New Year's Day Two Mountain Ride

Alex · January 1st, 2012, 08:50 PM

A friend had the right idea, inviting us to join him as he hit two of the nearby fun mountain routes on New Year's Day. Weather was just about perfect, and the road conditions were pretty good as well. A little sand in some places, but overall as clean as one could hope for on January 1st. It was 70 degrees at the top of Mt. Hamilton! Later in the day it was just a bit cooler on Mt. Diablo, but not by much.

A whole bunch of bicyclists were out on the Mt. Hamilton loop as well.

All pics in full res available in this gallery.

rusninja · January 1st, 2012, 09:01 PM

Cool :O nice pictures. :]

00NissanNinja · January 2nd, 2012, 10:22 PM

, wish it was 70 degrees out here that would be sweet.

setasai · January 2nd, 2012, 11:07 PM

Cool! All I got to do was destroy my stairs and attempt to rebuild it without falling off.

Alex · January 2nd, 2012, 11:42 PM

On the way down the backside of the mountain, we came upon a tow truck stopped in a strange place. We went back to look, and he was dragging a turbo porsche from the ravine. On the front side of Mt. Hamilton, we had passed a couple dozen porsches, it looked like a club ride of some sort. One of them evidently didn't make it.

The driver of the car behind saw a deer run right in front of the accident car, and he went right down the hill. Driver was fine, and the car looks, at least from these angles, better than I ever would have expected. I can't believe it didn't roll. The steepness of the mountain there is hard to judge in photos, but check out the guy on the line crawling back up with effort.

Another tow truck arrived to help out by running another line, and we didn't wait around for it to be dragged all the way back up to the road. Here are a few quick videos from the morning, shot from the 3rd bike (the pics below should be clickable into smugmug videos). There's a great view of the Wing being thrown around a bit, but I'm just out of view on the BMW for much of them.

00NissanNinja · January 3rd, 2012, 04:56 PM

That classic 80s porsche 911 is lucky, I bet he shat himself lol. Not a fun way to end the day...

January 1st, 2012, 08:50 PM	#1
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	New Year's Day Two Mountain Ride A friend had the right idea, inviting us to join him as he hit two of the nearby fun mountain routes on New Year's Day. Weather was just about perfect, and the road conditions were pretty good as well. A little sand in some places, but overall as clean as one could hope for on January 1st. It was 70 degrees at the top of Mt. Hamilton! Later in the day it was just a bit cooler on Mt. Diablo, but not by much. A whole bunch of bicyclists were out on the Mt. Hamilton loop as well. All pics in full res available in this gallery. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

January 1st, 2012, 09:01 PM	#2
rusninja Ninjette wanabe :D Name: Ruslan Location: San Jose Join Date: Apr 2011 Motorcycle(s): white 300 :D Posts: A lot.	Cool :O nice pictures. :] __________________________________________________ VROOOM vrooom >.>

January 2nd, 2012, 10:22 PM	#3
00NissanNinja I hate driving... Name: S Location: SW Ohio Join Date: Jul 2010 Motorcycle(s): 13 Triumph Street Triple R, 09 Ninja 250r (Sold 4/20/12) Posts: A lot.	, wish it was 70 degrees out here that would be sweet. __________________________________________________ 09 ninja 2fiddy SE Driving slow things fast

January 2nd, 2012, 11:07 PM	#4
setasai ninjette.org certified postwhore Name: Brian Location: Detroit, MI Join Date: Jun 2010 Motorcycle(s): 2009 Ninja 250R Green Posts: A lot.	Cool! All I got to do was destroy my stairs and attempt to rebuild it without falling off. __________________________________________________ 2009 Ninja 250R SE Green Sport Touring Style: ZG ST; Symtec heated grips; RAM GPS w/ mUSB; DIY reshaped seat; DIY Givi E21 Sidecases; 15T sprocket

January 2nd, 2012, 11:42 PM	#5
Alex ninjette.org dude Name: 1 guess :-) Location: SF Bay Area Join Date: Jun 2008 Motorcycle(s): '13 Ninja 300 (white, the fastest color!), '13 R1200RT, '14 CRF250L, '12 TT-R125LE Posts: Too much. Blog Entries: 7	On the way down the backside of the mountain, we came upon a tow truck stopped in a strange place. We went back to look, and he was dragging a turbo porsche from the ravine. On the front side of Mt. Hamilton, we had passed a couple dozen porsches, it looked like a club ride of some sort. One of them evidently didn't make it. The driver of the car behind saw a deer run right in front of the accident car, and he went right down the hill. Driver was fine, and the car looks, at least from these angles, better than I ever would have expected. I can't believe it didn't roll. The steepness of the mountain there is hard to judge in photos, but check out the guy on the line crawling back up with effort. Another tow truck arrived to help out by running another line, and we didn't wait around for it to be dragged all the way back up to the road. Here are a few quick videos from the morning, shot from the 3rd bike (the pics below should be clickable into smugmug videos). There's a great view of the Wing being thrown around a bit, but I'm just out of view on the BMW for much of them. __________________________________________________ Montgomery Street Motorcycle Club / cal24.com / crf250l.org / ninjette.org ninjette.org Terms of Service Shopping for motorcycle parts or equipment? Come here first. The friendliest Ninja 250R/300/400 forum on the internet! (especially Unregistered)

January 3rd, 2012, 04:56 PM	#6
00NissanNinja I hate driving... Name: S Location: SW Ohio Join Date: Jul 2010 Motorcycle(s): 13 Triumph Street Triple R, 09 Ninja 250r (Sold 4/20/12) Posts: A lot.	That classic 80s porsche 911 is lucky, I bet he shat himself lol. Not a fun way to end the day... __________________________________________________ 09 ninja 2fiddy SE Driving slow things fast

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