Interesting video view of Mosquito Ridge Road

[hemingray]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnYLZ-tG1oo

I used to ride a road bike in the 80's, Highway 9 to Santa Cruz and Skyline Blvd were a lot of fun. I would not go nearly as fast on Mosquito Ridge - no shoulders and thousands of feet down...

Anyway - cool vid and interesting spot to mount the camera.

[Ken]

Really??

I rode nearly every day from 1984-1986. My "loop" was up 92, left at Skyline Cemetary, down to 4 corners, down to Woodside...then Canada road back to Burlingame.

[GrizzlyGuy]

Low mounts like those are great if you want to maximize the sense of speed. When I'm doing a skiing video with helmet cam and boot cam shots, cutting to the boot cam makes it look like I'm going way faster.

[hemingray]

Really??
I rode nearly every day from 1984-1986. My "loop" was up 92, left at Skyline Cemetary, down to 4 corners, down to Woodside...then Canada road back to Burlingame.

Yep - I'm from Menlo Park originally, so before the bike we cruised on Alpine Rd., Skyline, all of 84, 92 from 280 to Highway 1 etc etc.

My bike loop was up 9 to Skyline, to 84 or 92, and return to SJ (where I lived at the time). My one and only crash was at a measly 15 mph on Page Mill Rd when I hit some dirt in a corner.

Scraping the pegs on highway 9 was the best though...

My best friend from the cruising days (high school and beyond) is buried there at that cemetery at the top now. Fitting that it overlooks our "territory".

BTW - do you remember when Canada Road *was* 280?

Low mounts like those are great if you want to maximize the sense of speed. When I'm doing a skiing video with helmet cam and boot cam shots, cutting to the boot cam makes it look like I'm going way faster.

It's cool as a cut shot, but I would prefer something where you can see the road more. Still, it's fun to see the dynamic of the tire on the road. The boot cam is a cool idea.

[avejoe]

I was born and raised in Saratoga at the base of Hwy 9. I could make it from our house to the top of Hwy 9 in just under an hour on my bike. Of course my bike had pedals.

Now I ride my road bike (with pedals) on Mosquito Ridge Road. The climb from the river to the top (where it starts to drop to French Meadows) is one of the longest sustained climbs I can think of.

[hemingray]

Lot of Bay Area roots here...

[Mr. Green]

greats set ups there with your mounts and points of view, most have taking awhile but it looks worth it.

[Ken]

My bike loop was up 9 to Skyline, to 84 or 92, and return to SJ (where I lived at the time). My one and only crash was at a measly 15 mph on Page Mill Rd when I hit some dirt in a corner.

Scraping the pegs on highway 9 was the best though...

My best friend from the cruising days (high school and beyond) is buried there at that cemetery at the top now. Fitting that it overlooks our "territory".

BTW - do you remember when Canada Road *was* 280?

I'm betting I passed you at some point up there...

I never "crashed". I fell once making a circle talking to a friend on my street. I landed on the lawn. The other time was riding to Carmel, I "fell" on the Fort Ord bike path while balancing stopped...going .00001 MPH. Just lost it and fell over. I would haul ass going down 92 and 84 from 4 corners. I remember one time, passing an Ambulance. They stared hard! LOL, as I went by...I'm sure thinking they'd "see" me again in a few minutes as a customer.

No...I don't remember Canada Rd as 280. I was a little kid when 280 built. The ONLY memory I have of it being built....was my grandfather was president of the Painter's Union. He'd take me a for a ride on a couple weekends, when they were painting/building the Eugene Doran Bridge.

BTW..you canadians....it's not pronounced Canada. It's spanish...it's Cañada road.

[hemingray]

I always worried about deer on Skyline - that was my limiting factor in speed. Somehow, I never worried about that on Highway 9 though.

I commuted to SF with my dad as a teen, and at the time, they had 280 south of Farm Hill Blvd. completed, but north of there they took you off before Edgewood Rd and from there Can-YADA road became the road until the 92 interchange. Interesting on seeing the Doran Bridge getting painted! That was quite the engineering feat at the time, if I recall.