{"id":672,"date":"2008-04-14T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/?p=672"},"modified":"2010-03-20T23:23:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T06:23:29","slug":"putt-for-the-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/2008\/04\/14\/putt-for-the-poppies\/","title":{"rendered":"Putt for the Poppies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Me and some of the guys went for a little putt up to the Poppy Preserve<\/a> up in Antelope Valley yesterday to see the flowers since they\u2019re in full bloom now. My wife thought this was hilarious and got a lot of mileage out of it at my expense (\u201dLook at the big tough biker going to look at the flowers!\u201d), but whatever. They were pretty. And I am a big tough biker, so I don\u2019t care what anyone says. Plus, I killed several puppies with my bare hands and ate their hearts raw while I was out there so I could keep my tough guy cred, so I\u2019ve got that going for me.<\/p>\n

Anyway\u2026<\/p>\n

It was a great ride. It was pretty much the same ride I\u2019ve talked about in the last couple of entries, but I\u2019ve already said that Bouquet Canyon and Lake Hughes Road are two of my favorite roads, so why be surprised if I ride them again and again and again? The loop up to see the poppies went through a few miles of road I actually hadn\u2019t ridden before, so I have a few new roads to explore again later. Here\u2019s the map of the route, just in case anyone\u2019s interested. Ignore the fact that the data says my top speed was 190 mph \u2014 I clipped the start and end off the GPS track and I think that screwed up Google Earth\u2019s calculations. My top speed was really only about 100.<\/p>\n