| Author | Message | ||
     Dino |
 Da Lake!  Da Bear...gonna hurl? | ||
| Ebear |
 "I was concerned you might have missed that safety speech we had??" | ||
| Dino |
 Da Lake, V.2  No caption required. (Message edited by dino on October 13, 2004) | ||
| Dino |
 Da Lake, V.3  Just 'bearly' awake...waiting for Ferris to get his face on so we can get going. | ||
| Ebear |
 Must be DUFF Beer....DOHH!! | ||
| Dino |
 Umm...can you tell who just got new tires?  | ||
| Dino |
  Rock and Roll! | ||
| Dino |
 My, my...that's a big'un!  Whoa...so's that one! | ||
| Ebear |
 GEE..I wonder..???  Looks like the HALO is a little Crooked..??  Bad Shot.. | ||
| Dino |
 Does it get any better?...  Did I mention, it was a beautiful day? | ||
| Dino |
 ...a really beautiful day...  ...spectacular, even...  made even better by...ICE CREAM! Photographs courtesy of: Fotos on Motos Char Hoffman, Chief Photographer (Message edited by dino on October 13, 2004) (Message edited by dino on October 13, 2004) | ||
| Reindog |
 A Door of Perception  Shaun with Blublocker hair.  X marks the spot at Fountain Springs.  Nice place to stop.  Jerry and Al doing their best Hunter Thompson impersonations. Too much Ibocaine in my opinion. Truly fear and loathing at play here.  Dino with a modified Vulcan "Live Well and Prosper" greeting.  Al Lighton aka McGyver.  Victor looking ready to tear up the road!  So this is the White House that Bush and Kerry want to occupy?  Another window of perception. The first Park Superintendent lived in here.  Laurie saying "I ain't going in there"  Eric  Jerry and Travis (Eric's cool brother)  Hanging out here sure beats working in an office.  A Sequoia giving birth to Ebear (Message edited by reindog on October 13, 2004) | ||
| Dino |
Yo, Ebear & Forger...great pics! Wish I'd've been there...oh, wait, I was! Dino | ||
| Reindog |
 Your hosts for OktoberFast, Jerry and Denise.  My wife, Laurie, looks hot in that getup.  Is this what they mean by Hooligan?  Timmmmmbbbbeeeerrrr!!!!!  Just like a tourist visiting New York City for the first time.  This is like a Spam Haiku.  This was actually used as a restaraunt in the 19th century.  Is this a postcard I purchased at Montecito Lodge?  Totally badass  Scott Paige ready to kick it!  Raider Nation Sportbike  Sequoia head protection gear. Notice the fallen "twigs". Actually, we were shrunk the night before to one foot tall and we are now standing next to regular trees.  Survivors from the Hurl Deck.  Going to a BRAG chapter meeting in a Hobbit Hole  Somebody's hand getting ready to goose Ferris Bueller inside a Giant Sequoia  Travis and Tom  Wouldn't it be easier to RIDE a motorcycle down the mountain?  The Beginning or the End? (Message edited by reindog on October 13, 2004) | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Don't ya just hate it when this happens? did anyone else notice how the driver skipped any number of paved pull-outs BEFORE the park and then pulled over to let us by AT the park, when we all had to stop anyway? "I was concerned you might have missed that safety speech we had??" or: “I’m sorry, Tom, but I WON’T slow down just so you can keep up.” No caption required. i.e. “Suckless.” Just 'bearly' awake...waiting for Ferris to get his face on so we can get going. more likely: “Waiting for Ferris to FEED his face so we can get going.” Umm...can you tell who just got new tires? I offered to scrub in the boys’ new meats (and also do something about their shiny new footpegs in the process) but I think they were askeered… Whoa...so's that one! I was right – that tree DOES make my butt look fat!!! A Sequoia giving birth to Ebear. major coffee spewage on the keyboard, thanks. great pix - more please!!  | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
(this was copied from the Oktoberfast thread on the QuickBoard so it wouldn't get lost in the archives) Just an update on the ride........ I was unable to meet up with the group in Lemon Grove like I wanted too (sleeping in is great, sometimes) So I made the ride solo backwards (by their route) knowing somewhere I would cross paths with the group. Holy cow, some of the most technical riding I have ever experienced through the park on the 198 side, 10-15 mph (yeah right). No more chicken strips on the right side anyway! Rode all the way through both parks, stopped at the Monticeto Inn, no one there yet. Cool, still out there somewhere. Continue down to and out of the park, on to the turnoff at 245, and WHAMOO, ton of brillant colors and sassy machines parked in formation there at the intersection! Knew I would find them, sooner or later!! And so started the headlight badgering, bull riding and "we need your tire" harassment I KNEW to expect when this fabled group was tracked down. We badgered and BS'd for a bit, group massed up (tire thing was no joke, hope all went well with that endeavor) and I had to continue on my way, but not before meeting and shaking hands with some of the best people I have ever met on two wheels. A picture or 2 later (Jerry hope the head is ok!! LOL), and I headed down while they headed up to the lodge. Duty calls! And as for the sign that says "skwigly line next 31 miles", uh, NO KIDDING!! I have NEVER scrubbed a tire that bad before!! Even the wife said "DAM" when i got back, and that was after 45 miles of highway "smoothing"!! Thanks again guys for another reason to get out and on the edges, I will ride the Bostrom soon, and Jerry, you may have a weekend riding nag on your hands now!! JK!! Hope you all had a great rest of the weekend, next time I WILL be a porch rat on Friday! Bruce P.S. Boston does RULE!! LOL! --Bruce "RR Eater" Parmenter and here's a shot of the RR Eater himself (just after i tried to impale myself on the corner of a frikkin' road sign...)  | ||
