Originally Posted by
nesdog
It was pretty insane in the Santa Monica's today. We hit such hard headwinds descending the backside of Piuma that I got stopped completely dead and had to unclip to avoid falling over. It was truly scary up there at times.
And that is precisely why I nixed a planned ride on those same SM roads and went down to the coast instead. Bet it was fun for you at times though. Did you happen to notice a lot of rocks strewn about the road surface? I noticed a lot of it while going up Old Topanga yesterday afternoon. It was either from the shaker on Friday, or the intense wind causing rock slides.