Righto fellas,
I've booked flights etc, & might have to change this to 'Join me for a ride' but I'll be back in La La land late Feb/early March. I'm busy last week of Feb, but am free (right now) on the weekend of the 2nd March, till the 4th. I've a mate in Reno I'll possibly meet up with either there or in LA.
I'll be in NY from 5th till 11th but will have work and some other bits and pieces going on, but could likely make time there as well.
I'll be in Frankfurt DE from the 11th till 15th and will be pretty full on with work, but can make time if we arrange early (Rolf, you a member here yet?).
Who's up for a beer? :good2: :drinks:
Troyskie
If you get to Reno and are bored
look me up.Right now I am picking up my second fj1100 next week and may have it running as a loner but if not I could borrow my son's zzr1200 for a second bike if you would like to go for a ride.It is a little chilly here that time of year but great riding.
Quote from: Troyskie on December 01, 2018, 01:36:08 AM
Righto fellas,
I've booked flights etc, & might have to change this to 'Join me for a ride' but I'll be back in La La land late Feb/early March. I'm busy last week of Feb, but am free (right now) on the weekend of the 2nd March, till the 4th. I've a mate in Reno I'll possibly meet up with either there or in LA.
I'll be in NY from 5th till 11th but will have work and some other bits and pieces going on, but could likely make time there as well.
I'll be in Frankfurt DE from the 11th till 15th and will be pretty full on with work, but can make time if we arrange early (Rolf, you a member here yet?).
Who's up for a beer? :good2: :drinks:
Troyskie
Some places within a forty five minute ride from Reno
Ripper mate!
I'll let you know how the arrangements work out.
Troyskie
Travis, having the Sierras in your backyard and the desert in your front yard is all kinds of awesome!
Joe
Hey Joe your not that far away if you ever want to come up and go riding.
Agreed. About 250mi. That's just warming up for some of the members here.
Joe
If I can attend then count me in...
Quote from: FJmonkey on December 02, 2018, 01:05:57 PM
If I can attend then count me in...
your definitely welcome anytime.As I said after the RPM rally I would ride with any of you guys anytime.
So many good roads in the Tahoe basin as well.
Joe
Joe you should work on your cold weather gear.If a plan for a ride works out,the more the merrier.
I just got the new 84fj1100 loaner bike I bought running.I put the carburetors I got from wood Creek Pete and it runs surprisingly well despite the results of my not a real compression test I did before I got it running.Troyske let me know if you think your going to make it to Reno for a ride. Also Ryan if you want to go to the west coast rally but don't want to ride a gazillion miles to get out here you could fly into Reno borrow my loaner and ride out with me and Ian .I think it's about four or five hours from Reno.
I'm still working on the Reno venture. I've gone quiet as the catch-up is shifting location & I've not wanted to confuse anyone.
Once I'm certain where I'll be I'll let you know.
:good: :good:
Troyskie
There's no rush to decide. Its no inconvience we will be here either way.
I took the new fj1100 out on its first real ride(looks pretty odd with the black gas tank off my other fj).I don't have rear brakes yet,i found the nipple on the master cylinder to the resevoir was snapped off.the tires are twelve years old and petrified only the trip odometer works on the speedometer but despite that the bike runs great plenty of power and handles well.it should be completely roadworthy soon .Ive got fifty miles on it so far.
Mate looks bloody cold!
Great work getting it going and out.
I'm fine without a speedo (2.5k on the tacho is around town, 3.5k is mid speed and 4k is highway). Besides, when I'm unfamiliar with the road, I follow those who know it.
I've learnt my lesson to leave the rear brake for hill starts and dirt, 'trail braking' etc. are for better riders than me.
Troyskie
I have new tires and a new rear master cylinder coming as well as a center stand. i hope i get the instrument cluster .and the repair parts for the yellow tank should be here soon.No slipping 2nd and third gear on this one.we can help out with cold weather gear if you let us know.two months out the weather says 67 fahrenheit but it could be cold.By then the days are longer all the lower snow will be gone and the mountain passes are usually clear.there should be some deep snow to see in the mountain tops this year though.
More storm passing thru us and heading your way Travis. Just what you wanted, more snow.
Joe
Hey Joe much of it will be gone by March.If Troyskie can make it out here I dont know how much time he would have to ride but it would be a blast if you and Mark or any one else made it up here to ride.
Quote from: Troyskie on January 20, 2019, 08:06:50 PM
Mate looks bloody cold!
What a difference a week makes.My two year old grand daughter is ready to take a swim.The other picture is from my yard.
Great pics. Looks like it would be dirt bike heaven as well.
Righto lads, I have some confirmation.
Travis, despite my best intentions Reno is out. I'll be spending most of my time in LA. I held out as long as I could, but it didn't work out.
I've reserved Sunday 3rd March as 'my day' for any FJ lads who want to get together. I'm not certain where I'm staying yet, normally Santa Monica, but this time I need to be close to Torrance, so I'll be between Redondo to Santa Monica (no, not at the airport :) ).
