Average Cyclists vs. Santa Barbara's Steepest Climb
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2022
- In this vid, we tackle an iconic and climb with some crazy steep bits in Santa Barbara.
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I love that ride! I was hunkered down for the summer in 2020 at my mother-in-law's house in SB so I got to ride it many times. Early morning starts find you in the fog till you climb high enough then your above the marine layer. It's magical
Thoroughly enjoyed the history lesson of the indigenous people who habituated the land before. Thanks!
Seeing Laura ride is uplifting to me. I enjoyed the video.
I came here with the same first thought. How is Laura, @Path Less Pedaled?
Love that even when that road narrows and no longer has a line, it’s still wider than most UK rural A-roads 🙂
That's a great ride and great video! For an extended version you can drop into the canyon which is northeast of Cielo and ride it (past a reservoir I think) and climb back out to descend Gibraltar. Gravel Bike California has YT video of that route. Or you can ride in the opposite direction, starting by climbing Gibraltar. Or you can climb San Marcos/Painted Cave, take Cielo to Gibraltar Road and descend back into Santa Barbara. All beautiful rides :)
No shame in walking and admiring the scenery. Possibly faster too. :-) Thanks for taking us on that beautiful ride.
For me, Old San Marcos Road has eaten a rim and a collar bone on two different occasions. And that was on a descent. You went the hard way!!! Nice to see you pedaling in my neck of the woods!
Nice! My backyard climbs (I literally live 3 miles from the base of Old San Marcos Rd.)
Hi Tom didn’t know you are also a fan.
Great to see you two having fun together! Thanks for the history lesson, sharing your adventures, and for making me think of my "bikeitlist."
Cool ride! We lived in a part of the big house at the base of the switchbacks for 22 years. (Just before the 5 mph sign.) I've ridden that route hundreds of times! Lots of great rides nearby, especially the backcountry jeep trails that are closed to vehicles.
Did you come up with the phrase “Bikeit-List?” If so I love it.
Love your little history lessons. So much to be learned on the saddle. Keep it up Russ and Laura. 😃
Always look forward to seeing these ride videos, thank you.
What great vid, jam packed with all kinds of awesomeness! Thank you bringing us along for the ride.
I love the old photos! Great ride. Maybe you can do story time with your old bikes, and their preenlightenment gearing.
Our chains have been snapping a few times in the cold of winter here in Wales. Me and my son do a ton of MTb but I also ride a gravel bike and snapped my thick 9 speed chain last week on a steep climb up to a Welsh gothic castle. In my vid you can hear my scream and then relief as I didn't catch my manhood on the stem. I'll leave you with that thought. Great vid of Santa Barbara's steep climbs. Looks warm and the views fantastic.
Love the video and the history of the area.
Really appreciate the ride videos. Winter in the Midwest is bumming me out, so seeing your warm, pretty rides picks me up. Thanks!
BTW...the big gravel turnout area part way up Painted Cave road is colloquially known as "Party Corner"...I think it's going to need to be renamed "Party Pace Corner" :-)
Gibraltar road is great. Very close by
"Near" after 3k of climbing is relative :). Didn't feel like slogging it into a loop riding through town to get back to the van.
I used to make that climb up the lower part for a lunchtime workout. At the time (~1990) I was very fit and used a 42/18 as my lowest gear choice. Buy, I would sometimes go up there just for fun. Loved the quite abs the views. There is a spot somewhere on the upper part when you are totally exhausted and you can just hear your bike and a little creek bubbling off the edge somewhere. The decent can be quite dangerous. Just imagine it with rim brakes going super fast. When I got to the bottom the rims would be too hot to touch. I truly miss that ride and those mountains you are lucky to be able to ride there.
Glad to see you in Santa Barbara. Wish I had seen you on OSM. Next time, keep going on Camino Cielo and descend Gibraltar. Once you get up on Camino Cielo, it’s a nice reward to cruise the ridge line and take in all the views.
Awesome ride! I was just there about 8 weeks ago! I did the loop up Gibraltar and back down Old San Marco's. Completely kicked my butt but I loved every minute of it!
My great grandparents lived in Santa Barbara and I was fortunate to meet them once. Their neighborhood was incredibly steep. I remember my father hoping our car's brakes wouldn't overheat.
I also remember how incredibly beautiful it was/is.
Really enjoyed this post. Beautiful views!
You guys are making me homesick.
Thank you for posting your Central Coast rides.
I've been away too long.
Great scenery as usual!
Great video. Love the history too!
Thanks guys for the video, you inspired me to get out more and enjoy the trails in SB and Goleta the city were I live. I’m new in to gravel biking so ill be following you advise
Old stagecoach route. Imagine the workout the horses got lugging the coach up that grade.
You are at least 2 standard deviations more fit than the average American. Making that climb up to the Cumash Caves and the Cielo is something I am looking forward to after loosing some weight. It is interesting they painted what looks like bicycle wheels. But of course they most likely represented the sun and the clockwork of the deep dark and bright Cielo. They understood each dot was likely another sun or moon very far away. Santa Barbara is so close and it would be a shame if I can't make it up a few hours drive for a few thousand feet to pay my respects to the Cumash. Thank you for sharing your rides!
Taking a guess before I watch this San Marcos pass? Aha! Im out buellton/solvang right now.
Was this one of those “boring and scary” pavement rides you were talking about in that other vid? I dunno, I saw lots of smiles. (Sorry, had to yank yer chain a little). LOVE YOU TWO! 😘❤️
No this was an interesting and relatively car light one.
