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SLOWn60 · April 28th, 2016, 04:02 AM

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Originally Posted by CaliGrrl

Went up through one of the canyons and into Ojai on Sunday. I felt *really* good on the bike in the turns.

Was that east of Ojai? Up the mountain from Ojai and down the other side to the pistachio plantation. One of my favorite twisty roads in the whole world. Top 20
Just be cautious your first time or 3; you don't have to go fast to enjoy that road

CaliGrrl · April 28th, 2016, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by SLOWn60

Was that east of Ojai? Up the mountain from Ojai and down the other side to the pistachio plantation. One of my favorite twisty roads in the whole world. Top 20
Just be cautious your first time or 3; you don't have to go fast to enjoy that road

We went up Balcom Canyon (goes north, but "up" feels odd here since that direction is actually downhill) to South Mountain Road, and then west over to Ojai down the Dennison Grade.

We were doing pretty close to speed limit. No need to push it. We've gone down Grimes canyon several times, up to Santa Paula and over to Ojai. This was my first time runnning Balcom.

Where's the pistachio plantation? I'll have to look for that.

adouglas · April 28th, 2016, 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by CaliGrrl

We went up Balcom Canyon (goes north, but "up" feels odd here since that direction is actually downhill)

OT, but this little linguistic tidbit is something I find interesting, as a person who makes his living as a writer.

The conventions we grew up with influence how we see the world... The only reason we have "up north," "down south," "out west" and "back east" (and for our Australian friends, "down under") is because we've spent our lives looking at maps and globes where north is at the top... plus we have the whole historical narrative of the expansion of the United States from east to west.

I like paper maps (yeah, so I'm an iconoclast), and often prefer to view them "upside down" or "sideways." Gives you a different perspective and understanding of where you are, and what's actually close by. It's amazing how distorted our views are, simply because of those biases.

Do you set your GPS to "north up" or "direction up?" Always the latter for me.

Sorry for the hijack. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, which is already in progress.

CaliGrrl · April 28th, 2016, 12:13 PM

::giggle:: I like linguistics, too, and thus my comment about up/north/downhill.

And I turn paper maps to match my orientation. Apparently most women do that, and most men commonly turn the map in their head instead of turning the paper map.

GPS gets set to show my direction of travel being up. It's got a little compass point in the corner if I care which direction is north, but I generally have a pretty good idea anyway.

allanoue · April 28th, 2016, 12:22 PM

When my ex and I drove to Cali, I drove she navigated. Somewhere around Kansas or so I started turning right when she said left and visa versa. No problems from then on.

toEleven · April 28th, 2016, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by adouglas

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Do you set your GPS to "north up" or "direction up?" Always the latter for me.
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Direction up for me as well. I care about upcoming rights and lefts; the cardinal direction is irrelevant when using a GPS. It's also more familiar to long time video gamers - the direction you're facing is almost always up by default in game HUDs/radars/etc.

NevadaWolf · April 28th, 2016, 12:54 PM

Good gravy so it's you weirdos that prompted the option on GPSs to have a "direction up", how in the world do you orient yourself?

Ugh, north up for me.

SLOWn60 · April 28th, 2016, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by CaliGrrl

We went up Balcom Canyon (goes north, but "up" feels odd here since that direction is actually downhill) to South Mountain Road, and then west over to Ojai down the Dennison Grade.

We were doing pretty close to speed limit. No need to push it. We've gone down Grimes canyon several times, up to Santa Paula and over to Ojai. This was my first time runnning Balcom.

Where's the pistachio plantation? I'll have to look for that.

When I get a wifi connection I'll get a map & post up the route. I don't know the hwy#'s, just remember what a wonderful route it was! I rode it 6-7 years ago

allanoue · April 28th, 2016, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by NevadaWolf

Good gravy so it's you weirdos that prompted the option on GPSs to have a "direction up", how in the world do you orient yourself?

Ugh, north up for me.

Heads up for me, and the compass tells you where north is.

RacinNinja · April 28th, 2016, 01:02 PM

Wife on her first Ninja.

And then her FZ6.

I'm a bad influence.....

CaliGrrl · April 28th, 2016, 01:46 PM

Nice!

