CBR 1000rr

Here's one of my favorite pictures of my CBR 1000rr

Turkey Day Ride 2k9

Veej, Bella, & I went on a ride today. We took Hwy 35, 84, Stage Road, Hwy 1, Tunitas Creek Road, back to Hwy 35, Hwy 280 home. The weather was nice and sunny but there were parts of the ride that were wet. Mostly it came on Hwy 84. The little micro climates. Some shaded area's were actually icy or wet.


Veej & Bella @ the gas station across the street from Alice's restaurant.

One of the interesting things I saw on the ride was this car. It was a 'Beemer'. This BMW was very unique as you can see in the pictures. The door opened the from the front of the car and I think it can only hold two people. It had 4 tires but the rear tires were very close together. Im sure that little thing has an awesome turn radius seeing how the tires are set up. : )


Another thing I've been thinking about what my last track day has done to my way of riding the twisties now. Im a lot more careful & fearful of the street. After getting off the track you realize how dangerous the public streets are. I mean you can't see through blind turns. Who knows whats coming, or what debris is lying on the ground, drunk drivers, people talking on their phones, etc. Hopefully, I'll be able to do a lot of track days next year.

2k9 International Motorcycle Show

We did the The International Motorcycle Show @ San Mateo this weekend. I was a little disappointed because not all the manufactures were there. Missing was Aprillia, KTM, Husaberg, Bimotoa, the Korean brand Kymco, Triumph, and MV Agusta. One thing that stood out was the Ducati Hypermotard 796. Man, that thing looks so fun! I know the 796 has been out but this was the first time I got to see the thing up close. I still can't stand the side mirrors but thats nothing aftermarket mirrors cant fix. Another thing that stood out for you cruiser types was the 2k10 Honda fury. Up close and personal that thing looks like a custom. It does not look like anything Honda would put out. Another bike that Honda had was the VFR 1200. That hasn't been updated forever. It use to be
a 800cc but now its got more meat and a crap load of new technology. Harley Davidson was in abundance. If you loved HD then you would of liked the turn out for HD in San Mateo. I saw the Ducati stunt team for the first time. They put on a couple of 5 minute shows. I remember one guy coming up to me and saying "man, its over wtf. It must of sucked!". Geez, tell me how many times can you watch the same wheelie, stoppie, and burnout? 5 Minutes is perfect for what they were doing. Mission Motorcycles was there too with their electric sportbike. The thing sounded like an RC when you twisted the throttle.


My bro at the HJC Helmet Booth.



My cousin on a Cruiser.



Mission Motorcycles - Electric Motorcycle.


My bro on the Ducati Hypermotard 796. Such a pretty bike.



Retro Helmets. Homage to 'Evil Knievel'.

Dumb Ass Thieves!

Some ass-hats broke into Joe's brand new bike and stole his battery. In the process they ripped out his seat, battery wires & leads, and battery strap. All that work just to get a $100 battery. Stupid! What gets me is that there is a lot of other bikes in Joe's parking garage that didn't get hit up. Joe's was the only one. Fucking Assholes! Why can't people just leave other people's crap alone? It sucks because you work hard for your shit. Most motorcyclists aren't rich and when things get stolen its difficult to replace. Oh well, I'll stop my dam rant. I'm sure those jack-off's will get what's coming to them.

Let's Ride Joe!

Kev & I took Joe on a twisty ride on the Marin route. We had a blast. The only thing that sucked was a cager almost took Kev and I out on Bolinas/Fairfax road. People do not know how to drive!


Joe checking out his ride. Man, that thing's only got 200+ miles on it. Even when the engine cools down you can still smell the new exhaust/engine smell. : )

Infineon Raceway

Kev & I had the star track day school @ Infineon Raceway in Sonoma. A famous person was there with us riding his bike too. It was Batman - Christian Bale. He rides a Honda CBR600. Unfortunately, I didn't get any video of him riding. He seemed like a down to earth guy. Anyway here's the video of our last session on the track.

Infineon!!!

Kevin and I attended the "Class" track day school at Infineon Raceway, Sonoma. We had a freaking blast. The funny thing is that Batman - Christian Bale was there too attending the same class as us. He seems to be a nice guy.


Can you see Christian Bale? Unfortunately he didn't have his bat bike.



To Much fun!!!

