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Old 03-13-07 | 10:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Indolent58
DST is here and after-work daylight riding is back. This is so good. Got home, changed clothes, and hopped on the bike for a ride to Torrey Pines. Once up on the inside and once up on the outside and back home in 50 minutes. Beautiful skies, climbing in the shade -ahhhhh this is why I love living in California

The only sour note was a scrawny poseur twit who was trying to pretend he was Lance on an epic descent on the inside road in Torrey Pines State Park. This is a mixed use road shared by pedestrians, bikes and cars and is no place to descend even moderately fast. A group of college-age girls were walking abreast of each other and interfered with the perfect line the twit was trying to carve on his heroic descent. When he had to slow and steer wide he shrieked in frustration "MOVE you f****g b****es!!!

Idiots like that give roadies a bad rep The twit was followed by a female rider who seemed to be with him. She appeared to be suitably appalled at his behavior. I prefer to imagine that this was their first and last ride together
There are new park rules being proposed, one of which would close the inner road to cyclists in the downhill direction, just for the reason you describe. Yes, the pedestrians tend to walk all over the road, however the posted speed limit IS 15 mph!
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