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Rod, that's an excellent idea. I like the website, concise yet
informative. The color on your Wilder looks so much darker in the
picture. In case your wondering, I got a peek at it while Scott had it
down here 😄

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That's great, a site for MUni people in the LA area! With such a huge
population down there, it's sure to be a resource not only for
unicyclists, but can be for bicyclists as well. Surely if people find
it, it will help bring more trail riders to you. Be sure to mention in
obvious places that you want feedback and more trail info from
readers.

Web notes:
The picture on the homepage by Eyal is 404 KB in size. That's ten times
as big as the one above it. Photos you display on the web should be
shown at actual size (the actual size is larger than what you put on the
page), and not such large file sizes. A photo that size, depending on
how complex the image, should be around 35 KB or so.

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That's a fantastic site, great work! It might be worth noting that
'album123' in the gallery is just the storage space for all the content
at www.unicycle.2ya.com . www.unicycle.2ya.com (a joint project between
Peter van Boekhout and I) is finally starting to fill out in the
non-trials sections.

Thanks a lot for the link, do you mind if we link to your site on
unicycle.2ya.com?

And one very minor correction - you misspelled 'cpntact' at the bottom
of each page.

A very impressive and helpful site!

Andrew

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Hey,

I've been keeping notes on all the local single tracks we've been
bashing over the last 6 months here in the Santa Monica (LA)mountains,
and will try and round them into a submission in the next month or so.

What's interesting about these trails is that unless there's some
phantom Munier we've never seen, all of these are first descents (on a
MUni), which is something worth keeping track of, much as they do in the
rock climbing and kayaking world.

JL

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Rod, it's good to see you did something constructive on your summer
vacation. That should be a useful site and hopefully you will get many
contributions to it.

Give Rod a break on the mispelling, he is only a school teacher, after
all. 😉

Scott

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Great site Rod! I bet it drums up a lot of riding buddies. Looks kinda
tempting. I'll have to add it to my wish list of places to visit.
Haven't ridden out there in almost 20 years.

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Thanks for all the comments, gentlemen. It’s appreciated. I want to
write a full response, but I am leaving for a two day trip to San Diego
and Legoland today with my family. I will respond more fully on
Thursday.

But, I have to respond quickly to Andrews comment:

-"And one very minor correction - you misspelled 'cpntact' at the bottom
of each page." -

My response:

…Andrew gets a point for table 4!

Good job Andrew, I was really just checking to see if anyone would
notice.😉

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'MountainUnicycling.us' (http://www.mountainunicycling.us)
'Greater Los Angeles Area Trails - Images' (http://tinyurl.com/4otql)
'Greater Los Angeles Area Trails - Descriptions'
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Rod, Great site. I like your trail descriptions. I'd really like to
come out there around Jan Feb when the weather is at it's worst on the
east coast. Maybe we can do a big group ride then.

Joe

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Thanks for the support, gentlemen. It helps me feel like all the work
was worthwhile.

I’m glad John mentioned the second image. I thought that it might be
too large and slow down the loading of the webpage. I’ll either take it
our, or resize it, if I can figure out how to do that. The images were
taken with two different camaras.

Andrew,
By all means, add the link. Thanks.

Quoted message said:

I've been keeping notes on all the local single tracks we've been
bashing over the last 6 months here in the Santa Monica (LA)mountains,
and will try and round them into a submission in the next month or so.

JL,
It wold be great if you could submit descriptions. I’ll gladly put them
up and reference you as author, as I would do with all submissions.

First descents could be listed with the trail descriptions. I can do
that with the submissions. Only thing is, there might just be some
phantom Muniers out there. I know there is or used to be a rider in
Simi Valley and in one of my searches, made reference to riding up in
China Flat, which means there is someone out there we don’t know
anything about. Also, the guy who bought the trials obstacles from the
producers of the TV show that did the balance experiments with Kris Holm
is out there too. He is here in the Valley. Unfortunately, I emailed and
PM’d both of them at the beginning of the summer and got no response.
It blows my mind that in a city with over 2 million people, only John
(screen name - vivalargo) and I are the only MUni riders that I know
of.

