I never could find my trip report on this ride, and there isn't too much I can remember, so here is what I can remember:

A month or so before this ride I replaced the bias ply tires with Dunlop 205 radials. What a difference. When I rode with Pete and company (SoCal Sabmag) last year at the Pete Spinger Flinger, I was always at the end of the group. The bike just didn't handle very well and I couldn't take corners worth a darn. With these new tires, I was always near the front and almost running over Pete and Rand. The tires made such a difference I couldn't believe it.

I took off and met up with a few guys at the rest stop near Pendleton MC Base. We then went up the 5 to meet up with more of the group in Orange Co., a gas station right off the freeway. Once we hit the 5/405 split, the group continued north on 5 and I took off on the 405 because I wanted to see a friend in Santa Barbara. They wanted to go hit the mountain roads to get to Santa Maria. My trip up to Santa Maria was uneventful, I saw my friend, (A friend that I went to school with, but hadn't seen in over 30 years) and then around 9pm headed up to Santa Maria. By then it was a cool and pretty dark.

When I pulled into the Motel 6, where some of us were staying, a large group was already there. Milt and I were sharing a room, and I don't remember if he got there first, or I did. Anyway we all chatted for quite a while before turning in. All the campers stayed across the way at a local campground.

The next day we all met at an IHOP, had breakfast and then started up north on 101 for the ride. We went pretty far up and eastward through some farm country. At one of our stops on 33, we kept waiting for Scott Hall to show up, finally someone either went back for him or caught up with him and found that he had slid out on a corner. Now I can't remember if he did that twice that trip, but I know it has something to do with is nickname, "The Sultan of Skid". We even had lunch at a restaurant near where James Dean was killed back in the Fifties. At one point on the ride, someone got a little frisky and we were well over a ton for a few miles.

At one point near the end of the ride, my bike started overheating and I had to leave a gas station where a few were filling up. I hit the fwy and the bike cooled back down. I didn't have anymore problems the rest of the trip.