RacinNinja · April 28th, 2016, 02:16 PM

Almost forgot the new one!

toEleven · April 28th, 2016, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by NevadaWolf

Good gravy so it's you weirdos that prompted the option on GPSs to have a "direction up", how in the world do you orient yourself?.

In my defense, GPS has been around longer than I have, and civilian/commercial implementations with that option almost certainly predate my acquisition of a driver's license.

For orientation, all the same skills that work with a paper map still work. The displayed compass, physical references, the giant fission reactor crossing the sky in an alarmingly consistent direction, and so on.

SLOWn60 · April 28th, 2016, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by CaliGrrl

We went up Balcom Canyon (goes north, but "up" feels odd here since that direction is actually downhill) to South Mountain Road, and then west over to Ojai down the Dennison Grade.

We were doing pretty close to speed limit. No need to push it. We've gone down Grimes canyon several times, up to Santa Paula and over to Ojai. This was my first time runnning Balcom.

Where's the pistachio plantation? I'll have to look for that.

Highway 33 "North" out of Ojai!
The pistachio plantation is in the valley on the other side of the mountAin from Ojai. They have a store with dozens of flavours of pistachios!
Best part is to turn around once your saddle bags are full of nuts and do the mountain road again!

CaliGrrl · April 28th, 2016, 04:34 PM

Ah, right, up through Rose Valley. Husband and I went 2-up with the bike club up that way though we didn't get to the pistachio place. Definitely a fun ride, and a lot of people run that way.

akima · May 18th, 2016, 04:36 AM

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Originally Posted by SLOWn60

Highway 33 "North" out of Ojai!
The pistachio plantation is in the valley on the other side of the mountAin from Ojai. They have a store with dozens of flavours of pistachios!
Best part is to turn around once your saddle bags are full of nuts and do the mountain road again!

Saddle bags? I'm taking a truck

allanoue · May 18th, 2016, 11:18 AM

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Originally Posted by akima

Saddle bags? I'm taking a truck

You know you would just stuff all the nuts in your cheeks.

motodancer · June 10th, 2016, 01:18 PM

short

that was actually my very first time on the bike not as a passenger (around March/April this year)
it's my one & only picture!
enjoy.

CaliGrrl · June 10th, 2016, 11:04 PM

Nice! Loving the pictures.

Finesse · June 26th, 2016, 10:05 PM

dirt track racing on my drz 125, trying to stay upright more often on my klx250sf, and learning to wheelie my 50... so far its been a good year for motorcycling!

veganbiker · July 10th, 2016, 07:07 AM

Love !

CaliGrrl · July 11th, 2016, 10:08 AM

Nice!

alex.s · July 11th, 2016, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Finesse

dirt track racing on my drz 125, trying to stay upright more often on my klx250sf, and learning to wheelie my 50... so far its been a good year for motorcycling!

always cover that rear brake

Yakaru · July 21st, 2016, 07:50 AM

From my July 4th track day, sadness.

csmith12 · July 21st, 2016, 08:16 AM

The amount of purple in that pic is...

hahahahahah jk, nice pic!

CaliGrrl · July 21st, 2016, 02:26 PM

Oh, I disagree- the amount of purple in that pic is epic!

SLOWn60 · July 21st, 2016, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Yakaru

From my July 4th track day, sadness.

That's awesome, Yakaru! Custom tent top! Looks great!

Snake · July 21st, 2016, 03:06 PM

Awesome pic Yakaru!

Elloelvi · October 4th, 2016, 11:59 PM

So I had my first race a few weeks ago. It was so much fun!!!!

CaliGrrl · October 5th, 2016, 10:55 AM

Wooo!!!! Go, you!

Snake · October 5th, 2016, 02:59 PM

Awesome body position in that turn!

Finesse · October 24th, 2016, 10:08 AM

flat track shenanigans on the stock 125 and my MOPED yea thats right track ped

CaliGrrl · October 24th, 2016, 04:44 PM

Whooo!!!! Nice!

Snake · October 24th, 2016, 04:51 PM

@Finnese those are some very colorful pants. I like 'em.

Jasmina · October 24th, 2016, 06:19 PM

i know some pics here are not ninja but i couldn't resist

I'm not photogenic

Snake · October 24th, 2016, 07:04 PM

Sorry I'm the dumb dumb that hit the thumb down instead of up and I can't change it.
Great pics and yes you are photogenic.

