Louis Z from Eastvale

I little about myself, I started MTBing about 6 months ago on a dare. It all started when I had the family over my house and my son said, dad you live too far away from the rest of us, and I said "nonsense, I don't live too far" and then I put my foot in my mouth...and I said "I bet I can ride a bicycle from my house to your house", my son said "no you can't, you're too old, you'll kill yourself!", my son lives in La Habra. Well, to make a long story shorter, I dusted off an old bike that I had in the garage, I trained for a couple of weeks and went out one morning. I got a flat no more than 10 blocks, a week later, I tried again and then got another flat just as I was getting to Chino Hills. I decided to go to sports chalet and ask for a bike to get across town and strong enough to cross the Chino Hills State Park. I ended up getting a KHS sixfifty, which is a 27 speed, hard tail. It took me 5.5 hours to do almost 32 miles since then I have been trying to ride regularly. I stopped for about 3 months because of a thyroid surgery but now I'm back at it.
 
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Louis Zegarra said:
I little about myself, I started MTBing about 6 months ago on a dare. It all started when I had the family over my house and my son said, dad you live too far away from the rest of us, and I said "nonsense, I don't live too far" and then I put my foot in my mouth...and I said "I bet I can ride a bicycle from my house to your house", my son said "no you can't, you're too old, you'll kill yourself!", my son lives in La Habra. Well, to make a long story shorter, I dusted off an old bike that I had in the garage, I trained for a couple of weeks and went out one morning. I got a flat no more than 10 blocks, a week later, I tried again and then got another flat just as I was getting to Chino Hills. I decided to go to sports chalet and ask for a bike to get across town and strong enough to cross the Chino Hills State Park. I ended up getting a KHS sixfifty, which is a 9 speed, hard tail. It took me 5.5 hours to do almost 32 miles since then I have been trying to ride regularly. I stopped for about 3 months because of a thyroid surgery but now I'm back at it.
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Cool story, LZ! Way to rise to the challenge!
 
As to my riding style, I can pretty much handle all trails at CHSP but I still cannot make the south ridge hike in one shot, I envy the riders that can just do it with no problem. coming down I can handle just about anything, just Saturday I was riding the ridge side of the East fenceline trail, which is very steep and narrow.
 
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Louis Zegarra said:
As to my riding style, I can pretty much handle all trails at CHSP but I still cannot make the south ridge hike in one shot, I envy the bikers that can just do it with no problem. coming down I can handle just about anything, just Saturday I was riding the ridge side of the East fenceline trail, which is very steep and narrow.
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Not sure where East Fenceline Trail is..... :confused:
 
After doing my La Habra trek, which by the way I only fell twice. Once getting into the sidewinder trail from the upper Bane trail, (barely touched my front brakes and bike went over me, fortunately, I was able to grab a tire, otherwise I would have been picking up my bike from the ravine). The other fall was when I was just too tired after going up the Raptor trail from the east side and missed a turn and ended up in the brushes. Now, I have another dare, this time from my nephew, he dared me to make it from my house to their boat at the Long Beach Marina, is almost a 50-mile trip going through 8 cities, the Santa Ana river trail will be used. I'll be using my old DiamondBack Apex bike that I converted into a street bike.
 
^^^That's Horrible^^^
I hate that and wish I never saw it... I hope the little dude was okay...
 
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