Hello Spyder enthusiasts and owners! It's been a busy week and a half for the Can-Am Spyder RT and me. After going down to Los Angeles to tape the "Cyberguy" segment for Tribune TV, another video crew came out to the house to tape a webcast for BRP. We did several interviews and two sets of riding videos, around our neighborhood and out on some country roads. I've been promised a copy from the BRP folks – I can’t wait to share it with you guys.

Last week, we got up early and rode the Spyder roadster down to El Cajon, to join a group of Gold Wing Road Riders Association (GWRRA)  Chapters on the Halloween Poker Run up to Santa Ysabel, in the mountains near Julian; it was a great event!

The next day, Cherrie and I hit the road at 5:00 a.m. so we could ride to the 38th Annual Griffith Park Sidecar Rally in Los Angeles. As usual, there was a great crowd and hundreds of really, really interesting machines. I think you'll like the video.



We rode down with our old friends Walt Fulton and Nancy Foote, owners of the Streetmasters Motorcycle Workshop (www.streetmasters.info). Some of you old-timers might remember Walt as one of the riders featured in the iconic motorcycle movie "On Any Sunday," as well as a four-time Daytona winner. While there, we also ran into old friend Perry King, a movie and TV actor who is also a total motorcycle nut.  I won't say Perry is a "movie star," but he was in such famous movies as "The Lords Of Flatbush," "Slaughterhouse Five," and "The Choirboys," as well as dozens of TV shows, such as "Will & Grace," "The Outer Limits," and "Cold Case."

Perry will also be the MC at this year's AMA Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas on December 5, when I will be honored to present David Hough as the latest inductee into the Hall Of Fame. And by the way – David and I will be riding to Vegas for the ceremonies aboard two Spyder RT units!

Last Friday night, Cherrie and I realized that we actually had no commitments for the Halloween weekend. This was a free weekend (which never happens) for us but since we’re not used to staying home, we decided to take advantage of the time to ride around to some of our favorite old haunts, and show off the new RT to a bunch of Southern California motorcyclists.

We hit the road again around 5:00 a.m. (we get to bed early – don’t worry) on Saturday morning, stopping off to have breakfast with GWRRA Chapter K in Van Nuys, before riding up the world-famous Mulholland Drive in Hollywood, to the Rock Store. We would have liked to gone here on Sunday, but the truth is, you can’t find a place to park your bike within a mile of the Rock Store on any given Sunday, so we opted for a Saturday.

After showing the bike to about 100 riders, and handing out dozens of brochures, we rode on down to the Pacific Coast Highway, through Malibu, and down to Venice Beach. If you’ve never seen Venice Beach, try to imagine the world’s largest congregation of surfers, aging hippies and wannabe TV and movie stars. It’s no wonder that Jay Leno brings his camera crew down here any time he wants to show just how weird things can get in Southern California.

On Sunday morning, we were off again by 6:00 a.m. (yea, we slept in), riding down to Orange County to the GWRRA Chapter R annual bake sale, then on down to Laguna Beach, and up the Ortega Highway to the famous Lookout Roadhouse. We got home just in time to see the full moon coming up over the Pines to Palms Highway, which is right in our back yard.



All in all, I believe we rode about 650 miles this past weekend, and met up with over 500 motorcyclists along the way. It was a great way to spend a November weekend…