Second Annual NorCal New Year's Day Ride???

[madmike2]

I would like to propose that we pick a breakfast spot closer to Sacramento, then do a loop that splits the difference between Excremento and the Bay Area, although it'll be quite east of the Bay Area. I would like to have a reasonable trip time to breakfast and then home.
Also, if it rains, fuggetaboutit.

Jb

It would be easy to run down the delta roads to Rio Vista and back. I assume the ferrys will be running, but IIRC, they may be closed 2 days a year. Someone might call CalTrans to be sure. There are some interesting twisty backroads besides Hwy 160 that I've shown to the local guys around here. JB could peel off and head home from Rio Vista if he wanted. Breakfast in W. Sac? Any others coming from the West: Dixon, Vacaville, Fairfield? That still leaves Bluestreek with the longish 1 hour commute from Marysville and uberkul from the hinterlands above Jackson.....Probably more central to everyone, even the guy from Auburn, good old "what's-his-name"....

Hans, I don't think anyone wants to ride in the wet-falling-down-stuff.

 

[exskibum]

Outside the vicinity of the Napa Valley, what roads are there between Excremento and the Gay Area that aren't relatively straight slab or fog shrouded lowlands close to population centers? Seems we need a breakfast spot, an ending point and an outline of the route. I sure don't know that area well enough, but am familiar enough with the main transportation corridors to understand JB's concern -- with all the vacation end homeward commute traffic trying to jam way too many people back into the Gay Area on New Year's day afternoon and evening, it's bound to take hours to get home.

BTW, as of right now, it's raining hard here and likely snowing hard above about 4,500 feet. There may be an adequate depth of frozen white alternative to carve turns on real soon. :exhappysmiley:

 

[HYCLE]

I would like to propose that we pick a breakfast spot closer to Sacramento, then do a loop that splits the difference between Excremento and the Bay Area, although it'll be quite east of the Bay Area. I would like to have a reasonable trip time to breakfast and then home.
Also, if it rains, fuggetaboutit.

Jb

It would be easy to run down the delta roads to Rio Vista and back. I assume the ferrys will be running, but IIRC, they may be closed 2 days a year. Someone might call CalTrans to be sure. There are some interesting twisty backroads besides Hwy 160 that I've shown to the local guys around here. JB could peel off and head home from Rio Vista if he wanted. Breakfast in W. Sac? Any others coming from the West: Dixon, Vacaville, Fairfield? That still leaves Bluestreek with the longish 1 hour commute from Marysville and uberkul from the hinterlands above Jackson.....Probably more central to everyone, even the guy from Auburn, good old "what's-his-name"....

Hans, I don't think anyone wants to ride in the wet-falling-down-stuff.

I have no problem with an hour or more ride before breakfast. I do agree with MM that West Sac is more central as a starting point then, head for the hills.

Auburn, El dorado Hills, Lincoln, are all about two hours from Concord or Napa. Where could we meet in West Sacramento? Eppies?

 

[Toecutter]

I guess I'll just have to do some local-to-me stuff, up around Bass Lake or sumptin....

I get off duty about 0800 that morning, which leaves me too far away to make anything in time. Y'all have a blast! No asphalt surfing, OK?

 

[HYCLE]

Outside the vicinity of the Napa Valley, what is there to ride between Excremento and the Gay Area that isn't relatively straight slab or fog shrouded lowlands close to population centers? Seems we need someone to propose a breakfast spot, an ending point and an outline of the route. I sure don't know that area well enough, but am familiar enough with the main transportation corridors to understand JB's concern -- with all the vacation end homeward commute traffic trying to jam way too many people back into the Gay Area on New Year's day afternoon and evening, it's bound to take hours to get home.

I don't see traffic as a problem for JB. I think it's the getting up early to ride, but he has done it before. For me the early morning freeway speed is 80 to 90 miles an hour while Leo is having coffee. New Years morning might be a totaly different story. So If we meet at West Sac for breakfast then ride up toward Auburn or Placerville, stopping along the way to pick up more riders who don't want breakfast would work too. Then the ones who drank too much coffee at breakfast could recycle some liquid back to the delta. Ride some of the EXcellent roads until lunch. Then the big fun would be a good lunch spot where we would all be together. After lunch if some needed to head back to faraway places they could make it home before dark. Locals and crazy folks like me could ride into the night if they wanted to.

 

[madmike2]

I have no problem with an hour or more ride before breakfast. I do agree with MM that West Sac is more central as a starting point then, head for the hills. Auburn, El dorado Hills, Lincoln, are all about two hours from Concord or Napa. Where could we meet in West Sacramento? Eppies?

If you are going to meet in West Sac, Eppies has been bought out and is.....well....I'd meet at Baker's Square on Harbor, just South of I-80.

Or you could meet where we did last year @ Brookfields on Madison, just North of I-80.

Outside the vicinity of the Napa Valley, what roads are there between Excremento and the Gay Area that aren't relatively straight slab or fog shrouded lowlands close to population centers?

