The Adventures of Bren and Sven

Glendora Mountain Road

This 9.2 mile stretch of crazy sits behind a housing development and equestrian center in City of Glendora. Glendora Mountain Road, more commonly referred to as GMR, is a well known hot spot for sport riders. Almost every motorcylist knows of GMR, but personal thoughts and feelings on it vary. A handful of sport riders love the road for the intesinty and varrying degrees of diffiulty GMR offers. Others lament the road for poor maintainence and the amount of traffic it brings. Lets face it, GM...

Glendora Ridge Road

So you have reached the Y atop Glendora Mountain Road and East Fork Road, and you see a small road trailing off to the east along the ridge of foothills. Take this and you'll end up in Baldy Village, the quiet lil town nestled below Mt. Baldy. The views along this road can be superb depending on which way you come in from. I you ride for west to east, you have a near endless view of Mt. Baldy, which may be snow capped depending on the time of year. On a technical standpoint, Glendora Ridge Ro...

The Lonely Travels of the Lone Rider pt.4

Sunday May 9: It was a picturesque morning in San Francisco. The pavement damp from the morning dew, low fast pacing clouds rolling in from the west, the sun beating down from the east. The only thing that wasn't very picturesque was my left palm. It had bruised up pretty bad. No pain, but you wouldn't think it just by looking at it. Surprisingly my spirits were up and I was feeling pleasantly optimistic about the events that preceded. I told myself that moping over the crash wasn't going to ...

The Breakfast of Champions!

There is nothing better than waking up to a thick coffee flavored oatmeal stout! MMMM viscus beer! Okay so unless you're a well functioning alcoholic, and if you are more power to you, this would be a recipe for a rather long and unproductive day, but if that's what you have planned I would highly recommend you try Mikkeller's Beer Geek Breakfast. Now unfortunately I have a job outside of blogging and would like to keep that job, so I did not try this for breakfast but instead had it as a nice d...