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VictorScot

VictorScot

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Julian, California
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Thanks Victor. Love to get the VIN# and related for the first post of this thread. Julian brings many smiles for me as a pass-through every Friday night (with my ride group) when I lived in Del Mar. Hope to see you here often, and happy to be of service at my workshop in Orange. Hope to see you online here often and in person one day soon.
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Todd, this personal service on the forum is pretty impressive, I must say. (Original post updated with VIN.)
Del Mar: I was a Torrey Pines High School student. Grew up riding in the slough that is now the San Elijo Lagoon Preserve. I'll get the VIN later today once I get home. I'll post up on the tech page later too: I want some guidance on the metal fuel filter job that I'll do next. Got order some parts. Battery too!
 
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Growing up in El Cajon, if I had a dollar for every time I rode through Julian, I’d have a stack of money 10’ high.

From my earliest memories of riding my Moto Minarelli powered Motron moped from Paso Picacho campground past Lake Cuyamaca and onwards to Julian for sarsaparilla at the corner general store, to apple cider at the Cider Mill and apple pie at the Cafe to riding through there time and again on every motorcycle I ever owned over the years.

I watched Julian go from a tiny off the map town to the tourist filled craziness on the weekends. Haven’t been there in 20 years. Probably a metropolis now! 😆

You made my morning!
 
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scottmastrocinque said:
Growing up in El Cajon, if I had a dollar for every time I rode through Julian, I’d have a stack of money 10’ high.

From my earliest memories of riding my Moto Minarelli powered Motron moped from Paso Picacho campground past Lake Cuyamaca and onwards to Julian for sarsaparilla at the corner general store, to apple cider at the Cider Mill and apple pie at the Cafe to riding through there time and again on every motorcycle I ever owned over the years.

I watched Julian go from a tiny off the map town to the tourist filled craziness on the weekends. Haven’t been there in 20 years. Probably a metropolis now! 😆

You made my morning!
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Thanks for your post. It's still a beautiful town with lots of weekend tourists. Not crazy populated, but a couple of breweries big. It's Apple Days now and the weekend is crazy. Julian and the area continues to be a serious bike magnet. Riders of all kinds everywhere. Personally, I head east usually and enjoy riding the empty Anza Borrego desert.
 
VictorScot said:
Thanks for your post. It's still a beautiful town with lots of weekend tourists. Not crazy populated, but a couple of breweries big. It's Apple Days now and the weekend is crazy. Julian and the area continues to be a serious bike magnet. Riders of all kinds everywhere. Personally, I head east usually and enjoy riding the empty Anza Borrego desert.
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I loved it out there too. You can breath and think out there and not much jumps out at you which is nice. Weather and visibility was always nice too.

I do miss Yaqui Pass and Montezuma Valley Road. Great roads and many others out there. Lucky You! Congratulations on your new Norge. Paul Lima and GP motorcycles were always very good to me for many years. I miss those guys too.
 
scottmastrocinque said:
I do miss Yaqui Pass and Montezuma Valley Road.
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Me too. I still do photoshoots out in Borrego and on MVR (though I haven’t been out there for a few years now). Don’t forget Banner Grade out to S2. @VictorScot - the Banner Store is still open it looks like? Such a ride back in time. That whole mind-blowing lovely area.
 
You guys always make me homesick!

Banner Grade was Awesome! The best day there was this photo, where my coworker, Sam Ballante from Brattin Motors BMW Motorcycles and I were breaking in our brand new motorcycles (my 2000 Yellow/White Ducati 996 Monoposto and Sam's Japanese something or other :D) blasting up and down Banner Grade all day. I was so excited about the 996 I cannot even remember what Sams motorcycle was.

I'm amazed the little store is still there, probably the campground too.

Those were insanely fun times and great memories were made on all of those roads, as well as the razor-sharpening and honing of my riding skills.

I'm still amazed at the number of famous Midwest riders out here because our roads...well...SUCK! :sick: :p

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Love all those routes. Borrego is a little rough in the summer. I just turn around instead of heading down the mountain pass.
 
I understand thread integrity on a technical topic or something similar but on a “Hello” thread, is it really that critical? 🧐
 
VictorScot said:
... Julian! People can't believe this is San Diego county.
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People NEVER believed me here in Ohio when I told them on many occasions, I surfed in the 72 degree sunshine and warm pacific waters in the early morning, then Jetskied and sailed in Mission Bay at 78 degrees then ate lunch, and then went for a motorcycle ride up Sunrise Highway in lightweight riding gear and stopped to have snowball fights along the road in the late afternoon, grabbed a sarsaparilla in Julian at the drugstore counter followed by a piece of pie across the street, and then arrived in Romona to go horseback riding in the warm evening breezes with the sun still shining, all within an hour drive between the locations in the same county.

I am officially HOMESICK. :envy:
 
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