OK. Here's our ride report. First off I'm real tired and I'll edit and post more later. Maybe. Feel free to add your photos from the ride and comments, etc. Sorry for the poor picture quality, my camera just plain sucks. I'll get a new one soon.
Everyone that signed up to go on the ride showed. AWESOME turn out. :yahoo: LGFJR even showed up on his own to just meet up with us, that was great. This was the most people on a ride to date on our last 3 rides, 14 bikes and 16 people. Shoot, we had two Dan's, two Dave's, and two Tony's. All the rest us should consider changing our names to one of those three names. Nearly 40% of the people were from San Diego! Great job guys and gals! You are dedicated to ride.
FJRBluesman (Simon)
Cort (friend of Simon's, he was on a Suzuki TL)
DocDanDC (Dan)
Tonyrob (Tony)
Slappy (Jerry)
Ynotride (Dan)
MojaveFJR 2-up (Dave & Kelly)
03Silverbullet (Steve)
FJstaR (Tony)
Yorkmeister (Gary)
Neil San Diego (Neil)
amansker & Jillian (Andy & of course Jillian)
Low Level FJR Pilot (Dave)
LgFJR (Larry)
We all met up at Starbucks in Long Beach (LB) and left on time. We ran into a rather messy traffic jam within the first 15 miles. The bridge going over the LB water ways had construction going on and 3 lanes went down to 1 lane. We're bikes so we did what we had to, to get ahead. We started losing time and maybe I set up a too aggressive ride for the time and we needed fuel so we blew past the first loop of Las Flores and got fuel in downtown Malibu, this was our first real stop. We stretched and got back under way and went up Latigo Canyon heading to the Rock Store. Here we started losing people.
03silverbullet with his 150K mile FeeJ lost his front brake line and it was best that he limp home with only the rears working and leaking fluid from the fronts. Steve can explain what happened in the post. Latigo Canyon is CRAZY twisties, but fun, just ask anyone who's been on it. Extremely tight turns. The FeeJ was very nimble in the turns and didn't really feel heavy, it was a blast. The machine felt right at home being tossed round from turn to turn effortlessly. When you timed all this correctly with the turn transition, weighting and un-weighting the suspension, it was just smooth as silk as it should be, at one with the machine. We passed through the dreaded wall area of Mulholland and sure enough a rider was down. A couple fire trucks, CHP, etc, were on the seen. Once past that, the ambulance was tearing it up passing us in the opposite direction to get to the fallen rider. I talked to one of the guys riding buddies at the Rock Store when they arrived, and he said the injured rider was high sided and got some extreme air (Maybe that should be an olympic event along with drifting). He probably broke his foot and tibia, otherwise he was OK.
We arrived at the Rock Store and we found out we lost Steve. Jerry, Dave, and Tony finally arrived a little later. Maybe Jerry had to adjust hisskirt kilt. Anyway we were all pretty much there. We looked at some real nice bikes and rested up and Larry informed us he was going to peel off and go to the Reagan Library. So now we're down two riders.
We headed to Malibu Canyon and made our way down the canyon and saw the recent fires that torched some state park areas, it smelled bad and looked bad.
We arrived at Malibu Seafood about 1pm and I think all would pretty much say that the 15 minute wait to order was worth it. The Fish & chips are the BEST!!! Some ordered chicken, bleghk! We relaxed on a terraced patio and had a cool sea breeze and enjoyed eating talking, and watching dolphins play in the ocean close to shore. My pix don't show it very well, maybe Andy got some good shots of them.
We then headed up Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) to Decker Canyon. That was crazy tight, even more so then Latigo but for less distance, and we also did Mulholland Hwy west, that was fun too. We ended up back at PCH farther north of course. Here we all parted ways to go home. Dan and Dan took off to Riverside. Dave & Kelly headed up the coast some more to cut in at the 126 and head back to Mojave. Andy & Jillian went up the coast to look for a place to camp, or maybe come back to Leo Carrillo State Beach camp site at Mulholland and PCH. I took off with the San Diego crowd to catch the 10 east and then go south on the 5. I lost the San Diego guys in downtown LA traffic. I pray everyone is OK.
The two-up riders did an awesome job, they were hanging in the turns with all of us solo pilots. Andy and Dave are excellent riders, and their pillions trust them well.
Lots of great twisties and fun with some great people. And to think, jordylad missed all this to moon the Amtrack train.
Nice to have met all y'all, and great seeing those that I have ridden with in the last few months. Take care, ride safe. Enjoy the pix.
The gang at starbucks.
Pit stop in Malibu.
Dan is glad we finally arrived at the Rock Store.
Gary & Larry are wondering when Hazmat will come clean up under this cool old HD flathead.
Lots of cool bikes parked at the Rock Store, especially that 2005 FeeJ!
FJR Forum Team huddle.
Lunch at Malibu Seafood
The San Diego bunch.
Tony & Cort talking Tech Geek junk.
