San Francisco Scooter Girls hosted a ride in the pride parade today. The theme was Brides of Pride . It was pretty fun. Everyone was hootin' and hollerin' and we were in front of the infamous Dykes on Bikes. It was very much more organized than last year [when I was a spectator]. Everyone was a bit spread out. This time, we were riding in lines of two and closer together, so I'm sure it looked very nice. I wonder if Hooters on Scooters was there again this year.
We rode up from the south bay via 101 this morning and it was pretty cold. Besides the coldness and the weird heavy grooves in the road, it wasn't too bad. The ride back down was a lot worse with the winds.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Free
As of over an hour ago, I am a free agent. I no longer belong to a scooter club.
As of Friday lunch, we are no longer going to Tahoe for the rally. What a shame. I got packs and a rear rack and everything.
As of Friday lunch, we are no longer going to Tahoe for the rally. What a shame. I got packs and a rear rack and everything.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Three Peaks
Saturday was VCLG's annual 3 peaks challenge- ride to Mt Hamilton (southbay), Mt Diablo (eastbay), and Mt Tamalpais (northbay) in one day. Mt Hamilton was definitely the most technical. The backside to Livermore was really hot (44 C). Mt Diablo was nice and the view was pretty. We had to cross Richmond bridge to get to the northbay which was nerve wracking for me. I did survive. Mt Tamalpais had the BEST view ever of the coast AND the bay. Just beautiful. Crossing over Golden Gate Bridge into SF was very cold.
250+ miles in hot HOT weather.
Got to break in my new rear tire- a heidenau. Much more stable on grooved roads than my old Michelin Pilot City
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250+ miles in hot HOT weather.
Got to break in my new rear tire- a heidenau. Much more stable on grooved roads than my old Michelin Pilot City
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Rear rack - I has it
After much debate and the fact we're riding up to Tahoe w/o a support truck, I decided to get a rack.
It was interesting figuring out how to install it without instructions. All I really needed was a phillips head screwdriver and a 10 mm hexagon head screwdriver.
It was interesting figuring out how to install it without instructions. All I really needed was a phillips head screwdriver and a 10 mm hexagon head screwdriver.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Kids and vespas
Kids and vespas go together like **. Jacob was down on Sunday so I brought him out to my vespa to snap some shots of him. Absolutely adorable.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Tribute to Hech Hechy
On the way to lunch, Mike decided to lead us up to Pulgas Water Temple - where water from Hech Hechy in Yosemite ends up.
The ride up started off slow. We kept hitting all the red lights along Foothill Expressway. Then, we had to turn around many times because we kept passing the street we were supposed to turn on along Portola Road. We also ended up on 280N which was very windy.
Eventually we go there. It was very pretty. While we were there, there was a couple doing a wedding rehearsal. Two men were playing frisbee from across the pool.
On the way back, we took Mountain Home Road which had some slow sweeps. We even happened upon a couple people crossing the street on horses. Pretty nice ride.
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The ride up started off slow. We kept hitting all the red lights along Foothill Expressway. Then, we had to turn around many times because we kept passing the street we were supposed to turn on along Portola Road. We also ended up on 280N which was very windy.
Eventually we go there. It was very pretty. While we were there, there was a couple doing a wedding rehearsal. Two men were playing frisbee from across the pool.
On the way back, we took Mountain Home Road which had some slow sweeps. We even happened upon a couple people crossing the street on horses. Pretty nice ride.
More here
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Visor install complete
I finally got around to installing the Jettin visor on Alex. It was kind of a pain. First, I cracked/half broke one of the tabs while pulling off the headset (it was much easier last time when I changed the signals). Then, since the visor was shipped in a mini box, it lost its semi-sphere shape. I had to remold it around the headlight- doable since it is metal. Even then, it was hard to get the tabs in between the headset and headlight.
No losses today, except for a stupid plastic plug that was plugging the hole from the removed stock turn signal pods, and the broken tab.
No losses today, except for a stupid plastic plug that was plugging the hole from the removed stock turn signal pods, and the broken tab.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Tahoe plan, version 1
We're planning to ride up to South Lake Tahoe next month for Royal Bastards Scooter Club's rally Lake Tahoe II: Blazing Saddles (July 11-13, 2008).
This is our first draft of the route up
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220ish miles, 5ish hrs.
This is our first draft of the route up
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220ish miles, 5ish hrs.
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Summit Road
For today's "First Sunday Ride", VCLG lead us into the Santa Cruz Mountains to check out the fire damage on Summit Road. Little did we know that it would be completely nothing but dirty, sand, potholes, and rocks. It was definitely a trip riding there and took forever. Multiple times we had to stop and wait for the fire crew to clear up the road. The fire crew was very nice and let us go on the road [On the way up, some punk in a truck said it was a private road and we weren't allowed to be up there. We believe he was just angry that the fire crew told him to turn back and leave.] and told us how long we'd have to wait for them to finish clearing it up.
Anyways, the fire damage was pretty depressing to see. This one family stopped some of the scooterists and asked if they've seen a yellow lab. We also saw this one really bad looking dog, whose owner's house probably burned down, while going around the corner
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Anyways, the fire damage was pretty depressing to see. This one family stopped some of the scooterists and asked if they've seen a yellow lab. We also saw this one really bad looking dog, whose owner's house probably burned down, while going around the corner
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