On a nice Saturday day, I decided to call up my brother to see if he wanted to go for a bike ride and he said, “Absolutely.” So, we met up and looked up bike trails in our area on Google Maps. We found tons of different trails in our area, so we went to the closest one. Turns out Google Maps “sucks” when it comes to planning out bike trail routes. We went to three different ones and all of them were innaccessible. But, we traveled from one to the next until we finally found one . . . The Pacific Electric Bike Trail.
The Pacific Electric Trail is supposed to be able to connect Rialto to Claremont; however, the trail is not complete. According to www.socaltrailriders.org, the trail should be completed in 2011. But we got on the trail somewhere in Rancho Cucamonga and headed west. The trail was a really easy ride with virtually no hills. The only problem for me was that you had to wait at a signal every time the trail crossed paths with a street, which was quite often.
But we reached a dead end where some construction was going on, so we turned around and headed east for quite a ways until the trail ended in I believe Fontana. It was a very pleasant ride until we encountered some dangling electrical lines. Fortunately, my brother was there to snap a quick picture of the event.
If only I had seen that sign beforehand.
I had a really nice time with my brother traveling down the Pacific Electric Bike Trail. It will be interesting when they complete that trail, but I love Claremont and the Upland area and it would be great to just hang out there from time to time and take a nice bike ride along a pleasant trail.