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The Few, The Proud, The Hooligans 2-Day'r. 02/17 & 02/18.

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It's officially here! It's a holiday weekend so we're doing a 2-day 328 mile ride. Don't worry, there will be plenty of stops for gas and we will have food along the way. Note: Due to the varying conditions of the roads we're riding, this is not a newbie friendly ride.

I fully understand this is a long and time consuming ride. As such, we are starting from my house rather than a "meet point." I can host a solid three or four people in my pad Saturday night if you want to truck your bike up (I'd recommend doing that actually), or you can stay at a hotel in Santa Rosa / Windsor and just meet the rest of us at my place in the morning.

I know I know, you don't know where I live. Have no fear, I will PM those who are seriously interested in going with my home address. For those who just want to meet up at another location, we will be at Starbucks in Windsor around 0730 (8786 Lakewood Drive
Windsor, CA 95492) on Sunday morning.

When: Sunday 02/17/2008. Meet 0730 hours (at Starbucks, 0700 at my house). Leave 0800 sharp.
Where: Windsor, CA (NorCal!) (Either my house or Starbucks)
Pace: Hooligan.
Roads: Only about 25 miles of freeway. About 40 miles of dirt. About 200 miles of goat trail and the remainder of nice sweeping highways.
Bikes: Whatever, but its designed for motards.
What to bring: A liter or two of gas if you can. A liter or two of water. A toothbrush. Underwear. Whatever else you want. I'm packing light and bringing water/gas/clutch cable/toothbrush/underwear.... that's it.

Garret and I will be hosting the ride and we know the route, so we'll be leading/sweeping. We can mix it up in the middle of longer stretches if the faster people want to move ahead. Okay, I'll shut up and post the route:

Day-1:

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Start in Windsor. Take back roads to Skaggs Springs Road. Take Skaggs Springs Road out to the coast. Take the coast up to Fish Rock Road (dirt!). Take Fish Rock Road into Boonville where we'll get much needed lunch. Highway 128 back out to the coast from there. The HWY-1 north to Fort Bragg. We'll crash at a hotel, there are plenty of little shitty Best Westerns and what not for $55 a night or less -- we'll work that out as it gets closer and we have a better idea of how many people show. Those of you who want to bail out after day-1 can just head down the coast home if you wish. I'd recommend sleeping in Fort Bragg that night though.

Here's a link to the Complete Google Map of Day-1. I suggest you review it and maybe even print it.

Day-2:

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We'll leave at the same time this morning. From Fort BRagg we hit Sherwood Road (dirt!). From there it's Highway-20 towards Clearlake. We'll break off on Scott Valley Road so we don't have to touch HWY 29. Scott Valley into Lakeport and Highway 175 over to Hopland for more food. Mountain House Road over to Highway 128 and then Highway 128 into Cloverdale. From there we'll hit the much anticipated Geysers Road and spit us back out in Healdsburg. We'll be dead by then so we'll slab it the 10 miles south back into Windsor to my place where we can all relax and go home as we wish.

And as with day-1, here is the link to the complete Google Map of the day-2 route. Again, review it and maybe even print it.
 
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If I get the SM back in time (but I really doubt it!)
 
Oh and whoever is coming... if you know someone with a helmet cam setup or you have one -- BRING IT! I'll pack it around and wear it if you don't want to... but I'd like to get some video of this ride. I posted up a "please let me borrow your shit!" post, but if you got one.. bring it!
 
I will of course bring my point-shoot camera that takes decent vids, we can stop and play and shoot some stuff too.:)
 
I may be able to sneak out for the first part of the loop. Probably have to bug out at Boonville though.
Riding my XR680RR, coming from Santa Rosa.
 
motoidiot said:
I may be able to sneak out for the first part of the loop. Probably have to bug out at Boonville though.
Riding my XR680RR, coming from Santa Rosa.
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In the famous words of JP, "DO EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTT" (husqvarna)
 
SickR6 said:
i wish i had a Motard so i can go man that seems like its gonna be HELLA!!! FUN
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i've done all of those south of fort bragg on a zx10 with no problem..

that looks like a great ride, i wish i was not so useless that early.. :cry.
tempting, if i can get to sleep early enough..

wondering about the gas situation on 1 between skaggs and fish rock, the station at stewarts is closed. i do not remember if there is any at sea ranch, i usually go to point arena and cross over at mountain valley, i know there is some at healdburg, point arena, boonville and around fort ross. it's about 120 miles from healdsburg to boonville on that route.
 
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There's gas either at Stewarts Point or within 10 miles north or south of. Shouldn't be an issue.
 
antarius said:
There's gas either at Stewarts Point or within 10 miles north or south of. Shouldn't be an issue.
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the stewarts point station is closed and semi demolished, unless they built a new one in the last 6 months, but yes there is some 10 south, could not remember the north, but i looked at the google sat map and there appears to be one at sea ranch.... i had to go back and hit the south one once when they first closed the stewarts one.
 
this sounds bad assh! Wish I could squeeeeeeze it in.....great safe riding to all.
 
ntula said:
the stewarts point station is closed and semi demolished, unless they built a new one in the last 6 months, but yes there is some 10 south, could not remember the north, but i looked at the google sat map and there appears to be one at sea ranch.... i had to go back and hit the south one once when they first closed the stewarts one.
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Yeah there's a little two-pump station in Sea Ranch, along with an awesome little store that has the best microwavable foods. :)

There's also gas by Fish Rock Road (as well as a place that can change any flat tires we may have by then). Well, I take that back, he can't change them but he'll let us use his tools to change ours. :)
 
antarius said:
Sweeeeeeeeeeet!!!

Are you trucking up the morning of, or coming up Saturday night with Mortifer?
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he'll be joining me Sat evening.:)

guess I should get the Distanzias back on huh, will be nice to have a tiny bit of traction on all those dirt roads.:ride:party
 
Mortifer said:
he'll be joining me Sat evening.:)

guess I should get the Distanzias back on huh, will be nice to have a tiny bit of traction on all those dirt roads.:ride:party
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No need. The only part you'll be concerned with is the first portion of Sherwood Road. In fact, it might be impassable and we'll have to take anothe route. The rest of the road is hard-packed so it won't be an issue, but the first part is steep and in a lot of cases -- muddy as shit.

I'd stick with Pilot Powers.
 
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