Hey Mac, let me know if you want to do a later run. I'm a bit down for the count atm, but might want to go out later.
And how did you go about letting them take out our parking lot?
It surprised the hell out of me. The sawhorse road barriers were all lined up one day so you knew there was some road work coming but I thought it just might be a slight repave or repaint of the parking stripes. That's where all the City & County workers park during the day.
The next day the curb was up and I mean a high curb. I bet it's 8" or more high and the asphalt lot on the other side was stripped down to bare dirt. There won't be any parking on the curb side as it's right at the edge of the road. Yesterday a group of four riders were parking at the gate to the City County yard. That might work for small groups unless someone wants to get in & out of the yard. I don't know if more than four can fit in that driveway.
I don't have this on any authority but my guess is that it's a part of the community association reaction against all the drug dealing - drinking that goes on there at night and also they want to eliminate the staging area for motorbike racing up & down the road on the weekends. People will still make passes but it'll be tougher and no hanging out for smoke breaks and general BS'n.
It also might be in part reaction to the bike head on collision up on 13 turns a couple of weeks ago. Supermotard into a Kawasaki liter bike. Everybody is pointing fingers at the other guys but the point is that citizens are getting up in arms against the street racing hot dogging that's going on.
BTW, the Sunday morning Starbucks fast crew went through here just a bit ago. Two passes at just under warp speed. Make your own judgment call. For myself I like to go fast enough to make it interesting but not to where I get the residents more than just irritated. Don't want to piss them off and pissing them off is what a lot of riders are doing.
