Ridden plenty on that stretch of PCH and never had trouble going down that hill on the shoulder there (was before things like Strava KOMs existed).
Just takes some practice and attention to pick your line, and it's not that you train sick descending skills on that shot.


This incident and the responses just show how myopic one gets when one takes himself too serious....be it in a car or on a bike.
Turns the weaklings or borderliners into Jackos.

Rider in question should ask Helen's Cycles to sponsor him with some wheel/tire/tube combos that are suitable for training rides on THE pch (and maybe some lobster gloves).

If he admitted that he had the wrong gear or had pushed too hard on his ride so that he was barely able to hold a straight line?

That would be excuses I would be able to understand.