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anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

Both the TUX and the Harley are down due to tires.
Took the Connie out for a nice loop:
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Too easy to rack big miles fast on that thing!!! I was only out for 3.5 hours!
Nice to take the warp driven 2 wheeled transport every now and the :P
Hit 6K miles for my season yesterday.
 
Went North up HWY 55 as far as the 45th parallel. Nice ride up through the canyon with plenty of campers and trucks pulling boats to blast past between the twisties :cool:

About 250 miles in all...

Stopped just past Cougar Mountain Lodge looking back down past one of the few plateaus to the canyon beyond
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And at the 45th parallel
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Great day, perfect temperature!
 
Jedz123 said:
Both the TUX and the Harley are down due to tires.
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Worn? or damaged?
You got the HD 750, what? just a few weeks ago....

3000 miles for the season already, and its not really summer yet.
But then again, spring (and fall) is better in some ways than summer for riding.

SOme entire seasons I dont get much more than 3000.
 
Redman said:
Worn? or damaged?
You got the HD 750, what? just a few weeks ago....

3000 miles for the season already, and its not really summer yet.
But then again, spring (and fall) is better in some ways than summer for riding.

SOme entire seasons I dont get much more than 3000.
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Both bike are wearing worn rear tires... I'm switching back to an economy low resistance tire on the TUX (commute is getting longer for we close on our house on June 9th which is 20 miles from work)

I'm 6K miles for the season on all 3 bikes.

BUT at 3227 miles (a month of ownership) the Harley's rear tire looks like this:
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In my younger days I would have worn it to the chords but experience tells me to ground it till the replacement comes in ( Oh god I'm sounding like a seasoned GSR member...)


Also the belt is loose and making some horrid clunking noises under acceleration... I'll tighten once I get the new tire on, should be coming in today.

The both tires are on their way out on the Connie too (battery is also on it's last leg and just ordered a Shorai Li-Fe battery)... Impeccable timing for it's time to drop $300 on a set of the new Dunlop Roadsmart iii. The PR4GT's were great I'm curious on how these new Road smarts do.

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J,

Good.

I too used to look at barely remaining sipes and say "good enough" and then later look at non-existent sipes worn down to flat nothing and say "ah, good enough till end of the season" ..... well, then I had the expereince of hitting the brakes in the rain, and rear end kick out and bike going pretty much sideways almost immediately ... then I looked at that same tire and said "you big dumb stupid cheap bugger" (refering to myself, not the tire), and ever since have a whole different opinion on the situation now.

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Pretty Special Ride

Pretty Special Ride

My brother showed up last weekend and happened to bring some riding gear. He doesn't live very close so we haven't ridden together for several years. Last time was a great 2 week bike/camping trip down the Oregon/Cali coast. He's the one that taught me to ride 50 years ago and we've both been riding every year since ....he just turned 70. So I went and got insurance put on both bikes and went for a little 200 km ride. Nice to see us out on both bikes.

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by soates50, on Flickr
 
Wallowgreen said:
Went North up HWY 55 as far as the 45th parallel. Nice ride up through the canyon with plenty of campers and trucks pulling boats to blast past between the twisties :cool:

About 250 miles in all...

Stopped just past Cougar Mountain Lodge looking back down past one of the few plateaus to the canyon beyond
DSC_0408_zps3jubeqvs.jpg


And at the 45th parallel
DSC_0403_zpsveo3lnbt.jpg


Great day, perfect temperature!
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Beautiful! Can imagine an eagle swooping down for a fish there.
 
steve murdoch said:
Nice pic, Sandy.
Did you say you were twins or brothers?
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No, not twins. LOL. He's 3 years older ...I'm the young one but I told him having a brother that just turned 70 made me feel really old. Over 100 years of riding standing there, many more to come.
 
Ah, to enjoy the GS. Such a delightful machine! Albuquerque city lights coming on, sun setting on a great day!

 
Sandy said:
My brother showed up last weekend and happened to bring some riding gear. He doesn't live very close so we haven't ridden together for several years. Last time was a great 2 week bike/camping trip down the Oregon/Cali coast. He's the one that taught me to ride 50 years ago and we've both been riding every year since ....he just turned 70. So I went and got insurance put on both bikes and went for a little 200 km ride. Nice to see us out on both bikes.

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That's a great pic. My brother and I used to ride together until he married a woman who Lady Macbethed him out of motorcycles. He gave me his CB900f this year. It's been rotting away on the side of his house for 15 years.
 
Sandy, that's cool to get a ride in with your brother.

I got 60 laps at Pacific Raceways today on my Bday.
Perfect weather-mid 60's, light crowd, equals open track.
Hadn't been round this place in 16 years.
 
Rode south from Danbury just trying to get lost...ended up eventually in Westport...found some great back roads on my way back...I'm happy
 

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Sandy said:
My brother showed up last weekend and happened to bring some riding gear. He doesn't live very close so we haven't ridden together for several years. Last time was a great 2 week bike/camping trip down the Oregon/Cali coast. He's the one that taught me to ride 50 years ago and we've both been riding every year since ....he just turned 70. So I went and got insurance put on both bikes and went for a little 200 km ride. Nice to see us out on both bikes.

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Geez, I saw a guy that looked just like that today..... Too funny I was telling him that only just this morning I was looking at a picture of him. He also said that this photo is a fake! is that true Sandy? sure doesn't look it.
 
Carter Turk said:
Sandy, that's cool to get a ride in with your brother.

I got 60 laps at Pacific Raceways today on my Bday.
Perfect weather-mid 60's, light crowd, equals open track.
Hadn't been round this place in 16 years.
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How is the road course there? Have they kept it up? It was pretty ratty a few years ago. The drag strip is in a LOT better shape. The owners had the track on the market for a couple years, then decided to fix it up a bit. I am only about 8 miles away....

Happy Birthday!
 
azr said:
Geez, I saw a guy that looked just like that today..... Too funny I was telling him that only just this morning I was looking at a picture of him. He also said that this photo is a fake! is that true Sandy? sure doesn't look it.
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Ha Ha Ha!!! Technically he is correct however the text is true. Didn't have a tripod or anything handy to set the camera on so I improvised .......so sue me. LOL.

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Sandy said:
Ha Ha Ha!!! Technically he is correct however the text is true. Didn't have a tripod or anything handy to set the camera on so I improvised .......so sue me. LOL.

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FAKE NEWS!!!!! Even the Kanadians are at it now. Don't let Trevor find out....
 
Took us 2 back to mt vernon for my truck. I'll be making the last trip to Spokane tomorrow



 
Cindy and I rode up to Albuquerque Sat, she had her first service on her Beemer. Nice ride.
 
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