MelloBoy

someone pointed me to this forum from the road cycling section.

Just wanted to say hi. i've been commuting by bike for about 4 weeks now 3-4 days a week...car just broke down so it'll be upped to 5 days a week now lol. Anyhow, does anyone here commute up genesee from Miramar Rd/La Jolla Village Drive to N. Torrey Pines Road? if you do, how the heck do you manage to get up that ginormous hill right before the genesee/torrey pines intersection??



melloboy

rockstar

i know that hill well.. just drop down the gears and grind baby grind. once you do it few times it doesn't seem that bad

Cro_Moly_Body

What's the largest cog in your rear gearing? If it's less than 30T, I suggest upgrading to a granny gear of 34Teeth. That's the largest bail out gear that's currently available.

I road that hill once and I was running a 42 Teeth front chainring and a 34T rear cog. It was slow going up, but I wasn't hurting when I finally completed it.

Fellow San Diego commuter

genec

"how the heck do you manage to get up that ginormous hill right before the genesee/torrey pines intersection?"

Are you sure that is the only way? I was going from Genesee to Campus Point to Voigt through the UCSD campus... from there it depends on which way you need to go on Torrey Pines.

Seems to me that uphill grind on Genessee is just asking for trouble... If you are near 5 and Genessee, check out this alternative on to campus for a different route.

https://image.maps.yahoo.com/mapimage...LFx5eCqOc8eJk-

Good luck

ninjaRoller

i do not recommend taking genese with that 5 freeway connector. Cut across UCSD by the way of Regents, then you can you make it to the other side of Genese/North Torrey Pines

ivan_yulaev

I go Governor -> Genesee -> Nobel -> Torrey Pines (into La Jolla)

I think I know the hill you're talking about. It's not easy, but not that hard either. Genesee -> Governor is better

SD Fixed

Are you guys still commuting in San Diego?