| Author | Message | ||
     Ezblast  |
There are a lot of Blastards here in Cali and yet very few of us have met one another in person. Here is your opportunity to get a good set of rides in, meet the folk/friends you have been conversing with over the net and share riding stories, and enjoy the sharing of a passion we all have in common - Buell. Last years ride was a lot of fun and the roads and folk where awesome! Truely an adventure you'll remember! The twisties are calling your name - can you think of more fun filled reply?! Heres your chance to compare notes and make friends, and this is California after all - a place known for great roads - our mission is to find them! Bring your ride, make some friends and enjoy a great time! San Louis Obispo is the meeting point - join us - Ed, Scott, Erik, James, Eric, Saro and Lotti, Ryan and his lovely significant - the origionals plus already! So join us in some fun and create some memories to recall. Let the ride To SLO Part Deux Begin! (again the ride will be April 2, 3, & 4!) Disclaimer: This ride is in no way associated with Buell, the BADWEB, or any of its organizers. This is a voluntary gathering of fans of the Buell Blast. No one is leagally responsible for another on this ride or gathering - we all agree that we are responsible adults in charge of our own behavior, and that a safe and sober ride is our own responsibility and expected of us. Housing, feeding, and personal care is each our own responsiblity. Showing up for this voluntary event will be a sign of accord of the above statement and will be taken as acceptance of such. That said: Please make sure your bike is in good working order, that you are in good working order, and that you are prepared for any contingencies that may occur (a cell phone and Brag Roadside Assistance Membership would be a great idea, any tools you feel you'll need, etc.). I will reserve a small block of rooms (8 rooms are reserved at the Travel Lodge - 1825 Monterey St., (805)543-5110), however, such rooms will be shared (unless you bring your significant other - that counts as sharing - ;0)) and any other lodging arrangements will be your own responsibility - so if you want your own room - you'll need to arrange such. The Idea and goal of this event is to meet and share a little time together having fun and enjoying a ride! Each of us may participate as much or little as they please, however, thanks to those participating so far it looks to be a promising start to a fun event! Hope to see you there and remember - ride your own ride! Got Thump?! Just Blasting on the Dark side! EZ  (Message edited by ezblast on January 08, 2005) | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
Since I didnt make it last year, I forget, is it ride up friday, group ride on Saturday, then ride home Sunday? As it stands now I have the week before and the monday after, off! | ||
| Newblaster  |
Ride to SLO Saturday, ride around Sunday, back to wherever you're going back to on Monday. Looks like it works out pretty well for you. lol... Good to see that there will be more this year. A few more years, maybe we'll be able to fill up the parking lot! | ||
| Ezblast |
   Anyone done those SLO loops before - I hear that both are recommended - perhaps a nice route for the SLO ride - eh? GT - JBOTDS! EZ | ||
| Sarodude |
The 33 is fun south of the 166 up to where the Deer Lodge is. We were on the 58 last year. The loop was to include part the 166 and a stop at the Solvang Motorcycle Museum. Part of the issue with last year's ride may have been the length of the ride. Any time you decide to trek across the 58 and try to make a loop out of it, it'll likely be a similar length as what we started out trying to do last year. The top 2 loops are gonna be long if last year's loop was long. Not sure about the 3rd. -Saro | ||
| Ezblast |
What about the middle one but take 41 across - would that be worth doing? Looks jagged enough - but thats your playground - the last pic is one of the alternative routes to SLO - I guess you could turn it into a loop - lol - I've been cruising the Pashnt forum - looking and asking questions about routes - this years looks real promising! Can;t wait to meet all of you once again! GT - JBOTDS! EZ | ||
| Jprovo |
Ez, The middle one looks OK if we take the lower half, and the 41 across. I was thinking something a bit shorter, sower, and more scenic. Like this:  Leave about 9am, Take the 101 to the 58 W to West Pozo Road. Take W Pozo To Pozo to the 58. Stop along the way in Pozo for some pics. I think that there is a lake around there. Take the 58 West to the 229 North, to El Paso Del Robles. The first leg should take about three hours, and will probably be longer if we stop at all the major intersections to make sure the group is together and let EZ take a smoke break  Have Lunch and Gas up in El Paso del Robles. Take the 101 South to the 46 West to Hwy 1 to Cambria. Stop in Cambria for some pics. Leave Cambria via Santa Rosa Creek Road. http://www.pashnit.com/roads/cal/SantaRosaCreekRd.htm We should take a few pics on Santa Rosa Creek Road. Take Santa Rosa Creek Rd to highway 1 to Morro Bay. Have dinner in Morro Bay, or Los Osos, or if it is still too early, head home to SLO and have dinner there. James | ||
