The real Beach Side Cafe…

There’s something special about summer evening motorcycle rides, and last night we rode the California Scooters to the Beach Side Cafe in Covina, California.   If you know southern California, you know it’s a good 50 miles to the nearest beach, but hey, who’s counting?  Josh, Kevin, TK, Steve, and I met at the plant and rode over to live music, good food, and lots of receptive onlookers.  My friend Jim was already there on his brand new California Scooter.

There's a California Scooter in there somewhere!

The event is a regular thing at the Beach Side Cafe, and it mostly draws big V-twin cruisers and the people who like them.   That crowd appreciates good styling, and as always, the Scooters drew quite a few admirers.  The food was great, too!  I talked the boss into coming along (my other boss, Sue, the one I’ve been married to for 27 wonderful years) and she had a great Beach Side Cafe dinner with my friend Jim and me.   Good food, good company, and good conversation. 

The California Scooters drew lots of admirers...check out the experimental exhaust system on the Scooter in the background! The bike in the foreground is Jim's new Classic.

We hung out at the Beach Side Cafe for a couple of hours, and then rolled back to the plant just after dark.   That ride home was fun!  Cool summer evening weather, no traffic, and our little group of five California Scooters tooling along Arrow Highway…a perfect formula for fun.  The way the traffic lights were timed, TK and I were just making it up to the speed limit before the next one turned red.   You know what that meant…a series of impromptu, up-to-the-speed-limit drags from light to light.   Man, was that ever fun!   TK and I were pretty evenly matched.   It was a hoot.

The real deal...fish tacos from Antonio's truck in Guerrero Negro (a real beach side cafe) about 550 miles of the border...we'll be stopping in on our California Scooters!

We’re having some folks over for dinner later today, and the boss (Sue, not Steve) is telling me I have to cook up some stuffed peppers, so I’m outta here for now.  I like to cook, and I especially like stuffed peppers. 

More good things are happening next week, so hang in there and we’ll keep you posted.  Work is continuing on the land speed record bike, John and Steve are cooking up more customs, and the guys and gals in the factory are continuing to pour their labor and love into your California Scooters.  Preparations are moving along for the Baja trip, too, and I am getting more excited by the day.   Sometimes I wonder what’s more fun…the anticipation that precedes one of these adventures, or the trip itself.   Then I get on the road with my friends, and I know…it’s the trip and being out in the world on a great motorcycle.   There’s nothing like it in the entire world.

The stuffed peppers are gonna be good (they always are), but I know in just 28 more days we’ll be enjoying fish tacos…the real ones, cooked up by my friend Antonio, a cool 700 miles south of here!