Jasmina · October 24th, 2016, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Snake

Sorry I'm the dumb dumb that hit the thumb down instead of up and I can't change it.
Great pics and yes you are photogenic.

Thank you

dont worry over thumbs down

Thank you for the compliment

Snake · October 25th, 2016, 03:00 AM

You are very welcome!

Gregg_VA · October 30th, 2016, 06:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Jasmina

i know some pics here are not ninja but i couldn't resist

I'm not photogenic

Jasmine, I like blue very much as a color but have not been a fan of this shade of blue. That said, you dress it up really well. Take care.

Jasmina · October 31st, 2016, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Gregg_VA

Jasmine, I like blue very much as a color but have not been a fan of this shade of blue. That said, you dress it up really well. Take care.

Neither am i

but this bike was cheapest on gumtree with lowest k's and no drops-slides so here i am with that one

i prefer darker shade of blue,but no matter,ninja is a ninja sky blue or not

April 28th, 2016, 12:22 PM	#3005
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June 10th, 2016, 01:18 PM	#3018
motodancer ninjette.org member Name: S Location: Midwest Join Date: May 2016 Motorcycle(s): 08 250 Posts: 134	short that was actually my very first time on the bike not as a passenger (around March/April this year) it's my one & only picture! enjoy.
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April 28th, 2016, 12:13 PM	#3004
CaliGrrl ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kerry Location: Ventura, CA Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja650 Posts: A lot. MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16	::giggle:: I like linguistics, too, and thus my comment about up/north/downhill. And I turn paper maps to match my orientation. Apparently most women do that, and most men commonly turn the map in their head instead of turning the paper map. GPS gets set to show my direction of travel being up. It's got a little compass point in the corner if I care which direction is north, but I generally have a pretty good idea anyway.

April 28th, 2016, 01:46 PM	#3011
CaliGrrl ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kerry Location: Ventura, CA Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja650 Posts: A lot. MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16	Nice!

April 28th, 2016, 04:34 PM	#3015
CaliGrrl ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kerry Location: Ventura, CA Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja650 Posts: A lot. MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16	Ah, right, up through Rose Valley. Husband and I went 2-up with the bike club up that way though we didn't get to the pistachio place. Definitely a fun ride, and a lot of people run that way.

June 10th, 2016, 11:04 PM	#3019
CaliGrrl ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kerry Location: Ventura, CA Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja650 Posts: A lot. MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16	Nice! Loving the pictures.

July 11th, 2016, 10:08 AM	#3022
CaliGrrl ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kerry Location: Ventura, CA Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja650 Posts: A lot. MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16	Nice!

July 21st, 2016, 08:16 AM	#3025
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July 21st, 2016, 02:26 PM	#3026
CaliGrrl ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kerry Location: Ventura, CA Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja650 Posts: A lot. MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16	Oh, I disagree- the amount of purple in that pic is epic!

July 21st, 2016, 03:06 PM	#3028
Snake ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Rick Location: Alexandria, Louisiana Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 05 Blue Ninja 250 Posts: Too much. MOTY - 2017, MOTM - Jan '19, Oct '16, May '14	Awesome pic Yakaru!

October 5th, 2016, 10:55 AM	#3030
CaliGrrl ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kerry Location: Ventura, CA Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja650 Posts: A lot. MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16	Wooo!!!! Go, you!

October 5th, 2016, 02:59 PM	#3031
Snake ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Rick Location: Alexandria, Louisiana Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 05 Blue Ninja 250 Posts: Too much. MOTY - 2017, MOTM - Jan '19, Oct '16, May '14	Awesome body position in that turn!

October 24th, 2016, 04:44 PM	#3033
CaliGrrl ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Kerry Location: Ventura, CA Join Date: Jan 2016 Motorcycle(s): Ninja650 Posts: A lot. MOTM - Apr '18, Apr '17, Apr '16	Whooo!!!! Nice!

October 24th, 2016, 04:51 PM	#3034
Snake ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Rick Location: Alexandria, Louisiana Join Date: Jan 2009 Motorcycle(s): 05 Blue Ninja 250 Posts: Too much. MOTY - 2017, MOTM - Jan '19, Oct '16, May '14	@Finnese those are some very colorful pants. I like 'em.

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