Originally posted by caroline
Wow.. you guys are so encouraging 
Thanks for the advice ... I live in LA, so the weather thing never even occurred to me.
My friend and I went to an event at Santa Monica beach yesterday.. we decided to ride down from a little up the coast to beat the traffic and the, most likely, horrible parking situation... When we got to the event, we were just about to look for a place to tie up our bikes when a LA county Bike Coalition booth told us they'd hang onto our bikes and helmets for free (watched!) and we got a free red bull! It made my day.. they were so friendly, and it was so unexpected. You guys here are no different. Thank you (i joined the coalition btw, if anything to help fund their great campaign, and hopefully to find some people ro ride with around here)
lol... i woke up grumpy and reading all these posts really cheered me up
caroline
heh. i'm in los angeles too, just been riding three months. was thinking about doing a metric century (60 miles) in october, and so set out on saturday to see how i felt about 40 miles...my furthest so far. ride was fine, but i went from torrance to north of santa monica...and ran right into that Red Bull Flugtag thing. that and the Heal the Bay litter clean-up event really brought out the 'pedestrian obstructions' and made for a slow ride. but i support both events, just not when
i'm riding.
anyway, you'll be able to do 50 i would think. and unlike the rest of the country, we don't have to hang up our bikes in winter.