San Francisco Bay Area riders

[sanjay]

Hmm, sounds excellent.  I will probably go!

[scratch]

As posted on BayAreaRidersForum.com in Doc Wong's Corner

Actually I copied and pasted it from a Doc Wong e-mail I received!

You reprinted without permission...    

[pandy]

You reprinted without permission...    

It was in MY inbox, which makes it mine!  

[scratch]

o-kahy.

[pandy]

Actually, I try to be conscious of stuff like that, so I'm ashamed that I didn't even think about the copyright issue. Thanks for helping me continue to walk the straight and narrow, scratch. 

I'll be doing penance this Sunday at about 3:00PM when my butt will be so sore I can barely get off my bike after Doc Wong's most awesome ride! 

[scratch]

If I'm behind you, I'd better see you get up out of the seat when we go down Tunitas Creek ("goat trail") Road.

[pandy]

There's little chance that you'll be behind me in the Z-pace group, but I'll soak up any advice ya' have from now 'til then!  Gettin' my boo-tay off the seat is definitely something I need to remember to do... Now if I just felt comfortable sliding it over in the twisties.... 

[pandy]

Well, it looks as though I won't be home in time to ride tomorrow. I went out of town yesterday, and I was supposed to be home today...but I'm not....  But I'm still having fun!  So have a safe ride, and I'll see y'all on the next ride!

[sanjay]

I'm sick, so I didn't go     Two of my friends did, and rode in Scratch's group.  The yellow 599 and the white/red CBR that went in a ditch.  Luckily the latter's rider is ok, and the bike damage wasn't TOO bad. 

Anyway, I'll hopefully be able to make the next one.

[pandy]

Yikes.... a get-off in scratch's group and Doc Wong got rearended by a hit-and-run driver after the ride was over... 

[scratch]

It's a common place that people go down in, so I hear.  It's a tight, decreasing-radius right hand turn with a tree right at the edge on the inside of the turn, it kinda blocks the view of the road; no bumps from the roots.  I never topped 30mph.

The guy on the yellow 599 did great!    As did the CBR rider, he finished the ride! 

Gosh, I hope Doc is allright!

[pandy]

Glad to hear the rider was able to finish! 

Doc Wong wasn't badly hurt (it sounded as though he was bruised?), but he's hoppin' mad (and rightly so)! 

[RRR70]

Great ride!

I was in the slowest group, trying to keep up with the old gent on BMW.HE NEWER TOUCHED HIS BREAKS!!

Suck about Doc's crash.

Nice meeting you, Scratch.

P.S. I was gasing up in Pescadero after 72 miles of the ride.
guess how much gas I put in?



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1.02Gl


HOLY CRAP!!!!

Best way to get a good MPG- ride twisties!

[sanjay]

It's a common place that people go down in, so I hear.  It's a tight, decreasing-radius right hand turn with a tree right at the edge on the inside of the turn, it kinda blocks the view of the road; no bumps from the roots.  I never topped 30mph.

The guy on the yellow 599 did great!    As did the CBR rider, he finished the ride! 

Yeah he told me about the turn - sounded nasty.  He was ok though, and finished the ride, like you said.  He was just really bummed about the tank damage. 

The 599 guy, who's the cockiest guy I have ever met, and never passes up an opportunity to ask me when I'm getting a bike faster than his car, said that "the skinny dude on the purple bike" was pretty impressive.   

[scratch]

I'm sick, so I didn't go

I forgot to say, "I hope you feel better!"

[WildBlue]

So I had to go to Monterey yesterday and decided to ride down Hwy 17 to Hwy 1.  Never again, some crazy people on 17    .  On the way back I took 152 from Watsonville just to check it out.  It's meh....  Next time I will just go up 9 or Bonny Doone.   

[pandy]

I like Watsonville Road....it's nice on a hot day, because there's nice shade along the way!