Hey Guys:

This should be a fun drive. I have done this route before and there are a ton of awesome roads on this route. I encourage you to go.


--Message from Doc....

Next Doc Wong Driving Skills and Tour Clinic-Saturday November 13th.
Hi,

We're doing a "Driving Skills and Skyline Fun Tour Clinic Sunday!

Come join us in the fun of driving and touring over 100 miles of awesome roads and scenery!

Learn new driving skills, improve your driving, have fun and be a better driver.

Saturday, November 13, 2004 "Driving Skills - Causes and Solutions to Oversteering"

Time: 9:00 am 10:30 am for the talk part of the clinic
10:30 am to 3:00 pm for the tour. Lunch in Davenport at 12:30 pm

Place: Active Life Medical Center
1391 Woodside Road,
Suite 200
Redwood City, CA 94061

Register: Just e-mail me at DocWong@aol.com or leave a message on my cell phone at: (650) 400-9887

Cost: $0.00

Here's how the day will go:

We meet at my office at 9am and do the talk/clinic part till about 10:30am.

Guest instructors:

Aaron Tachibania: SCCA GTU & GTO driver/owner of Datsun 510, Datsun 280ZX Turbo and Pantera. Finished 4th as a privateer GTU. Currently organizes Car track days for seat time.

or

Chuck McCalmet: President's Cup, Tri-State Championship winner, Marlboro, VIR, Bridgehamptom, IRP, Loudon Enduro Karts winner, race instructor, has tested in a Lotus 23 with the lap record, owned and raced a Shelby GT 350. Past Team Manager and Mechanic with the USA Karting team winning the World Championship in Hong Kong in 1972. He currently drives a Beck 550 Spyder and 911SC!

There will also be a discussion on safety, autocrosses and time trialing.

Then we take off for our tour. We'll stop at Gazos Road and Hwy 1 and the proceed down Hwy 1 to Davenport for lunch. After lunch we take more twisty roads ending up on Hwy 9 and Skyline Blvd (Hwy 35). See below on the complete route and directions to my office.

If you have a family radio bring it. We'll be on Channel 9

For those of you who don't know me, I'm a chiropractor in Redwood City and quite a motorcycle enthusiast and have been organizing the Doc Wong Motorcycle Riding Clincs for the past 7 years (see me web page at: www.docwong.com).

This event however is a car only clinic.

Not too long ago I purchased a Porsche Boxster and a Miata and a whole new world of fun opened up for me. Learning how to really drive the car has been a fun challange, fortunately much of my motorcycling experience has helped me with that. I'm having a great time in autox and open track days.

The tour/drive will be pretty mellow. The idea is to enjoy the scenery, the drive and to improve our driving skills. So if you're up for a very fast drive, this isn't it.

RIDE ROUTE:
We start at Dr. Wong's office on Woodside Road (Hwy 84) in
Redwood City. We go up Woodside Road, through
Woodside, and on up the hill to Skyline Blvd.

From there, we head down Hwy 84 (name now changed to La Honda Road).
From San Gregorio, we go south on Stage Road to the
little town of Pescadero (which is a veritable
METROPOLIS compared to San Gregorio). Then we head east on Pescadero Road a short ways to Cloverdale Road, where we turn south
(right) again. We follow Cloverdale road down to Gazos
Creek Road, where we turn west (right).

We follow Gazos Creek Road to Highway 1 where we can take a break. Gas is available here.

Then take a trip down 1 to Davenport, where we stop for lunch.
After lunch, it's south on Highway 1 again to Bonny
Doone Road, where we turn east (left). Don't turn
right there, or you'll be surprised at the lack of
floatation a set of air bags provide. ;-)

Up Bonny Doon Road to Empire Grade. North (left) on Empire Grade to
Jamison Creek Road, down Jamison Creek Road to Highway
236. Right on Highway 236 to Highway 9 in Boulder
Creek. Another short break in Boulder Creek (gas, if
needed), then up Highway 9 (east) to Skyline, where we
assemble at the little rest area there for a final
meeting. After our meeting and bull session, the group
breaks up and everyone is on their own. Hope you can
find your way home from there!

Directions to Active Life Medical Center

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.ad...&submit=Get+Map
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Active Life Medical Center
1391 Woodside Road, Suite 200
Redwood City, CA 94061
(650) 365-7775

Drive well!

Doc Wong
http://www.docwong.com
Arctic Silver/Boxster Red/Bk 1997 Boxster
Red 1991 Miata
Harry K. Wong, D.C.
1391 Woodside Road, Ste 200
Redwood City, CA 94061
Off: (650) 365-7775 Cell: (650) 400-9887
Chiropactic and Alternative Medicine
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I might be up for this if I can convince my SO that two runs in one weekend is a good idea.

Is anyone else going? It is not supposed to rain this weekend and the cold may keep some of the bicyclist out of the mountains.

Chris

 

For some reason this thread never gets much attention. I have been on this drive several times and it is INTENSE. Very fun. I'm not sure why more people don't come out. Maybe because it's not a Z only event.

 

No money, gas cost too much, and you're the organizer (just messing w/ you about the organizer ). Also too early.

 

Tony:

Why you gotta bash my thread?

Don't be such a HATER!

 

Because last time I was on Hwy 9 I was with Bruce.....and...well you know........roadblocks

 

I got the green light, I just sent my email.

Chris

 

hopefully it is not going to rain.

 

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It's a bit late notice, but see you guys there!

 

I've been to some of his rides (both car and bike). They're a lot of fun.
Going to be at Infineon on Sunday thought for my first dry track event in a long time..

 

That was fun, anyone who sat around this morning with their Z in the garage, I feel sorry for you.

I should have pics up on Monday, I'll let you know.

Chris

 

Chris:

Are you doing a Mt. Hamilton drive tomorrow? If so please give details.

 

Yeah, tomorrow is gonna be a hole different animal... more like this picture here.

Minis
It was good meeting everyone today, good group of drivers. The whole time I was driving I kept mumbling to my self "String between the gas and the wheel","Stay on the gas down the hill","Hope their's not a hummer around this next blind turn on this narrow one lane road".

Chris

 

I remember now Chris, you race them also don't you ?

corsair: you can do this , just say "I can do this " . there not that much smaller than you "Z"------------------ LOLing -------------------

 

Chris:

Do you know a guy named Jeremy with a silver mini cooper s?

 

I have pictures up at:
http://www.hypersprite.com/auto/picture-z-004

Sample


In the end I had one fantastic weekend, with the rain washing away the oils over the past few weeks, the roads were just perfect.

4myZ350: I don't race them, but I do go to quite a few races each year and help pit and take pictures. I had the option of a race Mini or my Z and you can see what won. I only wish I had a race car five times a year, I am glad I have my Z every day

Corsair: I don't happen to know Jeremy, there are two clubs in Nor Cal and most of the new MINIs are in NorCalMinis. I have been on a few runs with them but not many. I am in Mini Owners of America - San Francisco, or MOASF, it's been around thirty years and is mostly old Minis. The other thing is I am terrible at names and faces. So I may have met him at some point but who knows.

Chris

 

great pic. ---HyperSprite: #6 pic is in backwards----LOLing

see u at next run--jack

 

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This is the shot out my front window, on that one lane road.
Other than cropping extra scenery, maybe adding some
contrast and smearing out the license plates, I did not edit
(or flip) any of the pics I take.



Chris