This was a fun trip for me to watch! Thanks! Paradise Rd is just a bit further over the pass. 30 years ago riding the fire roads there was our gravel biking. Fun day rides out to Gibraltar Reservoir and even Jameson if you were up to it. I was even chased by a bear once out there. You should check into it!
Great fun content guys. Will you ever undertake a tour again ?
I think this might be a perfect application of a Jones LWB (albeit in titanium with light rims and tires). Once you get rid of the excess weight of the budget option bike, the geometry is amazing for descents if you aren't comfortable on a regular road bike. No feeling like you might go over the bars, no over-weighting of the front wheel, crazy good grip. Not as fast in a straightaway, of course, but as fast overall because you don't feel like you have to constantly brake to keep from flying off the road.
Looks like a nice ride! I can see now why it's on your bucket list.
Was curious what your gear ratio/gear inches you were pedaling for this ride. And how that compares to what you had when you rode this route before and broke a chain.
Rad! Lots of epic rides in Santa Barbara!
That's a funky jam !
I was tempted to say it before, but Wind Wolves also has Chumash pictographs. They are protected by being in the off limit areas, and can only be visited by tour.
This is the only cycling RUclips video I've ever seen that features an acknowledgement of the existence of indigenous people.
BKXC has a few times. His is isn't really a touring/history channel but occasionally he'll describe local history, as told to him by the locals. (I only follow mtb; no idea about other road-focused channels.)
Cheers from frigid Chicago. Living vicariously through you.
Get it Russ!!!!
This climb was an achievement! 👍🏻 PLP is upping their game, ride-wise and tunes-wise. (Was Laura happy, sad, incredulous, or all three when she learned about how much climbing she'd already done?)
Also, just saw the part where you mentioned the Merlin Cielo. I LUSTED after the version of that Ti bike that had artistic groves (forgot the name of cutting lines in metal) on the main triangle and headbadge. It was around the early '00s. Would love to find one of those used. EDIT: It was actually the '05 Merlin Cyrene that I lusted after. Full Ti with absolutely no stickers and only beautiful engraving (the word I was looking for earlier). Thank you Google for being better than my brain.
I wonder who's playing that funk groove at the beginning of the video ... Great ride!
The good thing about going up a hill. Is you get to go down it later. 😁😁
I suggest climbing up Little Cotton Canyon in Salt lake City. Never hard but the views are unreal!!!
After the ride you should have had a Boat house punch and the Boat house with some great food and catch the sunset! MAHALO!
THE WHEEL!!
No link to those rad sunglass mount side view mirrors? Or are those DIY. In which case... Next vid please.
Welcome!
Well of course it’s not as hard as Laura remembers: she’s on an ebike 🙂. Nice video and scenery. Near the end there before the descent it looked like there was some kind of dance going on behind you between a cat and a large bird. Couldn’t tell for sure.
Turkey vultures and a crow.
@@PathLessPedaledTV Ah, I wondered.
Wish I knew you were here, would have taken the day off!
However, you put in 3/4 of the effort without the payback of riding the ridge to La Cumbre Peak, and descending via Gibraltar, making it an amazingly scenic loop. Not much more fitness required! Next time!
Along with a few others I’m sure. It would have been a real “party pace”.
Did you visit Handle Bar coffee?
Time stamp 13:00....... did the bird watcher miss what was behind ? Looked like an impressive eagle.
Spurcycle bell?! I thought you were disparaging “expensive” bells in one of your videos. Maybe? But also defending the price of US made components and packs. Are (Oregon-made) Spurcycle bells on your list of Partypace Approved now?
Laura doesn't seem to be have any trouble ;-)
We all love 1x....I want to love 1x and I have 1x setups that work. But this is one of those instances where 1x eeks by? There are certainly a multitude of factors in terms of rider and bike, etc, but in terms of basic efficiency, in a situation such as this, either one should be running a different 1x setup or a 2x drivetrain because given the gearing of your cassette Russ as well as the typical "pie plate" cassettes, I would argue that it's 1st gear or bust. My in laws live in the land of 8% or more grade. I have tried a fair number of bikes and drivetrains to try and make the best of the terrain and my so so health cred. So far the best being a 2x9, 11-34, 22-38 (29er). It was still crazy tough but I was able to be mostly in second gear and use first as more of a refresh gear. Still hell but with the ability to take it on with more harmony.
Honestly though if you are bike packing or fat biking why not just run a 1x, 11-34/36 cassette, 24/26 front ring? Especially in hilly, big climb areas. Surely you need top end but if you are rarely if ever there then why not move the small gaps to the low and mid parts of the cassette. I don't need a 11-12-13-14, one tooth gap high range. Give me a 11, 14, 16 and tighten everything else up. Maybe it's me but I don't like being in a situation where my only two choices are spinning or grinding. I converted my fat bike from a 11-42, 32 to a 11-36, 26 and it was the best thing I did. Now I want to do the same to my MTBs. Efficiency really matters and maybe it's just me but it seems like there is a big gap in the industry.
Just like Cyclists other road users are looking to escape the city and enjoy empty roads... Glad you didn't die crossing the highway 👍😊
Friendly suggestion to gain climbing power: You're riding too upright. Lean forward. Try using your hands to pull your arms on the hoods while pedaling. Your climbing with only leg power. You may need to alter your handlebar alignment.
A lot of cities like Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, San Luis Obisbo, Santa Buenaventura, etc. Are the sites of the California Missions.
It depends on what an individual’s limiter is. If cardiovascular fitness is the weakest link then lowering the handlebars can improve glute activation and hence power. PLP has an anti racer perspective and thus you are not likely to see a discussion of the latest aero winder stuff, power meter, the wearing of racing singlet or attempts at strata KOM’s.
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With all this vertical cycling you guys must be getting really fit 💪