SAN LUIS OBISPO – June 13, 2021 – Riding a sleek, classic 90′s aluminum road bike, California Governor Michael J. Fox led a group of cyclists out of Diabalo Canyon, marking the official opening of the last remaining stretch of the Pacific Coast Bike Way. The PCB, as its supporters call it, connects the Class 1 BikeWay from San Francisco to San Diego, rarely veering more than a few hundred yards from the ocean the entire way.
The PCB began over 50 years ago, with path-breaking, pioneer cycling enthusiasts harshing along the California coast, riding alongside the whizzing traffic. California cyclists organized, first locally, then regionally. Eventually they won rights, stretches of shoulder, striped lanes, and now, the nation’s first true bicycle highway. Read the rest of this entry »
accelerated quickly, we drop a lot of speed as we hit the steep incline. The few of us looking out see the valley floor dropping away from us, and as the route turns we rather suddenly witness an unexpected and brilliant panorama of the eastern Sierra mountains through which we’ve just traveled. Bishop is on the valley floor to the left, just lit by the morning sun, and the Paradise Station just in front of us. The sky is a cloudless blue, and the valley stretches off into the distance, fading into a palette of browns, reds, greys, and greens.