Me and two of my club brothers made a run down to San Diego today to do a poker run one of our MC\u2019s chapters was throwing. We\u2019ve made the run down to San Diego together quite a few times before but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever done it faster. It\u2019s 140 miles each way and we hauled ass today \u2014 we left Burbank at 7:30 and got to San Diego at 9:30. That\u2019s two hours from start to finish, with a gas stop and cigarette break along the way. We were balls to the wall, boy, lemme tell ya. I don\u2019t know how we didn\u2019t get a speeding ticket.<\/p>\n
Traffic was pretty light for the ride down. We left Burbank early enough that we beat a lot of the weekend traffic, so we didn\u2019t have to deal with much lanesplitting. Instead, we just pegged the throttle and slalomed around what little traffic there was and we beat feet. We held it around 90-95 mph for most of the way, but I clocked 105 for a quick minute near Camp Pendleton when I was trying to chase down E.E., who got a wild hair and kicked his up to 120 for a little bit.<\/p>\n
E.E. and I left C.T. in San Diego and rode back together in the afternoon, and traffic had gotten heavier by then. It was still light, but there were enough cars clogging the road that we couldn\u2019t ride in our standard side-by-side formation and keep a good speed, so we played follow-the-leader as we split lanes and leapfrogged each other for the lead. We had agreed to keep the speed down before we left because we knew the cops would be out in force for the holiday weekend, but that plan was history five minutes after we hit the freeway because we were running 90-95 again most of the way home. My favorite part of the run was when we were parallel lanesplitting at 95 miles an hour on opposite sides of the same lane, so we were bracketing cars as we blew by them. I think maybe we scared the crap out of a few suburban families out for a Sunday drive that way. It was a blast.<\/p>\n
By the time I got home I had ridden about 330 miles on the day, most of it at speeds and in conditions my wife would not want to know about. But hey, what she doesn\u2019t know (and hopefully won\u2019t read) won\u2019t hurt her.<\/p>\n
I just can\u2019t seem to ride slow, especially when I\u2019m riding with my brothers. It\u2019s too much fun to go fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Me and two of my club brothers made a run down to San Diego today to do a poker run one of our MC\u2019s chapters was throwing. We\u2019ve made the run down to San Diego together quite a few times before but I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever done it faster. It\u2019s 140 miles each way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neutral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}