Back in the saddle

Check....check.... Is this thing still on? Man it has been a long time since I have posted anything. And its not because I was out traveling the world and too busy to post. It has been quite the opposite. I have not been diving since August. And my bike was out of commission since December. So I literally had nothing to post about. Until now. I finally got my bike together and went for a ride this Saturday morning.

I wont go until what happened to my bike, its a long story. But in short. One part broke that caused several parts to break, a lost license plate and destroyed rear tire. So finally after replacing everything and putting it back together on this Friday. I couldn't wait to go out and get in a quick ride.

So on Saturday morning at the butt crack of dawn, the alarm went off. I slid out of bed, threw on my clothes, boots and jacket and headed over to meet up with Bruce. It was still dark enough outside that with my tint visor is was difficult to see. But by 645am we were already on our way up the 2 - Angeles Crest Highway. I didn't have my winter jacket with me, only my summer jacket. So I had on several layers on underneath and it was not nearly enough. It was fa-fa-fa-freeezing. But it was the best cold experience there is to have.

The best part of getting up that early is, we had the road to ourselves. Only had to pass 3 cars on the way up and all of them used the turn offs when they saw us coming. That was first. We rode all the way up the 2 to Newcomb Ranch Cafe, to warm up and have several cups of coffee and an egg sandwich.

Bruce was riding his Yamaha RZ350. That is a sweet bike. He takes great care of it and it looks and runs perfect. And its awesome to see a street bike with a kick start!

After hanging out for awhile and warming up, we started to head back down the hill. And on the way down, the traffic coming up had dramatically increased. Lines of cars and bikes behind them were seen the whole way down.

We pulled off at one look out, to enjoy the view. And we can still see snow on the sides of the road and off the distance across the valley.

It was a quick short ride. But one that I needed sooooo bad and felt so good to get back in the saddle and scrub in my new rear tire - Pirelli Rosso. Since it was new and this was my scrub in ride, I really didn't push it. But the grip I felt in the corners was really good and cant wait to put on my full leathers and really put the test to them and get some knees down.

Next weekend is diving - So another post is in the near future, and hopefully I will be posting consistently and with lots more pics.