A GRR putt I missed…

GRR, of course, being Glendora Ridge Road.  The Boss did a great job grabbing fantastic photos this morning, and here are a few…

The photo above (and the one below) both show TK and Ian at the intersection of Glendora Ridge Road, Glendora Mountain Road, and the East Fork Road up in the San Gabriel Mountains.  This is just awesome riding country, and yeah, looking at these pictures, now I wish I had gone with the guys.  Ian owns Magnum Performance, our distributor in Australia, and as you all know, TK is our US sales manager.   We just shipped another container full of CSC motorcycles to Australia, and we’re glad Ian was here to visit with us.

Another photo of TK and Ian…a couple of hard core California Scooter bikers… 

Did you happen to notice that blue Suzuki in the background?   More on that one in a moment…

One of the cool things about riding GRR is that it is a motorcyclist’s road, and you can see some pretty exotic machinery up there.  Like Steve’s personal ride, for instance…the Sarge…

The boys encountered a group of CanAm Spyders, too.   Check out the custom paint on this one…

So, back to that “firemist blue” Suzuki in the background I mentioned above…it’s a 1975 RE5, which was Suzuki’s foray into rotary-engined motorcycles.  Heavy, hot, thirsty, and slow, the rotary Suzuki was not commercially successful, but it sure was a step or three ahead of everything else 37 years ago!  And our boys actually saw one on the road…Glendora Ridge Road!

And speaking of unusual bikes, how many of you have ever seen a real Rokon?  Our guys spotted this one up in the mountains today.  Rokon still makes these…the bikes are two-wheel drive, they go all the way back to the 1950s, and our very own Jimbo Cavanaugh worked with this company!  

And when the guys got to Mt. Baldy Village, Steve grabbed this last shot of a herd of Harleys!

An interesting morning, and yeah, I’m regretting not getting my knees in the breeze today.  Next time…and Steve, thanks for the great photos!