| Bomber |
great shots, greater story, greatest folks, by the sound of it thanks for your address to the troops, JH -- I promise I'll save it this time -- it echos what I've sad in the past to groups, but, as per usual, it's so much more lucid than my rambling, I believe I'll just quote you from now on | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Bomber, the gang will tell you that i ramble with the best of them, but i appreciate your words. it's REALLY important to get EVERYONE'S attention during the speech. how many times have you seen several riders during a pre-ride speech hanging in the back, cutting jokes, doing last-minute tinkering on their bikes, etc. get EVERYONE to stop what they're doing. all bikes off. start light, keep everybody in the spirit, thank everyone for coming, talk about all the great stuff the ride is gonna entail, etc., etc., etc. and then get down to the dirty business: the fact that this stuff can kill you. nobody wants to think about, much less talk about it, but you HAVE to get everyone's attention - it's that important. i have in the past, if the group seemed to need it, had SEVERAL safety speeches throughout the day, just to keep everyone's helmet pointed the right direction. we didn't need to do this last year or this year. and, honestly, i was a little afraid of implementing the "No drinking - No drugs" rule. i don't know exactly why i had this fear, but i knew that it was important after what happened at the Torquefest last year, and i was determined to stick to it for Oktoberfast '03 regardless of what people thought. well, it turned out to be a GREAT thing, so much so that we did it again this year, and not a single person complained. it's very likely that every ride i ever organize in the future will be run this way. it eliminates (especially in terms of beer drinking at lunch stops during a ride) several possible sources of impaired judgement, and precludes - should someone happen to go down during the ride anyway - any possibility of someone pointing fingers after the fact and stating that drinking and/or drugs may have caused the shunt. i do NOT have this stuff figured out. a lot of what we do boils down to luck, doesn't it? it's risky biz piloting a scoot down a twisty road, even at best, and there are no guarantees. but the odds can be stacked a little more in our favor with the right choice of words and a little influence. thanks again, Bomber. (Message edited by jerry_haughton on October 13, 2004) | ||
| Court |
>>>>the gang will tell you that i ramble with the best of them, You were trained well Young Jedi. | ||
| Bomber |
amen, sir, amen I've also found that talking about the varied experience levels of the riders, and please taken that into account helps, but, after seeing the grizzled vets you were riding with, that wouldn't apply ;-} I firmly beleive that if you set expectations properly, and model the behavior you desire, you'll be rewarded -- I buried 14 rinding buddies over the years, and, with one exception, I'm the oldest active rider I know -- THAT pi55es me off mightily, and am trying to make sure I got riding bussies galore in what Court refers to as the golden years As you say, luck is an important part, integral, but you CAN stack the deck in yer favor you may not be the expert on this speecifying stuff, but I'm stealin from ya anyways signed one who is contemplating a SEWER Run to WIldcat Mtn and Mindoro Gap next year) | ||
| Denisea |
A little late in this, but it was great to see you all again - couldn't ask for a better housefullahooligans. Joanne, yessiree you will bring your bike next year! Thanks to everyone for all the laughs and the great time! Thanks to my sweetie for all your work, watching out for us, and having the courage to put up with the gal on the SV. PS Tom, we'll see 'bout getting some Spam on the menu for next year. Denise | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
This is like a Spam Haiku. Reindog Forger Tom deep shallow serious not more elf than human | ||
| Reindog |
Cool... Thanks JH. he's Ferris Bueller faster than a speeding chimp and friend in the end (Message edited by reindog on October 13, 2004) | ||
| Eeeeek |
RR Eater? I really need to come down.  Vik | ||
| Racerboy |
Hey guys...Thanks for putting up the beautiful pics...They made me really want to get back to Cali as soon as possible...I only wish I had the talent to compose shots like some of you...I must have spent a couple of hours going through this thread and enjoyed every bit of it... Bob | ||
| Ebear |
Hey ya's take a look back up above where it says "made better by Ice Cream"Oct13,2:42..........Why is the ground all wet and what EXACTLY were you doing , Scott???  | ||
| Ebear |
 OK , They said ZZTOP was playin' here....   Man,could you carry a HEAP O' Beer in that thing!!  Voted 'Best Exhaust Note' in the bunch!! ((and of course the best looking!!)  Forging Ahead!!  Viros in Stealth Look...  "Da Boss" on his V_STROM!!!  Sandblast and Savage-teen-ho | ||
| Tbear |
Well I am finally getting around to trying to get some of my photos from the Great Sequoia Adventure AKA Octoberfast. I had the honor of carving up the incredible mountain roads with some great Bud's and meeting a bunch of new friends.  | ||
| Tbear |
 And here is our mobile camera man. Better watch what ya say around this guy. You never know if that thing is on or not!  Two Brothers and a Great Big Tree!! | ||
| Tbear |
 And here is that Lovely Hostess that made the weekend one we will all remember and look forward to any adventure that includes this Fun and Gracious Lady ;>  Tearing it up !  Some fine riding through the oaks.  The Man Leading us up yet another incredible twisting roller coaster !  Enjoying the ride!  Our Fair Lady sweeping up after us again ;> |
