Trip to Laguna Seca pics

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by JC, Jul 28, 2005.

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    JC Guest

    The pics kinda suck, but anyway:

    Total distance: 4991miles
    Houston -> Tucson -> LA -> San Francisco -> Las Vegas -> Flagstaff, AZ
    -> El Paso -> Houston

    including Pacific rt.1, Yosemite National Park, Death Valley, Hoover
    Dam, Grand Canyon.

    The only way to travel:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0727.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0731.jpg

    What I mostly saw on the way to LA, thru Texas, New Mexico and
    Arizona:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0309.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0184.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0152.jpg

    *Yawn*

    Must be near Mexico:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0160.jpg

    And there it is, the highway runs along the border:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0162.jpg

    Radar detector saved me from these bastards a dozen times:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0186.jpg

    LA Skyline. LA has the worst road system in the world bar none.
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0195.jpg

    Stayed at the Hotel Bel Air deep in Hollywood, reputedly the finest
    hotel in the US. Too nice for me, anyway.
    Spent a day in Malibu, where a mobile home just sold for $US1.5M.
    Insane, beautiful people everywhere, just oozing money. The local
    supermarket car park was just a mass of Mercs, BMW, Porsche, Ferrari
    and this gem:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0219.jpg

    First highlight, Pacific Route 1. 100miles of the most stunning road,
    Pacific on one side, mountains on the other, and some great twisties:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0232.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0750.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0755.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0758.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0760.jpg

    Finally made it to San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0774.jpg

    Muir Woods, primeval forest and redwoods:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0776.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0782.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0783.jpg

    Laguna Seca:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0800.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0235.jpg

    Rossi at the corkscrew:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/untitled.jpg

    Sat night before the race, big meet in Monterey, maybe 2000 bikes,
    didn't get rowdy, just rev-limiter contests:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0298.jpg

    The yanks don't do much other than litrebikes, GSX-R, R1, 'busa, CBR,
    hardly one with a stock can.
    The face of the modern street bike gang:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0282.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0303.jpg
    wanna try stopping that busa from 200mph?

    Everyone was drooling over this:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0295.jpg

    Interesting no. of cylinders:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0297.jpg

    Shiny bikes:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0250.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0251.jpg

    drool:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0256.jpg

    Immaculate Honda sixes, not afraid of joining in the rev-limiter
    festivities:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0279.jpg

    Six wheels of sex: Hot chick on GSX-R meets Viper:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0246.jpg

    Mirrors are so last year:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0300.jpg

    German helmet, stick on ears, and an MV. Heresy!
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0253.jpg

    Slightly more scenic than Box Hill:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0247.jpg
    ...but with weirder people:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0262.jpg

    Thru Yosemite:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0825.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0818.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0815.jpg

    Thru Death Valley:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0832.jpg
    ...nice and straight for:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0310.jpg
    ...but hoooot:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0318.jpg

    Loons running an Ultra-marathon (100miles) thru Death Valley, there
    was maybe 100 of them:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/CIMG0312.jpg

    View from Vegas hotel room (made $300!):
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0839.jpg

    Hoover dam:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0846.jpg
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0844.jpg

    Grand Canyon:
    http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a24/1805520296/IMG_0848.jpg

    There you go.
     
    JC, Jul 28, 2005
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    mike bothe Guest

    Sneaky cunts the light bar looks like a bike rack till it goes on.
    Nice, innit. My playground.
     
    mike bothe, Jul 28, 2005
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    Ben Blaney Guest

    If I had access to my home PC, I'd be posting a picture of the
    helicopter that I took to the Division One Play-Off Final.
    I've taken that road. Fucking magic.
    Knowing you, I thought this was going to be a picture of some crumpet.
    And this.
    poof
     
    Ben Blaney, Jul 28, 2005
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    JC Guest

    JC, Jul 28, 2005
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    frag Guest

    frag, Jul 28, 2005
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    Ben Blaney Guest

    51C = 123F.

    Course, it was only 16C here (CO) yesterday.
     
    Ben Blaney, Jul 28, 2005
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    Lozzo Guest

    Lozzo, Jul 28, 2005
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    mike bothe Guest

    Which bit?
     
    mike bothe, Jul 28, 2005
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    Cab Guest

    FFS Chris, you're no bloody newbie, but sort out your snipping.
     
    Cab, Jul 28, 2005
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    Benny Guest

    Brother lives in Vegas, been in 46C but with little humidity, it doesn't
    feel that hot[1], you dont sweat as much, then again, been in Madras with
    40C+ with horrendous humidity is not nice at all.

    8pm at night with arm out of jeep, felt like hand-dryer in bog.
     
    Benny, Jul 28, 2005
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    Christofire Guest

    Christofire, Jul 28, 2005
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    platypus Guest

    I'm intrigued by the seam on her thigh.
     
    platypus, Jul 28, 2005
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    Wicked Uncle Nigel Guest

    That kid *really* doesn't want to wear that jacket on the Tube.

    --
    Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets
    and Ducati Race Engineer.

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    Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000
     
    Wicked Uncle Nigel, Jul 29, 2005
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    frag Guest

    platypus scribbled:
    I'm worried that you examined the picture that closely :)
     
    frag, Jul 29, 2005
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    platypus Guest

    "examined"? Err...

    <surreptitiously wipes screen>
     
    platypus, Jul 29, 2005
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    Champ Guest

    I was meaning to ask - this was a hire car, yes? In which case,
    didn't it have one of those black boxes that they use in rental cars
    in the US that detects you doing 140mph thru the desert, and shuts the
    motor down and calls the cops (or something)?
     
    Champ, Jul 29, 2005
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    Phil Launchbury Guest

    You sweat just as much but it evaporates very very quickly[1]. When it's
    humid the sweat does not evaporate quickly.

    Phil.

    [1] Thus cooling you better. Hence you don't feel so hot.
     
    Phil Launchbury, Jul 29, 2005
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    JC Guest

    No, it's my car. Flying out and hiring a car would have been one
    option, but I put up with the 2 days either way just so I could enjoy
    the 340bhp V8 goodness when I got to the twisties.

    I did manange to see an indicated 165 but I was fucked if I was going
    to take my hands from the wheel to take a pic.
     
    JC, Jul 29, 2005
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    Black Mike Guest

    That's the one that had me cooing.
     
    Black Mike, Jul 29, 2005
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    JC Guest

    Nope it's the same. It used to be a 2.7 twin turbo then Audi went mad
    and stuffed the 4.2 V8 into it a couple of years back.

    BMW are doing the same with the next M3, 4.0 V8 with 400bhp.
     
    JC, Jul 30, 2005
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