"Cyrus Invades" Ride: Sunday, Oct. 4

[Spidey]

Who do we have so far?

Me
Cyrus
DQ
Desmostro
Le Piou (+1 mebbe)
Itsasickness
mattv
Enzo
Mostrobelle
Drunken Monkey

Remember, kickstands up at 8:30

[Le Piou]

+1 friend (to be confirm at the very last minute)

[thunderpuppy]

I'm in that is if I can get my S*^T together. I'm not a morning feller.
PS-Just got off a 1400 mi tour; Kings Canyon & beyond. Will post pics.

[Desmostro]

Checking weather again for you out-of-towners. (I'm obsessed with the weather incidentally)
It will be a little chilly in the early AM (50's), and then a perfect 68 noonish. Sun all day. It tends to warm up fast, so don't over dress. Just bring a scarf or something you can bag later <-- my advise

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/vacationplanner/wxdetail/USCA0802?dayNum=1&from=tenDay_topnav_vacation

[GrendelsTwin]

Won't make it to Tambucks by 8:30, but may see you out and about if your "route TBD" crosses my "route TBD".

Watch yourselves north of Stinson,  has apparently been out in force lately.  Helmet taps saved me from a couple of tickets between Pt Reyes and Tomales last week.  Two Sheriffs and CHP, and not in the usual spots near Marhall/Nick's Cove.

Prerun the slough just south of Tomales to ensure you don't have to make a donation.

[Spidey]

Won't make it to Tambucks by 8:30, but may see you out and about if your "route TBD" crosses my "route TBD".

Watch yourselves north of Stinson,  has apparently been out in force lately.  Helmet taps saved me from a couple of tickets between Pt Reyes and Tomales last week.  Two Sheriffs and CHP, and not in the usual spots near Marhall/Nick's Cove.

Prerun the slough just south of Tomales to ensure you don't have to make a donation.

Really good to know.     I'm thinking we'll do an out-n-back to Tomales.  Gas in Pt. Reyes, coffee in Tomales. 

[Le Piou]

Thanks for the great ride guys!

[mostrobelle]

No cops, nice weather, good ride.   [moto]

[Desmostro]

Nice ride  What a day. Thanks everyone.
Yo D, (GrendelsTwin ) Good seeing you man. I was very unclear who was going where, and who we left at Point Reyes etc. I guess everyone got where they wanted to go in the end.
cool. cheers!

Good hanging with you this morning cyrus buelton. What did you think? Did you have fun?
 
PS
Are you "T"? Back in the saddle with the Aprilia? Good riding with you finally mang.

Thanks for the great ride guys!

[GrendelsTwin]

Nice seeing y'all.  It was a great day for a ride.   

I ended up heading back down to Pt Reyes, just spent a while talking with Joe first.  Ended up meeting some other friends and riding back north to Tomales. 

[Le Piou]

Are you "T"? Back in the saddle with the Aprilia? Good riding with you finally mang.

I am T, but my ride is the 998S Fe, not the Aprilia...
It was good riding with you guys! I'll do my best to ride more often with you in the future!
I loved it!

[cyrus buelton]

Thank you all for a great ride, especially to Joe for lending me his S4r, which came back in one piece 


On the way back, the 101 was stacked up before the Golden Gate Bridge.

Got my first taste of lane splitting. Wow, that is a blast, but a bit nerve racking too. People tend to be kind about it.

I had my GoPro on my helmet but for some reason it stopped shooting, so I missed the ride over the Golden Gate and our crazy adventure back to Joe's house.

I love the idea of splitting while the light is read.

Made my first rookie mistake and "slapped" a BMW's side view mirrow. Oops. No damage to the S4r and I presume no damage to the BMW. I am guessing I was not the first nor the last to do that......


We need that in Ohio!


Anyway......if anyone has free time tonight, tomorrow or after 8p on Tuesday, I am at the InterContinental San Francisco on Howard and 4th.

Headed for some pre-opening conference cocktail hour (actually 2.5hrs) at City Hall.

Should be a good time if I knew anyone, but I am sure I'll bump into past associates and of course with my charming personality, I am bound to make new friends.


Thank you again to you all 

[Spidey]

Thanks all for coming out and for keeping it upright.  It was a pretty clear day, which made for some great views.  Sorry it couldn't be longer but a buncha us had to get back.  belle's led a blazin' romp on the way back through the racetrack and then up the cliffs of Hwy 1.   

Good to meet ya, Cyrus, and glad you got a taste of some Northern Cal roads.  There are even betters ones on the Penninsula, but they're filled with cops and motorcyclists throwing themselves onto the ground.  Lane splitting is fun, but like you said, it can be hairy. 

I got the biggest BS ticket from an SFPD officer a coupla blocks from my house.  Time for trial by declaration. 

[desmoquattro]

I got the biggest BS ticket from an SFPD officer a coupla blocks from my house.  Time for trial by declaration. 

That sucks. Care to explain? Or was it the result of one of your publicity rides

[Spidey]

That sucks. Care to explain? Or was it the result of one of your publicity rides

One ticket with two citations.  

First:  S. on Guerrero @18th.  Cars were stopped.  I signalled and went by on the right, intending to turn right.  I saw him parked at the bakery.  He looked at me.  I looked at him.  And I turned right.  Citation--failure to safely pass on the right?  

Second:  Next block.  Heading W on 18th, turning left on Dolores.  He said I split pedestrians in the crosswalk, both walking away from me and toward me.  In fact, he said that I just barely missed hitting them.  As a factual matter, that's just wrong.  I checked for peds coming toward me and there weren't any.  There was one ped walking away from me, but he'd almost made the sidewalk when I began the turn and was out of the crosswalk when I entered the crosswalk.  He had to have been at least half a block back, so I'm not sure what the heck he thinks he saw. Citation--failure to yield to pedestrians.

He pulled me over two blocks later on 20th and Dolores (after I'd stopped at another crosswalk to let peds go by) and cited me for both the right turn and the crosswalk.  I told him that I wasn't going to argue with him, but that it wasn't what happened (re the peds).  Re the right hand turn, I told him that I didn't know what I did wrong.  After all that, he told me that it was illegal to have one mirror on the left side.  I told him the Vehicle Code says it's ok and that I wouldn't run it if it were illegal.  He was going to ticket me no matter what, but he didn't cite me for that.  There was some other thing that I don't remember that he pointed out on my bike that he said was a violation.  It wasn't.  Grrrrr.  

There are lots of tickets I deserve and normally SFPD are really cool about what they ticket.  Those two violations are BS.  Time for trial by declaration.