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Time once again for beer, bikes 'n tamales at our favorite watering hole, Zeitgeist.

People start showing up around 6:30 or so and it goes till whenever.

Monster rider or not, we don't care, stop on by and hoist a pint.

I'll have to miss this one since I'll be in NY with the parental units. DQ will have to [drink] one for me.

sub'ing so I don't forget.  This time.   [cheeky]

All the best stories start with,

"this one time, at Zeitgeist..."

I'm still waiting for someone to get some action in a porta potty.  That'll go down in legend.   [thumbsup]

 [beer]

Just wrong.

Out. I'll be in Vegas for the InterBike trade show & cyclocross race.

Dude, why do you have to bring up the best idea ever on the week that Biker Goddess is out of town? I'm sure I could get her drunk enough...

In any event I'll be there.

No matter how drunk I might be, there isn't enough Purell in the world to convince me to do that.

I'm glad to see *somebody* has standards...

Glad to see I hang out with a group where all you gotta do is refuse to screw in a porta-potty to be considered a person with standards.   [laugh]

P.S.  It's noteworthy that if you read BG's post carefully, she didn't actually refuse.  She just said that there wasn't enough Purell in the world to convince her.  

and, it's sad to know that spidey will never be a person with standards ... but then again, he's a lawyer [roll]

Yeah...but there may be enough bourbon.

Sorry guys, my business trips are poorly timed, I'll be in Winnipeg. :(

lucky for you, eh ... winnipeg is FULL of porta-potties, eh.

actually, i am pretty certain that is all they have in the entire province, eh.  ???

Last time I went it was -40 degrees so at least this time has got to be better. :P

I'm in.

It's my birthday the next day*, so I'll be there. [drink]


*Technically, since I was born in another time zone, my birth-hour is  9PM on Thursday night. At least that's my excuse to claim a two-day birthday  ;D

I'm in.

Will be there around 8:30 ish, but in.

don't count on it, eh.  8)

We'll try the porta-potty next time then.

I will more then likely be in attendance again.

It's Tuesday morning and I already need to start drinkin'.   [drink]

ah ... the life of a lawyer  [drink]

Anyone coming from San Jose?
I'll be down there all day. Training it unless someone wants company...

I'll be biking it from San Mateo. Probably take 280 after training lets out.

i'll be riding up from cupertino.

No you won't be biking since you'll have my car. ;)

I know. But I can dream.

Dude, it's only training. You should totally rock the scooter. What can they do, fire you for showing up on a cute lil' scoot?

After a brief scare by the witch-doctor, I don't think I have appendicitis.

I'm in!

I've been rocking the Supersport. But I have to drop Anne off at the airport Thurs morning so I'll be in the cage.

Tonight's the night, kiddos. 

Accordians and lederhosen tonight. No lie.

Something about Oktoberfest.

What is the address? I am from Baltimore but in town. On my iPhone. Someone could text me the address or call.
Thanks
rb
nevermund

Made it 

A surprisingly large crowd for a cold night, but still fun.  We got cake.  Mmmmm....cake. 

....And I nearly got killed.  I was coming off the sidewalk to get onto Valencia heading towards Market when I saw a couple of cars coming.  I probably could have pulled out really fast and made it in front of them, but decided against it.  One car went by and the other immediately behind him was small pickup truck.  There was a gap after those two, so I pulled out behind the truck when he suddenly pulled over to the right curb.  He didn't signal and I figured he saw a parking spot in front of Z that he wanted.  I began to go around him on the left when he decided to make his pull-over a u-turn.   :o  There are cars behind me, this guy's making a u-turn, and there's oncoming traffic.  Normally I'd have a better escape plan figured out, but because I'd just entered the road, I wasn't quite prepared for the situation.  It was also dark.  I was literally thinking that perhaps I should try to jump off my bike onto his hood to avoid crushing my right leg.  I decided to go for the super-swerve instead, and it worked.  I went around his nose as he was making his u-turn barely staying in the Market-bound lanes.  He stopped in the middle of the road when he saw me.  The cars behind me had to stop and I think a bicycle was cut off by his little stunt too.  ...never had occurred to me that someone would do that right there.  I shouldda known something was up when he failed to signal, but I didn't want to stop since there were cars behind me.  Next time I'm either waiting for all the idiots to pass or I'm going to gun it and get in front of all of them! 

