Roadstergal
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We had initially planned to do a bicycle ride from our house to Santa Cruz this past weekend. However, my hubby was a little under the weather, so in the interest of not making that worse, we changed our plans slightly to a ride on the motos farther south.
We put the SV1000S back in street trim, and I washed the poor neglected FZ6. We packed clothes for overnight in one of my saddlebags, and my takes-up-too-much-space dSLR in the other.
Stopping for gas.
We had an uneventful ride down 280 and across 84. When we hit 17, though, we were pulled over by a moto cop. We suspect he was looking for squids gearing up to go crash on 9; he gave the SV1000S a few good look-overs, I suspect looking for a fix-it ticket opportunity. But m'boy's lighting is stock, his plate isn't somewhere ridiculous, and his tires are DOT (if shagged), so the officer let us go. My bike is too stodgy for even a second glance.
The wind was cool, so we stopped in Monterey to get another thermal layer for m'boy. Hang-gliders drifted drowsily overhead. It was that kind of day.
Highway 1 south of Monterey was a nice change. Not the tightest turns, but good fun; the traffic was light and the day was beautiful.
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We put the SV1000S back in street trim, and I washed the poor neglected FZ6. We packed clothes for overnight in one of my saddlebags, and my takes-up-too-much-space dSLR in the other.
Stopping for gas.
We had an uneventful ride down 280 and across 84. When we hit 17, though, we were pulled over by a moto cop. We suspect he was looking for squids gearing up to go crash on 9; he gave the SV1000S a few good look-overs, I suspect looking for a fix-it ticket opportunity. But m'boy's lighting is stock, his plate isn't somewhere ridiculous, and his tires are DOT (if shagged), so the officer let us go. My bike is too stodgy for even a second glance.
The wind was cool, so we stopped in Monterey to get another thermal layer for m'boy. Hang-gliders drifted drowsily overhead. It was that kind of day.
Highway 1 south of Monterey was a nice change. Not the tightest turns, but good fun; the traffic was light and the day was beautiful.
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