Some friends asked me if I would help them pick up a bike for a new street rider. The bike was in the North Bay and they live in the South Bay so I said "sure", I would not want a new street rider to have to ride all that way on the freeway.

So I got to ride a beautiful, nearly-new 2003 CBR600 F4i. The bike had only 700 miles on it, I was told the previous owner bought it then his wife told him to sell it. The bike has frame sliders and a Micron carbon canister installed.

I snapped these photos the other day in beautiful, cosmopolitan Hayward, California the other day. (The yard debris in the background is a dead giveaway.)

Anyway, this 'brother' was beating a hasty retreat from his mum's house after a mid-afternoon visit. I guess he was in a good mood or something. :D