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04/28/2008: "Beach Weather"
Certainly a tribute to global warming that we are having nearly 100° weather in April, but so we did this weekend (and it continues, slightly abated, today). The people poured out of their houses and towards the beach, of course--and it was good to see that so many of them did so on their bikes.I wandered off early Sunday, riding past the airport and eventually ending up on the Pacific Coast Highway a little past where I'd been intending to end up, but no matter: every mile was fine on the Bottecchia fixie, so I doubled back and stopped at the foot of the Hermosa Beach pier for a sandwich. And as you'll see in the photos below, I found not only food but bikes, lots and lots of bikes, everywhere I went:
You know you're in a bike-friendly place when the little French bistro has a pastry named for Paris-Brest-Paris!
Looking back from the end of the pier.
Cycling and fishing--for some, this might be paradise....
Bikes locked to the railing of the pub.
My Bottecchia, with three more bike rack arrays visible in the distance. There is a total of fourteen or sixteen sets of bike racks here; most of them were full. (I parked at the less-busy streetside end of the plaza.)
A nice forty-five or fifty mile day, pedaling every inch, and folks on bikes everywhere, even away from the beach.
