Great ride today guys! [thumbsup] Awesome weather, no incidents, and good company.
I still don't know if I have to pick up the dog tomorrow afternoon or not. I should know tonight. I'll go ahead and say tomorrow's ride is the same schedule 10am meet up at Tam Junction Starbucks, leaving 10:30ish. We'll run the route originally posted (standard NB).
If I find out I'm getting the dog tomorrow, we'll do a route edited to run in the time allotted.
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Once again, awesome weather and no incidents (provided I don't get any tickets in the mail). Company was slim. dbhak22 bowed out via pm, but I hadn't heard from Jaman, so I played it safe and went to meet him.
Pulling into Tam Junction I parked next to a couple of scooters and almost jokingly asked if they were there for the ducati group ride. I was drinking a mocha waiting to see if Jaman was going to show up when a guy wearing a dainese jacket rolls in on a red Vespa. Is that MichaelMoore? Nope. Five more scooters roll in behind him. One guy has a Clamore sword strapped to his back. Turns out it was a group called the Royal Bastards Scooter Club.
I ended up chatting with a couple of the bastards for a while about scooters and monsters then gave up on Jaman making it and headed up Mt Tam at 11.
Traffic absolutely sucked. Busses and tourists, and busses full of tourists - both ways. Long story short I picked my way through traffic and hit several section of Tam and 1 that were blissfully empty. These compensated for the normal Sunday at noon traffic that barely crawled above 20 mph below the speed limit.
Here's some pics of the Scoots...
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The saturday ride was awesome! The weather was perfect, the pace was perfect, the low flying vulture didn't succeed in knocking me out this time. Grendelstwin, you lead a good ride, thanks for taking us noobs out [thumbsup].
Still looks like you had a pretty good time out there... [thumbsup] We should combine efforts to do another newbie-friendly/mellower-paced ride next month? East Bay perhaps? We could have a couple of groups--one slower, one faster.
We had 9 show up at our gathering in S. Bay today. It was a bit heavy for a single group but we managed. We had some good roads (empty) and some pretty heavy traffic as well. I still don't get the reason why everyone gets a big woody over 9. Lots of sweepers. It's nice, but you have to be going 120 mph to really get a thrill from it...oh wait....nooooow I get it. [cheeky] (yeah, we weren't about to try that! We ran into two cops pointing radar guns into our faces (literally) at one point.)
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