'Ride To The Waves'

[Doctor Woodrow]

Beaverton Honda is having a ride to the coast on July 12th. I hear there are a lot of twisties involved and am concerned that my riding is not up to snuff. The longest ride I have ridden the Duc on was 69.2 miles in a rain/wind/snow/hail storm (in the dark) last January coming home from Seattle, so I am concerned about stamina. Has anyone done this ride, and how was it. I have one of my tenants going on this ride, and I am thinking of going along also.

The Doc

[Visolara]

The coast isn't to far (assuming they aren't driving to Coos Bay or something), and I would guess some will be going fast, while others are riding checking out the scenery at a much slower pace.  Just ride where you feel most comfortable, and have fun.  You wont get up to snuff without riding, so your making the right decision to attend. 

[NEIKOS]

Bible Boy and I did this ride last year.  It was fun - minus me getting us lost . . .  We met up with BNBMike on the way back and he took us for a cool ride.

BB's wrists started hurting mid-day but I'm not so sure it was from the ride I think he mentioned helping someone move the day before . . .

Anyway it was a fun ride.  You stop at the casino in Lincol City if I remember correctly.

More importantly it's for a good cause. 

[bnbmike]

Do the ride.  When you are tired of all the cruisers and crotch rockets, come North 25 minutes to Pacific City.  I'll take you on the "secret road" and send you home with a smile, a moto-induced smile.  PM me if you are interested or check out http://www.craftsmanbb.com/contact.html for contact info.

[SaltLick]

Beaverton Honda is having a ride to the coast on July 12th. I hear there are a lot of twisties involved and am concerned that my riding is not up to snuff. The longest ride I have ridden the Duc on was 69.2 miles in a rain/wind/snow/hail storm (in the dark) last January coming home from Seattle, so I am concerned about stamina. Has anyone done this ride, and how was it. I have one of my tenants going on this ride, and I am thinking of going along also.

The Doc

its only about an hours ride from beaverton honda to lincoln city, its about 80 miles i think or something like that. Not a big deal. I rode there last year on a bike, i stopped once to have a smoke about halfway there. Not sure what route they take though, not many twisties if you go the standard way.... :-\hmmm maybe the route they take is farther cause they take different twisty roads. 

[NEIKOS]

If you ask me - and I'm not gonna wait for you to - they rode to an intersection and flipped a coin then went that direction ad naseum until the ended up in lincoln city.

[duc_fan]

^^ what he said.


"Chuckles" and myself attempted this ride last year.  I say "attempted" because while we got to Lincoln City just fine, we lost track of the rally directions within the first 3 or 4 turns.

Next time, I lead. 

More seriously, I'd like to give this ride a go again, this time showing up MUCH earlier, with a proper tankbag w/map pocket (already ordered from NewEnough... gets here next Tuesday), a proper map, and even my moving-map GPS unit.  It'd be nice to get there WAY early and program the route.  Other option: map out the route from last year (since we didn't actually follow it), say "to hell!" with their current-year route, and try it again (better prepared this time).

Last year my wrists started killing me because we got stuck behind a never-ending line of RVs and retirees who decided to putz along at 35-40 mph.  Sportbikes are fine for distance... when you're north of 65 mph and the wind is holding you up.  Below that, and the back muscles get tired, which leads to weight on the wrists... and downhill the experience goes.

My knees are another story... I need to have a machinist friend of mine make a couple of lowering brackets for my footpegs.  Not many bikes are ergonomically correct for those of us at or over 6'4".  Anyway, I'm going to see if I can't engineer my way around the ergonomic shortcomings of my SS.  If I can... then I may just buy some luggage and start sport-touring.  The suspension is a tad harsh, and there's the aforementioned knee issue... but otherwise I love how it feels.

Okay, back on subject...

Wait, this is on the 12th?  Fahdge.    I'm gonna be gone camping that weekend.  I was hoping the Ride to the Waves was in early August.  I already have every weekend in July booked.  Family campout...church campout...CCW license class... and a trip to Eugene for a cousin's wedding.

C'est la Vie.  Y'all have fun!