Matt,
Let me submit this for your consideration. The attachment is a map of a short route near my house. It's 8.9 miles up a canyon with approximately 72 direction changes over this distance. I ran it last night after a jaunt through Big Bear and Crestline. Aside from scrapping the right toe of my boot once with the balls of my feet on the pegs I didn't scrape anything. Run time was 9 min. and 22 seconds based on looking at my video, crossing the large arrow in the roadway at the bottom to the junction of the East Fork.
Here is a link to it on YouTube. It may take a little bit to process as it is about 10 minutes of video. According to MS S&T's it's a 13 min. ride but my usual is 10.
To give you a little more information when I make the ride I try and do it without hitting the brakes and just holding a constant speed. I will downshift before a turn to slow slightly or use the brakes for obsticles. Posted limit is 40 with some turns listed as 20. My goal is to be smooth. This is also not a ride that you can run all out because of debris, fallen rocks, rocks kicked onto the road by cars and dirt/sand.