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Offline Red01

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PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« on: June 25, 2013, 01:08:04 PM »
Looking at getting together with Bandit Alley friends for a PNW ride.  :motorsmile:
Tradition has it in August for 4-5 days.  Thinking about western OR this time, but open to ideas if interested parties have any.  Actual dates still open for discussion, too.  Riding a Bandit for this event is optional (obviously, since I don't have one anymore).
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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2013, 01:44:39 PM »
In!  :clap:

Best timing for me would be the first week of August...

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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2013, 01:52:38 AM »
Aug 8-12 time frame might work out best for me...I have family in from Hawaii earlier, and possible track day later. Let me know, and I'll see what I can work out. I was bummed to miss last year...

The John Day area of Oregon is always great, we did Hwy 206 into Condon and Fossil to Antelope on this years Cali trip. I have done a bit of NW Oregon, some nice stuff there as well, and a little bit South and West of Eugene, but there is a bunch I have not done, so that all sounds good.

I'll do my best to work it into the schedule. The Sprint got new Racetech suspension this year, so a little tighter now.
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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2013, 12:22:53 PM »
I can work with anything during Aug.  Just need a days notice to submit my vaction form.   :beers:
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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2013, 02:07:24 PM »
I can make the 8th-12th work.

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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2013, 03:29:56 PM »
MobileMike???
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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2013, 05:52:08 PM »
Sure we couldn't stretch SW OR into NW CA?  I've been itching to ride CA 36 ever since I learned of it.
It's sign tops the 77 mile warning on US 12 over Lolo Pass.   :motorsmile:



http://www.pashnit.com/roads/cal/Highway36.htm
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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2013, 12:07:14 PM »
Whoo Hoooo. I am alive and busier than a 2 peckered billy goat.
I have two cousins here from the 5th to the 15th. It would be nice to go 15 to 19 or somewhere near there.
I never have though there was much in western Oregon and its too close to metropolis for our usual pace. I may be wrong. Farther south might be better. That hyw Paul is mentioning sounds great. I am up for anything.
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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2013, 12:08:35 PM »
Is it ok to include some others from Max-Suz?
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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2013, 02:19:53 PM »
Whoo Hoooo. I am alive and busier than a 2 peckered billy goat.
I have two cousins here from the 5th to the 15th. It would be nice to go 15 to 19 or somewhere near there.
I never have though there was much in western Oregon and its too close to metropolis for our usual pace. I may be wrong. Farther south might be better. That hyw Paul is mentioning sounds great. I am up for anything.

The 14th through the 20th is about the only stretch in August that doesn't work for me. What about the week of the 26th-30th?

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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2013, 02:21:44 PM »
I'm down for Hwy 36. But you thought NE Oregon was hot in August. Not sure I'm down for 100+ in Red Bluff.  :yikes:
And I don't care if folks from MS want to come...

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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2013, 03:34:10 PM »
I don't think it's much different than E OR in August... at least not according to this:

http://weatherspark.com/averages/31437/Red-Bluff-California-United-States

BTW - I've invited a co-worker to come along as long as he promises to ride his C14 and not his V-Rod.
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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2013, 04:04:29 PM »
My sister & her husband just moved from the Bay Area to a ranchette just north of Chico... its about 30-35 miles SE of Red Bluff.  I could probably talk her into letting us swim in the pool and if the crowd's not too big, crash for a night. 
Might be hard telling her VTX riding husband he can't keep up with us though.  :stickpoke:
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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #13 on: June 28, 2013, 05:03:20 PM »
Withy every year that goes by, my pussy quotient when it comes to heat increases by a factor of 3.

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Re: PNW trip this summer? (2013 version)
« Reply #14 on: June 28, 2013, 05:12:42 PM »
When are you're trading your bike for an air conditioned sports car? 
Or are you going straight to a Lincoln Town Car :stickpoke:
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