Rich rode with me (and all of us) all day today.


What a beautiful day it was out there!

Most of us met up at Starbucks, then we picked Bob up at the gas station....up to four corners, the official meeting place, and the crew was complete.

Roll call: scratch (our leader), Bob Broussard (who was everywhere at once!!  ), sanjay, ktiger, lumpoffire, brett, Brian (friend of ktiger? or friend of friend of friend?), Ashley (another friend of friend of friend of friend of friend of ktiger??), pandy, Ceek (our co- sweep), and our sweep in his cage, TheGoodGuy.

scratch said a few words about Rich (and he did a WONDERFUL job....a beautiful tribute to our fallen rider), and we created a small memorial in Rich's honour at Four Corners, which is sort of considered the center of the riding world here.


We all geared up again, and it was time to ride!

I don't know about the rest, but I'm tuckered. It's not easy keeping up with youngsters like scratch and Bob. They are AMAZING to watch.

We stopped for early lunch, late breakfast (ok, brunch)...at a little place called....Blue Sun? Yummy foodage, and YUMMY lemonade!! It was hotter than Hades out there for this fragile little flower, so the cold drink was oh-so-welcome!  But I got to follow our own Bob Broussard!!! (If I *ever* have the honour/pleasure of riding with you again, sir, I promise you that I WILL glue myself to your butt, and you'll never get me unglued!!!    )

After brunch, it was time to hit the twisties again (well....the rest of the guys hit them....I kinda tiptoed in  )... With some excellent pointers from Bob, I was making progress....'til...errrr.... remember how I said recently that it'd been two months since I last dropped my baby boy....sorry again, Ashley 

We finished the official group ride at.....hmmm...where scratch said we would!  We enjoyed some Gatorade, a good chat, and then we broke up into smaller groups. Bob showed us what his GS could do as he went his way!  scratch had so much fun the first trip through the twisties today that he decided to turn around and do it again!  Most of us took it easy and had a nice, relaxing journey as we made our way back toward out homes. 

It was a pleasure and a privilege to ride with all of these fine riders....truly a joy! 

But I meant it when I said that anyone who posts a pic of me will be banned, Tar'd (so to speak hehe), feathered, roasted alive, beaten, whipped, hunted down like animals, and have to clean my bike with half a Q-tip!!!!  Other than that, I hope everyone feels totally FREE to post up their pics here! 

Add to tale.....post what I've forgotten or didn't see...correct any errors....    I'll add more pics as I regain my strength.. 

I just log on and to see this was nice and sad at the same for me it nice to know how much you all thought of my brother thank you so much TazZ

We thought the world of him, TazZ. 

Most of us meet at Starbucks first..... Ceek and I first went to Peet's, and THEN we went to *$....I need my morning joe! 


Yes..that *is* yours truly in the above shot  .....as cropped out as I could get myself and still show the bikes! 



scratch (on the left) and ktiger chatting:


Some chick, scratch, Ashley, and ktiger chatting s'more:




sanjay arrives:


Ashley closer to the camera, and Brian further away:


lumpoffire arrives:


TheGoodGuy arrives:

its good to know I will pass them on to our Mother she will like to see what you all did for him thoe it hard for her to still think he gone.

We stop off at the gas station to top off...and who's there but Bob! 

scratch and Bob:


scratch with his purple beauty on the right, and Bob's black beauty on the left:


Motley Crew 

it looks like you all had a good ride he would have like that im sure

Ah man, y'all are so lucky. I've always wanted to meet and ride with Bob and Scratch (and you others as well, but eh )

We arrive at Four Corners:









scratch speaks from the heart about Rich:




And creates our little memorial to Rich...

 

We didn't get any "action" shots (I'm not sure if anyone did?), so we'll fast forward to lunch:

Here we are, all lined up (thanks again for pulling me into my parking place, scratch  ):


I love it when scratch talks; he's so animated 



TheGoodGuy, the sweetiepie:


Handsome gent, lumpoffire:


*grumble* ok...one of me and TheGoodGuy:


The best pic of me so far!  sanjay is on my right (your left). Isn't he just the KEWTEST thang!? 


Don't tell Ceekie, but I think I have a crush on Bob 

TheGoodGuy has the group shots.....I have only one more....the latest damage to my baby 



The damage is already fixed. Ceekie took one of the mirrors from his son's totaled Gixxer 750 and replaced my broken one...I can ride to work this week! YAY!! 

Oh my GOD!  You killed your bike!     I hope that's your only damage.   

Sorry I couldn't make it this trip guys.  I didn't know I would be free until about 10:30 Saturday night.  I IM'd TheGoodGuy at about midnight, but didn't catch his reply until 9am.  (Not your fault, when I saw you log off at 12:30 I didn't expect you back!)     

I was going to take a drive up to 4-corners this morning and meet you, but the brakes on my truck aren't up for 9 at the moment.  I'm sorting out a master cylinder problem.  I need to ride my bike out here!   

Anyway, I know that tree at 4-corners.  I'll take a trip up there sometime.

Thanks for the pics.   

sounds like a good time. I look forward to our memorial ride on the 19th. Scratch, can I get a jpeg of the photo you used for the memorial? I was going to use the one on the site but yours is better.
pablo-

Quote from: pandy on July 09, 2006, 06:49:05 PM

Brian (friend of ktiger? or friend of friend of friend?), Ashley (another friend of friend of friend of friend of friend of ktiger??)

Brain friend of ktiger and Ashley friend of Brian

So pandy what's with your reluctance to be in pics?

I even have one of me posted somewhere, I look like radar from mash in it too.

It is beautiful.
Good chronicling pandy ... though you chopped off everything but your boobies ... so next time we'll have to indentify you with those ...  ...
Cool.
Srinath.

Quote from: CirclesCenter on July 10, 2006, 04:35:05 AM
So pandy what's with your reluctance to be in pics?

I value all the members of GSTwin WAY too much to inflict my ungawdessly visage upon them. 

Quote from: seshadri_srinath on July 10, 2006, 08:31:18 AM
Good chronicling pandy ... though you chopped off everything but your boobies ... so next time we'll have to indentify you with those ... 

That was part of my contract when john made me the purple moderator...must have bosom in pandy shots (but nothing else). I'm just holding up my end of the bargain. 

I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the pics that the others took.....well....the ones of the OTHER GSTwin members, that is. 

I have put the VIDEO of the memorial on my server. Its 11.x mb.. TAZZ if you want the orginal file email me.. manjul.bose@gmail.com

Anyway here is teh video. The rest of the pics i will do so tomorrow. As pandy says, i am getting swamped at work. Plus my internet has been flaky and slow as dialup tonight.

http://officespace.dyndns.org:8080/manjul/memorial.wmv

sorry its a windows media video file i will make it quick time later.

Manjul

Thank you for capturing scratch's words, Manjul.  Ceekie tried, too, but he was too close to the noisy Noras standing behind us. I thought the sound of the motorcycles arriving and leaving was apropos.