Uhm....running along the Sacto River isn't likely to be foggy after breakfast neither is it very straight, it just isn't the Sierras. Heading South on Jefferson, then L. 45 degrees at the fire station onto Gregory will have you twisting and turning, then a hard left under the railroad trestle and up onto the River road South, through Clarksburg another 7 1/2 miles to R on Courtland Rd., which is straight for about 5-8 miles, then once on the levees Ryer Island Rd. South toward Rio Vista is anything but straight, more like "sportbike heaven". If one passes the ferry to Rio Vista and continues on Ryer Island Rd. E back toward the ferry across Steamboat Slough then heads South to Hwy 220 to Ryde...that is also a yee-haw stretch of roadway. Or you could turn L coming off the ferry and take Grand Island Rd. until it deadends onto 160. Then you could go R and head down to Walnut Grove and cross over to Locke for a coffee stop. Yeah, its more sweeperish than twisty, but it isn't flat and straight.

BUT, this isn't my ride...I'm just throwing opinions from the grandstand.

 

[SilveradoSlick]

I would consider it but...Uh Oh? This means to attend this ride, I will need a place to stay, somewhere in Nor Cal on New Year's Eve?

We've got spare beds in Cameron Park (between Folsom and Placerville).

 

[James Burleigh]

I'm not proposing literally between Sack-a-Tomatoes and The Most Beautiful Area in the World, including the Delta. I'm just saying, instead of start at breakfast way north of Sac and then head even further north, let's meet closer to Sac and head north east, looping back southward in the foothills so that we come out at, I don't know, Hwy 50, or back in through Lodi, for an hour ride back home.

Jb

 

[Cello II]

Curiosity dogs this old kat. I had reason to be in Auburn today, so I rode Iowa Hill to see the conditions. Wet road..already plowed and sanded; slush from snow appears on the road just before the reservoir and from there on up it is like a winter wonderland. I never slipped or slid on anything the whole way. So it is doable right now and for as long as it is above freezing!

Alan

 

[HYCLE]

How about start with breakfast at Brookfields on Madison near I80. Then follow Exskibum around the Auburn area then down towards Plymouth, San Andreas area for lunch. JB, Ex what do you think? I don't know the roads and will follow the guy in front of me to wherever. I got my new Russell seat and need to get Terri out for a ride, she will only come if it's not too cold.

Mike W.

 

[James Burleigh]

How about start with breakfast at Brookfields on Madison near I80. Then follow Exskibum around the Auburn area then down towards Plymouth, San Andreas area for lunch. JB, Ex what do you think? I don't know the roads and will follow the guy in front of me to wherever. I got my new Russell seat and need to get Terri out for a ride, she will only come if it's not too cold.
Mike W.

I say we meet for breakfast somewhere on 50, like Rancho Cordova or El Dorado Hills. Then we head southeast, toodly-dooing up and around the area you suggest, Hycle. You and I would finally come out on 88.

Without knowing the area, I'm looking at, generally speaking:

Latrobe Rd to 16 to 49 to Plymouth

Plymouth-Shenandoah Rd to River Pines

Mt Aukum Rd to Coyoteville

Omo Ranch Road to 88

88 southwest to Jackson for a stop and depending on time, meal.

Head home

 

[James Burleigh]

I guess I'll just have to do some local-to-me stuff, up around Bass Lake or sumptin....
I get off duty about 0800 that morning, which leaves me too far away to make anything in time. Y'all have a blast! No asphalt surfing, OK?

If the Toe-meister were a genuine candidate, then we could possibly meet for brunch instead of lunch. That way I could sleep in too.

 

[Last Chance]

My first Forum ride was the 2007 New Year's Day Ride organized by MadMikeII, a.k.a. Old Fat ******* . That's when I got to meet Mad and Ric and Rich and Rog and Uber and RsvlFeej and others for the first time--and learned what pricks they all are BTW :glare: ).
But I'm willing to ride with them again anyway, for Auld Lang Syne. And of course the word in hospital emergency rooms, ambulance cabs, and EMT circles is that Mad is back on the horse that threw him (so they are all poised to act quickly). Maybe he'll be mended enough by then to lead us, or at least lead us to a rendezvous point.

So I throw out the question as to whether we ought to organize, weather permitting, a second annual (at least for me) Northern California ride on New Year's Day 2008.

This link will help us all remember what a grand time we all had not so long ago....

Jb

As a new Junior Member of the Crash Club, I will be out of service for a little while.... Til the parts get here and the pain goes away. :dribble: :blink:

LC

 

[exskibum]

How about start with breakfast at Brookfields on Madison near I80. Then follow Exskibum around the Auburn area then down towards Plymouth, San Andreas area for lunch. JB, Ex what do you think? I don't know the roads and will follow the guy in front of me to wherever. I got my new Russell seat and need to get Terri out for a ride, she will only come if it's not too cold.
Mike W.

I say we meet for breakfast somewhere on 50, like Rancho Cordova or El Dorado Hills. Then we head southeast, toodly-dooing up and around the area you suggest, Hycle. You and I would finally come out on 88.

