Great video. Welcome to my home of Fairfax. Love each of those trails. Have spent years riding them. And Bo-Fax road is my daily commute home in my work truck. One of the best parts of each day. And how could you come to Fairfax without going to G Haus. Even saw Ruffin working in the kitchen put a smile on my face Your editing and commentary was spot on. Cheers And please do come again.
Another great one. I take my camper van to Sam Taylor all the time and ride these trails which always feels like hallowed (if not bumpy) ground. Thanks!
Nice video and brought back memories since I rode that area many years ago. I remember this one part struggling to pedal yet the road looked like it was going downhill (why can’t I go fast?) but really was going uphill. The whole area looks the same.
A friend and I descended Bolinas Ridge on fully loaded gravel bikes for an overnighter in SPT - I don't think I've ever experienced so much vibration! The next day, we climbed up Mt. Tam and then took the "direct" route back to Fairfax, discovering at the bottom we had just descended Repack. Great trip.
Start in Sausalito, hit the Headlands, go over Tam, take Panaramic Hwy to Bolinas Ridge and then add San Geronimo Ridge before heading back to the start and you’ve got yourself a really nasty ride. One of the best I’ve done.
I’ve only ridden that area once. It was the route from Mill Valley to Fairfax. Not sure of the exact way we took because I didn’t plan it. But the decent coming down towards Fairfax was very steep and I still was on the old Niner RLT, with skinny tires and inadequate brakes, yikes! Overall though, an incredible ride. Definitely will be back there at some point 👍
Nice video, of course you could have gone under the road on SFD and continued onto Corte Madera Ridge if you really wanted to torture yourself😂 I would not do Bolinas Ridge on my 40mm tires, haha. But who has their damn blinky light on... on the trail! Be courteous gravel riders turn off your blinky lights on the trail😡Good travelogue, I did not know that Golf Course was closed.
As a long-time bicycle tourist, I was always looking for the smoothest roads, looking to reduce the watts I expended so I could go farther and preserve the health of my bike, - and then there are mountain-bikers and trail riders: always on the roughest, most bone-shaking bicycle-abusive trails, which suck out so many watts of energy as one rides, it has to be one of the least effective ways of traveling. Why? I could never understand the trend other than videos of the activity made it look amusing. It definitely doesn't feel amusing, esp. when the vibrations can knock screws loose, possibly stranding you in the middle of nowhere with a fractured rear dropout or some other non-repairable damage. I would rather hike such trails, it would likely be more efficient and pleasant. When I am on a bicycle, I do not want to waste my energy as one does on a mountain bike or some other fat-tired bike.
@@GravelBikeCalifornia Exactly! Although uphills slow one down anyway due to the grade, on the downhill to keep from killing yourself or the bicycle one needs to blow away all that potential energy from the climb in the form of breaking, and slaloming around or in bouncing off of rocks. And in the video I saw plenty of deep gullies which are death on downhills. The entire off-road mode is incredibly energy inefficient. I can see how it's not an issue for a short day ride, but if one is on a long tour and wants to make it 100 miles from point A to point B, day after day, it would be really taxing. Although one of my bikes is a fully shocked fat tired (4") bike, I dislike the rough dirt roads so much, I can't even stand 5 miles on gravel on it, and 99% of the time I ride my fat tired bike on roadways. I never intentionally ride on dirt roads, but oddly sometimes Google Maps will route bicycles on such roads, and I haven't figured out how to have it filter these roads out without simply using the "automobile" filter for routing rather than the bicycle filter.
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I am going to do this ride on xmas eve to earn xmas dinner. I love descending from ridgecrest to the dam on a gravel bike, so much fun
Hopefully it'll soften up by then..
Great route; great video. At 3:58, if you had looked down and to the left, you'd see my house.
@@gordonwright996 next time we're stopping by!!
Great video.
Welcome to my home of Fairfax. Love each of those trails. Have spent years riding them.
And Bo-Fax road is my daily commute home in my work truck. One of the best parts of each day.
And how could you come to Fairfax without going to G Haus. Even saw Ruffin working in the kitchen put a smile on my face
Your editing and commentary was spot on. Cheers
And please do come again.
Thanks much. You're lucky to live around so many great trails and places to fancy.
