Super smoggy down in the IE. So The Void told me to go let my Dragon 🐲🔥 chase The Big Bear 🧸 So i did… Rode almost 70% of the 100 mile course. If your into getting spanked and im not! Then youll love this ride as its bumpy with lots of 1-2 inch wise cracks and poorly patched over about 30-40% of the loop. The good news is i spotted signs saying repaving will start soon. Hopefully well before August! In other news… It was epically beautiful everywhere. Road traffic was fairly light & polite. The climbs… Well they definitely go waaaay up… Oh but those downhills! Hot Damn…. Full FN Dragon 🐲🔥🦶🏽🦵🏾🫁❤️‍🔥🏔️☀️💪🏽Mode 💗👁️😊🫡 Funny how it can take a good bit of time to climb to the highest peaks and come back down like a hawk dropping into a lake to snatch a 🐟! i turned around at Onyx Summit (Still no formal sign at it!) as it was another 25 miles to Jenks and i was out of water. speaking of which… after I thoroughly enjoyed thr fighter pilot descent back I realized i was so dehydrated that Dragon Mode suddenly sputtered to a crawl all thr rest of the way back to my car at Bear Mountain. Got it done though. Note: Big Bear is always at least a 3 water bottle climb and refill opportunities are scarce from any direction you go or come from. Looks like they will have well stocked aid stations about every 20 miles or so for the August event. Great solo ride overall.