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Just came back from a half-day ride to Santa Cruz with Piyush on his VFR. We started around 3:30pm after a nice lunch at Erik's Deli Cafe with wonderful soup and sandwich. Took some nice roads (Shannon road, Hicks road) to reach Morgan Hill. From there CA-1 to Santa Cruz; the road was lovely one, sometimes becoming dark because of the tall trees. Reached Santa Cruz around 7 and after a short snack-break with donuts, we started back for home. CA-17 was full of traffic and Piyush took off lane-splitting. Joy first tried to do the same but didn't continue after sometime. However, after sometime traffic cleared and we were back at home by 8.30pm (of course, Piyush reaching way ahead of us :))

Well, almost forgot to mention: Piyush had bought a bike-camera and wanted to try it out for the first time while riding. He installed the camera on his bike with Joy's help and tested it riding around the apartment parking area. The movie looked fine except that camera had some inherent vibration, so a little fixation and we were ready to hit the road. He kept the camera in the picture mode (which took pictures after a fix interval, automatically). Back at the apt, att the end of the ride, he took the camera out only to see that the memory card is missing!!! A little search and it was found in the camera-box which was left behind at the apt. It seems after testing the camera in the apt parking lot, he had forgotten to put the memory card back in the camera. And all the while, I was waiting to see the nice pictures taken by his camera :) Well, another ride is needed soon...

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Last saturday (26th Aug) we went for our first group ride with the CA2Q chapter (Dublin) of GWRRA (Gold Wing Road Riders Association). We rode almost to Lake Tahoe, to a forest cabin owned by the Sacramento Chapter Director. He had invited several members to a barbecue lunch. We had a fun time with the other members. After lunch we went out to the nearby river to check out the cold water; it was very refreshing. I went in and soaked my jeans completely :) Now the worry was how to get on the bike since I didnt have anything to change to. So, I wore my biker-pant over the wet jeans and it actually turned out to a bliss since the day was very hot. The temperature rose to 104F at around 3pm! And my jeans, under the biker-pant, was completely dry within an hour :) While riding my upper part was feeling the heat of the day while the lower part experienced the AC effect of the wet jeans :) Need to do the same thing again when riding on a hot day!!!

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