dennispcreate

Hi!

I'm looking to ride from San Fran to LA in early Oct. 2023. I know most people do it in 6/7 days, I'm shooting for 7 to 9 days. This all depends on the sites (if any) I want to see. I've been riding on average about 120/130 miles a week so far and will hopefully get to 140/150 a week before I leave. Anywhere from 30 to 40 miles in a one day period is what I'm doing now. I've been doing pretty high inclines on some. I live in LA so sometimes my ride consist of very high inclines like riding up The Griffith Park mountains to the LA Observatory. Usually my rides last about 2 1/2 hours, depending on the climb. I'm looking to do about 60/70 miles a day when I start my ride from San Fran. I'll be doing this myself and more than likely camping most of the days.

Any training tips?
Who out there has done this as well and what should I look out for?
What about bike protection? What do you do with your bike at a campsite? Lock it up? Break it down? Has there been records of theft on this route?

I'm in my early 50's, good shape. My last trek was walking 2600 miles on The Pacific Crest Trail from the Mexico boarder to Canada in 2021 which took me about 5 months to do. I feel if I can do that, I should be able to do this as well knowing very well that it's a bike ride, not walk, and there will be different challenges to this.

Would love to know any tips in training or other challenges I'll have doing this.

Thanks everyone. Looking forward to it!