I saw bikingbill going northbound on PCH in Leucadia from the northbound coaster.

I saw T.E.D. when I was riding up Broadway from Downtown on Saturday. He was in town to see his sister's commencement ceremony on Point Loma. He mentioned missing the weather and bicycling scene here, but discovering more bicycling all the time up in the Riverside/'Berdoo area.

Saw Jim Baross and Stephan at the Civic Center Plaza pit stop.

Saw Sigurd...

1. Yesterday, Sunday 5/20, at 4pm, at the base of Cardeno, starting to climb. I was on the Vespa taking my daughter to volleyball practice.


2. Today, Monday, 5/21, at 8:28am, turning left from downhill Nautilus onto W Muirlands. I was going up Nautilus and hadn't reached the intersection yet. I yelled, but he didn't respond. On Strava he said he heard someone yell something, but was going too fast and too much was going on to respond in anyway. Man, it was foggy this morning!

I saw bikingbill and cyclocross James at the Wednesday Encinitas sunset/farmers' market...It's worth getting there early to get bicycle bucks.

Going up Cardeno on the way to work this morning, I saw Panarossi coming down: According to his Strava he was doing a City Heights - multiple Soledad - Cabrillo cruise.

I say OKB and crash at BRCR the other day- had a great time chattin with them about all things bikes. We'll have to grab a beer soon :-)

Today I saw Sigurd (or rather, he saw me) as I was still dripping water from my swim in the bay headed on a quick ride up Soledad with my buddy. Thanks for yelling a 'hello!' Its almost like getting cheered on in a real race!

Saw Stephan heading up A Street, presumably to work. I was on Columbia, heading to 550 W. C.

I saw Chris (the Schwinn Lawyer) and others at University and 5th as my daughter and I were on our way to Snooze for a Father's Day breakfast.

SD_Mike in a Car 2 Go downtown at the end of our century. I was the one without the beard.

I was the one in said car saying "Hey, its Michael" when I forgot your name. I didn't realize it was you until you were crossing the tracks.

Gena, Nic, and I saw Mike Mannis, Sam and her Caboose cruising in Pacific Beach this afternoon.

markphilips:Gena, Nic, and I saw Mike Mannis, Sam and her Caboose cruising in Pacific Beach this afternoon.

Were you at Pier View Coffee or Colimas in Oceanside last week? I sat next to the bike rack and there was a folded Brompton with a Brooks saddle locked to it.

Yeah, I was on the Randos ride. We left Oceanside at 7. The fun part was getting to the Ferry before 10. Let me tell you 22mph on 47mm Marathon Plus tires is a workout. Over 100 miles for the day. My best time up the outside of Torry, middle ring the whole way. Slow for most of you, but at my size it was an achievement.

Beautiful day.

The only bad part was Pacific Highway southbound. What a disaster of a road. Sante Fe must have felt like crap on 25mm tires ... If I could feel it on the 47mm's.

Hippy, was that you riding up Forward Street towards the Linda Rosa wall around 6 pm today?

I saw Sigurd on Wednesday at around noon at the intersection of Pacific Highway and Seaworld Drive. You looked lost! :face-monkey:

I saw a pack of tandems riding north today along the coast from Torrey Pines to Del Mar. Super cool. I wondered if it was a special event or just a Friday morning thing.

Yeah you probably didn't since I am caging it today (again!) :face-devil-grin:

Seems like my friends always think of me for rides to the airport which has prompted my fiance to make fun of me and my airport taxi service -I dropped off some other friends on Wednesday. It is a bit of a pain -since it makes me have to change my schedule and routine :face-plain: - but I always find it so much nicer to be dropped off/picked up by a friend rather than a taxi so I figure other people must be the same...

Rode with Sigurd, Lisi, Shady. Saw Hippy, Panarossi, and the Schwinn Lawyer plus Mike Wilson of local Race Across America Fame. I apparently missed Herbert, the ghost rider of Mt. Soledad.
Also, Mark Phillips at the Walkabout, wpstoll officiating at the track and VeloCafe watching with me.

Cecil:Rode with Sigurd, Lisi, Shady. Saw Hippy, Panarossi, and the Schwinn Lawyer plus Mike Wilson of local Race Across America Fame. I apparently missed Herbert, the ghost rider of Mt. Soledad.
Also, Mark Phillips at the Walkabout, wpstoll officiating at the track and VeloCafe watching with me.

It was fun to ride with you all (+ Bobby)--finally!

Sounds like a Raymond Loewy designed Studebaker produced between 1956-1958. My mother had a 1952 Studebaker Commander, a much cleaner Loewy design, and my father had a grotesque 1950 bullet nose Commander designed by Bob Bourke. This was when we lived on Agate St. in PB in 1959. I'm surprised I can remember that far back. I was three years old and had just experienced my first electric shock, probably jump started my little brain. Subsequently we moved to 1571 Beryl St. and my father took a job selling Chevrolets. He paid $17,500 for the little two bedroom one bath cottage. He brought home a new '59 Impala with winged fins on the back.

I remember it clearly. I was in my grandmother's sewing room, crawled under the machine, and stuck a finger into an electrical outlet. I've been terrified of electricity ever since. In ninth grade electronics class I shocked myself measuring voltages, never finished the project, and got a lousy grade.

Those old Chevys were huge. In the '80s I had a '59 Brookwood two door surfer station wagon. My landlord made me sell it because he didn't like how it looked in the driveway. Sold it to a restorer from Orangutan County. I'd love to see what it looks like now.

A new Chevy Suburban is way larger the classic land yachts of the 50's to the 70's.

Also automobiles have as much power as the classic muscle cars (or more). A new Honda Minivan has 260+ HP. There are stock Mercedes with over 500HP (real) now. You can walk into a Ford dealership and buy a 500HP Mustang. That's more power than even the best of the factory cars of the 1960's.

gavilan:^^^ Doesn't that just blow your mind?!?!
Anyone and their mothers can now ride a 500hp car...while texting, reading the newspaper and drinking coffee. Crazy!

The most powerful muscle car of the classic era, the 426Hemi Cuda, was 425HP and back then they measured HP in a way that inflated the numbers.

Cars are faster than they have ever been, and drivers are far more distracted than they ever were. The only good news is that brakes and handling are FAR better now.

EDIT: The top of the line Mustang (the Shelby Cobra) is running 662HP.

What The Fuck?

VeloCafé:Saw Sigurd cruising down University. Brave with all that traffic and drunkenness up in Hillcrest today.

One has the choice between University, Robinson or Washington through Hillcrest: Reminds me about something out of the "Would You Rather" game from the DSC show.

saw Cecil on saturday while heading south down 30th around noon... saw ya right before the canyon, tried to yell your name but i'm not sure if you heard me.
... also saw The Schwinn Lawyer, HMeins & misses as well as a few others at T!T! sunday for the last stage of Le Tour