September Chapter Ride - Five Lakes

The day started with us meeting at our regular departure location Starbucks. It was great the see Ed Palaoro our President, 11 days Post-Op from Knee Replacement Surgery up a moving around somewhat. He is doing pretty well considering what he went through, but is still in quite a bit of pain naturally. 

We started our meeting with some key words from Ed, then he turned the podium over to me so he could sit and rest a spell. I did my best to convey all of the regular meeting topics along with a special message from the STAR ISC Committee. Next came the Raffle and the 50/50 and the lucky winners somehow did not include Taz by some miracle.  The 50/50 was won by Charlie Wolfe – $38.50.  The four raffle gifts were won by Luiz Vazquez, Charlie Wolfe, Mike Fry and Terry Bishop.  Congrats to all!!

We did have a smaller group of riders this month due to members on vacation and several with their bikes in the shop so we settled into 2 ride groups. The first group was led by Brian Heftner; who is training as Road Captain and Group 2 was let by our Veteran Road Captain Terry Bishop. We headed up the 57 north, to the 210 east, to the 15 north where we had our first gas stop at highway 138. 

By then it was already getting hot so it felt good to start hitting some warm-up curves along the 138 east. Soon we were motoring by our first lake in the route, Lake Silverwood. 

From there we headed up into the mountains where it started to cool down some due to the higher elevation. Soon we were into the beautiful pines and rolling by Lake Gregory where the twisties just kept coming.  On to Blue Jay, Arrowhead, Running Springs, and finally Big Bear lake where we had a great lunch at the Old Country Inn. 

After lunch we rolled down highway 38 towards Redlands where we hit some rain but not enough to cause anybody to ‘melt’, LOL. 

Down at last gas stop in Mentone, it was very warm and humid, so we jumped on the 10 west to the 57 south to our usual post ride location, El Torito. There I thanked everyone for attending the ride, as well as, the Ride Crew for their efforts in getting us back safely.  We again recapped the up-coming chapter events and the ride was called.

Chuck Giambitti for Ed Palaoro. 

Thanks so much to Chuck for providing this recap in my abscence.