If anyone has a suggestion for a place to hook up I'll grab a cab and meet up (Mark and Ed know my style :biggrin: . Same place as last time :drinks: ?).
I can catch-up during the week before as well (except Friday), but in the evening only as I'm busy during the day down at Torrance :empathy2:.
Troyskie
(very sad to be missing the Aussie rally :cray: )
I think mother nature wasn't cooperating anyway,our groundhog predicted early spring has not arrived.Have fun in L.A.the weather should be much nicer.
Quote from: Troyskie on February 07, 2019, 03:10:26 AM
If anyone has a suggestion for a place to hook up I'll grab a cab and meet up (Mark and Ed know my style :biggrin: . Same place as last time :drinks: ?).
Yea... Just like the last time... Looking forward to it.
(http://www.fjowners.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=13820.0;attach=5596)
Well Travis at least the snow melt might make its way to reservoirs (I'm trying to be positive and reaching I know :wacko2:).
Mark, that was one of the funniest flights home. After beers with you and Ed at Stout(?) I had a great sleep on the plane! I even slept through take-off (well the second one that worked).
Want to go there again or find a new spot?
Troyskie
Troyskie, you're correct. California NEEDS that snowmelt to survive. Without it we're just a desert.
Joe
Joe, full solidarity here mate.
Oz is the driest continent on the planet (well, after Antarctica). Water is life. To me California seems a lot like Western Australia, but with real mountains.
Drought is part of the cycle of life, but not a very pleasant part.
A talented young Aussie lass called Dorothea Mackellar wrote a poem (stay with me now..) about Oz whilst missing home in the UK called My Country in 1907, here's my fav bit:
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror
The wide brown land for me!
(and me!)
You could say the same about many parts of the US. But Oz is pretty much a desert fringed by a coastal green belt. So the poem really does speak for the whole country (if not all of the knuckleheads who live here).
In Oz we're either under water or on fire. The short spell between is when we advertise how nice it is for tourists (except for the drop bears and that everything is venomous :sarcastic:)
California is fortunate to have nice sunny winters low and shitty winters with snow in the high country, massive rivers, and a sea breeze to humidify the dry land (except for that crappy June Gloom). My good thoughts go to Travis' ground hog that f#$ked it up and you get a great snow melt, with some nice spring storms/soaking drizzle off the Pacific.
Weirdly we were on drought water restrictions through half of winter! We had major bush fires in Winter here! My block (I live in the country) went from April to August (it rained on my FJ shed day :) ) with zero rain. There was some around, not much, but it missed us. I didn't mow my loan (lawn) till December! The cracks in the ground were big enough that tourist operators from the Grand Canyon were checking it out (not really but they were big).
Cali has had some nasty fires of late, and I can't help but wonder about all the bloody gum trees you have there. They're not native, the grow like weeds, they drop huge branches only onto cars without insurance, they burst into flame with the slightest provocation and then grow back like nothing happened.
So there are three things closely in common with Cali and Oz. Drought, flood, and fire (lets leave politicians to the jokes section, or the arsehole section cause everyone has them). I've not spoken about surf by the way...
Troyksie
G'day fellas. I've made it to LA, just in time for some rain.
Anyone want to meet on Sunday? Stout in Santa Monica was where I met up last time. About midday?
Troyskie
Quote from: Troyskie on March 01, 2019, 04:54:30 PM
G'day fellas. I've made it to LA...
Troyskie
Don't forget, RPM is only 5-6 hours away...
Randy - RPM
Quote from: racerrad8 on March 01, 2019, 06:52:44 PM
Quote from: Troyskie on March 01, 2019, 04:54:30 PM
G'day fellas. I've made it to LA...
Troyskie
Don't forget, RPM is only 5-6 hours away...
Randy - RPM
That's about the distance to the local Pie Shop :lol:
Well Troyskies you didn't miss anything in Reno,it rained the entire weekend nothing but mud.Its a little late but spring has hit now.still getting snow on top but rain everywhere else,all the low snow is about gone.The roads are dry and frost free today.I to the yellow fj up Geiger grade to Virginia City to wear in the new tires.It was a beautiful ride.Its nice to have a rear brake and speedometer now .
Looking good mate :good: .
It was quite a surprise for me to be rained out in LA.
I was in town for some safety training and we had three days that were rained out. The main reason the training is conducted there is rain is not normally a factor, let alone thunder storms and winds gusting 20kts :wacko2:
I was very fortunate with the traffic. Every day I missed the jams and was generally going the opposite to the flow, so rain affected roads surprisingly made little difference to my visit.
I'm in NY at the moment, brrrrrrrrr, I'm a Troysickle. The temperature at home is 30, and same here, just a different scale :mocking:
Thanks for invite Randy. I do need to make a visit. Perhaps next time.
Troyskie