I am trailering the Paso in from Sacramento so I can park 'er on the island. I don't want to log 600 miles with the amount of stuff I need to transport to Monterey, so trailer it is.
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Mike, Tooth brush & credit card! what more do you needmike wrote:I am trailering the Paso in from Sacramento so I can park 'er on the island. I don't want to log 600 miles with the amount of stuff I need to transport to Monterey, so trailer it is.
you're telling this to a guy that rides 10,000 miles per year?redpaso wrote:Mike, Tooth brush & credit card! what more do you needmike wrote:I am trailering the Paso in from Sacramento so I can park 'er on the island. I don't want to log 600 miles with the amount of stuff I need to transport to Monterey, so trailer it is.
(you take a good photo so maybe digital camera in a back pack & if you must a tent & sleeping bag but they are optional).
The journey is half the point of going to these things!!! :rant: The experience of riding toward a Mecca of motrorcycling, the closer you get the more bikes on the road, car drivers actually acknowledge your existance when there are that many of you on the roads. Stopping in the little towns for fuel & a "Bert & Earnie" washed down with good coffee, nights in dodgy motels that are full of riders so it is OK to make a littel noise. The races & then more of the same on teh trip homeYou just don't get that experience in a "tin top". :thumbdown:
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Ditch your stuff & the car/trailer combo. Take the Paso & enjoy the ride. thats what it is all about (you have 2 paso's so your mate could take one as well & increase the Paso Rollcall
190 miles of superslab. bumper to bumper traffic on and off the peninsula. 5 days of gear, photo equipment, club stuff... not this time. a poser I am not, but unless you've dealt with the mess in monterey, you won't understand why I've made this decision.redpaso wrote:So you will know what you are missing out on, trust me you will have a better time on the bike![]()
At least ride & let your mate take your stuff in the car, he was driving anyway :laugh:
I remember heading down to the Phillip Island grand Prix in 1989 & geting all set up in the camp ground, it was a beautiful sea of 2 wheeled machinery spreading as far as the eye could see (right to the sea actually). We set up camp & headed off in search of cold beer & steak sangers. We returned to our camp in much darkness & when we stumbled out in the morning (not too early because we found the cold beers) there was this guy setting up next to us with his ute that carried his pristine Harley, we thought poor guy must have an injury or breakdown or something but when we spoke to him he said that he hardly ever rode the bike he just carried it on the back of the ute so that everyone knew he owned it. When it was all over he pushed the Bike back on the Ute & drove away, never started it the whole time he was there. He was not a nice person either & I guess that has left a bad taste in my mouth of guys that truck their bikes to places when they should be riding them.:screwy: :thumbdown:
I am sure that is not the case with you as PAso owners are a descent folk, I hope you get out on the track for a few laps or at least ride about the local area while you are there. enjoy the races & the Paso's. If you can get all paso's together for a photo we would all be impressed![]()
Manslaughter, two years?DucSoup wrote:I think in California it is mostly Man-2. <ducking for cover>fasterdammit wrote:I've spent some time in Monterey, and man is it gorgeous, but the traffic can be murder.
mike wrote:DucSoup wrote:I think in California it is mostly Man-2. <ducking for cover>fasterdammit wrote:I've spent some time in Monterey, and man is it gorgeous, but the traffic can be murder.