Re: [RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-18 Thread Dave Minyard
Doug, Sound good, I"ve heard of the Cuesta ride but haven't done it yet. If we can work something out with some lead time, we can post it here and maybe get lower/Mid-Cal? central coast Riv. ride going. Dave On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:40 PM, doug peterson wrote: > Dave: > > We'll be in touch. I

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-17 Thread doug peterson
Dave: We'll be in touch. I'm up there every few months. Got a great ride from SLO to the top of Cuesta (old road), west to the radio towers, continue along the ridge & eventually drop onto 41, out to Morro Bay & back to SLO. IIRC it's around 40 miles, about 1/2 paved. See Canyon has also been

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-17 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 05:09 -0800, dpco wrote: > steve, > those are some beauiful roads. are the unpaved sections public roads? > thanks for sharing. Thanks. We don't ride on private unpaved roads. There's a great dirt road network in Northern Virginia. I haven't brought the camera on any of o

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-17 Thread Dave Minyard
The Santa Maria, Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo, Solvang area of California. About half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the coast. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 22:30 -0800, Dave Minyard wrote: > > If anyone out there is interest

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-17 Thread dpco
steve, those are some beauiful roads. are the unpaved sections public roads? thanks for sharing. don c. On Nov 16, 10:55 am, Steve Palincsar wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 09:57 -0800, Patrick in VT wrote: > > On Nov 16, 7:12 am, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > > In my experience, 30-something's abo

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-17 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 22:30 -0800, Dave Minyard wrote: > If anyone out there is interested and in the area I'm up for a ride > most anytime... and I almost always have my camera with me. Drop me a > line and we'll see what we can work out. Is there anybody on this list > that is anywhere near by?

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-17 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 20:02 -0800, cyclotourist wrote: > FWIW, I've found the NLA Canon A460 is the perfect camera for cycling. > Cheap (~$50 on ebaby), durable, uses rechargeable AA batteries, high > resolution 6 mpl, takes movies, good software. I've gone through two > so far, and have two sti

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-17 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 03:09 -0800, EricP wrote: > David, > > Yeah, but you and Esteban have practiced it enough to make it easier. > And I still can't figure out how Esteban has gotten it down with a > DSLR! Even watching him do it on the ride in August didn't help. > Guess I'm too much of a fum

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-17 Thread EricP
David, Yeah, but you and Esteban have practiced it enough to make it easier. And I still can't figure out how Esteban has gotten it down with a DSLR! Even watching him do it on the ride in August didn't help. Guess I'm too much of a fumble fingers. One problem I have had with riding/snapping is

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Dave Minyard
If anyone out there is interested and in the area I'm up for a ride most anytime... and I almost always have my camera with me. Drop me a line and we'll see what we can work out. Is there anybody on this list that is anywhere near by? Thanks, Dave On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:45 PM, doug peterson

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Dave Minyard
The main thing with that route is the farm traffic pretty much any day but Sunday, and those roads aren't well maintained ( alot of very bumpy patch work) and lack of shoulders...although it would only be that way for a few miles. If your coming from Pismo if you went hwy 1 to Clark Ave. and head e

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread cyclotourist
Some of you may have noticed, I subscribe more to the quantity over quality philosophy, although I can pull off both occasionally. I've found that taking pictures while cycling (a flickr group!) is an incredible amount of fun. It's re-invigorated both cycling (never really lost) and photography f

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread doug peterson
Steve, Patrick, et al: You guys are onto something. I can't recall a recent ride with more than a couple of other people where someone wasn't shooting photos at every chance. I'll bet a dedicated "photo ride" in a target rich environment would be highly attractive. Our SoCal Riv riders group r

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread doug peterson
Dave: Thanks for the input. I'm putting together routes for a tour next spring. The day in question we're going from Pismo to Solvang, via Foxen Cyn. I've used Hwy 1 thru Guadalupe but then it's kinda flat & boring into Santa Maria (Betteravia Rd, Skyway). I scoped out Los Berros / Thompson /

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 14:57 -0800, Rene Sterental wrote: > I had never seen such a tandem! It's an incredible idea! As the Counterpoint Opus it's been around for a long time. I rode one in the stoker seat around the parking lot at (I think) Salisbury U at the LAB Rally in 1989. It felt as thoug

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Dave Minyard
Yes, east on Grand Ave. which becomes Lopez Dr. and then onto Huasna Rd south and then east. It's a pretty good route. My favorite route from Santa Maria is to go east of 101 off Donovan and take Bull Canyon Rd. north to 166 west, then north on Thompson Rd. through Nipomo which turns into Los Berr

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Rene Sterental
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[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 13:40 -0800, Patrick in VT wrote: > On Nov 16, 1:55 pm, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > Wow. I can burn 5 minutes on one shot. Now to be fair, many of mine > > are multi-shot panoramas > > yeah, apples an oranges. I wouldn't think of doing that on a "group" > ride unless ever

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 16:44 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Patrick in VT wrote: > > > c'mon, there's in an between! stopping for a minute to take a few > > snaps of some scenery and friends is a far cry from blindly pointing > > and shooting, or stopping for 10 minu

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Seth Vidal
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Patrick in VT wrote: > c'mon, there's in an between!  stopping for a minute to take a few > snaps of some scenery and friends is a far cry from blindly pointing > and shooting, or stopping for 10 minutes to take the perfect shot. > further, some of my favorite ph

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Patrick in VT
On Nov 16, 1:55 pm, Steve Palincsar wrote: > Wow. I can burn 5 minutes on one shot. Now to be fair, many of mine > are multi-shot panoramas yeah, apples an oranges. I wouldn't think of doing that on a "group" ride unless everybody was out doing the same thing. that's a great idea you have fo

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread PATRICK MOORE
Welcome, and thanks for those beautiful photos -- reminders why California is one of our most beautiful states (tho' we in NM have nicer skies). I must try the stop 'n' shoot mode on my next 30 miler instead of trying to maintain an 18 mph average (ok, so I'm 54 and can't maintain 20 overall anymo

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 09:57 -0800, Patrick in VT wrote: > On Nov 16, 7:12 am, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > In my experience, 30-something's about the right distance for a photo > > ride. I spend enough time taking pictures that it adds a significant > > amount of time to the length of a ride. Bes

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread doug peterson
Dave: Welcome to the group and thanks for the photos. From Arroyo Grande, did you go east on Lopez Rd, then east on Huasna Rd? Do you have a suggested route from Arroyo Grande to Santa Maria? dougP On Nov 15, 10:04 pm, Dave Minyard wrote: > Hello all, > I tend to lurk here most of the time a

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Patrick in VT
On Nov 16, 7:12 am, Steve Palincsar wrote: > In my experience, 30-something's about the right distance for a photo > ride. I spend enough time taking pictures that it adds a significant > amount of time to the length of a ride. Besides, beyond a certain point > I find my "eye" wants to shut dow

[RBW] Re: Intro and Ride report

2009-11-16 Thread Steve Palincsar
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 22:04 -0800, Dave Minyard wrote: > Went on a good ride yesterday, kinda short ...30 miles round trip. but > had a great time and wanted to share pictures with the group. I rode > from Arroyo Grande, Ca. out to Huasna Valley and back. I had good > weather, and saw quite a few