A friend of mine who lives in Topanga Canyon says he saw someone with a
MUni last year pulling a MUni out of a white pickup truck near the
entrance to Topanga Canyon State Park and also saw "some kid” riding a
Muni in the Topanga Canyon Memorial Day Parade. There’s gotta be more
of us but we don’t know about each other. Arrrgh!

On a side note, Josh Schoolcraft(screen name - entropy), was here from
Maine working at Cal Tech for the summer and I loaned him my old MUni.
He’s lovin it, and once back in Maine, in two days, will purchase a
MUni.

Quoted message said:

I'd really like to come out there around Jan Feb when the weather is
at it's worst on the east coast. Maybe we can do a big group ride
then.

Joe,
Hey, great to hear from you. Joe, “Come on Down!” If you want a large
group, then I can set you up with the Santa Barbara MUni Crew. They are
about 90 minutes north of where I live. There is some great riding up
there. Keep in mind, contrary to the song, it does rain in California.
January can be rainy, but it can also be quite pleasant, too.
__________________

After I finished this project, I figured out I could set up a different
web page for each geographic area just like I did in the gallery. So, I
may do that and include links to the other geographic area webpages on
the main favorite trails page. Freewebs.com allocates 7 pages for free,
which would be enough to do that. For convenience, I may put in a
printing link, so that it would be more user friendly to print out
descriptions of specific trails.

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Rod Wylie

'MountainUnicycling.us' (http://www.mountainunicycling.us)
'Greater Los Angeles Area Trails - Images' (http://tinyurl.com/4otql)
'Greater Los Angeles Area Trails - Descriptions'
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teachndad said:

*
On a side note, Josh Schoolcraft(screen name - entropy), was here
from Maine working at Cal Tech for the summer and I loaned him my old
MUni. He’s lovin it, and once back in Maine, in two days, will
purchase a MUni.
*

Awesome. I know Schooler. So THAT's where he's been. I've had no one to
ride with here in Maine all summer.

In regards to your website and images: Everything online is displayed at
72dpi, so if you take the resolution down to 72, it makes it a lot
smaller and you wont notice a difference in quality on your page.

If it's a photo, save it as a jpeg, if it's a text banner or something
with solid flat colours, save it as a gif.

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I gotta give Rod a huge thanks for letting me use the MUni. It was an
all-around excellent experience, definately got me completely hooked on
MUni.

I'm back at school now, gearing up for one last year of undergrad.

I met someone at the Jet Propulsion Lab who rode MUni (a Pashley). He
said that he had ridden the trails behind JPL about a year ago, but had
since hung up his wheel. Of course, I totally forgot his name.

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entropy said:

*I gotta give Rod a huge thanks for letting me use the MUni. It was
an all-around excellent experience, definately got me completely
hooked on MUni.

I'm back at school now, gearing up for one last year of undergrad.

I met someone at the Jet Propulsion Lab who rode MUni (a Pashley). He
said that he had ridden the trails behind JPL about a year ago, but
had since hung up his wheel. Of course, I totally forgot his name. *

While on UCSC I met 2 muni riders plus about 15 other people who could
ride. And I was only there for a month.

Rod: Your site rocks! I really liked the chart for trail descriptions,
although it'd be nice if you'd quantify what beginner, intermediate,
advanced, and expert mean. Also, a few small notes, you had a typo on
the links page. Your finger must've slipped and you put an "n" into "my
own page" so it reads "mynown page". Also, the first picture on the
homepage doesn't load for me and fianlly, on the links page, you may
want to add an apostraphe to "Sofas reviews page," so that it reads
"Sofa's reviews page." Or not, I'm just being nit-picky.

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