^^ :o  Glad your super ninja skills protected you! [thumbsup]

Let's just say that I'm real glad that I didn't have that beer!   [laugh]  And a little foresight might have spared me the need to practice my emergency swerving technique.  Live and learn!

Dang girl, glad you saved it!

Never misunderestimate the capacity of drivers to do dick moves.  The pull off to the right then flip a u-turn is one of my personal faves.

Jez, H.
My thinking is if you had the beer you would have left 10 minutes later and none of this would have happen.
But then I'm one to fit a beer into the scenario whenever possible.

Glad to hear you came through unscathed.

It was nice to see/meet you all again. I'll stop back in again next year (maybe when it's not so friggin cold...)

woooooe Nelly. glad that went as good as it did.

Like I was saying, working on a rocket launcher.


Good meeting you RB. I think that was you a got tamales with. I didn't know it was you at the time... ha ha ha .

Nope, not me, i actually didn't speak to a single soul. Not enough pints to go introduce myself. Seemed like a large group gathered around a few tables.
Seems that when the crowd is gathered around the bikes it makes for an easy ice-breaker. Chill spot, that bar, and i will be out again.
The truth is, i was starting to come down with this nasty cold(but forced myself to stop by), so i weathered to pints and split.

RB

Damn, man, you should have said "hello". We really are a friendly bunch and like to see new folks at the Z. (We've already heard all the stories/lies from the old folks...)

actually I think that was me... Lol

I'll definitely make another, sniffles over a pint of Guinness wasn't how unwanted to be known....ha

 Hi ya.
You guys should shoot up a flare or something when you show up. Tell us you're on the DMF. You'll get more free beer that way.  ;)
This is the land of visitors. We love visitors.

Spidey knew I was a visitor. As did one or two others. Sorry I didn't have a big sign that said "not from round here" this time. Last time it was pretty obvious as I was in uniform 2 years ago

We'll probably do one next Monday. We have visitors from out of town. Watch this thread:
http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=2960 (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=2960)

just for future visitors:
Zeitgeist
199 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94103-1117

Get Directions
(415) 255-7505

However, when i called they said they had no idea if there was a bunch of Ducati folks there.....and no i'm not kidding. Perhaps the lederhosen does that to you....

Very good info for the Local Resources thread (http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=562.0).

In general, the people who work at Zeitgeist cop an attitude. It gets frustrating sometimes.

What kind bar is the Zeitgeist?

nice or a hole in the wall?

It kicks ass. Great beer garden, BBQ, and the Tamale Lady.

It's a great bar. Make sure to dress warm though.

Not nice.

More of a large opening in the wall.

It's a total hole in the wall, but a really nice one. [cheeky] [laugh]

...with the best tamales ever.

big back yard kind of atmosphere. Trees to sit under. A great spot on a sunny day. People tend to be pretty wacky and on the "loose" side.  [bacon]

They worship motorcyclists.

Their motto: "Warm beer, cold women"

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But that's not the weird thing. The weird thing is that people tend to loose themselves there like tequila was somehow flowing in the air. You can find a perfectly normal lawyer like Spidey, taking his pants down and singing about doing it in the porta-potties.  [cheeky]

I may be embellishing a little, but not by much.  

Every now and then some fancy pants magazine does an article on the charming dive bars in SF. Then ZG quickly becomes the "IT GIRL" of dive bars and every preppy magazine reader with 300 miles shows up and makes the grill line longer than MichaelMoore's scooter peel-outs.

Dang, I was wearing my raggedy-ass, bright red Ducati jacket. What more do you people want from me?

Seriously, 'poke ambled over said hullo and it was all good. I thought you looked familiar, but without the super-dress-whites I couldn't be sure...  ;D

I thought you were familiar. But walked by once. When walking back I saw TOB sticker on your helmet and asked if you were a DMFer.

But yeah that's all you gotta do.