Tag: rol

  • ROL Day 4: Yreka to San Jose

    ROL Day 4: Yreka to San Jose

    The talk of the town yesterday seemed to indicate that everybody was planning to roll down Interstate 5. From Yreka to San Jose it’s about 350 miles. To complicate matters it was going to be near 100° for most of it. With that kind of distance in that kind of heat there are two schools…

  • ROL Day 3: Shelter Cove to Yreka

    ROL Day 3: Shelter Cove to Yreka

    At about 3 AM it was just cold.  I wasn’t expecting the ride to be on the coast and was duly under prepared for the weather.  Given that we had no other option we just toughed it out until morning.  A little bit of fog had crept in but it could’ve been a lot wetter…

  • ROL Day 1&2: San Jose to Shelter Cove

    ROL Day 1&2: San Jose to Shelter Cove

    The Range of Light Gypsy Tour is a ride that every motorcyclist in at least Northern California should do at least once. The premise is pretty simple: all you know at the beginning is the start point. This year it was in Santa Rosa at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. Given that it always competes with…