7/4/03

    This years rally was held at the Santa Margarita Lake KOA in San Luis Obispo county.  Fellow lister Rod Holland had the great idea of pairing this rears rally with a track day at Buttonwillow Raceway.  The track day was held on July 4th and the rally followed on Sat. and Sun.  There was a good response to the rally and as many as 30+ showed interest and began making plans to attend.  Unfortunately powers beyond their control forced many to back out.  We still had a good turnout with just over 20.  The best part was that only four of us that had attended last years rally were at this years rally!  This meant many new faces and we had a great time getting to know everyone.  The final count was:

Rick Holtzman, Kenzo Baxter, Bernie and Linda Ayling, John and Hope Ruiz, Warren Oshita and Laura, Thom Jackson and Susie, Jay and Rachael Vocair    Mario and Josie, Art Palmer, Yong Joo, Mike Kubar, Dave from LA, Dylan (Warren's friend), Mike Slater, and Rod Holland.

All tolled:  21 people.

The Bay Area listers congregating at Rick Holtzman's house for an early departure.

Shedding our gear in front of a school in Greenfield during a much anticipated break from the heat of Carmel Valley Rd.  Check out

                          that wind!

7/5/03

    Saturday I, the "Rally Master", was the last person up at 10:30.  After herding cats for an hour I finally succeeded in getting a group photo, less SOs.  I don't know why none of the SOs thought they should be in the shot.  Oh well.  We finally got everyone geared up and headed out at about noon.  After we lost a couple people in the first few miles we got on a roll and John Ruiz and his wife Hope led us on a wonderful ride through the costal mountains.  That night we scarfed Scummies and beer and our laughter boomed through the night.  Ah, good times.

Warren Oshita (hiding behind his bike), Mike Kubar, Jay Vocair, Rick Holtzman, John Ruiz, Yong Joo, Rod Holland, Kenzo Baxter, Dave (Rick's friend from LA), and down in front is Thom Jackson. Art Palmer, Bernie Ayling and his wife were there, but didn't make it into the photo. Not everyone who came was in the picture.

Thom, his girlfriend Susie and the pooches.	Warren Oshita and his girlfriend Laura	John Ruiz and Rod Holland.	Unfortunately Rod crashed his race Hawk at Buttonwillow the day before and broke his foot. He STILL hung out for the rally!	Bernie Ayling looking comfy
Art palmer lookin' cool.	Bernie inspecting the crash dammage.	Jay oooing and awwwing at the weight of the CF tank.	John Ruiz sippin' an imaginary beer (guess he didn't get enough the night before), and Yong Joo.	Warren reconfiguring his bike to street standards.
Rod proudly holding up the masterpiece 2003 rally shirt.	My cabin, the sauna.

 

 

The Bikes, well, a few of them:

Mike Kubar's new Z1. Sweet bike!	Yong's F2	John's Bandit 1200	Bernie's very clean Hawk	Bernie's Hawk, again. Check out the modded tail section to fit the rounded tail light. I forgot what the light is off of.
We just couldn't get enough of Bernie's Hawk.

 

 

The Ride

 

View the small group ride-by video clip (1.5MB AVI)

Dave got a nail in his tire, but didn't go through. Phew!	Waiting to see if the lost riders would catch up	Taking advantage of any shade we could find. Yes, it was HOT.	The beginning of the bumpiest rode I've ever been on.	Where we stopped for gas and DIDN'T fill up
Up on Nacimiento Rd.
				Mission San Antonio de Padua
				Inside the walls
		We saw the light!

 

 

 

Goofing Off

Me, draggin' a knee.  Art, gettin' serious.

  Dylan earning his class D license.  Warren, warren, warren...drinking and driving?  Tsk, tsk.

 

 

Our Last Night:  Scummie Fest

"Ah, I'm blind!"

Just look at the size of those babies!  Nice job Thom and Mike Slater.

Mike Slater, who showed up just after we had left for the days ride, proved his scummy making skills that night.

 

 

 

7/6/03

 

The Ride Home:  Hwy 1

 

That Hwy 1 is absolutely beautiful. Oh, how I dream of riding that road with no traffic.			Yong getting confused
Here's one for Krash. As promised, Krash.	Mike, getting bored of waiting for us to catch up.	Ah, good ol' San Francisco

 

 

7/7/03

And the Rally Didn't End For Me There

 

The next day Rick H and his son E.O and friend Robert, Dan Hershberger and his daughter Amy, all went dirt riding.  What a blast!

 

My bed buddy when I sleep at Ricks  Dan, satisfied with his job of securing the bikes

Dan and Amy

Oh, man, Rick.  That takes the cake.  Great outfit.

 

Check out my hill climb (2.8MB AVI)

 

 

Another wonderful time with a great group of listers.  I can't wait till next time!

 

Kenzo Baxter

-WCHR Scribe

 

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