| Ezblast |
Sounds like fun! Look forward to riding it with you and thanks for the smoke breaks! - lol - sure looks like a good time in the making - only Cali has so many diferent choices for good riding - did 35 to 9 to Santa Cruz and 1 back up just for fun today - the rain chaising but not touching all day, staid just a step away! You know I only got half that mialage on both Blasts together, but I do think Erik of Tahoe may be close to your number - he's always riding to each photography shot via motorcycle back and forth across his state of Nevada - you must commute a lot further than I - lol - SF is only 7 x 7 - still the trip to work is 10 miles aprox. - lol - all those crooked roads add up. Your bike is really becomming quite the mystery - can't wait to see it! Got to log some pics of the most mialage Blast ya know! GT - JBOTDS! EZ | ||
| Jprovo |
EZ, can you check on Pashnit to ee if anyone can tell you about E Pozo to Pozo? I would like to know how well marked it is and If it's filled with stopsign or not. That's the only real unknown that I can see on the loop. My commute used to be about 20 miles one way, now it's about 10. Most of my milage came from Brag Rides, and going to the Buell 20th. You'll see my bike soon enough. Hopefully I'll get to sort out the rearsets a little better by then. The curent configuration works, it could just use a little tweaking. James | ||
| Sarodude |
James- Pozo is a rideable road. I don't believe it's laden with stop signs. I've driven pozo but never ridden it. Loli's blast has all but stopped accumulating mileage for now. Hopefully it can accumulate some for the Blast ride... -Saro | ||
| Newblaster |
Loli's blast has all but stopped accumulating milage? Ohhhhh, I get it now. She's getting rusty for the SLO ride, so that we can actually keep up with her. lol... | ||
| Ezblast |
Sweet! The North's route is set! - lol - this is a tight loop - GGPark to 35 to 9 to 85 to Almaden to Mckean to Uvas to Hecker's Pass to Santa Theresa to 25 to Peach Tree to Indian Valley to 101 into SLO and back by 1 - Sweet circle - Surely there are Northern Cali and beyond riders who want to experience some of the best Cali has to offer - here's your chance to ride the roads that have made Cali famous meeting and riding with folks you've only read of - come on folks - grab your bike and join us April 2-4 for some of the best roads,riding, and Buellish behavior one could experience! Got Thump?! Just Blasting on the Dark side! EZ | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
I'm guessing EZ has the NorCal ride all set,but we SoCal Blasters have got about 3 weeks to pull a meeting place and group rides up together. I'm not sure if I'm going up friday or saturday but I'd really like to start collecting names & cell numbers of those who are going (or might be). Please pass the word on to fellow Blasters (here & elsewhere) about this ride. I'd really like to at least double last years attendance! Who's in? | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
2 WEEKS! Who is going? (except me and EZ). ....Man, I'm starting to feel like my head injury has left me in a world of my own, cut off from the outside, but not knowing it. Perhaps this is all a delusion and I'm still lying in a hospital bed, comatose.The only e-mail response I got back was from a Victoria's Secret model!?! Maybe the accident left me to be a complete •••••••, I just dont know it and nobody will tell me? Is there anybody out there? Hello,Hello,Hello, (cue music;Comfortably Numb;The Wall) | ||
| Jprovo |
Erik, I have the time off work, and I'll be there. Gimme a call later and we'll sort out room and board, the trip up etc. We should probably get together this weekend or next to hammer out riding routes. James Saro - You going to be able to make it this year? | ||
| Ezblast |
James - I have rooms reserved - let me know - one is your, one is Eriks, one for Saro and Lotti, I and Scott will share one - We'll perhaps have a visitor from Arizona joining us - well see - there are other tenative folks as well - again we'll see. GT - JBOTDS! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
So Dallas from Arizona will be joining the Northern group ride to SLO! - woohoo! - I've been putting in max hours at work so I'm really looking forward to the ride! So hows it going down south? GT - JBOTDS! EZ | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
James & I will be there. Still waiting to hear from others. | ||
| Gearheaderiko |
Last call for anyone else interested in going. This is the weekend. Contact me or EZ (or James) for last minute info. Its not too late! | ||
| Ezblast |
Erik, Dallis, And James - SOS - Please contact, send or post here the pics you have of the ride - please! I'll post the few pics I have of the ride, but the camera was a bust and most of the pictures Blurs - event the few I'll post are bad, but one isn't and the sight amazing - thanks for showing everyone - it was the bomb - Dallis's question - 'It gets worse from here right? - That was just too much fun!" - I smiled and said - 'It only gets better, and we've only just begun!" - the tale to follow tommorrow, but I'll post the few very bad pics I've saved and the good one -         GT - JBOTDS! EZ (Message edited by ezblast on April 05, 2005) | ||
