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Trip Report, Biker Scum Love Ride �97: Left Coast Extravaganza

(NOTE: we named our annual ride, "Love Ride", before we had heard of
the more famous annual fund raiser ride)

This year�s Love Ride was to explore the West Coast.  The Love Ride
attendees came from So. Cal. and Central Texas.

San Diego Participants:
Dan  [me] (�96 VFR 750)
Jon (�95 G00F3)

LA Participants
Brian (�92 CBR 1000)
Jim (�82 Nighthawk 650)

Texas Cavalry
Nathan "X is for cross country!" (�89 GSXR 750)
Ben (*older* �90 VFR 750)
Bethany "First official woman Biker Scum" (�95 RF600) 

The plan was have all So Cal riders ride to a base station (Ben�s
Aunt�s house) in San Francisco where we would meet the Texas
contingent driving in straight through from Texas with bikes on a
trailer.  From base station San Fran, we would ride up the coast and
through the mountains and redwood forests to Vancouver, BC for the
first International Biker Scum Love Ride.

Of course fate had it that the trip would not go according to plan.
We quickly learned that to make Canada round trip in one week meant
slabbing all the way, because the coast highways and secondary roads
of No Cal are slower going than we expected.  And Biker Scum don�t
play that game (unless there is an Ironbutt award for it!).  We went
as far North as Crater Lake, OR and as far East as Reno, NV
(technically, San Diego was farther East than Reno, look at a map).

The entire trip was close to 4,000 miles for the San Diego riders and
took 9 days of  combined relaxing, competitive, and scenic riding.
Those days are detailed in the following sections.


Dan Lubell	drlubell@cts.net
AMA and Texas Mini GP
'96 VFR;'82 C-10 "Slut Truck";'68 Mustang-needs no name 
Biker Scum Site:
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