Met up with a friend from the S-T.n forums yesterday for a quick ride, as the weather was beautiful and I wanted to get out. We'd intended to cruise up to Index on Hwy 2 and take an interesting road leading up into the mountains, but my buddy had time contraints, and so we just retraced part of last week's route, heading up Hwy 9 and over to Lake Cavenaugh. The road around Lake Cavenaugh is a narrow, windy one with terrible asphalt and really limited sight distance, but the views are very nice and nobody else is ever on it, so that's something.

We did have an exciting start, in which your humble narrator forgot to turn off his ignition while waiting at the Park-N-Ride with all farkles plugged in (XM radio and GPS, plus charging my cell phone from the accessory port). Between that and the headlights (both of 'em), when it came time to head off, my bike wasn't going to start at all. My traveling companion was kind enough to give me a push downhill.

Here's Zach between our Bandits. His is a 2000 B12, I believe, so it's tons faster than Zoë, and it also looks like his headlight doesn't suck as badly as the second gen Bandit's does.

...and here's me, throwin' down a little street flava for all my homies. Represent: