Photos of your bike on location

[Lonster]

joint point on coleman valley road.

This is the way.

 

[Gary856]

Uvas Rd, the old bridge next to the new. I wish they would keep the old bridge (just because I like old buildings/structures for nostalgia's sake), but I'm guessing they'll tear it down shortly, and people will soon forget how it used to be.

 

[Gary856]

Larsen-Loma Chiquita Rd. The 690sm is fun on this kind of road, except it runs hot crawling at low speed in first gear.

That looks like a milk cow.

 

[berth]

I didn't know that Chick Fil'A sponsored water trucks.

 

[budman]

Milk cow...

 

[Enchanter]

Location: Middle School
Event: Surprised her with a ride home. Her first street ride. Just about a mile.

 

[stratslingr77]

That's a cool Sportster!

 

[two wheel tramp]

Location: Middle School
Event: Surprised her with a ride home. Her first street ride. Just about a mile.

who authorized her to grow up and be in middle school?!?

 

[GAJ]

Location: Middle School
Event: Surprised her with a ride home. Her first street ride. Just about a mile.

So now you're the "cool dad" to all the kids.

Never p/u my daughter from school on the bike but did in the 280z and then the Miata.

The kids eventually named me "Demon Geoff" on a school trip as I scoffed at the "rules" the moms on that trip tried to set up for them. I would take them down the hill on the trip to Catalina so I could have a beer and they could play pool.

 

[Gary856]

Quimby Rd. Belted Galloway cows wearing their wool sweaters. They weren't skittish.

San Antonio Valley Rd, next to Isabel Creek bridge. How well can you estimate distance and time? I was surprised to see it's only 5.2 miles from here to the summit (bottom of Lick Observatory driveway); took about 9 minutes but felt longer, with all the twists and turns.

Kincaid Rd

 

[budman]

You da man Gary. Historically such a great thread.

Can’t wait to retire and participate accordingly.

Enchanter pic is awesome. Such an awesome Dad.

 

[Gary856]

The Puig touring screen replaced the useless OEM screen; now I sit in a quiet bubble. Despite many people claiming the GS being the best bike in the world, it's truck-ish in size and feel - reminds me of a Ford Expedition. It's torquey, but it's not OMG kind of power delivery (like a S1000XR).

It's so interesting how the rain is localized to the terrain. It was barely wet on city streets, and the rain became instantly HARD as soon as I turned into the hills.

Willow Springs Rd

Alamitos Rd

Hicks Rd

 

[budman]

Diehard stuff Gary

 

[Gary856]

A short ride on a dry day. Little Uvas Rd.

A pretty private driveway

 

[CDONA]

Went warmer, south to Montana Del Oro, lesser of the biting wind, over Cayucos. Big wind pushing bigger rollers, after a rain

 

[CDONA]

Puddled water, drained away, from this low spot, left it soft.
I rolled off the road and started sinking (4"), reflex added throttle, lost a bit of traction. Sorry Mr. State Ranger, , ,

Lookie what happened when I got home, , ,

Using up, a little here, a bit more over there, , ,

 

[berth]

Time to trade that in and get one with 55-60K on it.

 

[GAJ]

Puddled water, drained away, from this low spot, left it soft.
I rolled off the road and started sinking (4"), reflex added throttle, lost a bit of traction. Sorry Mr. State Ranger, , ,

Lookie what happened when I got home, , ,

Using up, a little here, a bit more over there, , ,

70,000 miles is an impressive number for a scrambler.

 

[Gary856]

Happy to have the DR650 with full knobbies for today's ride.

Redwood Retreat Rd

Pretty little waterfall, but I was pretty worried about one of those precarious looking giant redwood trees crashing down so I didn't linger.

 

[Gary856]

Summit Rd.

Still there...