I think Dave finally got a fishing pole to go catch his own fish.
Our lunch time view. Yep, it sucks living in Kalifornia.
I swear! There are dolphins in this picture, ask anyone!
Everyone that signed up to go on the ride showed. AWESOME turn out. :yahoo: LGFJR even showed up on his own to just meet up with us, that was great. This was the most people on a ride to date on our last 3 rides, 14 bikes and 16 people. Shoot, we had two Dan's, two Dave's, and two Tony's. All the rest us should consider changing our names to one of those three names. Nearly 40% of the people were from San Diego! Great job guys and gals! You are dedicated to ride.
FJRBluesman (Simon)
Cort (friend of Simon's, he was on a Suzuki TL)
DocDanDC (Dan)
Tonyrob (Tony)
Slappy (Jerry)
Ynotride (Dan)
MojaveFJR 2-up (Dave & Kelly)
03Silverbullet (Steve)
FJstaR (Tony)
Yorkmeister (Gary)
Neil San Diego (Neil)
amansker & Jillian (Andy & of course Jillian)
Low Level FJR Pilot (Dave)
LgFJR (Larry)
We all met up at Starbucks in Long Beach (LB) and left on time. We ran into a rather messy traffic jam within the first 15 miles. The bridge going over the LB water ways had construction going on and 3 lanes went down to 1 lane. We're bikes so we did what we had to, to get ahead. We started losing time and maybe I set up a too aggressive ride for the time and we needed fuel so we blew past the first loop of Las Flores and got fuel in downtown Malibu, this was our first real stop. We stretched and got back under way and went up Latigo Canyon heading to the Rock Store. Here we started losing people.
03silverbullet with his 150K mile FeeJ lost his front brake line and it was best that he limp home with only the rears working and leaking fluid from the fronts. Steve can explain what happened in the post. Latigo Canyon is CRAZY twisties, but fun, just ask anyone who's been on it. Extremely tight turns. The FeeJ was very nimble in the turns and didn't really feel heavy, it was a blast. The machine felt right at home being tossed round from turn to turn effortlessly. When you timed all this correctly with the turn transition, weighting and un-weighting the suspension, it was just smooth as silk as it should be, at one with the machine. We passed through the dreaded wall area of Mulholland and sure enough a rider was down. A couple fire trucks, CHP, etc, were on the seen. Once past that, the ambulance was tearing it up passing us in the opposite direction to get to the fallen rider. I talked to one of the guys riding buddies at the Rock Store when they arrived, and he said the injured rider was high sided and got some extreme air (Maybe that should be an olympic event along with drifting). He probably broke his foot and tibia, otherwise he was OK.
We arrived at the Rock Store and we found out we lost Steve. Jerry, Dave, and Tony finally arrived a little later. Maybe Jerry had to adjust his
We headed to Malibu Canyon and made our way down the canyon and saw the recent fires that torched some state park areas, it smelled bad and looked bad.
We arrived at Malibu Seafood about 1pm and I think all would pretty much say that the 15 minute wait to order was worth it. The Fish & chips are the BEST!!! Some ordered chicken, bleghk! We relaxed on a terraced patio and had a cool sea breeze and enjoyed eating talking, and watching dolphins play in the ocean close to shore. My pix don't show it very well, maybe Andy got some good shots of them.
We then headed up Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) to Decker Canyon. That was crazy tight, even more so then Latigo but for less distance, and we also did Mulholland Hwy west, that was fun too. We ended up back at PCH farther north of course. Here we all parted ways to go home. Dan and Dan took off to Riverside. Dave & Kelly headed up the coast some more to cut in at the 126 and head back to Mojave. Andy & Jillian went up the coast to look for a place to camp, or maybe come back to Leo Carrillo State Beach camp site at Mulholland and PCH. I took off with the San Diego crowd to catch the 10 east and then go south on the 5. I lost the San Diego guys in downtown LA traffic. I pray everyone is OK.
The two-up riders did an awesome job, they were hanging in the turns with all of us solo pilots. Andy and Dave are excellent riders, and their pillions trust them well.
Lots of great twisties and fun with some great people. And to think, jordylad missed all this to moon the Amtrack train.
Nice to have met all y'all, and great seeing those that I have ridden with in the last few months. Take care, ride safe. Enjoy the pix.
The gang at starbucks.
Pit stop in Malibu.
Dan is glad we finally arrived at the Rock Store.
Gary & Larry are wondering when Hazmat will come clean up under this cool old HD flathead.
Lots of cool bikes parked at the Rock Store, especially that 2005 FeeJ!
FJR Forum Team huddle.
Lunch at Malibu Seafood
The San Diego bunch.
Tony & Cort talking Tech Geek junk.
I think Dave finally got a fishing pole to go catch his own fish.
Our lunch time view. Yep, it sucks living in Kalifornia.
I swear! There are dolphins in this picture, ask anyone!
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