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Ride sat AM HWY 1 north up and back as inland will be a bit funky still.

Meet up at Tambucks. Who's in?

Taking the lady for a ride tomorrow, as I'm going out of town Sunday morning. Have fun, and we may run into you :)

Damn...planned an outing on Sunday instead.  Drop by Tambux at 8:15 or so if you want to join that.  Otherwise I have a date at Desmoto all day Sat. 

I'm heading out at 8:15 as well.

Too bad. Sat is going to be epic. Sunday will be really good. But Sat will be epic.
Clear night. Warm. Rare clear morning for dry Tarmac at dawn.
 Fog might come in Sat night, Sunday AM for the typical blanket.
We can hope not.

Beach traffic is going to be bananas. Good call hitting it early. Maybe I'll catch you guys somehow.  [thumbsup] [Dolph]

Tomorrow is going to rock! I plan on putting at least a few hundred miles on Desmond.

Looks like you might be right about the fog.  We'll see.  Sunday was the day...I need to work on the bike tomorrow. 

Talkin to Q about maybe a two up tomorrow instead of the planned work on the house.  [roll]
I mean. It's Spring. It's riding season!!!
w00t!

We can do work at night when riding is done.  ;D

BikerGoddess and I will likely ride down to Santa Cruz for lunch...via 35/9, of course :) Just waiting on her to wake up...

O M G EPIC RIDE TODAY!

Woke up at the crack of dawn, windows still open. Last of the stars shaking out their last twinkle to the dawn. The birds were out performing the sounds of the city. Perfect thick Spring air. No hope of sleeping further.
Last nights preparation paid off. Water, air, gas, all set and dialed in. Nothing to do but coffee and mount up.

57F at dawn, pink light splashing houses on the way out of town and across the golden gate.
I owned the road. Not a soul bothered my path until almost 8:AM passing through Mill Valley.
I got around a couple of yocals early on Lucas Valley RD and that was that.
Up the hill passing wild turkies out for a stroll.

Splashes of Sun on dry roads heating up tires.
Dodge zip & booming Ducati juking through the tight curves.
little towns, reservoir, open throttle. Caught up to an M4 and a 1098 lolli-gaging around the lake.
Of course, they were having none of that, kicked it down a gear and rocketed away. I gave  chase through the goat track as we blasted passed about 11tby bicyclists on the way into PointReyes Station. 

Gas station. We exchanged hellos and they took off. Dudes I'd never met before.
I went for Bovine Bakery hoping to see a familiar face. I check my watch and realized other group rides weren't even starting yet juat after 9 and were probably going to sit in traffic all day instead of ride.   

I pressed on north.
I was effing around with a new video camera mount when
I spotted a motard on my ass. He had this cockeyed helmet angle like he was thinking, " Are you facebooking or riding?"
I waved him past. Two salutes later my camera was trained on him and we were breaking rules. It's more fun to video someone in front of you.
He worked that motard all the way to the racetrack gave me a wave and headed up the Marshal Wall.

I went on the the racetrack alone again.
4 laps later some traffic was starting to show so I beat it home. 
Or rather to the golden gate park. I bought some shorts in the Haight, pealed leathers and found a lake to purch amungst rediculous patches of flowers and trees exploding with blossoms.
I finally found a friend here as well and she has good legs.  ;D

Today is paradise in the Bay. 

Video, or it didn't happen ;D

pics?

Nice write up.  I wish I was on my Duc today.  But had fun nonetheless hanging with my son at the Charles Schulz museum in Santa Rosa.

Ciao!

Quinn my Gfriend and loyal meet me in obscure places partner  ;D
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What a place. Hard to believe that's San Francisco
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Highway 9:
Ducati 1198s - Highway 9 South (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEuwyQxYplY&feature=youtu.be#)
More Highway 9:
Ducati 1198s - Highway 9 South - Part 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB0eUMDgja8&feature=youtu.be#)
Pescadero Rd:
Ducati 1198s - Pescadero Rd - East (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVt0tx9tRWw&feature=youtu.be#)

You forgot to wave! [cheeky]

I did! But there was no activity apparent at the homestead, so I kept on going!

Went hiking at Point Reyes instead. Ran into lots of these guys.

2 Cows - 1 up
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Sounds like good times, boys!  We had a little too much fog and a lot too much 5-0, but generally it was gorgeous and no one got a ticket.  Can't really complain.   [Dolph]

Nice.
Where did you guys go? Who was there?

MrI is back in Kazakhstan, M and I were probably out back playing in the yard.

I wondered why I hadn't heard from him in a while.  Figured you'd either gotten tired of his crap and had buried him in a shallow grave in the back 40 or he was out of country.   [cheeky]

Death might be preferable to .kz. :)

Its wrong, but I have to do it anyways ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5jLsLoYcE

I was thinking the *exact* same thing ;D