SuperMoto Day!!!

Chill'in before the trip home.

We went to Prairie City for another track day. Brok let us have the track with just the seven of us plus 4 rented bikes and my DRZ. It was Me, Joe, Steve, Gene, Veej, Robert, & Kevin. Kevin did most of the picture taking. Another photographer was there named Joe and he took a bunch of pictures too. The cool thing about our trip up there was my Cousin let us stay at her house so we didn't have to make an early morning drive all the way up to Prairie City. I can't wait to get the rest of the pictures from Kevin because he took like 200 pictures. Anyway, it was a freaking blast!!!


I took some video too. Here's a picture of me with the Go-Pro camera on my helmet.

Here's the video
Click Here!!!

Dam Batteries!!!

The "Go Pro" camera I got for a gift sucks batteries dry to fast. I wanted to shoot some of Reg's riding on the Labor Day ride we went on but the batteries we're not charged enough. So the camera decided by itself that it would only take pictures.

Here's one of my bro and Ron at the Arco before Hwy One heading towards Stinson.

Downieville Video

Here's the Downieville Video taken on my GoPro Camera.



sorry about the music but I had to get my "mullet" on!

Downieville

Packer Saddle Shuttle Drop

We all went to Downieville for two days for Tim's bachelors party and to go mtn. biking. It was me, Miguel, Tim, Neil, Veej, Joe, and Robert. We had a great time Mtn. biking and just hanging out. There were a couple of bad things that happened. Tim crashed early on during the downhill. We had went approximately two miles before the mishap. He bent the rim and seat to where you couldn't ride it. We all pitched in and eventually fixed the bike to where he could push it. Instead of going the rest of the way down Neil accompanied Tim to go back to the top of the desent to catch a ride back down with a shuttle.


Tim's rental all bent up.


Chill'in out!

The camping site was nice. I was expecting a lot of mosquitos but there weren't that many at all. I was also expecting it to be cold at night but every night we were there was warm. There were times at night where wearing your sleeping bag would be to warm.



The Desent started at "Packer saddle shuttle drop" which is 7219ft in elevation. We then took "Sunshine" trail to "Butcher Ranch trail", to "3rd Divide", to "Lavezolla creek road", to "upper first divide", then back to "Lavezolla creek road", down back to Downieville. I think the whole trip took us around 3.5 to 4 hours. We took a lot of breaks and stopped for photo oppurtunities. I also had my gopro camera and got some good video of what these trails are like.



The beginning of 3rd divide desent.

There was everything for everybody. The trails had all types of terrain from drop offs, jumps, sand, real technical, fast flowing, switchbacks, berms, lots of downhill fast sections, trees, rocks, everything you can imagine a trail would have Downieville had. There were crashes too. Everybody crashed at least once. I had a moment but I didn't go down I just had to grab a tree to prevent me from falling. I guess when you're pushing your limits to the envelope you always want to see how far you can go. Even with the crashes it was still too much fun.

Mtn. Biking @ China Camp

Basking in the sun I set my camera on auto and took this pix of us at the dock in 'China Camp'.

We (My bro, Joe, & I) went Mtn. biking @ China camp in Marin. Here's some history about it from the Camp itself. I took this excerpt from one of the description head boards about the area.

"A Chinese shrimp-fishing village thrived on this site in the 1880s. Nearly 500 people, originally from Canton, China, lived in the village. In its heyday, there were three general stores, a marine supply store and a barber shop. Fisherman by trade in their native country, they gravitated to the work they knew best. Over 90% of the shrimp they netted were dried and shipped to China or Chinese communities throughout the US."

What they forgot to tell you in the little descriptive paragraph was the Chinese had to face Racism from "white" fishermen who often 'bullied' the Chinese into crappy fishing areas or plane just took their businesses away from them.


"Everybody loves Kung-Fu fighting..." I wonder if there were any hand on hand fights between the Chinese and any other racist assholes during that time.


Please bake until golden brown. This was actually an oven no longer in use at the 'China Camp' state park. The fishermen must of hauled in their fish from their boats then sold the fish in the little market place which had this oven surrounded by what looked to be fish selling tables. The fishermen or the customers must of used the oven to cook the freshly caught fish.


The trails were fun. Basically cross-country riding with some climbing but nothing to crazy. It's a good trail to break a new bike. The weather was nice and there was the normal bay breeze blowing by the water when we stopped to rest at the main 'China Camp' area.


