[RBW] Quickbeam over Mt Tam

[Sergio]

What a treat to see those trails and fog after so many years in the Midwest. 
There was always such a feeling of internal pride and accomplishment as you 
rounded the final curves leading to the tip of the trail. Thanks for helping me 
revisit! Makes me realize how much I need to bring my bike on a trip home one 
of these days. 

Sergio 

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[RBW] Quickbeam over Mt Tam

[RonaTD]

The Quickbeam, having been developed on the roads and trails around Mt. Diablo, 
is ideally suited to that kind of ride. I took mine with me once to SoCal and 
did some road/gravel/single track in the hills and it was heavenly. Very 
confidence-inspiring handling rolling down a sketchy hillside trail. If I had 
road/trail combo options like that around here, I probably wouldn't have sold 
mine. 

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[Tim O. (Portland, OR)]

That looks like the funnest. Thanks for sharing!

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Re: [RBW] Quickbeam over Mt Tam

[Joe Bernard]

Life goal: Meet Marta from Barcelona at Safeway, talk two hours. I love how 
that got put in there like this is a thing people do every day ;-)

The bike renters in Sausalito are always a site coming off the Golden Gate 
Bridge. They're in a strange land on borrowed hybrids being blown all over the 
road by fierce, cold winds they aren't prepared for. I'd be very surprised if 
more than a few ever do it again. 

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Re: [RBW] Quickbeam over Mt Tam

[christian poppell]

Thanks everybody! It's a 64cm. I feel like I could go a size smaller as the 
bars and the top tube feel pretty high at times but it works and I really enjoy 
riding it. I'll be making a front rack for it soon. I might do a week long tour 
on it sometime in the near future. 

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Re: [RBW] Quickbeam over Mt Tam

[Mike Williams]

Great write up Christian!   What size QB is that?

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> On Aug 30, 2017, at 6:50 PM, Carla Waugh  wrote:
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> Nice detailed ride! Love the pictures!
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[RBW] Quickbeam over Mt Tam

[Carla Waugh]

Nice detailed ride! Love the pictures!

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[RBW] Quickbeam over Mt Tam

[christian poppell]

Originally titled this as "Adventures in Single Speeding" but I'm not 
really sure if single speed counts as I have at least three speeds. They're 
just not super accessible while underway. Until I think of another term 
I'll call it single speeding. Also, the account is very San Francisco 
specific but I've tried to describe it the best that I could. 

I was off the bike for about a week while visiting family in Florida. I did 
get in a short ride that amounted to 8 miles and about 100' elevation 
crossing two bridges. When I got back to California I decided to ride the 
Quickbeam to the top of Mt Tam via railroad grade, then take Coast View 
down to Muir Beach for a late lunch. From there I could take the headlands 
dirt or the paved road depending on how I was feeling.

I got a late start Saturday morning. Ate a bigish breakfast and wrote a few 
post cards. Swung through the post office on my way to bart and got stamps 
to mail my cards. The BART ride was uneventful and I arrived at Embarcadero 
station relatively quickly. I took my normal route through the city along 
Embarcadero, branching off at North Point then over the hill to Fort Mason. 
I Stopped at the Safeway in the Marina to get some snacks: bananas, bars, 
cookie, and some cornbread. When I was leaving a woman with a slight accent 
asked me if the way she locked her bicycle looked good to me. I showed her 
the Sheldon way of locking (through the rear wheel between the rear 
triangle) and we began talking. Her name was Marta and she is from 
Barcelona visiting for a week. We talked about politics and other world 
events for about two hours. Eventually we parted ways and I headed out 
along Crissy field up to the bike path where there were swarms of tourists 
on rental bicycles. I saw only one quick altercation where a road cyclist 
was chirping at the tourists to get the F out of the way.

After a slow bridge crossing I dipped down in to Sausalito. I had to gently 
tell a tourist not to use their phone while riding. It was really dangerous 
moving through Sausalito. Lots of inattentive inexperienced riders with 
heavy cross winds in the road. I was glad to get out of there.

Fighting a slight headwind, I eventually made it to Mill Valley and on to 
Old Railroad Grade. I really wasn’t feeling too great on the ride up. I'm 
not sure if it was the week off the bike or lack of food. I felt pretty 
gassed. I stopped along the side less than halfway up and ate. After that I 
felt a little better, but the whole ride up to West Point inn I had to push 
myself. After the inn I was passed by a guy who was either riding an e-MTB 
or he was the strongest rider I had ever seen. I’m fairly certain it was 
the former but I didn’t see him again to ask. Eventually I got into a 
rhythm near the top. I spoke to a guy with a nice Steve Rex road bike with 
an older Campagnolo ergo group. Said he had it since the late 90's and 
enjoyed it very much. It looked like a great bike. 




*Quickbeam at the top of Mt T**amalpais*

Before heading downhill I switched into my freewheel and pumped up my rear 
tire a bit to avoid pinch flats. I was cruising down and boosting off some 
of the little berms on railroad grade. The last one I hit a little sideways 
and almost lost it on the landing. Fun stuff.

Coasted past West Point Inn and down to Pantoll campground. At the 
intersection I met a guy named Gary who has ridden in the area for a while. 
He was physics professor that was living in China. His son is also in 
physics and did his PhD in fluid dynamics. We talked for about an hour or 
so about the Bay Area and riding.




*taken from the picnic table, SUPER FUN!*

I made it to the Coast View Trail in a heavy fog and light rain. Coast View 
is one of my favorite rides in the area. It's not so steep that you're 
constantly braking hard and the trail is a good mix of easy and 
semi-technical riding, especially on a road bike with larger tires. I 
pushed myself to go a little faster than normal on the trail as I felt that 
there weren’t any others using the trail at the later hour (around 6:30pm). 
Turns out I was right and I hadn’t seen anyone coming the opposite 
direction since I left the top of Mt. Tam. I rattled my teeth out on the 
bumpy sections and bunny hopped the water gates. I had a lot of fun and 
even said it out loud a few times that the trail was awesome!




*Gate at the base of the trail*




*Doe, right hand side. Little