you showed on the way up and back. From our house in Valencia I would log 3,400 feet of climbing. It was one of my favorite rides because you feel you have the whole place to your self. Keep up the videos and ride safe!
I just found your channel and I like it. Back in the mid 1980s I had a Honda XL 250, and it took all of its off-road capability to traverse that road. I'm glad to see the power company is fixing things up.
No trees but the vegetation looks like Woody gasoline. Great history. It would be interesting to follow the track to its northern connections. This is another add to your channel.
One of the best things a couple can do is explore together. This road was one of the adventures I was able to share with the love of my life, so to see you two explore it brings back fond memories. History, views, and time shared on a path less pedaled, what more could one ask for.
Love the video, I've always been fascinated with the Ridge Route. In the late 80's I used to ride my mountain bike from the end of Templin Hwy (eastbound) on Fish Canyon Road to an old campground (Cienaga) way back in there.
Great Video Russ and Laura! My friend Joshua and I rode it years ago as part of the Yonder Journal Brovet. We started at Golden Saddle Cyclery. Sadly most of the Ridge Route was ridden in the dark so we didn’t get the amazing views you two got.
Excellent cycling video, you two! It's incredible to think that just a few miles away from this seemingly remote location lies one of the largest metropolitan areas on the planet!! Very well done, thank you.
I absolutely love this format. I'm sure you guys can contribute a lot with us all by sharing these historic and scenic routes. I'd be glad to welcome you all here in Brazil to visit some of our routes... Keep it supple and congrats on the content you're creating.
Your best video. Love the combination of history and cycling. Great way to differentiate your videos from other TH-cam channels. Definitely want to see more of these. Great job!
Thanks for sharing! Love all you do, but especially love to see you both out on the bikes sharing your adventures with me. That’s what brought me to your channel some many moons ago. Keep on pedaling. Like a local brewery says here in town: up the hills, down the beers
If you get up north you should check out the "diggins" up in the Dutch Flat and Gold Run area. Would be great for an overnighter as there is a lot to explore.
Love the Video. You guys are an inspiration. I want to ride my bike even though the weather is awful here. Also dig the mix of your new music tracks and the classics from the the timeline. Your travelogues just make me want to get out and travel you are the best of TH-cam. Loads more like this please. :-)
I feel like my dad told stories about the older roads over the Grapevine and how tough it used to be to get through that area. Makes me want to ride it someday. Keep doing this series because I love it!
This format is fantastic. Plus, since I'm spending most of my saddle time on the trainer through the winter, I dig living vicariously through your new adventures. Fun video. Looking forward to more of them.
You guys rocked it! I love info and pictures of old as well. I'm from N.Y. but have been out to Cali. many times and have always wanted to ride the Angeles Crest Rd. Maybe that would be of interest to you? I like bike builds, but, I love places like this. You have my attention!!
Just a heads up, you can park at the Castaic Sports Complex for free, and still use those same bathrooms :). I also have some video on my channel of Old Ridge Route before they started repaving it.
Love this kind of riding! Did a trip a few years ago where I followed the route of the original Lincoln Highway from Philadelphia to Omaha. Getting to see the realignments over the years and the old remnants, so much history and brick roads.
Cool format. I love your videos, both the gear focus and the rides. Would love to see more. You both approach videos like real people. It's also nice to have POC + femme representation in cycling. Keep it up!!
You two would have made Huell Howser happy with your story. Excellent job chronicling a piece of California Gold.
Love this format - the best part about riding is the experience and this kind of content adds to that tremendously. May this new series be a huge growth area on your channel and give you lots of excuses to travel more.
You guys just made me incredibly happy! My mom grew up in LA in the 1930s and took me on this route in the 80s in our old Ford. I remember how steep it was and how we had to keep putting water in the radiator. It felt so remote and historical. Never saw a single car, so if we'd broken down (way before cell phones)... Impressive that you biked it! Brought back lots of great memories, thanks!
Nice video. I grew up in Ohio and moved to California for 41 years before moving back to Indiana last year (2024). I used to ride up Ridge Route a lot and would always go as far as that overhead pipeline you showed on the way up and back. From our house in Valencia I would log 3,400 feet of climbing. It was one of my favorite rides because you feel you have the whole place to your self. Keep up the videos and ride safe!
