{"id":1639,"date":"2009-09-20T13:22:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:38:50","slug":"second-bay-ride-page-mill-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/second-bay-ride-page-mill-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Bay Ride &#8212; Page Mill Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After watching the Huskies lay down the law against the USC Trojans, I took off on my second &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/bay-area-cycling\">Bay Area Ride<\/a>&#8221; yesterday. I started out on my road bike and headed back to Big 5, where I returned the crappy pump I picked up last week. Then I headed up Page Mill Road, which true to its reputation, offers a difficult hill climb and some stunning views. Fifteen miles into my journey, the sun was getting low in the sky, and I was pretty whipped, so I turned around. No sooner did I start my descent then I head a twang, which <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanMcE\/status\/2584274000\">sounded a little too familiar<\/a>. I stopped and checked out the bike, and sure enough, I had lost another spoke on my rear wheel.<\/p>\n<p>I had a long way to go down, with my rear wheel rubbing my brake pads (which I had already loosened) the whole way down. Also, I didn&#8217;t know how much lateral stress the wheels could take, so I took it pretty slow around all the curves. It was not as much fun as it otherwise would have been, but at least the bike survived all the way back.<\/p>\n<p>Page Mill is definitely a ride that I&#8217;ll want to do again, hopefully to the top soon enough. It is certainly a good way to work on my (rather poor) hill climbing skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/images\/2009\/09\/BAR002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1638\" title=\"Bar Area Ride 2\" src=\"\/media\/images\/2009\/09\/BAR002-447x550.jpg\" alt=\"Bar Area Ride 2\" width=\"447\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"\/media\/images\/2009\/09\/BAR002-447x550.jpg 447w, \/media\/images\/2009\/09\/BAR002.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After watching the Huskies lay down the law against the USC Trojans, I took off on my second &#8220;Bay Area Ride&#8221; yesterday. I started out on my road bike and headed back to Big 5, where I returned the crappy pump I picked up last week. Then I headed up Page Mill Road, which true [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66,31,13,11],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-california","tag-cycling","tag-recommended","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2234,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}