Where in the park will you be meeting up? I have a few bikes and some friends to ride them so we are looking foward to it. I never worry about the weather!
Great. I will be posting up a Google map soon.
We are meeting at El Dorado Park in the free area, coming in off Studebaker, just North of Willow, and South of Spring St.
there's a turn in at the Tennis Center, on Google Maps it looks like it's called E. Barrios St.
i think it's the only turn in between Spring and Willow. it'll take you past the skatepark and near some baseball fields where there's free parking in the bottom of the free area.
so we can meet up there, starting at 10am, hang around awhile, then take off riding at noon. this'll give people a chance to take some pictures, BS, and look over the bikes or whatever. or just show up at noon for the ride.
we'll go south on studebaker to a right on 2nd/Westminster which will take us to PCH.
then a left on PCH for a nice 15 or so mile cruise to Huntington Beach.
there's a Dog Beach as you enter HB with 2 parking lots. i figure we can pull into the second one and wait for any stragglers or break downs to catch up
this is also a good place to regroup for the ride through Huntington Beach, as traffic, meaning auto, pedestrian and bicycles can get pretty congested, especially if it's a nice day. we can take the lane as a large group and freak everyone out all the way to Beach Blvd.
we can pull into a beach parking lot there, and i'm pretty sure if we pedal in there'll be no hassles. we asked a parking lot guy on magnolia if he cared, and he said "they look like bicycles to me" so i don't think they'd try to make us pay. if they do, we'll just turn around and 2-smoke him out of his booth... and if they're cool about it, we might be able to do some drag racing in that nice long parking lot.
the route back is the same thing, only, y'know, backwards.
we can re-group at the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve to have a smoke, whatever.
as far as food and beverages go, we checked out taco surf and it looks like a logistical problem. not enough bike parking (essentially none at all. there wasn't any room for the cars that were there.)
Super Mex is a good option, they've got great food, beer, and it's pretty cheap, as well as having a nice big lot. there's also a liquor store and a few other joints to eat if you're not down with super mex and you want a crappy 5 dollar foot long.
i'll leave it up to the group to decide if you want to eat on the way in or the way back.
it's about a 30 mile ride, and it's not set in stone.