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cool morn in W.Sac, to Coco's by 6:30 for 7am departure...
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... to Chevron at Forni Road in Plasterville to meet up with Mike, Rodney, Paul & Rosiline, Mike & Melba...
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... then to Snowline Hospice on Plasterville Drive... there we run in to Mike&TammyO, RenaG, Randy&SusanE, DaveS and DaveR...
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Paul's ride is 1 of 300 made...
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that's right, Paul's ride is 1 of 300 made...
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3rd stop: Mike's Cycles right there on Plasterville Drive... went there first...
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1st stop: Bones Roadhouse way out Pleasant Valley Road... went there 2nd...
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Yup, Rodney's a Clamper too... and... yup, that's Rat Fink...
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...then pass through Diamon Springs on the way to 3rd stop - PJ's on Motherload...
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Shiela, daughter of Bill (the event organizer) was working the pocker stop at PJ's... Mike gets all twinkle eyed...
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and 193 to Georgetown, no scheduled stops there, but, had to stop at the Miner's Club, an ECV place if ever there was one...
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then on down to the Joker's Roadhouse for stop #4...
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while there a forestry service truck went by with siren and lights... then a fire truck with siren and lights... then an ambulance
with siren and lights... and CHP with siren and lights... we ride on towards Ice House...
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...then all the traffic is stopped...
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...then we here a bike went down...
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... as long as we are waiting, a picture of RodneyJ's Street Bob... but it says Fat Bob on the air cleaner... naaaa... it's a
special limited edition combination Street/Fat Bob... not really... just an air cleaner mess up during assembly...
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... then we hear we are waiting on a helicopter...
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... was girl on a bike-whose-name-shall-not-be-mentioned-Ace that went over the edge... after about 45 minutes we ride on towards Ice House...
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... Ice House...
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... Rainbow Orchard... BBQ, quad with trailer raffle... some girl won the quad...
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... as we are finishing our dinner Sharon, who always keeps rain and fog away from us lost her concentration
and it began to sprinkle... no more pictures now... we're out of here...
folks were leaving like ticks off of a dead deer...... gas stop at Forni Road in Plasterville... only a few sprinkles now... rolling along
between Bradshaw and Watt I see what looks like RAIN ahead... get out of fast lane and slow down... down pour for 1/4 mile... I yell
at Sharon... "you go to sleep back there?"... "no, I was just thinking it's getting hot"... "well cut that out"...
on down the hills towards Sacratomatoe and no more sprinkles... but... between
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9 riders on 6 motors for 238.1 miles, 2142.9 total miles.
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