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General Category => Electric Motorcycle Events => Topic started by: togo on March 07, 2020, 05:23:14 AM
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Organized group events are prohibited, and restaurants are closed till "at least" April 7.
Does not prevent individual riders from riding that route, or any other route, that day, or any other day. At least how I interpret 10 a iii of the order:
"To engage in outdoor activity, provided the individuals comply with
Social Distancing Requirements as defined in this Section, such as, by way of example and without limitation, walking, hiking, or running."
Someone said, and I agree:
"what we do is generally outdoor activity, not traveling. "
But if you are out riding, be *extra safe*, since hospitals may be overwhelmed and blood donations are down.
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Energica owners will ride from Energica USA HQ in Redwood City.
Zero owners, coming from the South, meet at Zero factory?
Meet at Alice's at 11 (to beat the lunch rush).
Some will ride spiritedly, some will ride more relaxedly.
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Tentatively committing to this.
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Energica owners will ride from Energica USA HQ in Redwood City.
I am curious what the Energica HQ place looks like--even from the outside. Please take some photos.
I doubt I will be able to make that trip then. I will probably then be polluting the air in AZ again in my RV.
-Don- Auburn, CA
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If I have my Ribelle by then you can count me in. I don't think I want to try and make that loop on my EsseEsse9 since I would be coming from Antioch and would need to plan for recharge times just to get to Redwood City.
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I am curious what the Energica HQ place looks like--even from the outside. Please take some photos.
It's an industrial warehouse type building. A guy went there last year and took pictures, it looks more or less the same:
https://imgur.com/a/chB2GpI
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That's just over my range, too. I can get to Alice's, but pretty unsure about the beach and back.
I was planning on going to Stanford next weekend, and testing my range on Skyline, but the event I was attending was canceled.
-Crissa.
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My FX would make a 62-mile loop from Mountain View to Alices to San Gregorio and back. I'd just have to be in the putt-putt group.
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Yeah, if I charged somewhere up there I could do the loop. Hmm.
-Crissa
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Terry's always complaining that Alice's won't let people charge anymore. Refuses to go to any events there.
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It's fine to just ride up to Alice's or to just joined for lunch, eh Richard230?
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It's fine to just ride up to Alice's or to just joined for lunch, eh Richard230?
I am up there every Sunday morning for breakfast. Don't expect to charge up at the restaurant. Right now they are in the process of replacing their bathrooms and there is no access to L1 outlets anymore due to the construction work. The last time I looked, their L2 outlet on the side of the gas station still says no EV charging allowed.
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Officially cancelled, due to the eight county covid19 lockdown. Edited top post to indicate that.
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Tentative reschedule date, Sunday April 12.
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The last time I checked, Alice's was not open for dining, only for takeout meals. I really doubt anything will change during the next few weeks. Here is a photo of the inside of the restaurant taken last Sunday morning.
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There's a charge point at Castle Rock. I was thinking of trying it out.
-Crissa
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Thanks Richard. If we do it, it should be a bring your own food picking I guess. But it seems likely restaurants won't be reopening for sit down meals soon. A park along summit maybe?
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Thanks, crissa. I'll check that out.
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Between Santa Maria and Santa Barbara? This quite far.
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Thanks Richard. If we do it, it should be a bring your own food picking I guess. But it seems likely restaurants won't be reopening for sit down meals soon. A park along summit maybe?
Unfortunately, good luck finding any parks open in San Mateo County. Every day they are closing more parks and parking lots in the county due to over crowding as the people who want to go for hikes get pushed from closed areas to the few that remain open. :( What they are doing is to close vehicle parking lots and only allow visitors to walk into the park and open space areas, most of which have no parking allowed along the adjacent highways.
I plan to visit Alice's on Sunday morning and will ask the owners what their plans are and what is going on along Skyline Boulevard.
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Castle Rock wasn't on the closed list. The more distant the park, the less likely it is to close.
Not that a gate would really stop a bike ^-^
-Crissa
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Castle Rock wasn't on the closed list. The more distant the park, the less likely it is to close.
Not that a gate would really stop a bike ^-^
-Crissa
I heard yesterday that Castle Rock SP is now closed. As usual, too many people flocked to the park and got too close to each other on the narrow trails.
