Saturday Morning Montrose Ride

Today Nathaniel and I planned to ride the Emerald Loop near SGVT, however the below post on FB made us change our plans.  Basically some guy tried to steal a Bicycle Friends bike on the LA River Bike Path.

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Hi everyone!

I just want to share what happened to me today

I went from home to long beach on the LA River Bike Path and two guys try to stole my bike from my hands,basically I pass under a bridge an one of the guys was talking on the phone a looking at me an the bike and a couple hundred feet away was the other guy that had a baseball bat and stopped me and demanded me to give him my bike, so I told the guy yeah take it just let me get out of it and when he got distracted... I pedaled the hardest I ever did, the guy was an African American guy, he was high. I just hope they learn this lesson..I've done this ride many times even at night and you always see the homeless on the sides but never happens , today I saw way more homeless since last time I went and did this ride, a friend of mine told me a month a go someone pull a gun to him in this same river bed.I can't believe this happened to me at 2 PM.. Be Careful 

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So with that said, we opted for a shorted Montrose ride.  I was fun and Nathaniel and I pulled a decent portion of the 7:45 am group.  

Above is Nathaniel and Jake.  Jake is from Chicago and on one epic US bike tour.