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Road the MotoMelee in Northern CA over the June 22nd weekend, it is for pre-1971 motorcyles, 750 miles over three days. I cheated, on my 1973 Commando. Two of the days were in the rain but great roads, old roads, most of them pre-bulldozer, paved logging and mining and ranch roads.
That stock Commando seat is a POS if you're gonna sit on it all day.
Began on Friday with a ride over much of the "Sunday Morning Ride/Alice's Restaurant route - Hwy 35 and Hwy 9 to a motel in the city for a Friday night stay over and reception at the San Francisco Motorcycle Club, established 1904.
Then Saturday AM from the Presidio, we went out over the Golden Gate Bridge and on via Trinity Road (a tight up and down button hooked little bitch, tunnels of oak trees - loved it) which emerged into the green of Napa and wine country, then north into the hills to Clear Lake for lunch and on via dry country ranch roads and the Central Valley for a stay in Redbluff.
Then Sunday AM, back toward the coast and into redwood country, cathedrals of redwoods, Hwy 36 the longest ridge-top road anywhere they say, and more, such as "Tin Barn Road" (another spectacular road - see first pic) and others that I can't remember without looking at a map. Then over more mountains to the wet fog of the coast, PCH/Hwy 1 way north of San Francisco, for an overnight in the old logging and salmon port of Fort Bragg. That night, at a fancy dinner house, I hate to admit that I paid $8 an appetizer consisting of two quarters (one half) of one 1" diameter scallop; each quarter of that one half scallop was placed at the end of a bed of watercress spread on a really neat 4"x8" rectangular plate. Oh, to be fair, I should say that I also got one half of one - in season - strawberry. Each scallop quarter was neatly nestled up against a quarter of that one half of that one sour strawberry ! I guessed that they needed the other half for someone else.
Then Monday AM back inland for another day of play to finish in the city for a Monday night banquet and trophies.
Website for the ride -
http://www.motomelee.com/history.html
My Photobucket pics from the ride -
http://s814.photobucket.com/user/xbacks ... wap&page=1
That stock Commando seat is a POS if you're gonna sit on it all day.
Began on Friday with a ride over much of the "Sunday Morning Ride/Alice's Restaurant route - Hwy 35 and Hwy 9 to a motel in the city for a Friday night stay over and reception at the San Francisco Motorcycle Club, established 1904.
Then Saturday AM from the Presidio, we went out over the Golden Gate Bridge and on via Trinity Road (a tight up and down button hooked little bitch, tunnels of oak trees - loved it) which emerged into the green of Napa and wine country, then north into the hills to Clear Lake for lunch and on via dry country ranch roads and the Central Valley for a stay in Redbluff.
Then Sunday AM, back toward the coast and into redwood country, cathedrals of redwoods, Hwy 36 the longest ridge-top road anywhere they say, and more, such as "Tin Barn Road" (another spectacular road - see first pic) and others that I can't remember without looking at a map. Then over more mountains to the wet fog of the coast, PCH/Hwy 1 way north of San Francisco, for an overnight in the old logging and salmon port of Fort Bragg. That night, at a fancy dinner house, I hate to admit that I paid $8 an appetizer consisting of two quarters (one half) of one 1" diameter scallop; each quarter of that one half scallop was placed at the end of a bed of watercress spread on a really neat 4"x8" rectangular plate. Oh, to be fair, I should say that I also got one half of one - in season - strawberry. Each scallop quarter was neatly nestled up against a quarter of that one half of that one sour strawberry ! I guessed that they needed the other half for someone else.
Then Monday AM back inland for another day of play to finish in the city for a Monday night banquet and trophies.
Website for the ride -
http://www.motomelee.com/history.html
My Photobucket pics from the ride -
http://s814.photobucket.com/user/xbacks ... wap&page=1
