February 8, 2010 - Coast to Coast

Day 1 - February 8, 2010 - Coast to Coast
Would like to report we had a long day of biking and uneventful. It didn’t happen that way unfortunately.

We dipped our back wheel in the Pacific Ocean about 10:30 a.m. on Ocean Beach. Dick didn’t want the wheel totally in the ocean due to the salt water so Carol took our picture in wet sand until a huge wave almost buried it.

The ride out of San Diego was beautiful along the San Diego river and some bike paths thru the canyons. California is very bike friendly and should be an example for other states. Things were going great until we were out about 20 miles and the chain jammed and got bent between the granny gear and the middle sprocket. We were dead in the water! Thank goodness for Carol providing support. We called her and she came back and picked us up.

Some quick calls and we located a bike shop near-by who said they would take the bike right in. What a lucky call! These guys were very good and had the bike repaired in less than an hour. Besides replacing the chain they found out the source of he problem (some shims that didn’t belong) and adjusted the shifting. We headed back to our breakdown spot and finished biking into the campground. The shop is Inky in El Cajon. Tomorrow will be a new day.