The end of the day came and we stopped at Rob's place for some refreshments and a small BS session. Rob and his wife were in good spirits and even bought a 2 liter sugar bomb also known as coke which I'm addicted to. After leaving Rob's place the end of the day had a surprise for us. As we headed back into SF on Hwy. 101 Veej's bike fell off the back of Joe's car. All I remember was running over a little bump in the freeway then seeing my bro's bike tumble end over end with cars swerving left to right to avoid the catastrophe. I quickly called 911 which in turn connected me to the CHP after a couple of minutes of putting me on hold. Fortunately for us some crazy bystander saw the incident and quickly pulled over and ran out into the middle of the freeway and hauled my brothers bike into his borrowed Mercedes Benz loaner SUV. The bike came back with only scratches on the handle bars and no other visible damage. Dam lucky if you ask me. Anyway, our next Mountain bike adventure will be in Downieville Ca. The meca for Downhill Mtn. biking.

More Moto GP from the 4th

More pictures of Laguna Seca MotoGP


Laguna Seca's front straight.



Yamaha test rides for little kids. I wish they had these things when I was their age.



Im ready to tear it up with this thing!



Capirossi from Suzuki and I.

Laguna Seca Raceway Trip

We started Friday the 3rd from SF at around 12:45pm. Our route was to go hwy 280, hwy 35, to Summit Road, to Soquel San Jose Road, to Hwy 1, to Salinas, to 'Motel 8'. That first leg of the trip was going to be 104 miles of twisties and regular Hwy driving. It would take us about 3 hours to get to 131 Kern St, Salinas, CA where Hotel 8 would be waiting.



There was traffic coming up to hwy 35 due to an accident and a lot of people going to Half Moon Bay.



Summit Road Has some of the most tight well paved twisties I've seen so far. Its like Bolinas Fairfax Road but better paved. It's a perfect supermoto road. We had to stop twice up there because there were forks in the road and we weren't sure which way to go. Fortunately for us each way we picked turned out to be the correct way. More to follow...

Moto GP Fever

Getting ready for Moto GP this coming 4th of July. I can't wait because it will be my first Moto GP event. We're going to be riding up there with Kev and his GF. Kev and I will be riding up on our motorcycles while the Girls drive his SUV up to Monterey.


Here's our tickets!



I've also got fresh rubber for stubby so she'll be ready to ride. I've got to break them in a little bit before the 4th. It's going to be a busy weekend.

Reflection

Here's a picture reflecting from my DRZ at Alpine lake on Fairfax Bolinas Road. It was the first time Reg went on this road. We had to go very slow because Reg didn't know the road and plus its a very tight and technical road and she's relatively new to the twisties.



The funny little side note to this mirror is that it came off at a gas station in Fairfax. Lucky Reg saw it fall from my bike. I just glued the mirror back on last night hopefully I'll have no more problems with it. Mirrors like this should be vibration proof especially if they're going to be installed on a single.

Nor Cal Roads

The great thing about Nor-Cal is we are blessed with so many twisty roads. Here's an old picture I found of my Bro and I exploring side roads off of Hwy 1 near Half Moon Bay.


My Bro


A twisty road that ran for about two miles that was so much fun and perfect for the Supermotos. Just as long as you didn't fall off the cliff face.

Foggy Day

Here's another picture of our foggy day ride in the twisties.


Thumbs up!!!

The Races

I went to the Dainese Store today to check out the races on their big screen. Moto GP and World Superbike. I was a bit lazy and only made the World Superbike showing. Ben Spies pulls a double win in Utah. It was a good race and there was a lot of swapping places for 3rd, 4th, and 5th. My favorite rider Haga didn't fare so well. He managed to pull 9th for race one and 8th for race two. He's still ahead in the standings but Spies can easily catch up. Don't get me wrong I like Spies too. Some of my other riders I was cheering on are Zemke, and Kiyonari.

More Memorial Day Ride Pictures

More Pictures of Memorial Day.


They're looking at Kevin like "WTF are you looking at biatch!"



This is me being totally stupid on the DRZ

More Infineon...

This is for the Ducati lovers out there....

More Infineon Raceway Pictures

Pix of the Day

My brother showing pretty good form on a stoppie.