Originally Posted by
Rick@OCRR
Then you probably knew Manny Diaz, who was the manager at the Santa Monica store and Rob Taylor who was the top mechanic? I used to ride the Santa Monica mountains with those guys, plus I rode with Manny's girl-friend Meryl Bisberg, who was the Bikecology purchasing agent at the time; since we both had Sunday's off.
Fun times, and since I was in my 20's then, a whole different outlook on the sport of cycling and life in general!
Now, Sherman, where did you put that "Way Back" machine?
Rick / OCRR
Sorry, don't remember any names....but I do remember a lot of the routes in the Santa Monica mountains. Am always looking at some of the ride photos from Southern California and trying to remember rides.
The week I moved to LA I met a couple of guys riding along Mulholland Drive and we formed a small "riding group." One of the guys was in the film industry and was unemployed almost *all* the time, so he planned out weekly rides every Saturday (he'd work a few weeks a year and pull down a ton of money in a few weeks, and then spend the rest of the year riding his bike and looking for work). On Sunday's I'd typically ride along the beach down to Redondo Beach and back home. On weekday mornings I'd ride from Westwood to the Ocean and back.
In any case, I went to the Bikecology store a ton of times...