History Ride

Hanging out in Pescadero for over 100 years.

25 members came on today’s ride. We rode 107 miles. We consumed myriad eggs and slices of bacon.

The ride left the clubhouse right at 10, and we took a quick spin up Bernal Hill, site of dirt hill climb races up until 1909. It being all of five minutes from the start of the ride, we didn’t stop but rather looped around and came right back down again. We continued up what was supposed to be Hill 57, though I’ve been informed that perhaps there was another part of the mountain that was more properly the site of previous races.

Our next stop was Holy Cross Cemetery down in Colma to pay our respects to Patrick McCarthy, early member and mayor of San Francisco from 1910 to 1912. Unfortunately, we didn’t know his exact whereabouts on the grounds, so we stopped and paid our respects at a central location. After a few sweltering photographs, we headed south.

We continued on toward the Pulgas Water Temple, but we’d been overrun by cyclists. The road was closed for the day, so we turned tail and ran for Alice’s. There was quite a crowd, and we took a few minutes to get a drink and chat.

The next leg was a bit more trouble. We lost a few members to a wrong turn, but we all gathered up again at Duarte’s in Pescadero for lunch. After lunch, we stopped for a picture in front of the flagpole in front of the Pescadero post office, the finish line of the enduro races the club used to hold from San Francisco down the peninsula back before the roads were paved. We did some refueling, and made our way back to our bikes.

One last run north up the coast and back into the city where Red Fred was kind enough to open his house to us and show us some of his goodies. He has quite the collection of Indians. After wearing out our welcome, a few of us took a quick lap around Urbano Drive, which used to be the Ingleside Track back in the day, then headed back to the club.

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