Troyski comes to La La land

[Troyskie]

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

[T Legg]

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.

[Tuned forks]

More storm passing thru us and heading your way Travis.  Just what you wanted, more snow.

Joe

[T Legg]

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.

[T Legg]

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.

[Troyskie]

Great pics. Looks like it would be dirt bike heaven as well.

[Troyskie]

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  . Same place as last time  ?).
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  .

Troyskie
(very sad to be missing the Aussie rally  )

[T Legg]

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.

[FJmonkey]

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  . Same place as last time  ?).

Yea... Just like the last time... Looking forward to it.

[Troyskie]

Well Travis at least the snow melt might make its way to reservoirs (I'm trying to be positive and reaching I know  ).

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

[Tuned forks]

Troyskie, you're correct.  California NEEDS that snowmelt to survive.  Without it we're just a desert.

Joe

[Troyskie]

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 )

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

[Troyskie]

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

[racerrad8]

G'day fellas. I've made it to LA...
Troyskie

Don't forget, RPM is only 5-6 hours away...

Randy - RPM

[Sparky84]

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