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just by chance I was in Los Gatos with my gravel bike. I thought if I had time I would do an easy hour but it turns out there’s so much good stuff to ride I had to have a bigger gravel adventure.

I decided to do two “dead end” climbs, Montevina and Soda Springs. They were suitably heinous. But the thing about Montevina is that it isn’t truly a dead end, it ends at a gravel road and it made for a super fun descent. Everything was slow though, slow up the steeps climbs, slow down the dirt, and numerous stops due to my gravel bike constantly reminding me that I’ve been ignoring it:
- rear derailleur battery died (had an extra)
- left shifter battery died (had to cannibalize from my car key)
- dropped the chain shifting into the largest cog (didn’t fall)
- both tires have a slow leak (I had to fill each up twice on the ride)
- oh and a snake on the road (i didn’t run it over)

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El Sereno via Montevina and Soda Springs

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Old South Loop for real

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El Paso ride

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