You might be a motorcyclists if....

I rode my 86 Connie to the Starbucks nearest my house this morning to work.  I work at Starbucks some days but not for Starbucks, like many people do.  So when I finished up and was about to ride home to check for some mail, see who needed lunch and just generally take a break I decided to take advantage of another beautiful Southern California fall day.  Yep, nearly perfect weather, so instead of riding the 1.1 miles or so to the house I took my quick loop.  Out of Poway on Scripps-Poway Parkway, up 67 north to Poway Road, down the twisty portion of Poway grade then back around to the house.  Only about a 13 mile detour and especially nice today.  Air was crystal clear, I was the "lead vehicle" down Poway grade (yes!) and got to see the whole family at the house before lunch.

Two quick updates:

It's always going to be something keeping the 1986 on the road to 100K!  Now that the electrical gremlins have been found and chased off, the old petcock seems to be seeping a small amount of fuel.  Gonna fix that tonight-I've got a few extra petcocks sitting around and am low enough on gas that tilting the tank should allow me to fix it without too much mess.

The BikeBandit Daily Deal page seems to not be updating, but numerous sales continue on the site, especially helmets.  Follow a banner ad from this blog and I get a small cut as an affiliate marketer, and a portion of that will go to Movember.  Thanks!

Lake Elsinore Grand Prix Weekend

This weekend is the kick-off of the desert riding season in Southern California, and what a great way to kick it off with the Lake Elsinore Grand Prix!  Revived a few years ago by my friends at Podium Productions, the LEGP is a full weekend of racing in and around Lake Elsinore, a beautiful community just east of Los Angeles and northeast of San Diego.  All the different classes of racing are too numerous to list-check their website out.  If none of those races interest you, you aren't interested in off-road racing!  Beginners, mini's (including tiny tots-some who can barely walk get out there and race!), quads, vintage and yes, off-road sidecars.  That's got to be wild, as I've seen track sidecar racing but off-road?  And I thought my work was crazy!

Of course, how could you mention SOCAL off-road racing, the Lake Elsinore Grand Prix, and motorcycles and not mention one Harvey Mushman.  Some folks use his screen name more often, but Harvey Mushman was a legend in racing circles out in SOCAL and in his honor there will be the Harvey Mushman 100 at 2:15 this afternoon.  This is an open race over 100 miles looping in and out of Lake Elsinore.  A true test of endurance and a hotly contested event.  I bet even Steve McQueen would race in it if he was still around!

If you are in SoCAL this weekend and looking for something to do, head out to Lake Elsinore for the Grand Prix.  Some of my Christian Motorcyclists Association (CMA) brothers and sisters will be out there-tell them "Bur" sent you and say "Hi".  Have a great weekend whatever kind of riding you are doing and keep it dirty side down.

The latest BikeBandit Daily Deal-now with live link!

Yesterday I posted about the BikeBandit.com Daily Deal, but hadn't figured out how to link to the actual deal in the post.  But never fear-I am being drug (dragged?) kicking and screaming into modernity, and think this should work now.  Here's the link to the Daily Deal and today it's also a helmet deal.

It is the Icon Airframe Carbon RR helmet at 28% off, total price with free shipping $280.  Sizes are limited with blue, red and pink helmets (actually trim, the helmet is mainly carbon grey but looks cool) available.

It's going to be a beautiful day-hope you get some riding in!