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  1. SFMCjohn

    Tam Junction, Mt Tam, 01/23/21

    we decided to get up at 5:45am and join some friends for coffee at 7am in Tam Junction and then tag along up Mt Tam ... turns out any ride can be a vintage ride if you show up on an old bike ... :laughing:angel this is the route they had planned for the real men who were going to do the whole...
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    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. 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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    “Hare Scramble” NYTs, 12/19/20

    Hare Scrambles gets the Sebastião Salgado treatment by wonderful photographer, Ms Rebecca Soderholm, in today’s New York Times: Hare Scramble “Off-road racers and spectators like me spend days knee deep in mud holes and covered in clouds of dust.” NYTs.com, By Rebecca Soderholm. 12/19/20...
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    Dakar Rally, Jan 2nd - 15th, 2021 **SPOILERS!!**

    well, we’ll see ... sounds as if the rally is on, for now. :ride 2021 Dakar route announced featuring 12 stages in Saudi Arabia nbcsports.com, 11/25/2020 see if Mr Brabec and Honda can repeat, or if KTM can get some payback this time ...? :flag
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    49 Mile Ride, 10/25/20, 8:30am, ksu 9:30am

    think my '73 Tiger is running ... :rolleyes hope to see folks at Cafe Trieste! :ride:gsxrgrl
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    Hot-rod Chief and Super-Glide, let’s ride!

    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
  7. SFMCjohn

    Mosquito Ridge Road ...

    We did the classic sport-touring loop of Georgetown, Wentworth Springs Road, 11 Pines Road, Mosquito Ridge Road and back to Auburn last weekend. Here's our Relive link: Bungee Brent's Run, 08/08/2020 Our frend Bungee Brent and fifteen of his Oakland Motorcycle Club friends met us in Georgetown...
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    Weaverville HoHo Outlaw Mendo Grand Tour, 2020

    My fav BARF Rally every year is the two wheel tramp-organized Weaverville HoHo Magic Rally, but this year it had to be unofficial due to Covid-19 concerns. So, some of us attended the "outlaw," unsanctioned version, scheduled for July 24th - 26th, 2020. As is my wont, I left five days in...
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    Long Barn Lodge, Sonora Pass, etc.

    we were able to get away this weekend to Bungee Brent’s 13th Backwoods Bash. The Long Barn Lodge was happy to see about 30 riders show up on Friday, despite Covid and 111 degree F heat in Jamestown, ouch. My friend Dave made a cool 3D/gps clip with Relive.com, which I’d never seen before, sort...
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    Mr. Glen A. McGill, Stockton Motorcycle Club Life Member

    We came across this pic of Mr McGill's shop in Stockton recently on the Antique Motorcycle Club of America's website, and googled the obit: a moto-life, well lived ... :rose
  11. SFMCjohn

    Let's Ride Motorcycles!

    bp7S56aoIhU :ride
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    ADV motivation pics: camp spots, hot springs, views, etc.

    been suggested to me that our BARF Adventure Riding sub-forum needs a post-C19 thread for those of us planning on where we’d like to ride to when we can ... hoping to get some ideas from peeps who’ve ridden places like Utah, the Grand Canyon, Colorado, ID, MT and/or the TAT and BDRs, all...
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    AMCA meet, Borrego Springs ...

    some of Kalle's pics from the recent Antique Motorcycle Club of America rally in Borrego Springs: the 1963 Chevrolet C20 250 step-side, in-line 6 cylinder, with a recently installed three speed overdrive. 1941 Indian Chief bobber, in action, with Rotopax extra gas ... turns out flat-head...
  14. SFMCjohn

    SFO->Lisbon->Valencia=Moto3 ...

    Moto3 this season has been awesome as usual ... we heard you can buy tix on line, get on a airplane without a visa at SFO, fly direct to Lisbon, Portugal, rent motorcycles, ride 500 miles to Valencia, Spain, and watch the last race of the season ... so ... ... that’s what we did. :ride...
  15. SFMCjohn

    Retro Motos Project, 10/02-31/2019

    things to do on our vintage motorcycles: TWT, one of my coolest moto-pals, tipped me off to an art opening at Benders, 19th Street and South Van Ness ... it's awesome, and got to shake Mr. Mauk's hand at the opening ... :ride show runs through 10/31/19, and Benders is a really fun...
  16. SFMCjohn

    20th Annual San Quentin Toy Run, 11/30/19

    things to do on our vintage motorcycles: brought to us by Hatt's Motorcycles ... :ride
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    AMCA Oyster Run, 10/20/19, 9am ...

    things to do on our vintage bikes: :ride
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    Thee Parkside Cruise-In, 10/06/19, 1pm

    things to do on our vintage bikes: :ride
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    49 Mile Ride, 10/27/19, 8:30am

    things to do on our vintage bikes: Mr Young's venerable 49 Mile Ride in San Francisco ... from 2013:
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    Dakar, Jan. 5-17, 2020, Saudi Arabia ... ** Spoiler alert**

    zQW9AHvAnfE UjsliRZ3WcA organizers are scouting 2020 routes ... :ride “Registration is Open!” :laughing kIMtpewY1UE compelling Dakar history vid ... :Party will be epic ... can’t wait. :gsxrgrl (guess will be keeping an eye on current events with crossed fingers for the racers/teams...
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