And this morning, the news is that the Governor plans to deploy the state's National Guard to enforce state park closures - as if they have nothing better to do. ::)
The parking lots in and around Linda Mar State Beach in Pacifica are completely closed, resulting in the surfers parking in the residential neighborhoods and walking to the beach with their surfboards. Even Highway 1 is lined on both sides with temporary "no parking" signs. If there is a paved public parking lot or highway anywhere near a state beach or park, barricades and no parking signs are springing up like mushrooms.
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I heard yesterday that Castle Rock SP is now closed. As usual, too many people flocked to the park and got too close to each other on the narrow trails.
Here in Auburn, about two miles from here, there is a small lake that people fish in. Never more than around a dozen people, well spread out. But they closed it just a few days ago.
I think they are over-doing it a bit.
-Don- Auburn, CA
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I have a friend who wanted to go camping in Arizona, but he tells me that they have closed all of their state parks, too. Considering the low population per square mile of that state, he says it just doesn't make any sense. :(
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Yeah, they really should have put the no-parking on shoulders and then halved the parking spots in each park, forced us to spread out.
But I suppose we can't be nice to those who can't afford to live next to a park. it's always gotta be all or nothing.
-Crissa
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I have a friend who wanted to go camping in Arizona, but he tells me that they have closed all of their state parks, too. Considering the low population per square mile of that state, he says it just doesn't make any sense. :(
It probably has more to do with money than anything else. They probably laid of many park workers.
-Don- Auburn, CA
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I had breakfast with a friend today who works for several local radio stations maintaining their transmitter equipment. For some unknowable reason, a local county sheriff pulled him over on Friday while he was driving a company truck and asked him why he was driving around when he should have been sheltering at home. Once he pulled out his Homeland Security letter stating that he was authorized to be on the road as he is maintaining critical communications infrastructure, the cop walked away without saying anything else. This was a couple of days after the San Mateo County DA said that he would prosecute anyone not obeying the shelter in place regulations and 6' social distancing. Surely they must have something better to do, especially with the courts closed and trying to do everything via the internet?
Anyway, I visited Alice's Restaurant today. I stuck to the back roads (just in case) and away from the freeways, which the cops are apparently patrolling in force. The Restaurat was pretty much deserted and only selling takeout meals. One of the owners was acting as the waiter and taking orders at the bottom of their stairs. The food is delivered on paper plates and wrapped in aluminum foil. Coffee is served in paper cups. It looks like they have increased their prices by about 10%, since two weeks ago when I was there last. Their dining room was closed but their parking lot was not. Photo attached.
I might add that I drove down Highway 1 and every possible parking spot that would allow access to the beach was marked "no parking". However, up along Skyline Boulevard I was surprised to see that the parking lot at Skaggs Point was still open, as were the Mid-Peninsula Open Space District parking lots, although they have closed their restrooms and no drinking water is available.
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Tentative reschedule date, Sunday April 12.
Tentative reschedule date, Sunday May 3.
Meet up someplace near Alice's, restaurants may not have re-opened, so it may be a social-distancing brunch picnic. Save the date and check back for details.
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Well crap! San Mateo County has just ordered that travel to "nonessential" services, such as hiking areas and going for a joy ride can not exceed a distance of 5 miles. That wouldn't even get me to the city limits of Pacifica, much less to Alice's Restaurant. >:(
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I'm glad our order - extended to May 7th - isn't that severe. Five miles wouldn't get me to Costco.
They're stationing rangers at the parks, who would let me charge 'if it were necessary for me to get to my destination', according to the one I ran into. I wouldn't want to count on it, tho.
-Crissa
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Well crap! San Mateo County has just ordered that travel to "nonessential" services, such as hiking areas and going for a joy ride can not exceed a distance of 5 miles. That wouldn't even get me to the city limits of Pacifica, much less to Alice's Restaurant. >:(
BTW, are the hiking areas in San Pedro Park (up Linda Mar Blvd) still open? Is that within your five mile range? I used to hike there often, but the place is full of ticks! Places with lots of deer usually have lot of ticks.
-Don- Auburn, CA (no such restrictions here in Placer County <yet>)
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> Well crap! San Mateo County has just ordered that travel to "nonessential" services, such as hiking areas and going for a joy ride can not exceed a distance of 5 miles. That wouldn't even get me to the city limits of Pacifica, much less to Alice's Restaurant.
You know anyone sewing masks at home, need to be delivered somewhere 😀? That's what Dames Don't Care is organizing...