Freaking wine tasting ghey's in NorCal

[BBIII]

Friday I went for a ride around my area in NorCal. I went from Cameron Park to Grizzly flat, a scary fu@king road with ICE all over that road. Then I came back via the local winery roads and was cut off no less that 5 times by idiots in mini vans pulling out from wineries that didn't see me. I wasn't going fast, but they tried to keep up with me. One minivan slid off the road and crashed behind me. A Corvette also HAD to get in front of me...he did and he crashed on a turn. Because there was no cell service, and I didn't have a gun to kill them I saw no reason to stop. Am I a bad citizen or was I just letting darwin do his job??

 

[odot]

All cagers who can learn to ride a scoot and don't can hang! :angry:

 

[FJRottie]

Natural Selection at work.

Driving is a privilege not a right; so if the morons want to play stupid, suffer the consequences.

The planet is overpopulated. If an idiot hurts or kills himself because of his stupidity........bye.

 

[TheRepairMan]

DAMN !!!

What tires do you run on your Feejer in those road conditions?

Guess I never had the balls to try that. :fool:

And for you East Coast Sippers

SEE BILTMORE WINERY

https://www.travelenvoy.com/wine/north.htm

I can't believe they didn't mention the N.C. side of The Tail of The Dragon, U.S. 129. Fine whine indeed! unk:

 

[leebunyard]

I've cut firewood up in the Grizzly Flat area for years, have also run some 100 mile offroad Enduro mc races in the area. Grizzly Flat Road is a beautiful, scenic stretch of road but very dangerous, always has been. Narrow, twisty, usually black ice spots during the winter, lotsa locals who drink and drive at the same time. Have known probably a half dozen people who have totalled their vehicles in the area either getting hit or run off the road. I avoid the road on a mc, dangerous enough in a car or truck.

I ran an Enduro race up there years ago, got off course and lost, saw two mountain lions and ran up a road to a cabin seeking directions back to our camp, discovered a large pot field, got the hell out of there fast as they shoot you for setting foot in their pot garden up there. Finally found a paved Forest Service road I recognized, rode illegally 20 miles on that road back to camp.

Good road to avoid as far as I'm concerned.

Lee in the Mountains of Northern California B)

 

[Rogue]

I'm sure the will all report to the local LEO that you ran them off the road!

 

[Bike Effects]

...... Then I came back via the local winery roads and was cut off no less that 5 times by idiots in mini vans pulling out from wineries that didn't see me.

You are just riding in the wrong winery area! Let me know when you want to sample some of the roads in the REAL Wine Country.

 

[Tilly]

'Tis the season, every third cager out there has been drinking, and the rest are in a hurry to get somewhere to buy somenthing. Be careful!

 

[painman]

My parents had a cabin up there for over 20 years and I use to ride my Yamaha TT250 all over those hills. I could ride for a week and never touch pavement. A couple of times I came back to the cabin I unknowingly had got fish hooks in my jacket from the pot growers (intruders nets) but know what you mean about the road coming in. Under the trees can be slick when it's cool. A good road to ride on the pavement up there is Iron Mountain Rd., some good straights with some long sweeper's and tight twisty's. Ride safe, Painman. <><

 

[leebunyard]

Painman--You're right, Iron Mountain Road (aka Sly Park Road, aka Mormon Emigrant Trail) is a nice mc road linking Hiway 50 and Hiway 88. I've cut firewood for years up that way also. Dangerous road though from the standpoint of bear and deer suddenly bolting across the roadway, so be SUPER alert. The Forest Service lets the trees and brush grow right out to the edge of the road and it's a fairly narrow two lane road, so critters can be at the edge of the road unseen and suddenly run across. I don't know how many near misses I've had.

Some of you may remember years back that this is the same road on which an old truck filled with firewood loaded by a church group lost control when it's brakes failed on one of the long downhill sections and overturned and crashed headon into a group of HD riders coming the other way. The crash occurred on a turn in a narrow chasm area of the road where there was no side room to get off the road and avoid the truck--something like 7-8 riders were killed. Bad news.

Lee in the Mountains of Northern California B)

 

[BBIII]

DAMN !!!
What tires do you run on your Feejer in those road conditions?

Guess I never had the balls to try that. :fool:

That was my first and last trip on Grizzly Flat road on the MC. Like Lee said the ice is where the trees cover the road. I just held my speed without accelerating or decelerating to get through the patches of ice.

The cagers that went sliding off the road were on the dry stuff. There are long stretches where I was going "fast" (90MPH) and then you come upon a true 20 MPH turn that has no signs, since I know those roads very well I had no problems, the drunken cagers didn't fare so well. I was really suprised the Vette couldn't handle the road, I think most sports cars can corner better than I can since I don't drag pegs.