Lucas Valley - Petaluma - Tomales - Hwy1 - SF
Ducnymph and I start out at the Starducks in San Rafael. We're chillin with a coffee, gearing up and about to head out. A rap on the window of the cafe brings my attention to a DPT officer outside hailing me. "Hey you, your Duc?" Shows me the ticket pad. We leap outside, quarter in hand. The meter had run out :30 sec prior.
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DPT "I'd hate to start the day giving 2 Ducati's tickets. ...That Monster is my favorite bike! Beautiful!... have a nice day... In the city, you'd have 2 tickets waiting for you. [cheesy grin]"
One for the books. Lucas Valley Road - What a piece of loveliness. A dry, cage-less beauty stretched out warmed in the sun. A brisk pace put her behind us and she was like last night's dream. Right turn onto the straight into Nicasio. I'm leading, feeling a little spirited. Their is NOTHING on the road. I hit it hard. Imagine getting near the top of 3rd gear as fast as you can.
The township arrives in a blink and a blury SQUAD CAR blocking the road to the town appears over the horizon line. I found second and the front brakes like a new religion.
Hello officer.
He was busy talking to someone in a truck.
We Oblige the 25MPH and Schools zones that follow.
Around the reservoir and the favorite sweepers on empty road I test out how little input I can give to the front end in a good lean. It's WAY smoother than what I've been doing.
Recently I was testing how much I could push the front end and noticed man-handling counter steering the bars wasn't building confidence much, or getting through turns any faster.
Too contrived, too over thought.
The rest of the day I try to stay as light on the bars as possible and got so that I hardly had any weight on them at all. It's awesome. I'm loving this new found smoothness.
Down hill into Petaluma on Point-Reyes Petaluma RD., there's good stretch of new black top on some serious twisty's. Steep up then steep down, followed by some giant sweepers where cattle trucks tend to pop out of farms once your leaned over as far as you can. Geez.
Watch out in there. Really fun though. Then it turns into a goat trail and ends at the cow town.
Around Tomales-Petaluma Rd. past Two Rock and "the Sign" we dine at Tomales then hit the 'racetrack.'
I got to play camera man and follow Ducnymph's white beautifulness (that got us out of tickets) as she blasted the turns of the 'racetrack.' It was so fun we did it 3 times
Hwy 1 all the way home. Great day! [moto]
We'll get some vids and photos up soon.
