Last Rides

[Mad4TheCrest]

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[Fatfatboy]

We came upon this eclectic fence in the middle of farm country on our last ride. I thought it was quite unique.

[m143]

Why? I guess for me it's because threading SoCal traffic on a motorcycle may be the ultimate video game. 😳



I'd like to try it!

[hacksaw]

Not me. I want to live.
Plus I never got into video games.
Pinball Forever!

[hacksaw]

Fatfatboy wrote

We came upon this eclectic fence in the middle of farm country on our last ride. I thought it was quite unique.

Must have been quite some cow that died.

[Fatfatboy]

It was Betsy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0278Hs_8dvc&feature=sharea

[hacksaw]

Holy Cow!
Burl Ives died in 1995.
so i have my doubts.

[oldironnow]

Road Ratana north to Sears Point to hang with a friend at his automobile trackday.

It was interesting to checkout the machinery, and it’s always good to be at Sears.

Road home via Hwy92 from 280, up the hill leapfrogging on the double yellow around stopped traffic to the summit. I wish I would’ve stopped to take pictures of the ocean fog tearing over the ridge line into the Bay Area. I didn’t trust Ratana to stay on its sidestand. Also, I’m greedy for fun.

Road past Alice’s and rolled in onto Hwy9 north, downhill from the ridge all the way into Saratoga… Possibly, almost certainly, the best section of road I have ever ridden.
Empty. Smooth. Wide. Clean. Cambered. Constant-radius corners arcing downhill.

The sensation of riding a child’s swing came to mind: feeling the pressure of the apex, and lifting up and out, eyes searching for the way forward, decompressing the suspension over the rise, feeling the lightness, flying, winging over, tipping in and feeling the pressure build once more. Again with another apex ahead with a clear view through and out.

To ride, and to Live.




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[oldironnow]

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[Mad4TheCrest]

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[Mad4TheCrest]

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[hacksaw]

Well…
They don’t make anything like they used to .
And I said that 22 years ago !
Lol.

Be glad you have the roads you got .
Many are long crowded or over rebuilt.

The one thing people lost when the switched from horses.
There was true partnership there. I don’t get along well with horses . So I am glad for motorcycles.

[hacksaw]

Yugo?

[oldironnow]

hacksaw wrote

Yugo?

It's a Datsun 510.
Two were out there on track.

In the world of EFI, they stood out as odd, stuttering around the track in the first session, trying to get the carbs warmed up.

[oldironnow]

Echoing hacksaw, Good for the two of you!

I see that 33 out of Ojai is still closed as well.

[hacksaw]

Wow ! Datsun .

I knew a girl once whom had a Datsun.
A yellow honey bee.

[hacksaw]

[Mad4TheCrest]

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[oldironnow]

Amazing!

I had a B210 hatchback!
Those cars were so tiny.
It had a ball hitch, and I would trailer my SR500 to the races.

The clutch wore out going to a race.
I couldn't pull Hwy17's summit.
And even limping around the base of the range on Hwy129, the engine would tach-up at the slightest throttle.

I didn't make that race, but when I did the clutch that weekend, I could rest the transmission on my chest when I pulled it off the engine.


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[oldironnow]

Mad4TheCrest wrote

oldironnow wrote

Echoing hacksaw, Good for the two of you!

I see that 33 out of Ojai is still closed as well.

Yeah, that wet winter did a number on our local roads, with no guarantee of repair before the rains come back to mess them up again. The 'Snake' on Mulholland is closed too.

Then this really IS the end times.


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