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Tony01

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There hasn't been a San Jose thread updated here for over a year. Where all da riders at?
 
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Easy Rider

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I'm on the north side of SJ on the Milpitas side. I still ride my electric up Calaveras to Sunol but don't ride my gasser on the streets anymore.
 

Tony01

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Why not? Anyway that looks like a nice area. Been on Palomares rd one time in my car. Nice windy road, very beautiful in the fall. Would like to go up there on the bike sometime.

I know most of the roads in the Santa Cruz mountains, pretty much all between 17 and 92 that are car-accessible. I'd like to go out there and find some fire road type stuff.
 

Tony01

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Nobody else in san ho? My LBS told me they had seen a group of MB riders a few weeks ago so I know there are some riders out here. So far, out on the road, I have seen only one other guy with an electric bike.

My bike is running and plated, let's do something!
 

Trey

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beginner01- There's a couple of cool folks there, Ocho Ninja and Big Butter Bean. I may have mentioned them to you before. There's gotta be others too.

Dang I miss Story and King back then... It's all trucks for me now.
Montana is hella good though.

Trey
 

Easy Rider

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beginner01- There's a couple of cool folks there, Ocho Ninja and Big Butter Bean. I may have mentioned them to you before. There's gotta be others too.

Dang I miss Story and King back then... It's all trucks for me now.
Montana is hella good though.

Trey
Story and King back in the 80's were the good Ole days! I remember taking an hour to drive from Jackson to King.
Good times cruising.
 

Trey

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Story and King back in the 80's were the good Ole days! I remember taking an hour to drive from Jackson to King.
Good times cruising.
The summer of 89... before everybody had a video recorder... lost to everyone but us. Like it should be. Those times, as you experienced them, and those memories, shaped us.
Do you really want a video of you earlin behind Tropicana on the internet forever? LOL
I was young, but at 13 I was tall enough, and pop taught me to drive good enough, that I ran off with his Caddy a couple times before he caught me.
Good times.

Oh yeah- A time when 510 was 415. NorCal
 
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Easy Rider

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Do you really want a video of you earlin behind Tropicana on the internet forever? LOL
I can tell you're a lot younger than me. Cruising my 66 Mustang before I upgraded to an 85GT and my spot was at Shakey's Pizza! LOL
 

Tony01

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Shakeys... wow. That's a place I had completely forgotten.


beginner01- Is any of this familiar to you? Do you know the song "Look out weekend"? If you do, you're old. LOL
When I lived and worked in the east side.. I was an alcoholic.. used to drink at the Caravan, Johnny V's, Q's.. maybe a few more I forgot.. and this one cool bar down on Monterey just past Bernal forgot the name. It's an old area.. very cool.. industrial district is real old school too.. I forget the names already.. Umbargar? Tully?
 
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Trey

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down on Monterey just past Bernal forgot the name. It's an old area.. very cool.. industrial district is real old school too.. I forget the names already.. Umbargar? Tully?
Yeah, that's getting down there... past Seven Trees where my uncle lived. Used to have alot of fun back then, and I never even got dead.
Maybe other folks will chime in with some stuff.

Hopefully you'll find somebody local you can ride with.
 

Easy Rider

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When I lived and worked in the east side.. I was an alcoholic.. used to drink at the Caravan, Johnny V's, Q's.. maybe a few more I forgot.. and this one cool bar down on Monterey just past Bernal forgot the name. It's an old area.. very cool.. industrial district is real old school too.. I forget the names already.. Umbargar? Tully?
If you're talking about the biker bar on Monterey, its now a tattoo parlor. A lot has changed down on the Bernal/Monterey. There's a Walmart shopping center. I still go down that way every weekend to go Jet Skiing at Calero. Water hurts a lot less than the pavement.
 

Motakitty

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Are there any other people in this city with mbs? I'd like to go for a ride with others with cruisers, ideally others with stretches but let me know.I'm in south san Jose by blossom hill and lean by oak grove high school.