--- title: New Bay Bridge Span opens — VLOG 1st person motorcycle ride across author: tracey pooh type: post date: 2013-09-03 featured: NewBayBridge.jpg categories: - biking - motorcycles - video tags: - 1st person - bay area - cafe racer - decaf - motorcycle - new bay bridge - oakland - VLOG comment: --- **Labor Day 2013, Monday night, ~10pm** The Bay Bridge opens **7 hours before** the widely reported 5am tuesday reopening, after being completely closed for 5 full days. My twin, Russ AKA "Green Magic Man" (google it 😉 (on green Ninja) and I are the first 30 vehicles on to the 8th street onramp and show you how the new Bay Bridge span looks like from a first person HD camera (courtesy of Hunter, thanks, Baby!) It is dazzling at night! Includes 2nd raw 30 minutes of entire trip in a 2nd file.