I love old roads! History, natural beauty, low-or-no traffic, and gravel!
Major dig on this Russ!! Not many cycling channels going into the history and putting in this much research and work. Thanks for sharing!
Yes - love this format! Really fun to learn about historical, quirky, and/or interesting places to ride.
"And I'm gonna sit in the middle of the road because I can." I want to say one that one day. Great start to this new series. 👍🏻
I enjoyed the ride/tour! I used to go up there quite a bit in the 80's! Enjoyed hanging with you! LOVED the older photos! 🙂
This is exactly what attracts me - the adventure, discovery, and lots of information and comments.
Lived in LA since 2004. Never even knew about this road. I know why I am a Patron. 🙌🏽
Perfect format & video for
PLP! Love it. Will never get to ride it so great to see it. Thanks!!
I love videos like that. Motivates me to get out and find roads like that. Keep it up.
I just found your channel and I like it. Back in the mid 1980s I had a Honda XL 250, and it took all of its off-road capability to traverse that road. I'm glad to see the power company is fixing things up.
I am a fan of the history style video! Super cool. Also digging the gravel casual attire per usual.
No trees but the vegetation looks like Woody gasoline. Great history. It would be interesting to follow the track to its northern connections. This is another add to your channel.
Wow! Great ride! Great documentation! Thanks.
Great addition to your channel, keep 'em coming.
Love the format, fantastic views, also the audio quality is really good. 🤙
Great new idea for content! I will be looking forward to more of these.
One of the best things a couple can do is explore together. This road was one of the adventures I was able to share with the love of my life, so to see you two explore it brings back fond memories. History, views, and time shared on a path less pedaled, what more could one ask for.
Love the video, I've always been fascinated with the Ridge Route. In the late 80's I used to ride my mountain bike from the end of Templin Hwy (eastbound) on Fish Canyon Road to an old campground (Cienaga) way back in there.
Very cool format. Cant wait until the next one.
I've road on that, it's great. Awesome rides up into the mountains above Castaic
Any format where you ride bikes is great. There's always things to see and a reason to do it 👍
Bravo! Encore, Encore!
This was really interesting - looking forward to more.
Great video! it was nice watching while spinning on my turbo setup. 36 degrees with rain and a 15mph wind here in Pennsyltucky.
Fun format and concept. Thanks for sharing!
Russ, I like the point of interest format. Thanks.
Great Video Russ and Laura! My friend Joshua and I rode it years ago as part of the Yonder Journal Brovet. We started at Golden Saddle Cyclery. Sadly most of the Ridge Route was ridden in the dark so we didn’t get the amazing views you two got.
More of this content, please! Love it. 🤓
Definitely inspiring. Im from Bakersfield and have always heard stories about this route from old-timers. Glad you both did it. Great video.
This has been on my bucket list for years. One day.. One day!!
Excellent cycling video, you two! It's incredible to think that just a few miles away from this seemingly remote location lies one of the largest metropolitan areas on the planet!! Very well done, thank you.
I absolutely love this format. I'm sure you guys can contribute a lot with us all by sharing these historic and scenic routes. I'd be glad to welcome you all here in Brazil to visit some of our routes... Keep it supple and congrats on the content you're creating.
Thanks for sharing. Such a beautiful place to ride and explore. Even if there is a wee bit co climbing involved.
This is a really great format!
Like the format. The terrain looks like a real challenge coming out of somewhere with real winter.
POI is awesome! I love the historical perspective that you shared. Keep it up!
Great format. Keep up the good work
Love the format! More interesting Party Pace rides please!
Great video. Always on the look out for a good route to ride. And this looks like a winner!
yes yes yes. love this format.
Excited to do this.
Historic and abandoned roads and bridges are so cool! Love it
Great format! I love this video!
Your best video. Love the combination of history and cycling. Great way to differentiate your videos from other TH-cam channels. Definitely want to see more of these. Great job!
Great video. Keep em coming.
Some great dirt roads up near Castaic and San Francisquito!!
