Some of my pics from our outlaw/unofficial combination camping/riding BARF Adventure Riding subforum
ADV/DS ride Lake Berryessa/Knoxville OHV/Rayhouse Rd. sojurn this past weekend:
masked up and social distanced at the Mercury Cafe in Lower Haight at 9:30 am. pre-Gen KLR, Honda CB500X and KTM 1090 ...
We were a total of eight riders at the Starbucks near Suisun Valley Road at 10am ... that's wheel_muse, who joined us on his sweet Honda NC750X DCT, in the center of the picture. We had two brothers join us on their late model Honda 250 dual-sport bikes, who had seen our recent posts and wanted to go check out Buck Island before returning home on Saturday night.
This Second Sunday camp/ride combo was kind of fun, because people could mix and match parts of the weekend with their schedules or riding style ... 1962siia also was a surprise addition on his mighty, blue, KTM 950 ...
Cincinnatus, leading the charge up Buck Ridge on his mighty BMW GS-A.
the gang at the top of Buck Ridge ... bananachunks, Cincinnatus, Cabrito and 1962siia ...
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Cabrito and the mighty KTM 1090 in action ...
1962siia in action on his mighty KTM 950, in the correct model color.
the mad plunge down to Cache Creek ...
Buck Island, which is really sort of in an oxbow bend of Cache Creek. We camped under the trees in the left corner of the photo ... Buck Island is actually the oxbow insert with the dirt roads on it, outside of the pic a bit, and on the near side of the river.
We were super-stoked to have the place to ourselves, despite being a Saturday night on a long Columbus Day weekend ... super lucky.
bananachunks and Cabrito enjoying the campsite next to Cache Creek.
Cincinnatus, looking for the trout with his cool, telescoping fly-rod.
looking for some small mouth bass, but not finding any, with my old fiberglass Orvis pack-rod and spinning reel ...
took a dip in Cache Creek on Saturday evening to wash away the fire road dust ...
Cincinnatus encouraged us to live better by doing more than simply boiling water to feed ourselves, like I usually do. "Life is too short not to eat well," he said, and he is in the right of it. :angel
Cincinnatus also brought his skillet and and expertly marinated NY strip steak, Cabrito had hot links, and I had a simple NY strip, only seasoned with salt and pepper. We ate like kings, compared to my usual gas-station fare. I tried using the lid on my frying pan as a dutch oven and took a stab at crescent rolls on Saturday night.
we met up with our BARF Second Sunday Dual-Sport Ride participant and Oakland Motorcycle Club Member, Craig on Sunday morning, riding his mighty KTM 1090.
We ended our ADV adventure at the Zero Ton Causeway and Hwy 16 on Sunday afternoon, having interacted at some point with a total of ten BARFers ... thirteen BARFers, if you count Cary and Kalle (and Schnitzel!) who came to see us off at the Mercury Cafe on Saturday morning ...
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super fun, and can't wait 'til next time ... :ride