Big Sur ride
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Arne
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thanks for the kind words! of course it gets cold in san francisco (down to the low 60s!) and this was an escape to kinder temperatures. what really precipitated beyond the weather was that a ts1 with a clubman is a killer long distance setup. 75mph cruising speed for 100s of miles (17/46 on an LI150 box). this clutch had also just been fitted:
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BTW, will young was the only song short enough for the material available.
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BTW, will young was the only song short enough for the material available.
i've done that drive in a car love to do it on a scooter...
my memory is of my missus falling asleep and me driving like a tw@7 and her waking up and seeing nothing but a sheer drop
my memory is of my missus falling asleep and me driving like a tw@7 and her waking up and seeing nothing but a sheer drop
randall ate my dog!!
no one likes us we dont care
no one likes us we dont care
That looks like it was great fun. I drove along Big Sur by car a few years back. Fantastic views, spectacular. I was based in San Franciso for a few weeks. Remember seeing 2 guys one day, one on a vespa the other a lammy. May have been down by Fishermans Wharf. Wanted to say hi but was too shy.
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TheSeeker
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I was in Folsom a couple of years ago for a training course (those were the days, pre-y2k when your boss said "fly to California for a three day training course"!!). I arrived on the Saturday a day early to try and get to San Francisco. At the time I couldn't drive so I got the train from Sacramento (got a lift with a cleaner from the hotel) to Oakland and then a connecting bus over the bay bridge. With the train being so slow I had about two hours in San Francisco before I had to get the last train back. What can you do in two hours!?! I got a trolley car up the hill from Fishermans wharf, had a burger in Mels Diner at the top and walked back down (via the Apple Store) and then had a couple of beers back at Fishermans Wharf. There's so much to soak up, just wandering around taking pictures. I was on the course with two guys from Slovak Telecom and they did the proper thing and took a week off to stay longer.Mr Ed wrote:That looks like it was great fun. I drove along Big Sur by car a few years back. Fantastic views, spectacular. I was based in San Franciso for a few weeks. Remember seeing 2 guys one day, one on a vespa the other a lammy. May have been down by Fishermans Wharf. Wanted to say hi but was too shy.
I'd love to go back one day.
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Arne
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Mr Ed that may have been a buddy and me. We often cruise the city, me on the lambretta him on a rally 200 or p200e. but then again there's so many bikes in the city could have been anyone. was the rally green, the lambretta white or turquoise?
anyone of you should make it out to SF. seeker, you only got to see a very small portion of the variety. big sur is to the south (as the name suggests), but there's marin county and the wine country (nappa, sonoma) to the north - it looks like tuscany. only 30 minutes' ride. then in the city itself there's all the neighborhoods (mission, pacific heights, haight ashbury, the ocean, soma, castro if you're so inclined, etc), it's crazy.
well anyway. enjoy your winter, we had 2-4 flakes of snow here today too!
anyone of you should make it out to SF. seeker, you only got to see a very small portion of the variety. big sur is to the south (as the name suggests), but there's marin county and the wine country (nappa, sonoma) to the north - it looks like tuscany. only 30 minutes' ride. then in the city itself there's all the neighborhoods (mission, pacific heights, haight ashbury, the ocean, soma, castro if you're so inclined, etc), it's crazy.
well anyway. enjoy your winter, we had 2-4 flakes of snow here today too!
Hi Arne, my memory is rusty, but I think the lammy was white. I really wanted to say hi but figured a thick Paddy approching 2 guys about their scoots would have been weird. In hind sight,with the increasing popularity of cyber forums, it wouldn't have been weird at all.Arne wrote:Mr Ed that may have been a buddy and me. We often cruise the city, me on the lambretta him on a rally 200 or p200e. but then again there's so many bikes in the city could have been anyone. was the rally green, the lambretta white or turquoise?
anyone of you should make it out to SF. seeker, you only got to see a very small portion of the variety. big sur is to the south (as the name suggests), but there's marin county and the wine country (nappa, sonoma) to the north - it looks like tuscany. only 30 minutes' ride. then in the city itself there's all the neighborhoods (mission, pacific heights, haight ashbury, the ocean, soma, castro if you're so inclined, etc), it's crazy.
well anyway. enjoy your winter, we had 2-4 flakes of snow here today too!
I was in San Francisco for 2 weeks. I have friends living there who had come to Ireland as I was going there, so I had their appartment in Pacific Heights and the use of his soft top BMW while I was there. I loaned them a beat up Fiat Punto.
Took in all the neighborhoods you mentioned above plus Sonoma, Monterey, Carmel, Pebble Beach Golf. Was the best holiday I ever had. Fantastic city. Next time Ill say hi. 
Eddie.