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Kept waiting for one of the main players to post up a ride report so I could do a nice, simple "gunny" to the:
"good food, good peeps, fantastic day to ride, weren't the hills pretty and green", but instead I had to start the topic because I'm sleepy and I wanted to thank Hycle for setting this up before I zonked.
Small crowd today - Mr. and Mrs. Hycle plus Bokerfork and AnneMarie two-up, and RicInSac and I - sans our better halves - all made it to El Dorado Hills roughly at the designated kickoff time. Up the hill to Plymouth with lots of 'ooh - green, green grass', 'aah - lookit the purty flowers', 'crap, that's a 2/3 grown turkey - hope his sibs don't make like chickens and cross the road' and of course 'Come on cars, git outta the way - these two-wheelers can actually negotiate corners at speed!'
In true CBA spirit, we made it to the second stop within about a half hour of setting off from El Dorado. And there was Sacramento Mike halfway through hisbreakfast brunch - his clock cam chain had slipped a tooth, so he was there an hour early, having thought he'd missed us in El Dorado.
HOLY CRAP, WHY DID I NOT KNOW about Marlene and Glen's Diner in Plymouth? They put out some quality grub (I think Bokerfork got a pic or two). After food, Hycle and company decided to continue on the path to caloric overload by heading to the Chocolate Factory, but I had just finished scrubbing in a new rear tire and felt the need for some light hooliganism. Sacramento Mike was of a similar mindset, so we said our farewells and headed back up 49 (hey, where'd all the cars go?) to 50 to Ice House Road to check on the status of Wentworth Springs Road.
Ice House Road is in pretty good shape - Some frost heaving, some crap in the road, mostly clean and smooth. I caught a rock hiding in the shadows and put a minor dent in my front rim :angry2: . Wentworth Springs Road is another story, completely covered in that funky white stuff you see in pics from places like upstate New York or Minnesota. Had another nice run back down Ice House Rd. and Hwy 50 before Sacramento Mike and I headed our separate ways in Placerville - I needed a brisk Hwys 49-193-49-80 run to pare down those rear chicken strips and he needed to get home in time for chores.
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"good food, good peeps, fantastic day to ride, weren't the hills pretty and green", but instead I had to start the topic because I'm sleepy and I wanted to thank Hycle for setting this up before I zonked.
Small crowd today - Mr. and Mrs. Hycle plus Bokerfork and AnneMarie two-up, and RicInSac and I - sans our better halves - all made it to El Dorado Hills roughly at the designated kickoff time. Up the hill to Plymouth with lots of 'ooh - green, green grass', 'aah - lookit the purty flowers', 'crap, that's a 2/3 grown turkey - hope his sibs don't make like chickens and cross the road' and of course 'Come on cars, git outta the way - these two-wheelers can actually negotiate corners at speed!'
In true CBA spirit, we made it to the second stop within about a half hour of setting off from El Dorado. And there was Sacramento Mike halfway through his
HOLY CRAP, WHY DID I NOT KNOW about Marlene and Glen's Diner in Plymouth? They put out some quality grub (I think Bokerfork got a pic or two). After food, Hycle and company decided to continue on the path to caloric overload by heading to the Chocolate Factory, but I had just finished scrubbing in a new rear tire and felt the need for some light hooliganism. Sacramento Mike was of a similar mindset, so we said our farewells and headed back up 49 (hey, where'd all the cars go?) to 50 to Ice House Road to check on the status of Wentworth Springs Road.
Ice House Road is in pretty good shape - Some frost heaving, some crap in the road, mostly clean and smooth. I caught a rock hiding in the shadows and put a minor dent in my front rim :angry2: . Wentworth Springs Road is another story, completely covered in that funky white stuff you see in pics from places like upstate New York or Minnesota. Had another nice run back down Ice House Rd. and Hwy 50 before Sacramento Mike and I headed our separate ways in Placerville - I needed a brisk Hwys 49-193-49-80 run to pare down those rear chicken strips and he needed to get home in time for chores.
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