The Quail, Rain and Ice!
May be a pipe dream at this point in time but logistics of Quail, like where to hang ones head, riding out on a 2 wheeler, how long to hang out?
Don’t forget the hidden black ice on cool November mornings.
One such beautiful sunny November day bopping along on the 748 in the hills over Ithaca rounding the bend to go over Stewart Ave bridge,
Slowing down since the bridges south end leads into an abrupt 90 degree downhill right turn. The north end was sunny and dry, the south, well it was solid black ice.
Seems like the night before was below freezing :-) Dropped it like a hot potato when I touched the front brake. Luckily there was some kind folks taking pictures on the bridge that ran over and helped me lift the 748 back up on two wheels.
I thanked them and drove off home as cars came sliding across the bridge. When I got home and tried to take the leathers off, I had to ask the wife to help as something was definitely amiss with the shoulder.
First broken collar bone :-)
Back in time to the mid 70’s, riding a CB350, simple leather jacket, jeans and lots and lots of rain.
Rode from Walnut Creek, CA to Redwood Valley, CA with non stop pouring.
Made it only half way up the drive to the house when the 350 sank into deep mud.
Hoofed it up to the house where the friends took one look at me and said I better get into a hot tub quick!
Ah to be young and foolish…. Wait is it better to be old, wise and foolish?
Last rain dance was leaving Indy from a MotoGP weekend on the K75.
Started out to be a nice Sunday afternoon drive after the race.
Lots of fast moving bikes heading out. Then about an hour in the sky started looking gray.
Stopped at a Hampton Inn to prep for the rain. Well again it poured and poured,
Traffic backed up, dark, slick, and must have been 6 hours later somewhere in PA where I had enough.
Found a Hampton, slushed in, remove all the soaked clothes and crashed, hard ! :-)
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From: TomDressler <tbrduc@gmail.com mailto:tbrduc@gmail.com>
Subject: [Ducati] The Quail returns! SDC
Date: January 19, 2022 at 12:06:38 PM EST
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Reminder!
I would love to meet as many of you as I can.
Come to the show.
Planning meetings are happening as I ’type’.
I’m not sure if I’m flying or driving out, but assuming some public health issues doesn’t discourage the show, I’ll be working and possibly/likely Vicki and Rich will attend again as well.
Maybe I can pull together a DOC meeting area somewhere on the grounds.
Most folks at The Quail know and trust me now.
And when the featured marque was Ducati a few years back, he had a separate Ducati parking area.
..tom
On Dec 15, 2021, at 9:02 AM, TomDressler <tbrduc@gmail.com mailto:tbrduc@gmail.com> wrote:
We’re back!
We successfully did the Motorsports show last August.
Now we’re doing the Motorcycle event in May, 2022.
Mark your calendars!
https://www.peninsula.com/en/signature-events/events/motorcycle https://www.peninsula.com/en/signature-events/events/motorcycle
…Tom
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Subject: [Ducati] Re: How come I have not seen any postings for a while?
Date: January 19, 2022 at 1:33:09 PM EST
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It started out as a project in some guys backyard and when he was going to move he was going to destroy it. But his neighbor loved it so he bought it from him and then moved it to its current location, and built it up to its current form in Ingram, Texas. There are also some Maoi heads sprinkled around the grounds. Just a fun stop during a day of riding.
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I'm loving these stories. Thank you guys for posting. But, I'm confused, when did they move Stonehenge to Texas? One of my most fun trips was riding an old, black, bevel drive 900SS all over England and Wales, but that's another story.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 07:11, Mario Baroz <mariobaroz@hotmail.com mailto:mariobaroz@hotmail.com> wrote:
That is so awesome I can't even imagine!!!! We're building up a pretty decent bank of moto-memories. Hopefully we'll have many, many more. These are COTA from 2019, his very first street ride as a passenger, trying on the ZRX400 for size, some dirt bike pics, a pic of him on my SS at a car show, COTA from last year, and me and him at Stonehenge during one of our rides on my Desert Sled.
