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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EISRoiRBITw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjaTJoAYrNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL-xnX1l7FY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69jRcK-XVLE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qbzrTn2g0c There are tons of Bay Area folks in CA - and why wouldn't there be between the weather, the roads, and how much of a pain in the rear end it is to have a car? Let's talk about cool roads, events, shops, good deals on bikes, projects, meetups, how hilariously expensive rent is, getting hyphy, your awful hipster cafe racer project, etc. So to start out: where are you, what do you ride, and what would you like someone moving here or just getting into bikes to know about?
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I'm in Cupertino, and because the rent is so high, I ride a '98 CBR600. There's some great riding around here, but I'm heading to Austin this summer in search of cheaper rent and a nicer bike!
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May 4, 2014 23:02
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East Bay for life.
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May 4, 2014 23:07
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Z3n posted:East Bay for life. Sure, if you like getting shot. In the south bay, you can get run over by new arrivals to the country who just got their first drivers license and Lexus SUV or Prius!
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May 4, 2014 23:16
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hello! I'm in santa clara (working in mountain view) and ride a sv650. I moved here about 3 months ago and have really enjoyed the riding around here.
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May 4, 2014 23:19
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Day Man posted:Sure, if you like getting shot. In the south bay, you can get run over by new arrivals to the country who just got their first drivers license and Lexus SUV or Prius! You only get shot at if you don't have the high ground.  Also there's a large part of the east bay where the only shots people are getting is botox.
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May 5, 2014 00:01
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ADINSX posted:hello! I'm in santa clara (working in mountain view) and ride a sv650. Who are you and why are you my clone? I also moved here 3 months ago, work in MTV, and live in Santa Clara. I now drive a street triple though.
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May 5, 2014 00:12
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apseudonym posted:Who are you and why are you my clone? I have considered upgrading to a street triple 
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May 5, 2014 00:23
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I live in SF and ride a...well...it's a motorcycle. I'm not entirely sure what you'd call it. It likes to wheelie and also takes my bicycle sometimes.
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May 5, 2014 00:57
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I live in SF (right at the intersection of Noe Valley, Glen Park and Bernal Heights) and ride a Ninja 500. I moved here with a really nice SV650A, but sold it shortly after moving because I wasn't comfortable in the city yet (which, duh, I just moved here.) I think I was motorcycle free for six months before grabbing my Ninja 500 in running but sketchy shape for very cheap and got her running well with hardly any work. I'm back and forth between something like a Versys or something like a Street Triple for my next bike, but I need my dogs to stop requiring surgery for a while. I want a new bike to have fuel injection, ABS, tunable suspension, etc but I still don't feel like I'm hitting the limits of my 500 to *need* something bigger & better.
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May 5, 2014 01:16
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I live in SF and own 3 bikes despite barely having room for one.
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May 5, 2014 02:00
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I live in SF as well and I now own two bikes even though I also only have room for one. e: oh, uh, oops. That is one low-res shot. Well, it gets the idea across anyway.
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May 5, 2014 02:30
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Sagebrush posted:I live in SF as well and I now own two bikes even though I also only have room for one. That honda rules, lemme know if you ever think about selling it.
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May 5, 2014 02:36
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Day Man posted:Sure, if you like getting shot. In the south bay, you can get run over by new arrivals to the country who just got their first drivers license and Lexus SUV or Prius! Toyota Sequoias are worse than Hitler.
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May 5, 2014 02:41
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ADINSX posted:That honda rules, lemme know if you ever think about selling it. I assume you mean the blue one that I bought yesterday? :iamafag: sure, will do
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May 5, 2014 02:58
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Flippin' A I love Hawk GTs. I don't care if they're just worse SVs, they've gotta be one of the cleanest looking sport standards out there.
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AncientTV posted:Flippin' A I love Hawk GTs. I don't care if they're just worse SVs, they've gotta be one of the cleanest looking sport standards out there. You mean better balanced and much prettier SVs, I think.  e: and I guess to answer the question in the OP, yeah, I'm up for any kind of riding. I'm not super fast but I like to take twisty roads at a reasonable pace and enjoy the scenery. If there are some great views from the pullouts and unique places to eat along the way I'm totally set. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 03:16 on May 5, 2014 |
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May 5, 2014 03:11
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Chichevache posted:Toyota Sequoias are worse than Hitler. Seriously, no joke, any time I see a Toyota, I give extra distance. Often, just pulling up behind a Toyota will cause the driver to stop looking where they're going and stare into their mirrors in terror while slowing down 10 to 15 mph. Edit: The Lexus drivers will just pull into your lane without looking.
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May 5, 2014 03:27
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I would also like to chime in that I would be down for a group ride.... once I get my fuel pump sorted -_-
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May 5, 2014 03:44
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ADINSX posted:I have considered upgrading to a street triple where do you work in MTV?
