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GOLDENCHAIN RUN 2016!!! September 2-4

OK, so here is our updated schedule for the GCR this year: Meeting up at the clubhouse in Sonora Friday afternoon on September 2, and leaving Sonora around 3pm or 4pm. Obviously leaving on a Friday makes it hard for people to get time off of from work, but it won't be a huge pack ride from Sonora to GV. The pack from GV hopefully will include all the late night arrivals, and stragglers from work.

Leave Grass Valley Saturday morning and head up 49, almost to the end, and then head down the Feather River Canyon to Belden. Simple as that.

We will update you one more time on the meet up spot in GV. We know where we're staying, we just can't post the address online! Most likely we will meet up in downtown at one of the bars and then ride all together into camp. This will be good for people who are coming from the bay, or sac and want to skip the first leg of 49. Even though we don't recommend that!

Spot the R!

Pit stop on top of Sonora Pass from a couple weeks ago. Great trip with those guys, who are already back in Holland, enjoying the rest of their Dutch Summer. 

A Couple from the Road

Our good friends Buddy and Kate are out West (East of here actually), enjoying the open road. They sent us a couple from their trip so far. They're making a big loop out through Wyoming, all the way to Oklahoma, and then back through Colorado and parts of Utah.

Fucking A! Great shot

Is that Lee!?

Nice wood Kate

Breakfast

Keep 'em coming! Thanks guys

Bring your friends to work day.

On their way to Oregon to visit the Brotherspeed, our Dutch fiends ( Mike the bike, john, and Vito) found me after work. 

Leaving their mark in the dark. 

Mike, making notes of the night before. 

I got some time off and showed them some of the cool local spots. 

"The grandfather tree"

2500 years old 

We got to park the bikes at a friends house as we looked around. 

Adios Dutch fuckers 

VIER!

There's plenty of truth, science, and real life experiences that prove that drinking leads to bad decisions. But the other night was not one of them! BBQ and beers at Baby Clint's house, phone call to Jason, a quick sketch by yours truly, and we were ready for some good ol fashioned drunk tattoos!

Brian and Mike the Bike came up with the idea, and it was unanimously voted "YES" by the rest of us, that we would all be getting VIER tattooed on us. VIER is of course four in Dutch, duh. Let the games begin! And oh yeah, we would all be taking turns with the tattoo gun, even though Jason is the only professional. 

Quick tour of Jason's garage. Filled with projects!

Figuring out our game plan 

Baby Clint on John

Mike the Bike making it really stick

Mr Lighthands himself. I can't seem to get the ink to go in...

Beads of sweat on both mine and Johns foreheads. 

Favorite one yet!

A Couple From the Road

People from all over Europe are making their way to the Rogues party in Holland this week. Stole this collection of photos from them. Wish we were going to be there!

Some of the guys from Rabalder MC, Norway, making their way through Germany en route to Opmeer. Nice collection of bikes here: almost stock, to Pibulls highneck, to some older iron at the end.

French crew from Brittany heading north. Wheres the tiny green bottles of Kronenbourg?!

The heat was almost unbearable for the majority of Saturday. We promised ourselves that we would head to the pool after we got the oil changed on two of the bikes, but little did we know, this was going to take up the majority if the day. 

I guess that's what you get when you have a bunch of guys who work on choppers trying to figure out how to change the oil on new bikes!

Makeshift lift for the Bagger. Bike was too wide for any of our lifts

Proof that we changed NY Donny's oil!

Mike the Bike: expert babysitter

Sonora Bound

We bullshitted in Walker for an hour or so about how our Dutch friends had survived the heat in Nevada and other tall tales before we geared up to head back over Sonora pass. But in usual Deathtraps fashion, just as we were gassed up and ready to go, Jason noticed a broken exhaust mount. Aaron tracked down a guy with a welder, next door to the gas station actually, and with some cash scrounged together, we were back on the road. 

Walker California, highway 395

Vito, our Dutch welding inspector 

Heading up the east side of Sonora pass

Leavitt Falls. Looks just like Holland!

Sardine Falls in the background 

Over the summit and headed down the west side 

Photo op at 6000'

Meeting up with the Rogues

Jason, Aaron and I left Sonora right as the heat was really getting started. Knowing that immediately we would be headed up into the mountains, made it easier on the timeline. No need to rush. 

After the first gas stop, Aaron was sitting in a first class seat: bag of ice for the on board ICE/C, and a coconut Popsicle. Lucky

Bag still doing it's job. Now at over 6,000'

Bikes getting very slow as we approach 9,000'. Gotta love 2nd gear!

Finally on the other side, riding next to the Walker river. 

They only beat us by about 30 mins, but we were not in a rush. Hotdogs, ice cream and gas before the trip back.