Mario
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My son is a high school English teacher so most of the people he knows are women so he asked me to be his best man. Somehow I just could not see throwing my son a bachelor party. So we settled on a road trip. We rode from the Charlotte, NC area all the way up to Ausable, NY on the west side of Lake Champlain, took a ferry across the lake to Burlington, VT and then down the fabled RT 100 and back home. A 9 day trip neither of us will forget. I was on my 2008 Hypermotard and he was on his 1995 900 SS/SP. Good times for sure. He got out of motorcycles when he started having children but now he has my old KTM 690 Duke and we get to ride occasionally.
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Subject: [Ducati] Re: How come I have not seen any postings for a while?
Date: January 19, 2022 at 1:37:38 PM EST
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no, no...I bought my 16 yr old son an XR50 when he was 4 yrs old. He's a twin and they were preemies and so very, very, small during their first 10 or so years. He just couldn't manage riding his bicycle during those years.
My other son is 29 yrs old now. I taught him to ride the same time I taught my 16 yr old. But it was funny because at the time I had a CR85 two-stroke motocross race bike and the XR50. The CR was a little beast and much too fast for what we were trying to do. And then it broke beyond what my meager mechanical skills could fix. So I sold it and all we had was the XR50. So my 6'3" and 5'3" (at the time) were both learning on the XR50. That was only for a couple of weekends and then I bought the CRF125 followed by the TT-230.
Mario
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At 4, and again 21 years later? Are you telling us that, after riding for 21 years, he can't graduate himself past the Z50? Or, is the Z50 such an incredible machine that you can never give it up?
Now that I think of it, the old beat up Honda 125 was my first motorcycle, but the first bike I ever rode was Ned Weaver's Yamaha dirt bike (50cc?). Gotta love his parents, cause we created a tiny oval dirt track in their backyard.
For many of the things I do, I tell myself to enjoy, "I won't be able to do this much longer." It might be muscling a superbike around a turn on the racetrack (giving myself a lot of credit with that description), or it might just be leaping up a flight of stairs two at a time.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 at 05:35, TomDressler <tbrduc@gmail.com mailto:tbrduc@gmail.com> wrote:
And now, lots of postings!! All you had to duo was ask and we crack out of a Winter freeze!
Similar here, Mario…except…a bit younger.
Age 4..then 21 years later…same Z50.
:-)
I keep several bikes ready, inc aside her wants to go for a ride, but their lives catch up.
Encourage that ride sooner, while YOU are able!!
My other one now has 3 children..barely has time to say hello. Damn they grow fast!
:-)
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That's cool! I only started him on bikes in June 2020 when he was 15. I started him out on a 2020 Honda CRF125FB Big Wheel but this year he's been riding my Yamaha TT-230 more than me. We mostly go to our local motocross track but have tried some trails here and there. He's not the most naturally talented rider, (ha!) but he's very coachable and a good learner. I thought about getting a Kawasaki ZXR400 and using that for a track bike until he's ready and then it would be his first bike. Or...going the other way, maybe a Yamaha TTR-250...that small street legal enduro. I don't know. The biggest battle will be convincing his Mom that he should ride on the street.
His brother (my stepson but really, my son) is 29 and I taught him to ride at the same time as my 16 yr old. He and I were sharing the TT-230 but he's 6'3 and I'm 5'3" so...it didn't really fit him. He bought a CRF250 motocross bike and is starting to get familiar with that.
When Andy (16yr old) was riding it didn't really look like he was having fun. It looked like this was just another fun activity that he has among the many other he has (band, karate, guitar, video games, etc.). So one day I asked him "Are you really having fun?" He said "oh yeah!" So then I asked him "Well...do you ever see yourself riding on the street?" To which he answered "Yeah! that's what this is all about isn't it?" hahahaha....good boy.
Cory was the same. He's a pretty laid back guy, very laconic in manner. So I asked him too "Are you really having fun?" And much to my shock and surprise (and delight!) he said "Yeah, I can see doing this for the rest of my life." hahahaha...good boy.
One of my biggest dreams is to go on a motorcycle road trip with my sons. I always wanted to do that with my Dad but we never got the chance. If I could just go on one long trip with my sons...omg..I would be soooo happy.
Mario
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