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Fall is here! Time for another Palomar Sunday... If you are not comfortable with mountain roads, decreasing radius turns, etc, then this may not be the ride for you. You are responsible for your own safety at all times. Route / Plan 1) Meet at Pala Gas Station @ 7:30AM / KSU @ 8AM 2) Ride up Palomar S6 to Mothers Kitchen. I don't plan to eat here, though. Keep your own pace as we'll wait at Mothers for everyone. 3) Ride down Palomar S7 to Miner's Diner for brunch in Julian 4) I will return via 79 south through Temecula. From there you can hit the I15 and head home, wherever that may be. You can also split off when we intersect with 76. Note that I do cross-post this ride at OCMOTO, a local forum.

Thinking of getting myself a smaller pipe, maybe a straight pipe. Looking to see if anyone locally in SoCal would want to pick up my gently used Akropovic exhaust and how much they're willing to pay with all the hardware. Thanks all!

Oh yes, you read that right. We're doing it again, for the 4th year running. As always, the plan is to meet in Kernville on Friday night, October 6th - yeah yeah, better late than never. How you get there is up to you, and book your own rooms unless you want to sleep at a shady bar. Stay at the Kernville Inn (11042 Kernville Rd), beer, pizza, etc. Then, it's shitty pre-ride breakfast and party time: Saturday: Kernville to Shaver Lake (https://goo.gl/maps/dzuKrxMzX4N2) - traditionally we stay at the Shaver Lake Hotel find a room wherever you can! Sunday: Shaver Lake to wherever you came from (https://goo.gl/maps/yuaV5SkDC1C2) As always you're welcome to join and peel off as you please, just let us know your plan. Speeding, passing on double yellows, and cutting the huge line at the Kings Canyon park entrance are encouraged but not required. Motivation: IN: BrianF (Herding Cats) Duc2V4 (Saturday Arrival) St. Stephen (too cool for Friday) RC1237V (egg man) crazybrother (Shaver Saturday) sfdownhill (5th gen reppin) Maybe: thepretender (testing the waters) OUT: tc339 (staying employed) RichVee4 (staying married) MonicaVee4 (see RichVee4) VFR Capt. Bob (funding renovations) bayarearider (Pacifica Prison)

Alrighty boys and girls, time to make this baby official. After some discussion with last year's attendees, we chose August 29th and 30th as the dates for the 2nd Annual Golden/Silver State Ride. Please check in and let me know if those dates work for you. In order to "meet in the middle," I propose a basecamp in Three Rivers (https://goo.gl/maps/HgN2y). It's roughly equidistant from LA, SF, and Reno. Routes for day rides aren't difficult to come by - plenty of good roads in that area. https://goo.gl/maps/LPSYN https://goo.gl/maps/GlR2d Sleeping-wise, there's a Comfort Inn in Three Rivers ($139/night) or camping at Horse Creek on Lake Kaweah. Due to my work schedule, I'll probably have to show up on Friday night, ride Saturday and Sunday, then slog home Sunday night. Depending on the response from the SoCal contingent, I have some point-to-point ride options in my back pocket as well. If you like scenery, twisty roads, good people, beer, and shenanigans, chime in. UPDATE: Given a light response from the SoCal contingent, we've gone point-to-point. Meeting location is Kernville, CA on the night of 8/28. Saturday 8/29 -- https://goo.gl/maps/aoYkz Sunday 8/30 -- https://goo.gl/maps/UnuIE IN: BrianF (NorCal) St. Stephen (NorCal) tc339 (NorCal) Duc2V4 (SoCal) JMS (Fresno) JMS Friend (Fresno) RC1237V (NorCal) MaxSwell? (Minnesota (!)) <--------- A for effort crazybrother (NorCal) <------ wants to stay employed RichVee4 (Reno) <------ smoked out RichVee4 Monica (Reno) <------ non-smoking dadofseven (Reno) <------- Serving our country TJ (NorCal) <------- Not cool enough

Anyone here in SoCal either really good @ soldering way-too-damn fine wires, or know someone who is? I'm been trying (and failing) to do a chatterbox helmet speaker to ear bud 3.5mm adapter with no success at all. So far I'm 0 for 6 attempts, and the wires are getting shorter...and shorter...

Alrighty misfits and malcontents - it's time to plan ahead for once. Last year we (and by "we" I mean people other than me who weren't injured in dirtbike crashes) got the Golden State Gathering off the ground in earnest. This time I'd like to give people plenty of time to think ahead. After a discussion with those who actually made it in 2014, we chose the 29th and 30th of August as the dates - PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP IF THOSE DATES DON'T WORK FOR YOU. If enough people can't make it we'll try to find alternatives. The other vote you get is how the gathering is run: either point-to-point with an overnight stop, or basecamp with loop rides each day. For example: Point-to-point (meeting in Kernville): Day 1 https://goo.gl/maps/0Gx0S, Day 2 https://goo.gl/maps/Bry0H Basecamp: Day 1 https://goo.gl/maps/gRNyZ Day 2 https://goo.gl/maps/PBxyN Obviously these are not final, but just to give you an idea. I personally am much more fond of the point-to-point option, but I know it makes it tough on the SoCal guys. Thoughts? Opinions? Objections? Feedback ready go. In (NorCal): BrianF ecn CrazyBro St. Stephen TJ tc339 In (SoCal): duc2V4 In (Nevada): RichVee4

Good Ride, tired. Salton Sea smells like crap. Will get pics up later or tomorrow.