We had a fantastic day ride with the CA2Q goldwing chapter last Saturday. The destination was a forest cabin of the GWRRA CAC (Sacramento) chapter director near the town of Kyburz, almost touching South Lake Tahoe. A bunch of loaded goldwings, trikes, 2 ST1300, a PC800 and a Shadow made it there. We had to fight a little bit of gravel road at the destination when I realized what a heavy behemoth this bike is. Wonder how some people ride this machine on the 400 mile unpaved stretch in Alaska ! Anyways, a fantastic BBQ and delicious swiss vanilla ice cream (a must in any wing meet !) filled our hungry potbellies :). We had fun chatting with the fellow wingers. Most all of them are in their 40s and 50s but with the energy of 30 somethings.
A small river was right in front of the cabin, and a few of us checked it out. Cold and refreshing water, wish I had time for a soak-in.
It was a 421 mile roundtrip day, but on the wing it seemed much less. We went through pretty decent hot weather, touching 104F in the afternoon on the freeway. Water on the butler cup helped a lot !
The group ride is what I loved the most. Like our chapter director I too believe in small groups, and we rode in a 3-bike group all the time. Perfect synchrony and predefined hand signals made it a pleasurable one.
Pictures:
-Priti’s flickr set
-My flickr set yet to be uploaded