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apseudonym posted:
A company called Skybox Imaging, software engineer in mountain view if you can imagine it what are the odds
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May 5, 2014 04:44
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Live in San Jose, work in Palo Alto. Ride a 2001 honda shadow ACE.
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May 5, 2014 05:03
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I am moving to Alameda this summer and I am looking forward to riding the roads on my ZRX. After I do some basic maintenance on it. 
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May 5, 2014 15:19
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Sagebrush posted:I assume you mean the blue one that I bought yesterday? :iamafag: sure, will do I think you know I meant the 350 sagebrush 
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May 6, 2014 16:34
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Live in the Mission in SF, at least until the anti-gentrification people burn my house down. I ride a '08 Shadow, '10 Monster 796, and a '08 848 (for now). I'm out almost every weekend.
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May 6, 2014 17:01
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:I live in SF (right at the intersection of Noe Valley, Glen Park and Bernal Heights) and ride a Ninja 500. I, too, live on the Noe/Glen Park line and ride a Ninja (mine's a 250 though). I just started riding about 6 months ago, and it's turned my commute from a boring but necessary slog to something I actually look forward to every day. I should have done this sooner.
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May 7, 2014 22:59
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Hey guys, can I play. I'm closer to SF than anything else. I live in Ukiah, work in Geyserville, and am getting my new bike next month hopefully. Last bike was an F650 Dakar that I sold to move here from AK.
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May 9, 2014 21:18
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SeamusMcPhisticuffs posted:...I live in Ukiah... If Ukiah counts I guess Santa Rosa does too. I've been riding a KLR that I'm starting to hate for about 9 months. I think I want a standard, when will used CB1100s start popping up around here?
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May 10, 2014 18:30
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Anyone else make it out yesterday evening? I was up at Alice's for dinner and it was quite pleasant.
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No, but I was up at Alice's on Sunday for dinner and it also was really pleasant. Blustery and cold down by San Gregorio and the way home via Half Moon Bay but great up until then. The roads around Alice's are always fantastic -- freshly paved, pothole-free, swept clean. Is there a motorcycle club that pushes to keep them maintained so well or is it just a nice coincidence? Most twisties around here aren't anywhere near as lovely. Also, today a guy on a white 675 waved at me as he passed by and I thought for a second it might be z3n but then I noticed he wasn't wearing an Aerostich so it couldn't have been.
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Sagebrush posted:The roads around Alice's are always fantastic -- freshly paved, pothole-free, swept clean. I always think Skyline between 92 and Alice's is pretty rough when I ride it. No potholes, but really uneven pavement that bumps you around quite a bit. I know they paved the length of it two summers back, but you wouldn't know it by looking at it.
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So how do you guys deal with having a car/motorcycle in the east bay barring getting an apartment with a garage/Dedicated parking slors or selling my car?
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Park it at my house? Nothing bad can come of this. I don't even know how to ride.....yet.
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ElMaligno posted:So how do you guys deal with having a car/motorcycle in the east bay barring getting an apartment with a garage/Dedicated parking slors or selling my car? I live in the city where parking is even worse, and I put my car on the street and move it on a regular schedule for the street cleaners, and keep my bike in a little slot in the front hall that my landlords said I could use for that purpose. My other bike is graciously taking a break at z3n's place while I try to figure out what to do with it.
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May 19, 2014 19:10
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Get a place with a garage it rules.
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:Get a place with a garage it rules. I will be living on a place with a garage, however its Goverment housing and I dont plan to live in it forever since I want my sweet rear end BAH. However, finding an decent apartment with a garage that allows dogs will be a pain in the rear end
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Yeah, the garage is easier to do than the dogs - at least it certainly was in SF. Checking that 'allows dogs' box on Craigslist drops about 90% of available listings off the list. It's awful. We got super lucky - tiny 2/1 single family house with yard, dogs, garage and workshop for under median 2BR cost, but it's not under rent control so I kind of feel like we're on borrowed time. They won't be able to resist raising the rent forever, and when they do we'll probably end up in Oakland.
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DEUCE SLUICE posted:Get a place with a garage it rules. Yeah, see, it's a lot harder when you have a single income. If I were married, sure, getting a house would be reasonable. Or if I had roommates but frankly I'm still rejecting the San Francisco concept that a grown-rear end adult with a real job should still live with roommates. As far as I'm concerned I was done with that when I finished college. Back in Arizona, for a little less than I'm paying here for a 1BR with no washing machine or parking, I could have a 3-bedroom 2-bath house with a 2-car garage and a driveway and a backyard. Too bad the roads there kind of suck.
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What city are looking in?
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LingcodKilla posted:What city are looking in? Phoenix. I used to live in Tempe.
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