FYI - stay off Mt. Tam for a while

[datv]

Hey Red, here's a video I shot to test out my new Flip Mino video cam. I shot it on the Vespa thinking it might be less bumpy, plus it is easy to mount on the Vespa.  Hope you enjoy it.

Hey, I just bought one of those too for my track documentation - it works so good that it almost makes me look fast .  Actually I'm really happy with it!  I bought a REI ultra clamp to hold it to the top triple and it is just great.

[Jammen]

Oh man...
Doesn't take much to set off an oyster craving.   

Can we start planning that trip for next summer now??   

Whenever I hear about any roads near Mt. Tam, I think Hog Island Oysters. Any rides out there? I'm a fairly proficient shucker!

[CharliesAngel]

Bring your own drinks... yes, even water...

for some reason the management at HIOF doesn't feel like selling beverages of any sort - not even a coke machine.  The water from their sinks tastes like it's been used to purge the oysters.  However, they ARE the best oysters around and they are worth the inconvenience.

Monsieur Chef, isn't it the "milky" season right now for oysters?  I thought there is a saying to avoid oysters during the months ending in "...er"? 

[CharliesAngel]

oh, and MM...I'm really sorry to have threadjacked here....    (happy birthday again....) 

[Jammen]

Not to carry on the threadjack, but after a bit of reading, seems the "season" is any month with an "R".
Something about hybridized oysters or such.   

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/10/19/FDGSJF7RHK1.DTL


Can we go now?    

(I blame the Mob for this horrible addiction.   )

[datv]

Jammen is correct - the colder the month the better.  Therefore those months with an "R" are considered good oyster months.  The ones we had a week ago right out of Marshall were pretty fricken good!

Time to get geeky...(as if that's such a stretch), but more recent oyster research has come up with strains of Triploids that are good even during the warmer months.  Yes, good oysters year round.  MM and I went to Hog Island a few months back during the "off" season and partook of some great oysters called "Atlantics" (from an East Coast seed) and they were just as good as winter varieties.

[MendoDave]

You can always take the Bolinas/Fairfax road instead. The stop at the dam is nice, and the wet pine needles on the road this time of the year add extra excitement!

[datv]

You can always take the Bolinas/Fairfax road instead. The stop at the dam is nice, and the wet pine needles on the road this time of the year add extra excitement!

True that.  I really think that Bolinas/Fairfax road is great riding... 

[Michael Moore]

True that.  I really think that Bolinas/Fairfax road is great riding... 

Hah! You would think that, riding an overgrown dirt bike... 

[Desmostro]

True that.  I really think that Bolinas/Fairfax road is great riding... 

One of my very very fav rides Then up across Ridge Crest.  [moto]
-errr, maybe sans wet winter slime. Then bicycle.