The perfect storm

My annual new year's day ride was perfect.
I got out the door around 745, headed over the GGB, and picked up a
stray rider on an enduro-something on the way over the somewhat windy
bridge.
He followed me off at Mill Valley and we were turned away at the Tam
Junction Arco, no gas for us early birds. So over to the other real Mill
Valley where the Standard station was open for biz..
We then whizzed over the Shoreline Highway, in between the waterfalls,
rockslides and clay slicks....
I let him pass at Stinson overlook and followed all the way around the
lagoon until he disapeared in to the closed road just before Dogtown
curve. I uturned back over the road to Bolinas and guzzled some coffee
down in town, then zipped myself back for the totally dry ride back over
the coast.
Amazing really. When I got up the radar image at NOAA clearly showed a
GIANT ass rain thing happening just off shore. So I was planning on
getting a shower while completing my mission. But other than a half inch
deep mud coating on the RS, it just was the perfect storm....
the kind that waits for you get home before it dumps.
Ok, vacations' almost over.....in about 20 hours the sun will break
through...cuz I will be back at work, staring at the "whatsup" windows
and thinking about why it never rains when I am working.
Jim Stinnett
VTR1000
R1100RS
YZF R1
http://moto-rama.com

 

Took a quick Cal Moto shop ride up to Alices, then home along Skyline
to Black Road. It wasn't the rain so much as the wind that made things
difficult.

Lots of branches all over the place. At one point I got a pretty good
whack in the foot when the wheel threw one up at me. On the open
stretches of Skyline, I got blown almost to the centerline a couple
of times. On the more sheltered stretches you had to concentrate
on picking lines through the fallen debris.

Fair number of BMWs plus a surprisingly large number of Harleys
out and about. A short but definitely interesting ride.