On Christmas day I was able to go up to the Northern part of LA where I grew up for a quick mountain bike ride. This is where I did all my riding and training growing up and I absolutely love the trails around there. For this ride (for those that know the area) I went up Johnson trail, down Chumash, up Hummingbird and down Rocky Peak trail. I was a bit excited to be riding that day and forgot all about the camera until i was on Hummingbird so all the photos are from that trail which is in Simi Valley.

This ride was also the first real ride on my new custom Curtlo 29er with Action-Tec suspension fork. I was sponsored by both Curtlo and Action-Tec back in 1992 and the frame I got from that year is my favorite bike of all time. If I were homeless that’s the bike I would be going to the beer can recycling station with. So this is my modern day 29er version of that same bike and I have say I’m in love all over again.

The Hummingbird trail is a lot better to descend than to climb but it allowed me to snap some photos of it.



Here’s my freshly built 29er Curtlo 29er. True Temper steel fillet brazed by Doug Curtis of Curtlo Cycles. XTR polished M960 cranks, Sram XO shifters and rear derailleur, Bontrager wheels, and Hope disc brakes.




Nice clear day in LA.



Trails around here are so cool and varied.




Here’s a cockpit photo. I ended up not liking the Mary bars so not it has 27” straight bars



There’s really cool erosion patterns in the sandstone.



Whats an LA ride without a little spray paint? Just to the left of the Jim Morrison rock is the trail. A lot of this ride is on open rock.



Here’s a small cave off of the trail with more neat erosion.




View over Simi Valley.



How cool is this, a stone banked down hill corner.



All these people and im on the trail all by myself. Sweet.