South route departure.  We have one bike to pick up in the morning around 10:00 AM, so if we're early (which we never are) and unless someone chimes in, we may depart early.  If we have others who'd like to join us and we're either on time or late, I'll trying to make it work for everyone.

Hope to see you out there.  Should be a nice day for a ride.

Normally.   

But my second fuel pump, which I bought used on eBay gave up.  Long story short, I put my first pump back on the bike and it shorted out, draining my battery and setting me into electrical gremlins mode.  She now has a new fuel pump, so until I'm confident that is all there is to it, I'm going to limit my ride distances.  Maybe in a week or two I can give longer rides a go again.

That's too short a ride for you!
When I went to La Porte from Marysville I passed some burned areas, fire was very close to La Porte.

I wonder how bad it'll look up there.  Probably like a burned out moonscape. 

I'm thinking of doing something shorter.  Perhaps Tahoe and just cruise.

Just confirmed with the friendly fireman in Quincy the road from La Porte to Quincy is open!

Took a long loop last Sunday, VC to Ebbetts to Sonora to Monitor back to VC and home. Perfect weather and very little traffic. Sanora has wonderful new pavement!
This weekend looks like another good one, hope the La Porte to Quincy road is finally opened. I tried 2 weeks ago and it was closed for fire cleanup.

I have stacks of hats and tons of Kawki shirts, two autographed also.  You keep it.  It'll go with the bike, if you take the plunge.

"Wiki" 

I sure do enjoy riding with you guys, so I won't try to red pill y'all.  Just know that the red pill exists if you ever want it.

Notice the lack of dept. patches on the shoulder and hat.  New gloves bought with a purpose.  Real firefighters have patches on the shoulder and hat, with worn gloves.  And the big giveaway is they don't display flags like that.

It is ANOTHER record year, heat, fire, smoke etc and agree its directly affecting our quality of life much less all the habitat and wildlife affected.   The OR arsonist claim has not been proven, lets give officials time to complete their investigation before we point fingers.   The West is getting hotter and dryer,  just look at snow pack over the last 30 years.  We were on the coast labor day and remarked how dry the vegetation was, plants just crumbled under your feet, where its usually green and lush. 

This year was a wake up call and hopping the earth is resilient enough to counter our impact.

Took a bit getting use to the clutchless shifting. No roll off on the throttle, just shift. Weird. I really wanted to demo the 1000 Versys but I just made it for the last demo ride for the day.

GM, i git a free camouflage Kawi hat if you want it.

http://imgur.com/gallery/62A1Uzq