Another great one. I take my camper van to Sam Taylor all the time and ride these trails which always feels like hallowed (if not bumpy) ground. Thanks!
Kinda funny it's not champagne gravel, but yet was the place mountain biking got started..
this was my favorite ride back in the day. i don't ride anymore but I can't wait to see this
@@TecraTube this is one I've wanted to check off the list for awhile
@@GravelBikeCalifornia Can't wait to see this, I'll then likely ride this next very soon :)
Nice video and brought back memories since I rode that area many years ago. I remember this one part struggling to pedal yet the road looked like it was going downhill (why can’t I go fast?) but really was going uphill. The whole area looks the same.
That's good to hear. Sometimes the surface changes, but the scenery is more timeless.
Descending Bolinas ridge convinced me that I needed a full suspension bike in addition to my gravel bike
I rode 45s in the video, but even the 55s I'm rocking now would probably not do it...
A friend and I descended Bolinas Ridge on fully loaded gravel bikes for an overnighter in SPT - I don't think I've ever experienced so much vibration! The next day, we climbed up Mt. Tam and then took the "direct" route back to Fairfax, discovering at the bottom we had just descended Repack. Great trip.
@chrispearson8163 just watching Camera Corner last night, Repack is a big priority.
Start in Sausalito, hit the Headlands, go over Tam, take Panaramic Hwy to Bolinas Ridge and then add San Geronimo Ridge before heading back to the start and you’ve got yourself a really nasty ride. One of the best I’ve done.
Years ago I actually worked in San Rafael, but wasn't into biking at the time. Now I'm still learning about all these trails.
I’ve only ridden that area once. It was the route from Mill Valley to Fairfax. Not sure of the exact way we took because I didn’t plan it. But the decent coming down towards Fairfax was very steep and I still was on the old Niner RLT, with skinny tires and inadequate brakes, yikes! Overall though, an incredible ride. Definitely will be back there at some point 👍
Definitely a lot of those dirt descents take a lot of skill.
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Nice video, of course you could have gone under the road on SFD and continued onto Corte Madera Ridge if you really wanted to torture yourself😂 I would not do Bolinas Ridge on my 40mm tires, haha. But who has their damn blinky light on... on the trail! Be courteous gravel riders turn off your blinky lights on the trail😡Good travelogue, I did not know that Golf Course was closed.
I've added even wider tires and the redshift seatpost since then. I'm curious how that would play now.
As a long-time bicycle tourist, I was always looking for the smoothest roads, looking to reduce the watts I expended so I could go farther and preserve the health of my bike, - and then there are mountain-bikers and trail riders: always on the roughest, most bone-shaking bicycle-abusive trails, which suck out so many watts of energy as one rides, it has to be one of the least effective ways of traveling. Why? I could never understand the trend other than videos of the activity made it look amusing. It definitely doesn't feel amusing, esp. when the vibrations can knock screws loose, possibly stranding you in the middle of nowhere with a fractured rear dropout or some other non-repairable damage. I would rather hike such trails, it would likely be more efficient and pleasant. When I am on a bicycle, I do not want to waste my energy as one does on a mountain bike or some other fat-tired bike.
Maybe it was the Lauf fork, but I didn't have any big issues with the surface. Would probably be a different story going down.
@@GravelBikeCalifornia Exactly! Although uphills slow one down anyway due to the grade, on the downhill to keep from killing yourself or the bicycle one needs to blow away all that potential energy from the climb in the form of breaking, and slaloming around or in bouncing off of rocks. And in the video I saw plenty of deep gullies which are death on downhills. The entire off-road mode is incredibly energy inefficient. I can see how it's not an issue for a short day ride, but if one is on a long tour and wants to make it 100 miles from point A to point B, day after day, it would be really taxing. Although one of my bikes is a fully shocked fat tired (4") bike, I dislike the rough dirt roads so much, I can't even stand 5 miles on gravel on it, and 99% of the time I ride my fat tired bike on roadways. I never intentionally ride on dirt roads, but oddly sometimes Google Maps will route bicycles on such roads, and I haven't figured out how to have it filter these roads out without simply using the "automobile" filter for routing rather than the bicycle filter.