'Not-See' Run 2006

Max Schaaf, who has built a couple of the nicest choppers I've seen
over the past couple of years, writes a great account of how this collection of great bikes got
together for a run down to Paso Robles, via Cole Foster and Jason Jessee's shops, from Oakland.
Thanks also go to Tha Nutz for the super-cool photos.

"It all started as an idea to get some friends together for a ride. There's not much of a "chopper" scene
here in Oakland, basically it's me and my friend Jasin.
So we thought it would push some of our friends to finish their projects if we decided to have a ride to
Paso Robles. I didnt want every kook we know with a bike to come so I started to make some rules.
People started to ask me why I was being such a "NAZI" about who came?
MY answer was simple: "I dont want to show up in Paso Robles with a bunch lame-asses on lame bikes."
So this is how I came up with the name 'THE NOT-SEE RUN'.

From Oakland it was Jasin (blue Panhead), Ronnie (BSA), Sean (Triumph),
and myself (VL-Shovel). "Tha Nutz" joined us from Minnesota.
We left the house, went to get coffee, then hit the road.

Got to J. Jessee's mid-day to meet up with Jason, Rico and Danny. Nobody believed Jason was going to go.
I got calls from people saying "Yeah right, Jason's not going".....oh yeah. He came. Rico got
his bike going and we all hauled ass to Cole's shop. We picked up Thomas from there and Rico and Danny stayed
to help Cole make it down to Paso. J. Jessee led the ride from here on, wearing a furry Russian hat and no
helmet the whole way. Oh, and no lights either.
I t got dark and cold and took us hours to get there but we finally made it, constantly entertained by Jason's road antics.

Lots of cool bikes in Paso. Steve Uhl's Panhead, the other Steve's green Pan
(Scott Craig), Bill Mize was ruling riding his new rigid Evo from Sioux City.

Checked out bikes and fixed my friend Jasin's Panhead and got ready for the ride home.
It was going to be just the Oakland guys and of course our support van,
driven by Maurice (Flying Dutchman) and his beautiful chicken Fllotje.
We got our bikes in order and jammed home. It took us half the time to get home.
No breakdowns, sunlight and little traffic. We stopped back at Jason Jessee's to return
some tools and exchange man-hugs.

All in all it turned out super fun. getting out of town, hanging out with friends,
meeting new friends, and riding. It was only a total of about 600 miles but
that was far enough to realize the the whole idea behind this run turned out
right-on. Next year again? I hope more rules, more Not-See.

Thanks to everyone involved."