Jonathan and I were cruising down Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) this morning when we rode up on 2 men ahead of us who were going quite a bit slower than we were.  Jonathan let them know we were passing by stating, “On your left” and the one closes to us moves over, then turns to look at Jonathan and completely loses control of his bike.  I have no idea how he managed to do this, but Jonathan had to use his shoulder to keep the guy from falling over and pushing Jonathan in to traffic.  I was on Jonathan’s wheel and ended up touching wheels and bending one of my spokes when I hit his derailleur.  Thankfully, neither of us went down.

We finished our ride and took my wheel in for repair.  But of course, it can’t be repaired, it has to be rebuilt.  All because some guy couldn’t control his bike!!

I’m grateful no one was injured, but come on, people – use your head when riding along the highway.  And when you do nearly take someone out, at least say you’re sorry.  These two acted like they were from another planet and offered nothing in the way of an apology.  OK, I’m truly done now.

The rest of the ride was great – it was a beautiful day but pretty warm inland so we stayed along the coast, then did some short, but steep climbs.  Tomorrow we will do more climbing (I have a borrowed wheel) that will be much more challenging than today.  Only 6 weeks before we are in France climbing some very beautiful (and difficult) mountains so it’s time to get serious about multiple day, tough rides!  Oh, and we recently bought a GoPro so stay tuned for some great videos!