Quick Ride To Fallbrook

Yesterday Mike, Randy and I took a half day ride to Fallbrook and back. Randy has had his Yamaha Z1 for about a month now and this was his first time on a ride with us and on the Ortega Hwy. Although right away, Randy feels he is number 1.


We hit Ortega pretty early in the morning and there was not that many people on it. Which is always nice. We stopped again at "The Lookout" for a quick break. The fires are still burning in Riverside and Banning and you can see all the smoke in the distance.


Mike being the inventor that he is, rigged up his own helmet cam. For the ride out there he had it mounted on top of his helmet. For the ride back he had it mounted on the back of his bike pointing backwards. Hopefully I can post some clips he took later.


Right before we hit De Luz rd, Mike had to stop and water the bushes. I hope turned off the camera.


Once we hit Fallbrook, we stopped at a life cafe and had lunch. It was pretty good, I forgot the name of it, but its along Main St. You cant miss it, there isnt a whole lot of places to eat in Fallbrook. On the way back on the Ortega we got stuck behind some slow pecker from Arizona. By the time we got behind him there were 3 cars trailing him, then us 3 on bikes and behind us were several other cars. And the idiot didn't pull over or use one of the thousand turnouts to let everyone else go by. We followed him the whole way. It took us twice as long to go thru Ortega Hwy as normal. Seriously how self centered do you have to be to think that everyone else can wait for you because you have too much pride to let people pass you. If some guy on a scooter wanted to pass me, I would pull to the side and let him go, and more power to him.

Aside from that, it was a great trip. I really wish we had time to actually make it a 2 day trip and camp. But it was good to get out and just ride.