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anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

Great pictures Rich. It sounds like a "adventurous" ride on a street bike! 👍

After a all day rain event on Saturday, the weather report looked promising for Sunday. "52? warming to 64? with sun" nope never happened! I headed out to the Cycle Gear store over by Pittsburgh. I wanted to try on a couple of jackets to see what size fits best. Still only 55? now wishing I wore my cold weather jacket. On my way home I stopped at my favorite wing joint. Warming up a bit with their Buffalo Bourbon Hot Wings (not necessarily in that order) After 240 miles I made it home. I took a long hot shower just to get my core temperature above freezing!
Yesterday, Monday the weather was just gorgeous 70? with brilliant sunshine! A perfect riding day. I did the southern Ohio loop.
This week, warmer with chance of showers. Perfect, I have to get the motorcycle ready for the rally next week. (Tires, oils changed...)
 

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Rich, my cousin took us to Worlds End several years ago. Definitely a cool spot. I think I have a pic of it in my yearly trip to PA thread.
Sadly, yearly has become sporadic.
 
Well then, I fully expect a visit and hopefully a ride-along next time you’re through central PA.:D
 
I definitely need to get out there. I have family near ish to Wellsboro in the Pine Creek Valley, and a close friend moved to Berwick a few years ago who I have yet to visit.

Covid, trips to DC, and doctor appointments have already gobbled up a lot of my vacation time this year.
 
My biggest riding weekend yet: 435 miles round trip (I?m no Jedz, but starting to go longer distances) to meet up and camp with Lyle (Eli69), his son and a few of his friends. After I finally found their non-descript campsite along the Tionesta Creek off Rt. 666 in the Allegheny National Forest of NW PA, we went for a nice little ride on some sandy, muddy mountain roads. Then went back to camp, relaxed over some frosty beverages and watched the Creek flow by, and BS?d with the boys till dark. Up early this AM to pack up for the long(for me) ride home. Had beautiful, hot weather all weekend. Temps hit 95 as I was nearing home. Ugh, back to work tomorrow. Thanks for a great weekend, Lyle!

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Nice description of your weekend, Rich. Yes, it's quite hot in the TriState area this weekend!

Great pics...and you're well-packed for camping. Oh boy, a camping trip! (Got that from another forum years ago where camping trips were described as revealing experiences..lol)

Your "T" looks great too! Gonna put some knobby tires on it for those camping trips? (Geeze...I can't stop saying those two words...lol)

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Thanks Ed. I’m no newbie to camping. Been a Boy Scout/ now leader for a long time. So my camping gear is tested. But packing it on the bike was a new experience for sure. Things went well, nothing fell off, except after I unloaded the big bag, we went for a ride, I had my travel coffee mug in a pouch on the side of the small black bag. I didn’t know Lyle was gonna lead me on a hare scramble. Second mug I lost the same way inside of a week. :rolleyes:
 
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Rich,I enjoy seeing those scenes,camping on the trail/woods like that;you don't have to worry about trucks,etc. waking you up all the time. :)
 
Rode over to the Apple Store around noon to replace the battery in my phone then went to find a waterfall near Vandalia (northern edge of Dayton). The path to the falls runs along some very nice houses but is open to the public and definitely not designed to wear motorcycle boots on. I ultimately had to scoot along the side of a very small dirt ledge to get any pictures without the underbrush but the lighting was pretty rough. I'll need to go back one day later in the evening with proper boots.

Sunderland Falls by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Upper Sunderland Falls Full Height by Scott Baker, on Flickr

Lower Sunderland Falls by Scott Baker, on Flickr
 
Very interesting Cowboy!

I lived in Hawaii from 1999-2003 and love waterfalls...those falls remind me of Oahu. Thanks for posting.

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Good to see you guys connect Rich and Lyle! You guys aren't too far away to meet in the middle. Joe and gang are hilarious. I think I should take a trip over to the land of Eli...
No pics. Just miles on the Bonneville and Monkey mainly over the weekend. I go in for 5 hours today than I'm off for 20 days... I'll be in NH this weekend seeing family I haven't seen on over a year. I'll also be going to bike week in Laconia.
 
Nice weekend trip. Met GSR member Rich as noted above. His 750 is beautiful. And he was kind enough to share his exotic boston beers!

Up on the hill to find cell service to tell our o'ladies we were alive.

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Pit stop at Kinzua Dam on the NY/PA border.


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Just a note, the ugly seems to be having carb problems but it will return. I tend to ride the Suzuki GS's for normal road rides cuz the tires are cheap. Tires for the beemer ain't.
 
Got out this afternoon for a little 25 mile "test run". Happened to stop by the local aviation museum and there was one (I'm sure a retired one) Navy Blue Angel jet!
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Even an older one is still pretty cool to see up close!:cool:
 
Seven-20 minute sessions @ the Ridge on Monday on the beater 04 gixxer 750, rained buckets on Sunday camping overnight, but stopped a bit for an evening track walk .

Unfortunately, a friend wadded up a new to him KTM RC8 on the fastest corner on the track. Ugh.

He's not a youngster either @ 69, but managed to walk away unscathed, bike not so much. It's fixable & he still wants to continue riding on the track.

Other than that unfortunate incident, it was a splendid day.

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The RC8 is such a cool bike.
How in the heck did your friend get on it?
With that kicked-up tail piece i would need a step stool to climb aboard.
 
steve murdoch said:
The RC8 is such a cool bike.
How in the heck did your friend get on it?
With that kicked-up tail piece i would need a step stool to climb aboard.
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Yes very angular with a high tail section, however now the tail section points straight up, as it cartwheeled end over end or some such gyration.
The middle portion of bike (Frame, swingarm, engine, tank, radiator) seemed relatively intact. The front rim has a dent about 8'' long.

Really a sad sight, having spent all winter prepping it, adding goodies.

Interesting article Rich, does seem like the RC8 was being picked on, when the Super Duke is a bigger unfaired beast.
 
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