Originally Posted by
GeoKrpan
I grew up behind the Orange Curtain in the 60s and 70s. I started surfing in 1965 at Huntington Beach before there were shortboards.
I don't recall ever seeing a roadie. I was only vaguely aware of serious cyclists.
I remember an incident in the late 70s. I stopped at a fruit stand on PCH. A guy pulls up, jumps out of his car, grabs a tomato, and smashes it in the face of a passing roadie.
Not many fruit stands on PCH any more. Not many orange groves in the OC either. But there are lots of bike clubs and lots of organized rides up and down the coast. The SART looks like a training course most weekends and STRAVA has turned the run from Ocean Side to Mission Bay into one giant Pace Line. The La Jolla hill/ Torry Pines grade is a Segment and everyone seems to hammer it.
I grew row up in the OC and I hardly recognize it anymore. You only see beach cruisers on the Huntington strip down by the sand.