Sunday Laps

wills · July 26, 2014, 08:28:30 AM

Looking to beat the heat so I am heading up and down Laporte and then up and down Bucks Lake. I will be leaving about 9:00, post or PM if you want to go.

Bigcat · July 26, 2014, 10:00:21 PM

Hey Wills, the rear on the battlecruiser is too far gone for this so I think I'll bring the old girl out to play. Starbucks? 8:45?

GreenMachine · July 26, 2014, 10:13:24 PM

I want to go, but I better not. Someone get a picture. We need a Wills update.

wills · July 26, 2014, 10:30:53 PM

I will be at Starbucks Sunday at about 9:00, need to fill up at the Chevron first after the Sunday breakfast. See you there.

Bigcat · July 27, 2014, 07:11:42 AM

Sounds good.

GreenMachine · July 27, 2014, 11:32:47 AM

Keep cool you two.

wills · July 27, 2014, 01:51:01 PM

Having fun, down Bucks Lake we go

GreenMachine · July 27, 2014, 02:12:07 PM

Someday I'll have to teach you how to post pictures.

You have the tblogging portion down.

Bigcat · July 28, 2014, 10:34:28 AM

What a great ride. We practically had LaPorte and Bucks Lake all to ourselves. Temps were mild too

Thanks for posting up Wills.

GreenMachine · July 28, 2014, 01:46:29 PM

I thought the same thing on Saturday, especially coming back on the section from the volcanic mountains to Red Bluff. At least for that stretch of road, I imagine people were just hunkered down inside next to their AC vents. Sissies! We were outside in gear exposed to direct sunlight and it wasn't slowing our activities down one bit. Red Bluff showed 104° on one of those outside LCD readouts.

BC, how was the 10 MPH hairpin going in on La Porte? I should have re-mentioned that before your ride. Hope you guys didn't have any scares going in or coming out. Hard to imagine for the old section.

Worth mentioning too, but sad to hear for DR, but last year he and I took in several laps of La Porte (one sighting lap) in the early morning hours and he was vocal about how much fun he had had. We had three unobstructed laps with maybe two cars seen, all going in the other direction. It was bliss. The road was clean. The air was still cool. We couldn't have planned a more unobstructed outing with better conditions. And we were home before the heat rolled into Reno.

One of the outtakes is listed <here>; the coming back out after our first sighting in run. I had the cameras facing forward on this ride, so you won't see DR until the end. He was right there with me the whole way. Bet he could have passed me standing up if he wanted.