Today was the first leg of the Tortuga 500: San Jose to Monterey.

The boys (28 dressed head to toe in LaHabra Chronic Taco kits)  headed over the coastal range into Santa Cruz via Hwy 17.

Someone was apparently offended and took note of the kits, navigated to the website,  saw the post on LaHabra Cyclery about the start of the 500 and left the following message:

Dudes…what is up with taking your club ride over hiway 17 from San Jose to Santa Cruz during this mornings commute.  Not only is that freeway closed to bicycles and dangerous as hell, but you probably turned a couple of thousand local drivers into total “bike haters” this morning.  That was a real unfortunate piece of crappy public relations you created for our local bike community…thanks alot…not!

Oops.