Nice weather coming - watch out!

 There's gonna be an influx of bikes on the road very soon. Lots of
newbies will get spring fever and buy that "first" bike. Others will
pull their bikes out of wnter mothballs, allowing cagers many more
targets than they were used to in preceding months. It'll be like the
opening of deer season, except for drivers instead of hunters.

Greg

 
Why are you whining?  With more deer, each individual deer stands a better
chance.

 
It's already spring here in the foothills, and the cruiser riders are
out putting in the lower elevations of the southern Sierras.

At lower altitudes, the green hillsides are covered with orange
fiddlenecks and California poppies, yellow mustard, yellow clover,
white snowflowers that look like frost on the grass, and purple
sheepsfoot clover.

The while effect is as if somebody had thrown buckets of brightly
colored paint on the green hillside.

And then, when you look up at the snow-covered Sierra, that just makes
the whole scene perfect.

The Great Western Divide Road is still blocked by 10 foot snowdrifts
at 7200 feet, and a rider on a cruiser was coming up the hill as I was
going back down.

No point in trying to warn him, he would find out soon enough...

 

Nice wordsmithing.  Sure wish you would contribute a lot more posts
like this.

Or should I simply consider this your ego trying to impress people
that you went out riding, or accuse you of trying to pick up gay men
with your descriptive phrase turning, or ask you for specific counts
of the exact number of wildflowers you saw, their latin family names,
the exact mileage of your odometer, etc, in an attempt to insinuate
that you find everything you do fascinating and are so egocentric that
you think everyone else on the newsgroup will, too?

Nah.  I wouldn't do that to anyone.

 
Not quite yet. Spent an afternoon loafing at Alices,
(popular MC hangout). Lots of bikes, all makes and
styles. Remarkably though, not an ambulance siren
heard for the whole afternoon.

I can only conclude that the ones out today were the
survivors from last years riding season and the gross
newbys hadn't quite gotten around to buying and
crashing yet.

Just after memorial day I'd expect the local VFD to roll
on a crash every hour or so. I gratefully salute those
guys for volunteering to go out on beautiful summer
weekends to scrape squid off the road all afternoon.