Without knowing the area, I'm looking at, generally speaking:

Latrobe Rd to 16 to 49 to Plymouth

Plymouth-Shenandoah Rd to River Pines

Mt Aukum Rd to Coyoteville

Omo Ranch Road to 88

88 southwest to Jackson for a stop and depending on time, meal.

Head home

You guys set it up and I'll consider it -- ask Uberkul to expound, since he's the one who best knows that area.

But a better alternative may be 7 - 7:30 am Subaru Outback expedition up 80 to Sugar Bowl or 49 south to 88 east to Kirkwood. Several hours of sliding, followed by return trip to Auburn for sleep before work the next day. Heavy precipitation is a bonus -- most people leave the mountain for the rest of us to enjoy in the silence of accumulating powder.

 

[HYCLE]

How about start with breakfast at Brookfields on Madison near I80. Then follow Exskibum around the Auburn area then down towards Plymouth, San Andreas area for lunch. JB, Ex what do you think? I don't know the roads and will follow the guy in front of me to wherever. I got my new Russell seat and need to get Terri out for a ride, she will only come if it's not too cold.
Mike W.

I say we meet for breakfast somewhere on 50, like Rancho Cordova or El Dorado Hills. Then we head southeast, toodly-dooing up and around the area you suggest, Hycle. You and I would finally come out on 88.

Without knowing the area, I'm looking at, generally speaking:

Latrobe Rd to 16 to 49 to Plymouth

Plymouth-Shenandoah Rd to River Pines

Mt Aukum Rd to Coyoteville

Omo Ranch Road to 88

88 southwest to Jackson for a stop and depending on time, meal.

Head home

OK, JB knows where he wants to go and needs someone to lead him. Any Volunteers?

Just let me know where the lunch stop will be so I can plan my other meals around that.

 

[UberKul]

Modified just a bit to add spice and keep us out of the white.

Latrobe Rd to 16 to 49 to PlymouthPlymouth-Shenandoah Rd to River Pines Ostrom Rd

Mt Aukum Rd to Coyoteville Fiddletown to Hale Rd

Omo Ranch Road to 88 Shakeridge Rd to Charleston or Rams Horn Grade to Pine Grove Volcano Rd.

88 southwest northeast to Jackson Tabeau Rd to Clinton Rd to Jackson for a stop and depending on time, meal.

Head home

I'll lead if you like and if we are running early we can find a side trip or two to keep us entertained. :coolsmiley:

 

[Khunajawdge]

But a better alternative may be 7 - 7:30 am Subaru Outback expedition up 80 to Sugar Bowl or 49 south to 88 east to Kirkwood. Several hours of sliding, followed by return trip to Auburn for sleep before work the next day. Heavy precipitation is a bonus -- most people leave the mountain for the rest of us to enjoy in the silence of accumulating powder.

(Chirp...) Captain's Log, Stardate = today

Well, being as there isn't a ride plan yet? I think I'm staying down here in the Central Coast to wait for some surf on New Year's Day this year! Thanks for the offers of places to stay. I may take you guys up on those offers next Spring.

Have a Happy New Year!

Communicator = Over and Out! (Chirp...)

 

[exskibum]

Modified just a bit to add spice and keep us out of the white.

Latrobe Rd to 16 to 49 to PlymouthPlymouth-Shenandoah Rd to River Pines Ostrom Rd

Mt Aukum Rd to Coyoteville Fiddletown to Hale Rd

Omo Ranch Road to 88 Shakeridge Rd to Charleston or Rams Horn Grade to Pine Grove Volcano Rd.

88 southwest northeast to Jackson Tabeau Rd to Clinton Rd to Jackson for a stop and depending on time, meal.

Head home

I'll lead if you like and if we are running early we can find a side trip or two to keep us entertained. :coolsmiley:

OK -- now we have a competent leader for that area (who knows how to avoid the white stuff). JB's route wishes input hereafter to be disregarded** (he's been demoted). All we need is a meeting/departure place and time, which I'd suggest should be in Plymouth (I assume that's where we find Uberkul leader), to accommodate different breakfast plans made by individuals or sub groups prior to that.

Brad -- what's the rough estimate of route times for what you've sketched out?

** Though JB is free to designate a breakfast eatery where (prior to Plymouth meeting) he and others might congregate.

(LOL @ Hycle's observation )

 

[UberKul]

Brad -- what's the rough estimate of route times for what you've sketched out?

Looks like just under 2 hours by the Google Maps estimate From Hwy 50-Latrobe intersection

If I'm leading we we may shave enough time off that to take a Hwy 26 route back to Jackson for lunch depending on start time. The group may preffer a more leasurly pace with a few bridge stops or even break into several groups with a lunch location of say... Mels in Jackson. A good start/meet spot might be the Pokerville Market in Plymouth.

JB is calling the shots, what say ye?

 

[exskibum]

JB is calling the shots, what say ye?

I dunno -- he started out calling us pricks, . . . but then, it wouldn't be the first time someone from the Gay Area got pricks and ******** mixed up. :blink:

Note that he called for a ride, but against the best traditions of the norcal riding group, didn't specify the parameters, only later to veto what had been discussed and call for someone to lead him.

You still wanna give him a chance to do something productive, like decide on a time? :huh: