SF Bala Motorcycle Rides

Shout Out

SF Bay Area Leather Alliance has many facets, one of which is being comprised of a number of the Bay Area LGBT MC Clubs

Our first ride was part of the annual Alden Spofford Memorial Progressive Dinner. It was a coastal Ride and that end up at the Progressive Dinner!

Motorcycle Minor Maintenance

Check back later for more details on our first seminar!

Tips and Tricks

December 2009

Bay Bridge Hazard has been fixed!
Well, someone did end up in the drink, and when they closed the bridge down for the eyebar, they did work on the curve. Sanded plates make things a little less hairy as does a slower speed limit.

Mind your P's and Q's for now. Keep the shiney side up.

Kelly B.
Dykes On Bikes Ride Coordinator

November 2009

Bay Bridge Hazards!!!

ATTENTION TRANSBAY MOTO COMMUTERS:
Please be aware that the new detour installed installed in September has created a new hazard in a very dangerous spot! The new roadway uses two metal splices between the old and new sections, one on the west end toward YB Island, and the other on the east end toward Oakland. The splices are made of diamond plate and will be very, very slippery when wet! IT GETS WORSE....., the east splice is right at the apex of the curve and has a slight reverse camber to it. It is a recipe for disaster and I can easily see many unaware commuters ripping through there and losing it. I'm betting that before the new bridge is finished someone ends up in the drink. Let's hope its not a biker!

PLEASE TELL YOUR MATES AND RIDE SAFE! WATCH OUT FOR WATER ON THE NEW BRIDGE DETOUR!

Kelly B.
Dykes On Bikes Ride Coordinator

October 2009

Hi! this is the first of a regular section called Tips and Tricks and I would like to draw on a recent multi-day Dykes on Bikes ride and how I survived hot weather riding.

There are a number of tricks I don't advise. Riding in just a t-shirt and shorts being the greatest no-no. I realize that it may be better than having a heat stroke, but if you go down there is nothing between you and the asphault. In addition, wind dries your sweat far to quickly making the sweat evaporation usless for cooling.

Low tech solutions include soaking my shirt or wearing a wet bandana - then put on your jacket! In a bind I have been known to take a t-shirt, fill it with ice, wrap it like a burrito and zip tie it to my neck. The ice cools my core and when it melts and it acts like extra sweat with cooling evaporation.

Better solutions include newer mesh riding jackets and pants that are abraision resistant. I have to say, the best solution I have found so far is my cooling vest from Silver Eagle Outfitters I don't usually endorse products like this but my hat is off to them. My vest performed like at champ under my jacket as the temperature reach 118 with hot wind blasting me like a furnace as I rode.

Kelly B.
Dykes On Bikes Ride Coordinator