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We started at Santa Monica, looked around the pier and then hired bikes and cycled down to venice beach stopping for drinks along the way. We were not fans of Venice beach so pretty much turned round and cycled back a little beyond the santa monica pier and then back to drop off bikes. It was a really nice way to see the coast and we would do it again. You can cycle all the way to long beach if you so desire as its one big cycle route but we were too lazy for that.