WCRM 2006 - Day 2

On the second day (Saturday) I went for what seemed like a good ride - highway 299. This road is great! 299 has nice long sweepers and excellent pavement. It was wet in places, but still great. I left late (because I like to sleep in) and ZX11Andrew tagged along. I let him lead, since he's much faster than me. We headed up North to Eureka/Arcata and made a right onto 299. That was fun! We enjoyed this for about 30 miles, railing through corners and passing the occasional cars (legally, thank you very much). The fun stopped after 30 miles. We met a CHP going the other way. We were going around a right-hand curve, with the mountain on the inside and a cliff on the outside. My theory is that the CHP had the radar on all the time, but our radar detectors (Andrew's V1 and my Passport X50) didn't see him because there was nothing for the radar signal to reflect off of in order to go around the curve. Anyway, our detectors were going full blast when we saw the car, but it was too late by then. I saw the red and blue light come on and saw the cop turn around behind me.

I slowed down and pulled to the side, when the cop passed me and just said "Follow me" through the loudspeaker. He caught up to Andrew and pulled him over, and told me to pull over too. We both got tickets :( . Hopefully I'm eligible for traffic school, I haven't had a ticket in a while (and never in Cali).

Andrew, after the cop left:



We stood and talked for a while, and I decided to turn around and go back, while he continued on to complete the 299-3-36 loop. He later told me that he saw 6 or 7 more cops along 299, but the rest of the loop was clear.

I headed back to Fortuna and stopped by a shopping center. I got some ibuprofen at Safeway, and a mono audio cable at Radio Shack (to connect the radar detector to the Starcom). Came back to the hotel, unloaded the bike and walked over to Subway to get lunch. I ate lunch sitting outside and talking with a few people who have also returned by now. I was just killing time until dinner at the brewery.

As we were standing there talking, a BMW KLT pulls up - it's USA MEDIC! I didn't know he was coming, but he and a friend (Eddie) just went for a ride that day and came over on a whim. They decided to stay at the hotel until the next day.

BMW KLT (LT = Light Truck :) ):


Lots of FJR's were there:


USA MEDIC and his KLT:


A GS:


More bikes:




Then I walked over to the brewery. DantesDame just pulled up:



We all had fun at the brewery. The food was good, the beer was good, the conversation was awesome! (And the waitresses were cute :) )

Here's (clockwise, starting from the front center) miles, Thatman, MsLusty and bluepoof:


ST.N'ers at other tables:








Left to right, MsLusty, bluepoof, Zarly, DantesDame, n2q: