New Year/New Riders Ride THIS SAT. 01/15/2011!!!

[mostrobelle]

Yeah...the weather ain't lookin' good at all.  60% chance of rain on that specific saturday and chance of rain for the entire week.  Roads will most likely be damp, but if it's not actively raining I think that's fine. 

[mostrobelle]

Still a long ways out but the weather for that day improved by 100% overnight!  (Went from 60% chance of rain to 30% that day, and it's supposed to be sunny the day before, so that's all good news!)

[Desmostro]

Well, it is winter. Time to deal with it.
We might get lucky and find one of those freak 70F weekends that happen but it's hard to plan for it way in advance. The weather, she change so fast.

Maybe there could be a kind of MAVERICS call. You know the big wave surf contest?
They never know even what month the huge waves will come so they wait and when it happens, they put out a call 72 hours in advance. Every one knows they have to be ready.

The call goes out on a Thursday, the ride happens Sat or Sun.

Otherwise, I'd be up for getting a beer or something.  ha ha.

[mostrobelle]

That was pretty much the plan.  Final decision to be made a couple of days in advance. 

[mostrobelle]

First post updated with basic route...looks like the weather is holding for now.  We'll see what it does in a few days. 

[mattv]

I want to join, but don't know my weekend schedule yet.  Please put me down as a maybe.

[tigre]

I am in!

[DarkStaR]

Out.

[mostrobelle]

Matt, you're added.  Sorry you can't make it 'Star.  "Yay!" on Tigre makin' it.  I had a few people today (non MOB people) say that they're almost definitely coming.    

We might need two groups, but I'm hoping not.  I'd like to keep us together if possible and have people arrange themselves by their perceived speed.  We'll see how it works out.  I might put two people to act a secondary lead and a secondary sweep in the middle of the group so that if we need to break up a little mid-ride that we can do that and keep moving.  I think most people attending, especially the non-MOB people, want to keep this ride on the shorter side.  We probably won't do brunch but we'll have an extended coffee/pastry break just past the flagpole (Pt. Reyes/Petaluma road I think?)  We'll have one last stop at the Cheese Factory to say our adieu's and then peel off to go home.  We'll figure out who's going to SF, E, and S and divide up the ride from that point on based on that.  

[mostrobelle]

Ride is ON.
I've adjusted the stops along the way because it seems that most people want to keep this on the shorter side.  See first post.  Longer stop at Pt. Reyes, no stop at Cheese Factory.  We'll just pull over on the straight before the freeway and shake hands and bail.

I'll have some printed route maps to pass out to leads/sweeps and anyone else who wants one. 

See you guys on Saturday!

[desmoquattro]

NOTE: You may need to fix the route map link on the first post.

[emanon]

just remove the "http//

[desmoquattro]

just remove the "http//

Belle can remove the link. There may have been a misplaced quotation mark in there.

[mostrobelle]

Link should be fixed...weird...it worked initially.

[ilya]

i'll go! i can take a passenger, but let me know in advance so i'll take the lid off the back seat.