Angeles Crest Ride, May 9

[Neil San Diego]

Here it is at long last. Our ride report for last Sat (May 9).

The players:

Slappy (Gerry) and Shawn:

Santa Fe Dreaming (Lanny):

Ynotride (Dan):

Neil San Diego and Janet:

(sorry, no picture available at this time - feel free to insert cool pictures of beautiful people)

Gerry and Shawn, Lanny, and Neil and Janet met in Temecula for the quick ride up to Redlands where Dan was patiently waiting for us. We picked a very patriotic gas station for the meet. They fly a huge-mongus flag. You can't tell from the picture, but this thing is as big as a house!:

In the parking lot there were several Corvettes meeting up for a club drive. In the mix was this:

Cool start to the morning!

Off to Redlands to get Dan at the Redlands Starbucks. That was easy to find, because there is only one Starbucks in the whole L.A. basin area. I think. Anyway…

We rode up to Big Bear Lake from the south-east side on the 38. Got into Big Bear and made a stop for lunch.

Dan, Lanny and Shawn giving the menus a good lookin’ at:

Shawn and Gerry:

Gerry’s new dayglo-yellow jacket patiently watching over the bikes in the parking lot:

(Gerry never said, but I think that thing uses 8 “D” cells a day)

After lunch we rode across to Lake Arrowhead and down the 18. From there we slabbed it across the 10 to the 243 for a fun ride up to Idyllwild. After some sodas and some BS-ing, we headed for home. Dan headed for parts north across the 74, and Gerry and Shawn, Lanny, and Janet and I went south on Sage road for one last bit of fun before the day was through.

Here’s the feejer getting ready to head into the barn for the night. Lots of bugs on the windshield. Not sure what those critters were eating, but they were eating a lot of it.

Sorry, didn’t get very many pictures. But Old Michael will be happy - no pics of me this time. :lol:

 

[johnny80s]

Very nice Neil. Looked like lot of fun.

 

[ynotride]

Thanks for posting pix. Looking forward to the next one :clapping:

 

[Santa Fe Dreamin']

Neil:

Good report. Nice pictures. Especially the one with me.

 

[Old Michael]

Thank you Neil.

But you take the lunch pictures AFTER the food comes, and everyone is shoveling it in. :lol:

Wondering, do you guys ever just get sick of beautiful weather?

Take care.

 

[Neil San Diego]

Thank you Neil.But you take the lunch pictures AFTER the food comes, and everyone is shoveling it in. :lol:

Wondering, do you guys ever just get sick of beautiful weather?

Take care.

No time for pictures after the food comes. Gotta eat ya know. Anyone who grew up with alot of siblings knows this rule.

Beautiful weather? Are you kidding me? There was some fog in the morning! And then it got all the way up to 90 in the afternoon!! How can a guy and his posse possibly enjoy the day under such stressful condtions? :dntknw: :lol: But we endeavered to persevere...

And Lanny...no matter how beautiful you are on film, you still owe us a tour of Idylwild... :yahoo:

 

[FJRBluesman]

Didn't you people go to Big Bear???? What's with the title? :blink:

Glad I didn't go since Jerry was there. I heard Johnny80s was going to show and eat everyone's food. :dribble:

Looked like a great day and fun ride. WIWT. Next time.

 

[Neil San Diego]

Didn't you people go to Big Bear???? What's with the title? :blink:

...oopsie... Left over from original plans. At least I didn't say we went on the 16th...

We missed you Simon...someone needs to keep Slappy in line. Next time, assign someone to take your place in this important task if you can't be there personally. See you next time!