The tour is over, now the fun and recriminations begin

For once today went to plan. We left Occidental early and had a great ride through to Tomales to highway 1. Here we are at morning tea at Pt Reyes Station, best pancakes so far



Then we rode past an inlet on a fast bending and lumpy road with about 30 km of new hot mix surface. Then there is Goose defending yellow before we arrived at Stinson Beach.






Then there where two big climbs to Sausalito and just before the climb there was an old lady hitchhiking so we offered her a lift and Barb gave me some local knowledge to get through to Sausalito.



Thanks to Barb for this group shot before we rolled into San Francisco at the top of the last hill.



Sausalito is a small town where we parked the van and then rode as a group up the road to the bridge. While it was sunny in Sausalito it was colder and very windy on the way to and over the bridge. There go the boys heading for the finish.



The bridge ride was probably one of the more riskier things we did as we were riding against a hundred or so tourists on rental MTBs and as many pedestrians, plus going as fast as possible where the local bike riders in some sort of courage run.



Anyway we made it!!!!


The final sprint finish was won by Ferdi who having won the two climbs for the day was easily able to seize the yellow jersey when it counts.
Final points were:
Ferdi 729
Wighty. 643
Pedals. 625
M2 606
Goose 585
Rocket 501

Our individual highlights
Ferdi. Glacier Point at Yosemite
Wighty the climb along the Pacific coast to Big Sur
Pedals. The barmaid at Parkfield
M2 the descent down from Mt Hamilton
Goose the Big Sur bender, as much as he can remember
Rocket. El Capitan revisited

Tonight we had clam chowder at Fisherman's Wharf and caught a cable car to get there and a stretch limmo to get back.

Tomorrow it's time to pack the bikes and take in the baseball.

-posted by pw from ipad

Location:Post St,San Francisco,United States