My weekend Motorcycle ride

Bones · Aug 5, 2007

Some pics have captions. I did not take much since it rained ALL day Saturday, and POURED 4" that night. My tent was full and my **** was soaked. I split the last room at a bed and breakfast with another rider. :drinkers:

http://30bones.smugmug.com/gallery/3252180#180022159

547 miles round trip and I feel fine. I was on the bike other than lunch and break from 6am to 6:45 pm!! Bike still got 50 mpg loaded, and riding gravel all day at 60mph. BTW it's not for sale anymore. Love it even though it's a PIG.

I went down HARD on a level B road and thankfully my head took the brunt of the fall. :flipoff1:

Bike never skipped a beat. Going to replace the helmet or send it in to get checked to see if it's okay to keep using. It's my dual sport helmet, but a SHOEI and those are not super cheap to toss on the shelf as a memory.

Me someplace, somewhere in NE Iowa or SW Wisconsin. :shrug:

Pretty up here too

CheapJ7 · Aug 5, 2007

That's pretty sweet man.. Have you ever heard of the Trans-am trail. Tellico, Tn to So-cal. 90 percent dirt. Me n the pops are gonna hit it up next summer and r lookin for recruits.

Bones · Aug 5, 2007

CheapJ7 said:
That's pretty sweet man.. Have you ever heard of the Trans-am trail. Tellico, Tn to So-cal. 90 percent dirt. Me n the pops are gonna hit it up next summer and r lookin for recruits.

We were talking about that last night. Couple just did it in 33 days! I think that was right.

I was going to do the arkansas leg of it one year, but never panned out.

InDaShop · Aug 6, 2007

Thats pretty damn cool!

Warpig · Aug 6, 2007

Better watch those bridges going over the mississippi river :fish:

looks like a fun trip

Bones · Aug 6, 2007

Yeah it was a great time. Wish the rain would have stopped after the ride to get a fire going to dry out our **** though. Kept the dust down and I am not nearly as dirty as dry gravel for that long with 5-15 bikes in a group. I should have kept going to my parents cabin that night since it's 50 miles from camp, but I was beat and wanted to hang out with the guys and get drunk. Blatz beer is not that bad!

Took a ferry across the Mississippi also. Haven't done that since I was a lil kid. Good times.

6uldv8 · Aug 6, 2007

That was sounding like something I'd love to do til you said "gravel at 60 MPH" I'd have to ride all night while yall slept just to catch up. I had a XR200R a million years ago and I could never get along with gravel very well!

Bones · Aug 6, 2007

6uldv8 said:
That was sounding like something I'd love to do til you said "gravel at 60 MPH" I'd have to ride all night while yall slept just to catch up. I had a XR200R a million years ago and I could never get along with gravel very well!

If it's not loose, we roll at 70 usually. Depends on the group. I prefer a little slower so I can see the scenery though. 50 is a good pace and nets you awesome fuel mileage.

This cat was rolling OLD SKOOL! 1983 XR500 I think is the model. Sure looked smaller. I was setup as a cafe style racer when he got it. 8)

Ambo · Aug 6, 2007

Glad you had a great time.

Now ride that thing down here for a few days...

Bones · Aug 6, 2007

Ambo said:
Glad you had a great time.

Now ride that thing down here for a few days...

Total Est. Time: 12 hours, 16 minutes

Total Est. Distance: 775.62 miles

No thanks, I will ride the street bike if I did that. WITH cruise control!

wontwork · Aug 7, 2007

Dad just come through your nice state Saturday in the rain also. He was headed to Sturgis SD for the rally. I am still crying since I didn't get to go.

Bones · Aug 7, 2007

wontwork said:
Dad just come through your nice state Saturday in the rain also. He was headed to Sturgis SD for the rally. I am still crying since I didn't get to go.

Sturgis...Meehh! zero interest. Kinda like the EJS in Moab, no thanks.