Semi Trucks

It was only a few miles from Pete’s 881 Club in San Rafael to the gates of San Quentin, but a world away for a motorcade of sorts that rumbled its way from a convivial watering hole to a drab visitors center on a Sunday mission to give holiday toys to inmates’ children.

In the seventh annual Bike Sleigh Across the Bay, some 350 motorcyclists clad in black leather, helmets and a few Santa hats wound their way through Kentfield and Ross, causing a few jaws to drop along the way as the grizzled-looking bikers waved teddy bears at onlookers and at cars that stopped at intersections to let the motorcade pass.