| Ezblast |
 Couldn't leave this pic out - even blured - lol - the tail of why these pictures are even posted - resumes tonight - of course if anyone else has any - please pipe in! GT - JBOTDS! EZ | ||
| Moose |
Wow, even blurry, everything is "SO GREEN MAN" guess all that rain you've been having!! Every time I've been in that area(twice) it was summer and kinda TAN colored, LOL. Wow, I'll bet y'all had a BLAST! | ||
| Ezblast |
The cammera really disapointed me - I took a 113 pics - all masively blured, but I worked hard to save these few because of their special memories. This is a cool lush time of year - great for long rides - so easy on the eyes. I was looking forward to this ride - I've been and continue to put maximum hours into this new position - just to shape it up to workable - lol - even if no one else showed - I was ready to go! So I'm waiting by the coffee house - the Beanery - and waiting impatiently to relax on the road in the ride. Then Dallas pulls in on his loaded stock red Blast(PICS) with an excellent - detachable luggage rack that he had fabricated (PIC), and and we are both smiling - this trucker likes to put on the miles and in the end he'll do over 4000 just for the trip! I point out the coffee and bakery - two of SF's finest - but he has already eaten breakfast, and is more interested in the ride, so we pour over the details, soon Scott pulls in and he goes right for the coffee - a couple of smokes later - we are on the road. We take off North on 9th ave. into Golden Gate Park and follow the turn taking us through the park to the Coast. This park is always beautifull and an easy way to warm up the tires a bit before hitting 35 on the coast. The ocean to your right, if you time yourself right you can cruise the lights - a really promising day unfolds as the weather stays partially cloudy and 35 proper is aproaching us now as we ride the 35/280 part - the most beautiful section of the hwy. For only a few miles, then we peal off to 9/35 to 35 proper - very nice and the fun gets entertaining - es's and curves galore - surounded by greenery and dappling sun. At Alices (PIC) we beat the Brunch rush and get to watch the groups poor in for their days ride - a light repast and a tour of bikes is in order - we do spot an Black M2 and 'Parkway Blue' Blast amongst all the bikes - and there was a nice collection of basically everything - lol - it is at this point that Dallas asks for the first of three times - 'It gets worse from here - huh?", I smile - responding - 'Nope - it gets better!' We take 35 to 9 and the curves get tighter - and the greenery surounds us as we enter the old town part of Saratoga and head for 5 min. on 85. We get off at Almeden - thank you Pashnt.com forum for this advice - and head for more back roads - the Uvas Reservour is our next stop and again Dallas asks that question and gets the same reply - lol. The ride is surounding me with beauty and peace - the roads we ride we have practically to our selves - it doesn't get any better than this and the pavement blends with the road changes - 25 to PeachTree to Indian Valley (PIC) - all beautifull with the road narrowing around us - the yellow line disapears on Indian Valley for most of it to reapear at San Miguel and the pictureque Mission. We gas up here and relax before our charge into San Louis Obispo on 101. A little over 20 minutes later we pull into SLO and head right for the station to gas up, oil, and air check for tommorrows ride - as I pull out my bike back fires and for the first time ever my carb is blown off the boot - lol - I screw it back on and all is well - thank goodness for springs - no harm no foul - we pull in and pull up next to two hopped up yellow Blasts and an 883 Sky Blue Sportster. We get off our bikes and smile - Dallas asking the third and final time that question and my response. James, Eric - and his friend Kyle come out - we are well met by the Southren Blast contingency - 6 last year and six this year - I smile to my self - at least we're breaking even and that Sporty was cool. A night of meeting, greating, food, and conversation ensues - It was a totally fun night - I thought to myself that a lot of Blastards are missing a good thing here - Buellers are definately interesting folk - James - quick of wit and bike - a calculating engineer and a quick smile peeking through a beard, Eric - a frugal cavaleer, his friend - Kyle had a greet dark wit and was definately up for the ride, Dallas - a guy who loves to eat up the miles and some good riding tales as well, Scott - always ready for a challenge and determined to have fun!, And me - the humble Blastaholic - lol - it was a great night! To be continued - we find out about what the sign 13 miles of curvy road and bumpy road mean combined and the fun of a day with friends and then latter - we all know about Cali's happy cows, but what about their cowboys? - lol Got Thump?! Just Blasting on the Dark side! EZ (Message edited by ezblast on April 06, 2005) | ||
| Ezblast |
   Thank you Eric and Kyle - Great shots and memories! GT - JBOTDS! EZ | ||