Good format. Makes me want to get out and explore even more
Love it keepem coming.
Thanks for sharing! Love all you do, but especially love to see you both out on the bikes sharing your adventures with me. That’s what brought me to your channel some many moons ago. Keep on pedaling. Like a local brewery says here in town: up the hills, down the beers
LOVE THIS FORMAT
Have always been fascinated by the old Ridge Route. Thanks for this cool look at it. Come and ride with us in the central Sierras sometime!
Thank you for your video. I went there yesterday and oh boy, though climb.
What camera are you guys using.
If you get up north you should check out the "diggins" up in the Dutch Flat and Gold Run area. Would be great for an overnighter as there is a lot to explore.
Absolutely, it’s a cool video, watching that gets the wheels (in my head) turning! Thanks...
Though I love the bike reviews and other stuff you do, you guys just riding bikes in interesting places is what I look forward to the most.
Nice to see, makes me want to find a fun ride myself.
Great content and detail!👍
This is an awesome feature to add to the channel! Some ride for the KOM, and that's cool- but lots of us ride for the POI. This is a great idea.
My mother in law in the late 30s and 40s as a child, always got car sick on the ridge road. Thanks for having us along.
I’ve wondered about that road for a long time. I really enjoyed the video. Please do more. Cogswell is a nice ride.
Great F-ing cycling vid. Even without the cycling it's really good. Thanks ! ! !
Loved this video, really enjoyed learning about the area as you went!
Very nice ride. Like the format. Take care and safe cycling, Al
Great idea for a series. Look forward to the next.
Great video. Now i want to ride!
I did like this format! Cool stuff.
Great content Russ. Always nice to see new locations etc.👍
Love the Video. You guys are an inspiration. I want to ride my bike even though the weather is awful here.
Also dig the mix of your new music tracks and the classics from the the timeline.
Your travelogues just make me want to get out and travel you are the best of TH-cam.
Loads more like this please. :-)
All the thumbs up for this format. 👍👍
Outstanding video! I love the combination of fun ride report with the history!
All my favorites! Cycling, history, and interesting infrastructure. A+ content.
I feel like my dad told stories about the older roads over the Grapevine and how tough it used to be to get through that area. Makes me want to ride it someday. Keep doing this series because I love it!
Exactly the kind of format that makes the channel great and sort of fits right in with the name of the channel now that I think about it 🤔
Very pleasant ride along. A bit envious from the cold north Portland.
Really enjoyed this...
I'm ready for more!!
Awesome format, points of interest!
Cool vid. And yes old Roman roads i have a quiet partly offroad one near me here in Lincolnshire UK built in the '70s...... circa 75 AD :)
Almost never comment on videos, but this was great! Keep it up!
Excellent
This format is fantastic. Plus, since I'm spending most of my saddle time on the trainer through the winter, I dig living vicariously through your new adventures.
Fun video. Looking forward to more of them.
Love your ride videos
Man what a cool little scenic route
nice location to ride I also cruise I.5 and did not know this road was hear.Thanks
You guys rocked it! I love info and pictures of old as well. I'm from N.Y. but have been out to Cali. many times and have always wanted to ride the Angeles Crest Rd. Maybe that would be of interest to you? I like bike builds, but, I love places like this. You have my attention!!
Def lovin' this format!
Just a heads up, you can park at the Castaic Sports Complex for free, and still use those same bathrooms :). I also have some video on my channel of Old Ridge Route before they started repaving it.
One of your best videos to date!
This was fun to watch! Thanks for the inspiration! Maybe I’ll consider shooting something like this here in Connecticut.
Love this kind of riding! Did a trip a few years ago where I followed the route of the original Lincoln Highway from Philadelphia to Omaha. Getting to see the realignments over the years and the old remnants, so much history and brick roads.
Loving the content! Hope to see more of the Crust and other bikes on these rides!
Awesome- and thanks for sharing
Yeah, love this one! Great music to :-)
Hey you’re in my home town! Welcome!
Need to add this to my bucket list rides!
Cool show
Cool format. I love your videos, both the gear focus and the rides. Would love to see more. You both approach videos like real people. It's also nice to have POC + femme representation in cycling. Keep it up!!