Harley Owners Group #1665 / Antelope Valley CA Chapter / Ridgecrest Activity Group

Whoa Nellie Deli Mobile Station
28 April 2011

 

Posted: Friday 10 June 2011, 10 PM

 
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Those wind clouds over the Sierras...
 
...are a promise of winds...!
And did we ever get winds...
and temperatures down to 41°!
(Never forget: It's always nice in the garage!)
 
Greg ("Drifty"), Judy, Billee, Bland, Marc, Don, Amy and Scott
 
 
 
Drifty volunteered to lead...
'cause he's got a slick route to bypass
Mule Days in Bishop!
 
At Lone Pine...70 miles north of Ridgecrest
 
 
Waiting for us are Betty, JD and Liisa (yes...Liisa)
who we'd never met...
but we'd heard that she rode her own in Lone Pine....
 
 
 
I've tossed in quite a few scenic pics...
just to brag about our riding country...
to those who visit our website from afar...!
 
 
A gas stop in Big Pine
 
 
 
The terrible winds abated temporarily
 
And we run Supreme in our Harleys
 
 
 
Judy never gets bored on the back with her camera
 
Cattle country
 
Saddle country too....
 
We leave HWY395...and begin our detour around
Mule Days in Bishop.
Taking the Sunland Indian Reservation Rd.
We'll be passing thru the town of Paradise.
 
 
 
Sunland Indian Reservation Rd and Sunland Drive
 
 
Sunland Indian Reservation Rd and Schober Lane
 
Barlow Lane
 
 
Millpond Campground
 
 
Truly a land of many uses
 
 
And Judy's shoots these pics off the back of our bike
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Judy wants to return some day...to check out these critters ;)
 
Absolutely breath-taking
 
 
Drifty's Bishop bypass route...doesn't drop us back onto HWY395
until we're nearly to Lake Crowley
 
Lake Crowley Overlook on HWY395
 
 
 
 
FOD = Foreign Object Debris...!
 

This picture of Judy's is so very weird!
Judy is always seeing things on rides that I don't...
and will often take a picture to surprise me
at home...as we're reviewing a ride.
(Honest...once Judy and I reported a body on Monitor Pass
that we didn't see until we got home...looking at Judy's pictures!)
This picture is one of those weird Judy ones.
Judy took this picture of she-didn't-know-what at the time.
It turns out to be cut fence staples
(FOD or Foreign Object Debris)
laying on the ground at the Lake Crowley Overlook!
As soon as I saw this picture...
I knew what had likely flattened Drifty's rear tire!
 
There goes Drifty...oblivious to the fact that he's
picked up FOD that will leave him with a
flat rear tire...before the day was over.
 
 
 
Whoa Nellie Deli Restaurant:
Intersection of HWY 395 and HWY120
just 1/4 mile south of Lee Vinning
 
 
 
Billee and Bland
 
 
 
That's my pinky (upper-left) in the way of my iPhone camera
 
 
Betty and...welcome Liisa
 
 
It's often hard to see the effects of winds in pictures...
but this was one of those really memorably windy rides.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Of all things...Drifty wasn't "eating"...
because his wife was preparing a tri-tip dinner
 
 
 
Meat on the grill outside the Whoa Nellie Deli
 
 
 
These two young ladies are from New York.
They rented Harleys...and were touring California
 
Someone is taking spoiling the child to the extreme
 
 
 
PHEW! It fits...!
 
 
Amy and Scott's windshield is their iPod speakers
 
Heading home
 
So...here's how far Drifty got before his rear tire went flat...
just south of the southern entrance to the June Lake Loop.
We didn't know it was the FOD Judy found that flattened Drifty's rear tire...
until well after Drifty got his bike towed to Bishop...
got his tire repaired...and rode home.
 
Bland had a compressed air tire patch canister...
but the leak was too big
 
 
 
 
Drifty wouldn't be home in time for his wife's tri-tip
 
 
 
It was 2:38 PM...and 41° was the coldest it got all day...
in the neighborhood of Mammoth Lakes
 
 
 
 
Mule Days were still going strong...
as we passed thru Bishop...heading home
 
 
 
 
Scott "helping" Amy out of her chaps
 
 
We got hammered by very high winds riding home
 
 
 
There were dozens of bikes staying the night in Lone Pine
 
 
 
 
420 miles round trip!
What a country...!
Our former RAG HOG Director Wade
is involved in the evolution of this sign
announcing our community of Ridgecrest
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