| Ezblast |
Day two starts early for me - since I want non hotel coffee and the only place with fresh worth a darn is the 7-11 4 blocks down the road - sigh - only caffee open on a sunday in SLO - lol - the day is overcast and chilly - I should probably have worn a t shirt under the shirt and regret not doing so - still there was no rain and the temperature was still survivable. So we are about a half hour from taking off - and a conversation about the comfort of the Corbin seat between Eric and Dallas has them swaping seats for the ride - after Dallas takes 10 minutes to remove the rack that he had fabricated - a really solid device that mounts at the Bungee holes - very slick and heavy duty - he should pattent and sell them - lol - and we're off! We pull into the same gas station as last year - lol - and again its closed! I laugh - I know the first small part of this route - we press on - the roads a pleasant blend - quick James in the lead and me chaising him - lol - follage and the occasional car the only reminder that these are not our private roads - then we come up to a double sign as we enter a new road - 13 miles of curves ahead promises the first and the second declares bumpy road - well we where warned - lol - a KTM would have been a better choice of ride, but we managed it nicely - no falls and some teriffic scenery the payoff (PICS) - including a 57 Chevey truck parked by a creek surounded by vegitation and a nice creek by our sides for most of it. At the end of that section - we stop and take our bearings for the next part, and see a couple on a CBR going back the way we came out - I and the others wave, pointing to the signs - twins to the ones we saw entering that section of road - I sure hope they're alright - lol - the day blends into restfull riding and we start for the Bay side of the ride - more nice roads follow and before heading back we stop at Morro Bay for a photo op - (PIC) - by now we've had loads of fun, talking, getting to know each other and enjoying together a really nice set of roads - now its back to SLO we go! As we gather up for dinner - a leasurely 8 block walk to Mo's - we talk about the ride and how Saro, Lotti and Ryan would have loved it if they had been able to come - heck anyone would have had fun on this ride - it was awesome! Enjoying some fine BBQ we talk about everything under the sun and enjoy a good evening creating friendships. At the evenings end - Dallas lets us know that he'll be leaving early to get home in time - he'll do 4000 miles by the time he pulls up to his door, and wants to do it again in August/September - lol - I suspect he had a good time! In the morning we are set to depart - hands are shaken and smiles shared - it was a great time! As last year - Scott and I head for the coast - 1 will be our relaxing ride home - filled with the beauty of the coast line! This ride is a classic, and I'm sure it is a must do for any out of state biker, for me it was just relaxing, however, there is one thing that made me stop and take a picture to try and add to the worlds collection of California coastal shots - everyone knows California cows are the happiest the world over, but what about the cowboys? (PIC) He looked pretty happy to me - I took close to 20 pics just to get that one - he probably knew I was there, but he just didn't care - he was busy working and enjoying the day - totally cool - the coast was a perfect cap to a great weekend - winding roads and great scenery all the way home - a mild sunny day kept everything perfect! Its a pity more didn't join, but it didn't hurt a thing, and only made the ride more personal and easier to relax into. I'd do it again most anyday - it was that much fun! Yes - yellow is getting faster - great bikes guys - but Black is still the fastest - ;0)- is Red on the come back trail? - stay tuned - lol - perhaps next year? - perhaps  - Got Thump?! Just Blasting on the Dark side! EZ | ||
| Vjb77 |
sobbing in my root beer because i'm nowhere near you guys and i missed it...thanks for "blogging" it ez! | ||
| Jprovo |
 On the way up in wine country.  At The Hotel  | ||
| Jprovo |
 Group stretch at Park Hill and Las Pilitas  Scenery at the Stretch point. The roads up to this point were fun, technical, and scenic. We were a bit cold though, so the group needed to stop and warm up. | ||
| Jprovo |
After the Warm up, the roads got even more scenic, a little more dirty, and I got to try and splash EZ at the 6 or so creek crossings we made.  The Cambria end of Santa Rosa Creek Road. Santa Rosa Creek had some beautiful scenery of the creek and the surrounding area, but the road conditions re-defined the term "Rough Road". I'll be the first in-line to hit this road again after they resurface it.  Cool old truck near Cambria.  Cute Sign at between Ranta Rosa Creek and Old Creek. (Message edited by jprovo on April 10, 2005) | ||
| Jprovo |
 Old Creek Rd on the way to Morro Bay. This road is filled with fast sweepers, and great scenery.  Morro Rock. The pics in EZ's pot above are the the group at the hotel, the group sitting on Morro rock, and the group at the first rest stop. It was a great ride, I'm already planning next years route. James |
