Hot-rod Chief and Super-Glide, let’s ride!

[SFMCjohn]

oh well ... off to try camping up in Sierra City on the 1941 hot-rod Indian Chief and the 1985 H-D, which at 35 years old now qualifies for the AMCA ...

we’ll see how we do with Covid, forest fires, and what not ... :ride

 

[bikewanker]

Best wishes John and look forward to your most excellent photography skills. Air quality from smoke probably bigger downs that the rona.

 

[SFMCjohn]

Best wishes John and look forward to your most excellent photography skills. Air quality from smoke probably bigger downs that the rona.

thanks, Chris! :thumbup

well, we’re having typical vintage bike adventures ... in Orinda, waiting on a tow ... :laughing

 

[budman]

Oh shit... :laughing

Hope the tow gets to a fix and you can march on to fun! :ride

 

[SFMCjohn]

Oh shit... :laughing

Hope the tow gets to a fix and you can march on to fun! :ride

:thumbup

:clown

my fault for tempting fate by calling it a hot-rod this am ... gods must have been listening ... :facepalm

 

[bikewanker]

John is that a cardboard “Will Work for Parts” sign?

 

[SFMCjohn]

John is that a cardboard “Will Work for Parts” sign?

:laughing:thumbup

Kalle’s ‘92 FX-R had a dead battery (insert H-D v Indian rivalry joke here), so off like a herd of turtles on his ‘48 Chief ... we’re in Isleton now ... :ride

 

[budman]

Glad your back at it John.

Have fun :ride

 

[bikeama]

Good to have a back up Indian from the 40's. Have a great trip.

 

[SFMCjohn]

Glad your back at it John.

Have fun :ride

Good to have a back up Indian from the 40's. Have a great trip.

:thumbup

Thanks guys ... yes, always pays to have more than one arrow (or moto) in one's quiver ... :laughing

Here’s the Relive link to our Saturday route:
https://www.relive.cc/view/vrqD4Y2PmLq

We met up with six other riders in Sacramento on Saturday morning, and had a brief, Covid inspired, rider's meeting ...

The idea was that this ride would be sort of a replacement for our annual Moto Melee and Nor Cal TT vintage rides, which were both canceled this year due to the pandemic ... we were kind of relaxed about what "vintage" meant ... in the pic are wowens's 2001 FZ1, Norcalslowpoke's Moto Guzzi and Joe's XR-650L ...

Norcalslowpoke was our ringleader and host ... it was his idea to organize a substitute ride, big thanks to him! :thumbup

Norcalslowpoke's fun route on Saturday lead us to the ghost town of Forest City, which I'd never been to ...

From Forest City we had some dirt adventures on Forest Road 10 ... bikes were thrown down the road, and bikes needed to be fixed:

the rough road caused a short that made the '48 Chief's forward progress halt for a brief minute ... we were a bit of a road block for the locals, who did ask if we needed any help.

rolling again ... :ride

 

[SFMCjohn]

we wound up in Sierra City on Saturday night, at the Wild Plum campground ...

and happy to be there after a hot, smokey day ... :angel

On Sunday Norcalslowpoke lead us to the Johnsville cemetery. He had told us to be prepared for a short, steep hike, but that it would be worth the effort ...

As usual, he was right! we spent a few hours here in our vintage-greybeard-geezer moto-packable camp chairs ... we were joined by a group of hippy-young-women at the end of the day, one of whom asked us who owned the "cool Moto Guzzi" she'd seen in the parking lot?

the rest of us decided the Norcalslowpoke had won the day ... :laughing

We finished off the day with dsjanssen's marvelous Hobo stew ... each of us contributed an ingredient or two and we threw them all in a big borrowed pot that we cooked on a borrowed Coleman stove ... pure bliss ...

wowens and flyingdutch73 laughing at kalle's BARF Baja lies around the campfire ... :toothless

we all decided we needed to do this again, next year!
see you around the campfire ... :ride

 

[Eric B]

Great stuff John! Looks like a bunch of fun. Thanks for sharing.

 

[bikewanker]

I too noticed the "cool Moto Guzzi" !

 

[1962siia]

Looks like a fun weekend! I think my vintage 950 would have loved this ride! And thanks for the write up and pics!!

 

[cheez]

Nice ride report. Looks like a fun trip.

 

[Cabrito]

Nice to see you out on the HD Super-Glide

Looks like a great ride with great folks.

 

[matty]

:thumbup

That looked like a really good time, thanks for taking us along.

 

[SFMCjohn]

I too noticed the "cool Moto Guzzi" !

:thumbup

very cool Moto Guzzi, hippy-young-women are always correct, ime ... :toothless

norcalslowpoke's features a nickel-plated gas tank ... maybe he'll chime in and tell us what year it is ...

Great stuff John! Looks like a bunch of fun. Thanks for sharing.

Hey Eric B.! :wave
Your SRX will probably be AMCA eligible, soon ... :toothless

Looks like a fun weekend! I think my vintage 950 would have loved this ride! And thanks for the write up and pics!!

Yes, think we had five BARF Baja riders on the ride ... you and Cabrito would've fit right in on your big KTMs (especially the carb'd one, ha) ... :teeth

wowens's carb'd 2001 FZ1 with flyingdutch73 and his fuel-injected Tiger in the background.

Rob on his 1991 BMW GS PD and dsjanssen on his fuel-injected BMW ...

:thumbup

That looked like a really good time, thanks for taking us along.

Hey matty ... was kinda smokey, though we had some clear air too.

Nice ride report. Looks like a fun trip.

Nice to see you out on the HD Super-Glide

Looks like a great ride with great folks.

thanks guys ... one more of the 1985 H-D, which was super-fun to ride:

in front of the old Isleton Speed Shop ...

this young man played a mean resonator guitar at the recently remodeled Manny's Barzzeria in Isleton on Friday ...

youtu.be/yUBJ-9XrOKo

see if I can get my '73 Tiger to charge for next year's Forest City ride ... :laughing

 

[bikewanker]

I’m going with 2003 FZ1 and nicely modified 78 Moto Guzzi.

 

[65_ dreamer]

Looks like you had a great time! All of the moto events getting canceled has been a bummer, but it's been right thing to do.

That dirt road looks fun! And you avoided the epic rains of last year's NCTT.