Well, as you can guess, it was a little damp this morning as we rode over to Walnut Creek. Not a heavy rain, mostly just sprinkles, but enough to be a PITA. Now I gotta clean the bike again!
As we stood there waiting for others to arrive we noted that we were only seeing road captains showing up for the ride. Hmmmmm, this might be a very small group. Finally we had a non-road captain show up, completing our group of 7 bikes.
After our pre-ride we departed McGuire's on Parkside, made a right on Broadway, followed by a left onto Ygnacio Valley Blvd. We stayed on Ygnacio all the way through Walnut Creek, Concord, past Clayton, and over Kirker Pass into Pittsburg. Then a right onto Buchannan followed by a left onto Loveridge and to the Devil Mountain shop. A whopping 14.9 miles with the only notable event being the sprinkles we encountered as we rode through Concord. This wasn't even enough to get the road wet though and the rest of the ride was under cool, but dry, conditions.
As we arrived at the Devil Mountain shop we could see that the garage sale was in full swing. There were quite a few bikes in the parking lot and lots of people going through the discounted merchandise arranged neatly inside fenced in areas. There were four separate areas; office furniture, motorcycle parts, leathers/gloves/boots/belts, and lastly motorcycle apparel - T-shirts/sweatshirts/tank tops, etc. Some of these areas were occupied by some seedy looking characters, like in this photo.
All of these areas were busy, but the busiest by far was the motorcycle apparel. They were having to restrict the number of people allowed in the area to prevent it from becoming overcrowded and only letting new arrivals in after someone had left the area. Lots of good deals to be had, and the shop was even discounting their bikes $2,000 for the event today. If you missed this one you missed out on a fun day.
Don't forget, tomorrow is our ride to Vallejo for their Vernal Equinox ride. Hope to see you ALL in Walnut Creek for our 8:00 AM departure. It's supposed to be a really nice day.
