The Condor Classic begins in San Juan Bautista and goes out to the Pinnacles, returning to SJB on a different route, making a very nice 101-mile loop. There is also a 65-mile ride, and I think a shorter family ride as well. The event is a benefit for Pinnacles Partnership, a group working to maintain and improve the Pinnacles National Monument, where California condors have been reintroduced into the wild. It's expensive—$65, and $75 day of ride—but it's for a good cause.
After the first 20 miles you are in really beautiful country, part of it wide and desolate, other parts wooded and hilly. For much of the ride there is either very little traffic or nice shoulders. From mile 21 to mile 53 there are no rest stops or porta potties, although I did find a Mexican restaurant at mile 35 where I bought a little food and used the bathroom.
I got pretty far behind and was riding all alone, when I ran across a guy who had already had 2 flats, and was to have another in a few miles. He was a new rider, so I taught him that you have to find the thing that caused the flat! I pulled a very small thorn from his tire, which had been the cause of all the flats.
We ended up taking a shortcut before the Pinnacles. As a result I rode a 75-miler, and never made it to the Pinnacles. For the last 20 miles we had a ferocious headwind. I don't have a meter anymore, but I am sure the winds were at least 18 mph.
The ride is well-supported, and ends with a barbeque at Windhaven Ranch, a beautiful spot with grassy lawns and picnic tables. Beside the wind, the only thing I didn't like was the parking, which was in a plowed field, across which I had to push or carry my bike for about ΒΌ mile, maybe more. A good way to get dirt in the bike shoes!
I definitely plan to do this ride again. I really enjoyed it.