Pacific Heights Blue Bottle coffee, 12/20/20 and 01/01/21

We had a small San Francisco Blue Bottle Coffee Fillmore and Jackson masked up and socially distanced meet up last week.

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ready to ride up to the fancy people from Lower Haight at 7:30am ...
1973 Triumph Tiger 750 and 1948 Indian Chief.
 
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Blaise's 2020 KTM 1190 , Triumph, Indian and girder forks Vincent at Fillmore and Jackson at 8am.

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Vincent Mark, KTM Blaise and Indian Kalle waiting to be called in to grab out fancy coffee by the nice baristas.
 
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turns out Vincent Mark lives a block from where Kalle and I live in Lower Haight. We met him while he was fettling with his old carbs, and he told us he was up for riding "any time." so here we were.

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view of the new repop carbs he'd just installed, in order to solve his carb issues. Vincent started first kick, when I was watching. :laughing
 
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after coffee, the plan was to ride to western Marin ...

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Mark and the Vincent take in the view from Hwy 1 above Stinson Beach ...
he found the Vincent in Tennessee and purchased from the MD who had owned it for years.
 
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part of the fun of riding vintage bikes can be they can make what would be a routine, unmemorable ride into a process.
Kalle found some process at the end of the day ... :laughing:angel

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basically a drive-line failure. Kalle displays the offending broken rear wheel lug. the axel captures the rear wheel of course, but the broken lug failed to hold the rear wheel to it's duty, so a truck had to be called.

"Basically a failure of maintenance" he sez. the '48 Chief certainly gets ridden enough that these things happen.

didn't post up about the coffee meet-up here, because it was last minute. next time.

guess during the winter I'll see if I can't call a vintage coffee meet-up, soonish, hopefully ... :ride
 
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Thanks for the great photo's John!

I just gotta get on refreshing the old GS and join up with you for coffee somewhere. City, country or mountain top!
 
Thanks for the great photo's John!

I just gotta get on refreshing the old GS and join up with you for coffee somewhere. City, country or mountain top!
 
Looks like a fun time! Thanks for the pics!

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one just for you, brother:

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Good looking bikes and what looks to be a fun ride with a side of adventure :)

we've been hanging out at Tarragon (Waller & Fillmore), but they've taken in their tables the last time we were there ...
we'll have to have a Lower Haight BARF coffee meet up once the tables are back ... :ride

That Vincent is beautiful

Mad

yes, and I'll bet it's fun to ride ... I was too shy to ask Mark what he paid for what I think is a 1950 Vincent Series B Rapide (look like Brampton girder forks, to me?), but a quick google makes me think I'd have to have $50k in the bank, if I wanted one as nice as Mark's.

Thanks for the great photo's John!

I just gotta get on refreshing the old GS and join up with you for coffee somewhere. City, country or mountain top!

looking forward to seeing you at StonyBARF in April, anyway, or Cedarville or Weaverville ... :laughing

also looking forward to seeing your GS, someday soon ...
what I need is a TW (and an automobile of some sort) ... :facepalm

one more pic, near Kalle's garage:

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the engine is coming out of the chopper, and into his hot-rod bobber, that quit on us on our way to Grass Valley, some of you may remember ... :gsxrgrl
 
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Chill

Je Suis BARF
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part of the fun of riding vintage bikes can be they can make what would be a routine, unmemorable ride into a process.
Kalle found some process at the end of the day ... :laughing:angel

:rofl
Found some process
:rofl

It's a long slow ride to reflect on the process too.
 

afm199

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Fillmore and Jackson, used to live on Jackson a half block away, in the early seventies. At one point that coffee shop was either a Tullys or Peerless, pretty sure Tullys.

Beauty of a Vincent!
 

budman

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part of the fun of riding vintage bikes can be they can make what would be a routine, unmemorable ride into a process.
Kalle found some process at the end of the day ... :laughing:angel

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basically a drive-line failure. Kalle displays the offending broken rear wheel lug. the axel captures the rear wheel of course, but the broken lug failed to hold the rear wheel to it's duty, so a truck had to be called.

"Basically a failure of maintenance" he sez. the '48 Chief certainly gets ridden enough that these things happen.

Looks like you found a little bit of normal. :laughing

Cool pics of cool bikes and cool people. :thumbup
 
He needs to ditch that rotopax and get a greasy jug of some type! :laughing

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no flies on Kalle:

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check out the NorCalTT sticker ... he actually rode this hand-shift, foot-clutch, extended forks, minimumal suspension travel death-trap chopper on that two-day, 500 mile vintage rally ... “never again” was his comment, after surviving. :laughing

he’ll just put that ugly-but-functional Rotopac on his latest project, a ‘39 Chief ... that’s the chopper engine installed and being fettled:

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he sez he wanted a pre-war hard-tail with the leaf-spring front-end. check out the front disc break, it’ll be a rider. apparently flat-head engines only get like 30 mpg, hopefully he can mount the chopper Rotopac down by the rear wheel. guess the billy-biker ball-peen hammer tool-kit, too ... :teeth

It's a long slow ride to reflect on the process too.

:laughing:thumbup

the voice of experience (which we’ve all had). :facepalm

Fillmore and Jackson, used to live on Jackson a half block away, in the early seventies. At one point that coffee shop was either a Tullys or Peerless, pretty sure Tullys.

Beauty of a Vincent!

yes, super pretty. “ride it for an hour, clean it for two hours,” sez Mark ...

cool that you lived near Jackson and Fillmore back in the day (think I remember it was a Tullys, too) ... the SF vintage guys met up at Blue Bottle again on New Year’s Day:

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the gentleman in the red jacket is Mr Magri of Vindian fame, he built and rides one ... he also owns several other Vincents, and was helping Mark chase down a solution for an exhaust leak at one of the joints on the ‘48 Series B Rapide in the OP pics.

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SF vintage bikes, out and about to greet 2021 ... :gsxrgrl

Looks like you found a little bit of normal. :laughing

Cool pics of cool bikes and cool people. :thumbup

:laughing

Chiefs on tow trucks have been a theme, recently. hopefully out of the system for a little while ... :ride
 
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