SSA Solstice - CANCELED

GreenMachine · June 06, 2016, 09:21:19 PM

*** Canceled in favor of another local ride & rain on the coastal passes ***

Planned 5:00 AM kickstands up (KSU).* This is our bi-annual SSA Solstice ride, of a minimum 600 miles in one day.

One of our longest scheduled group ride routes, taking us to Fort Bragg, CA, for clam chowder and some fun roads in between. Short of being a true Iron Butt ride, at over 600 miles to and from, this is still a very long ride on a sport bike. Scheduled to coincide with the Summer Solstice, the daylight hours will give us the greatest opportunity to travel while the Sun is out.

RSVP** if you're planning on going. If you do not RSVP, the ride may be canceled even if you had planned on showing up the day of the ride. We'll depart on the ride as soon as everyone arrives and is ready, meaning, that if there are any newb riders, I will go over some of the key items they'll need to know.

North route ride. This is a minimum C+ level ride pace route, due to excessive distances and long stints without rest breaks. If you're new to sport riding or riding in general, we'd suggest this ride wouldn't be for you. Meet at Starbucks or thereabouts (if parking is an issue).

As always, see 2016 SSA Ride Schedule for everything that is expected of you and what you can expect. *** Safety is paramount. ***

Hope to see you there.

* KSU dependent on when everybody is ready.
** RSVP - répondez, s'il vous plaît a.k.a. please reply.

Tahoebrian5 · June 12, 2016, 07:15:05 PM

Going back already?

GreenMachine · June 12, 2016, 07:21:54 PM

When it's turns back to the 100s here, you'll won't think so.

Do you have something else in mind?

GreenMachine · June 17, 2016, 08:39:57 AM

Hmmm. No adventure seekers out there, eh?

A DRAGON · June 17, 2016, 10:31:38 PM

I'm ready now. Let's plan one in the next couple of weeks. Weather permitting

GreenMachine · June 18, 2016, 08:50:06 AM

Terrific! Glad to see you back and posting again A Dragon!

Only issue is that in 3 weeks we'll be back at the coast too. Love going whenever we can though.

Looked at this morning's Doppler radar. All our ride routes north of Tahoe got rained on last night. Gonna have to try somewhere else for a ride today if any of us suit up.

Tahoebrian5 · June 18, 2016, 02:02:13 PM

I might go out tomorrow (Sunday)

GreenMachine · June 18, 2016, 06:35:01 PM

Where you thinking of riding? I wanted to ride today instead of Sunday, to enjoy the cooler weather today. It worked. It was windy as heck, but it just made negotiating turns that much more interesting.

Tahoebrian5 · June 18, 2016, 08:04:50 PM

Maybe Monitor. I have a couple things to do in the morning so I probably won't head out until 10:30ish. I'll give you a shout in the morning. I just noticed that the dealer that assembled my bike did not get the fork height correct in the triple clamp so I'm going to fix that up. No wonder the bike seems so slow to turn. 5mm off from stock! Idiots!

GreenMachine · June 18, 2016, 09:43:02 PM

Hey! Don't question authority. They're the pros!

PM me. If I go, I might just only want to do that, well the truck route too, since 580 is down to one lane in Washoe Valley.

Tahoebrian5 · June 18, 2016, 10:34:28 PM

Will do

A DRAGON · June 22, 2016, 09:32:11 AM

Your right about being at the coast in 3 weeks. But isn't that southern coast?

Northern Coast is always a will do. Plus it's an annual event. We need to go this weekend or next four sure.
I really like the extra route you added to the ride. Makes out even better.

GreenMachine · June 22, 2016, 01:26:10 PM

You start a new thread that you want to go, I'll sign up. How's that?