2nd Annual EXTORTION ONE SEVEN Memorial Poker Ride is a go!

After a slow start due to some fairly major medical issues for our Committe Chair, we are proud to announce "it's on like Donkey Kong"!  This year there are a few big changes-both Sweetwater Harley-Davidson (for the second year) and San Diego Harley-Davidson are hosting start and stop points.  We also have a full AR-15 and a mostly complete AR-15 and many other raffle prizes.  Route is still being developed but it's going to head east out of Sweetwater HD, hit some crooked roads, ensure everyone gets some smiles per gallon before heading over to SD HD.



2nd Annual EXTORTION ONE SEVEN Memorial Poker Run Flyer

All proceeds go to benefit the Navy SEAL Foundation and the EOD Warrior Foundation, two great charities that help out fallen SEAL and EOD techs' families and injured warriors.  We will be honoring and memorializing the SEALs, EOD techs, support specialists, aircrew and military working dog that were lost on August 6, 2011 on a mission to aid Army Rangers fighting a much larger number of insurgents in Wardak, Afghanistan.  There will be a short observance at the end of the ride to honor these men and K9 who gave their utmost for our freedom and for the people of Afghanistan.

It should be a good ride and event for a great cause.  Hope to see you there!



It's National Ride to Work Day, motorcycle edition

I know it's too late for many of you, and it rushed up on me this year, but today is National Ride to Work Day!  It's always the third Monday of June-I guess June for all of those who can't ride to work year-round like many of us in San Diego do.  It's still amazing to me that we only have 364 riding days a year out here.  I probably have ridden on every calendar day of the year over the 12 years of riding in San Diego.  While I haven't ridden every day of a year straight (yet), over the years I probably have every day covered.

So I rode to work today, my usual commute.  Unfortunately I didn't see an unusually high number of bikes, but many folks do commute by motorcycle already.  Here's a link to the national organizations website.  If you still have a chance, go on some kind of ride today, especially riding to work!

Painting the bike trailer

Just a quick post tonight.  Don't want the blog to go too long without some sort of post, but this one isn't about motorcycle maintenance or the Trackside Wheel Chock.  Those are the closest topics to building a following for this sparsely read blog.  This post isn't even about a neat ride, although today I did my usual short loop and until I ran down some traffic I was cruising along smoothly and a bit faster than normal.

Nope, today was more a "work on bike stuff" day than "ride the bikes" day.  Local CMA chapters here in San Diego bought a motorcycle trailer from one of our members when he was selling it.  The trailer normally stays in my driveway, and rust was starting to take it's toil on the railing and get more severe.  I began sanding and roughing up the old paint and had primed the trailer a few weeks ago.  Today was my first opportunity to re-paint it, and with some help from my eldest daughter we got the first coat of black Rustoleum paint on it.  While it would look much better sprayed, I can't risk overspray where it is, and the trailer won't fit in my improvised paint booth (as shown in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN2-bM2D3V0  at least from the inside-all it was is an easy-up with paint drop sheets alligator clipped to the top).  So we're brushing the paint on just to get it covered.  It's a 50/50 paint job: At 50 feet or at 50 MPH it looks ok!

Hope you had a good Father's Day and good riding.