UPDATE: Saturday, January 3rd Ride

[Toecutter]

Sounds like there needs to be a DS ride on the 3rd, to coincide with a possible rain-check on an FJR ride.

Looks like Hans is riding on the 1st. I'll be at work.

As Yoda might say, "Go, or ride not".

 

[James Burleigh]

MM2, thanks for keeping a look-out for the weather. Not sure I can make the 3rd. But let's keep an eye out as it gets closer. I'll be in touch about this Saturday....

 

[Ric in Sac]

The Den Mother and I are in - weather permitting. The backup date of the 3rd should work as well.

Any forecast beyond 48 hours is called a "guess".

 

[weekend rider]

Hey Ric in Sac, don't you remember the weather man that worked for channel 3 in Sac town, Harry Geist his long range fore cast and longer than two days were right on

 

[James Burleigh]

See first page for important ride update....

 

[SacramentoMike]

OK, good news and bad news. I'm in for the 3rd, sorry you won't make it Hans. Happy New Year to everybody too, BTW.

 

[madmike2]

Hycle and I are going to "pre-ride" tomorrow. We will be checking 3 or 4 different restaurants/diners to see who will be open and what arrangements can be made. THAT will used in determining the "sure" date.

Saturday "could" be the best day for everyone, especially those who..er..uhm...party and consume copious amounts of adult beverages or have out of town guest, or both.

I should have a plan and an alternate posted tomorrow night or by Sunday, so stay tuned for more details.

[SIZE=8pt]The management thanks you and appreciates your patience.[/SIZE]

 

[madmike2]

Hycle and I are going to "pre-ride" tomorrow. We will be checking 3 or 4 different restaurants/diners to see who will be open and what arrangements can be made. THAT will used in determining the "sure" date.
Saturday "could be" the best day for everyone, especially those who..er..uhm...party and consume copious amounts of adult beverages or have out of town guest, or both.

I should have a plan and an alternate posted tomorrow night or by Sunday, so stay tuned for more details.

[SIZE=8pt]The management thanks you and appreciates your patience.[/SIZE]

The "Brain Trust" (JB, mm2 & Hycle=1 brain...maybe) rode to Benicia and checked out this place and made an executive decision.

We'll be waiting for the manager to contact Hycle for final details but, for now...... :clapping:

Then we rode up to "The Wall" overlooking San Francisco Bay. :yahoo:

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[SIZE=12pt]NEW PLAN:[/SIZE]

Date:

Saturday, Jan 3rd.

The Place:

First Street Cafe @ 10 AM

First Street Cafe

440 1st St

Benicia, CA

Linky Thingy

The Route:

After brunch, breakfast, coffee, juice or whatever...ride this route, NOT from Vallejo but from Benicia, 780 to the Benicia Bridge, 680 South, West on Hwy 4 to Alhambra off ramp, then South on the linked route.

The Weather:

Forecast for 50 (feels like 45) and light clouds. Possible rain showers in the evening.

The Date:

Saturday, Jan 3rd.

The Place:

First Street Cafe @ 10 AM

First Street Cafe

440 1st St

Benicia, CA

https://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?tuid=98779...ar:regT:1:fbT:0

The Route:

After brunch, breakfast, coffee, juice or whatever...ride this route, NOT from Vallejo but from Benicia, 780 to the Benicia Bridge, 680 South, West on Hwy 4 to Alhambra off ramp, then South on the linked route: https://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&saddr=...617981&z=11

The Weather:

Forecast for 50 (feels like 45) and light clouds. Possible rain showers in the evening.

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So far, The List:

Barry5k

Bluestreeks

Dave Migliore (and Susan)

feeger

FJRM

Flying Junior

Gfrans

Hycles

James Burleigh

LastChance

mm2

Ric-in-Sacs

Old Michael

Rogdebs

Sacramento Mike

Silent

uberkuls

weekend rider

....and..... ???

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Trust me, its a great ride, good scenery and wonderful scenic vista moments, plus "The Wall" experience.

If the ride experience comes close to the time spent with Hans and Mike today, it'll be a great way to usher in the 2009! And, Sacramento Mike, JB (maybe?!?!), uberkuls and others able to join us after family obligations, this should be GREAT!

[SIZE=8pt]Hycle, for whatever reason, things are working with the computer!?!?[/SIZE]

 

[Ric in Sac]

Hey Ric in Sac, don't you remember the weather man that worked for channel 3 in Sac town, Harry Geist his long range fore cast and longer than two days were right on

Yep. Lucky guess . . . er I mean . . . . Geist

 

[James Burleigh]

Hey Ric in Sac, don't you remember the weather man that worked for channel 3 in Sac town, Harry Geist his long range fore cast and longer than two days were right on

Yep. Lucky guess . . . er I mean . . . . Geist

I knew his brothers Zeit und Welt Geist...

JB

P.S. Mike and Mikey, it was a blast blasting around with you two dudettes today! Wow wow fun fun! We should be so lucky to have such a beautiful day next week. And ain't three a great number to ride with? There was a moment riding down 80 through Fairfield where I would have loved to have seen us from the air: MadMike was in the fast lane in the left wheeltrack position, with Hycle behind him and to his right in the right wheeltrack. I was in the next lane over behind Hycle. We formed a perfect diagonal line like three F-18s.

 

[jwhite518]

I'm back in for Maybe. I kinda liked the 1st better. I like the symbolism of starting the year off with a ride. The third is just another Saturday.

 

[FJRONAMISSION]

Going to try to make this...........

B.....

 

[SacramentoMike]

I'm back in for Maybe. I kinda liked the 1st better. I like the symbolism of starting the year off with a ride. The third is just another Saturday.

So take off on the first and just keep riding till we all meet up on Saturday. Maybe take in a little bit of Mexico and Canada. What's the problem?

And Mikey, when/where we gonna meet in the morning, W. Sac Chevron maybe?

 

[SacramentoMike]

". . . We formed a perfect diagonal line like three F-18s.

Hans, from a seafaring man like yourself, I expected something more like:

 

[feeger]

Count me in for Saturday.

 

[madmike2]

The we're now at +20 people. At some point Hycle is going to need a fairly accurate head-count for the manager of the restaurant.

1.) If you are a fence sitter or one who normally doesn't let us know you're coming (and there's nothing wrong with that) it could make it more difficult at the restaurant if 10 more unknown people show up.

2.) Does the Sacramento contingent want to "circle the wagons FJRs" at the Chevron in West Sac? 0830-0845? Kickstands up @ 0900 for the trip to Benicia?

Let me rephrase the above: I'll be leaving the Chevron @ 0900! :yahoo:

 

[Old Michael]

Cross me off please. Won't be making it.

 

[madmike2]

Cross me off please. Won't be making it.

:huh:

 

[jwhite518]

Hans,

Any chance you can ring me up when you leave the cafe? I'll try to meet the gang at the Wall.

Thanks,

Jerry

 

[rogdeb]

Line us through please Mike - won't be there :-(