anyone go for a ride today? Pics?

[Burque73]

Shoulda sold the FJR to me when you had the chance at Brown County -
I think my last offer was $200 AND a PLANE ticket home

Good Luck and ride safe - it was great meeting you guys

LOL, as tempting as that was I'm still glad to have it. we'll have it back on the road soon.

In the mean time, the GS is getting plenty of love.

Had a real nice ride last night. One of the only times I've ridden this stretch of I-40 without being blown around by crazy cross winds. I was surprised by how cool it got. Around Gallup I had to put another layer on.

Maybe headed to the meteor crater or painted desert today.

 

[Burque73]

Had a real nice day and a half getaway. The meteor crater was something I've always wanted to see. This thing was really cookin' when it came down.



Didn't make it to the Painted Desert, but saw plenty of beautifully colored landscape.

191 South from Sanders, AZ to 61 then NM 53 was such a beautiful ride. Super colorful desert giving way to greenery and tall pines around the Continental divide.





The air was unusually clear now in Western New Mexico, considering how smoky it's been lately. After enjoying some of the most beautifully sculpted sandstone landscapes in the setting suns's light, in what I now know is called alpenglow, I had to come to terms with and overcome the heartache caused by not being able to catch that in a photo. Here's a great writup of a few things to see around there.
https://stateecu.com/new-mexico-road-trip-scenic-route-53/
This is just one area of New Mexico I find positively captivating. The Ice caves and Bandero Volcano with the lava flows in the Malpais National Monument are just a tiny sampling of New Mexico's enchantment.

Clouds show the quickly fading alpenglow.




Riding home straight into the rising full moon was like having dessert after this delicious feast of a ride.

 

[Redman]

Had a real nice day and a half getaway. . . . . ...

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Riding home straight into the rising full moon was like having dessert after this delicious feast of a ride.

Your photos and your descriptions are appetizing.

 

[Eli69]

The Ugly is back!! The problem was air box rubbers related. Fixed with new ferncos. Total cost about 15 bucks.

I took it out for a test ride and it ran just like it used to. Got up to highway speed (80 - 85) for a couple miles. Felt just like it did when I rode it down to S. Illinois to see the eclipse a couple years ago.

I am going to have to spring for some progressives up front (total pun intended) cuz that fairing wore the originals down to nubs.

Here's a fernco:

Here's what they look like installed:

 

[dorkburger]

Horray for The Ugly!

 

[trevor]

Few pics from a little over a week ago...another trip to the mainland...I've had a good summer of riding...around 12,000kms

The roads were quite

600kms away from home and I run into my buddy Bill that's the GM of the BMW bike shop in Victoria...lol

In Greenwood BC

In the same coffee shop

Hooked up with my buddy in Osoyoos....there may have been alcohol involved

Nakusp was a bit smokey

 

[Redman]

Few pics from a little over a week ago...another trip to the mainland...I've had a good summer of riding...around 12,000kms

The roads were quite.
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Nice road pics.

Good posting. Enjoyed it.

 

[Redman]

From a couple weeks ago.
This bike had yet to have this pose.

 

[Redman]

Had a situation here such that I had not been home much nor riding for a few days.

But did get out for a short ride about noon time yesterday.

View from parking lot of place, in town near the beach, that I stopped for lunch. (Cowboy Scott may recognize).
Butchie Beach Burrito.

Excuse for poorly framed pic: I was in a hurry, was a couple cars pulling in that could clutter the view, and I wanted to get in line before those occupants (they take a long time to order if not familiar with the menus items).

 

[steve murdoch]

Nice road trip pics, Trevor.
A nice dilemma....tear around on great empty roads or slow up and take in the scenery.

 

[trevor]

Nice road trip pics, Trevor.
A nice dilemma....tear around on great empty roads or slow up and take in the scenery.

Thanks Steve, I tried to do a little of both.
With not being able to cross the border to ride, it sure has given me the opportunity to explore my own backyard more. We are very lucky here in BC.

 

[oldGSfan]

Short but fun ride today, all systems go, and go she does!

 

[Burque73]

..................there may have been alcohol involved

I feel like there's a Keith Moon story behind this photo.

 

[trevor]

I feel like there's a Keith Moon story behind this photo.

Have you ever heard of THC Gummies?

 

[Burque73]

Have you ever heard of THC Gummies?

Sure have. The red ones are my favorite

I was just thinking if Keith Moon swam with such an ATTGAT mentality, as you do, he would've saved on his dental bills.

Looks like you had a fun time.

 

[trevor]

Sure have. The red ones are my favorite 

I was just thinking if Keith Moon swam with such an ATTGAT mentality, as you do, he would've saved on his dental bills.

Looks like you had a fun time.

My buddy Gary and I go way back. He?s 9 years older than me. His dad had a welding, fabrication business that was right beside my dad and uncle?s painting and sandblasting business. My dad even painted a couple of Gary?s cars in the 70s
Gary raced AMA sidecars in the late 70s early 80s... he was the monkey of course... raced the same tracks and weekends as the greats Wes Cooley, Freddie, Eddie and Kenny.
Anyway he raced RD 350s as well and I bought a rear tire off him that was ?race worn? for my 1982 550 Katana ( I was broke as a joke)... I was 16 and we?ve been friends ever since.

 

[dorkburger]

Anti social motorcyclist goes to a bike night... Some people on a local FB motorcycle group I’m on were going to the bike night at the local motorcycle dealer, so I figured I’d check it out. It was.... weird, but not in a bad way. I had a nice conversation with a gentleman who is a long term owner of a well used 1979 Yamaha, and a few others. They had open dyno runs, stunters on groms, food,etc. More confirmations of my aging. I found the “kids” in the parking lot bouncing their open piped engines off the rev limiters to be annoying and obnoxious.... and loud.
Overall it was a decent night, and I didn’t even feel bad for not riding during the two hours I was there.

No pictures worth posting.

 

[trevor]

Anti social motorcyclist goes to a bike night... Some people on a local FB motorcycle group I?m on were going to the bike night at the local motorcycle dealer, so I figured I?d check it out. It was.... weird, but not in a bad way. I had a nice conversation with a gentleman who is a long term owner of a well used 1979 Yamaha, and a few others. They had open dyno runs, stunters on groms, food,etc. More confirmations of my aging. I found the ?kids? in the parking lot bouncing their open piped engines off the rev limiters to be annoying and obnoxious.... and loud.
Overall it was a decent night, and I didn?t even feel bad for not riding during the two hours I was there.

No pictures worth posting.

Wow...that is not how our local bike nights are run, that's for sure. Don't blame you, I wouldn't have liked it either.

 

[dorkburger]

I did generally enjoy it, but typically I have always had a short attention span at local car / bike shows. Meeting some people from the FB group was cool and may result in my actually getting out and being social. As much as I?ve enjoyed my many solitary rides over the last 25 years, I think that I?ve also missed out on the camaraderie of motorcycling.

 

[storm 64]

Glen, you should try to come to the Brown County GSR rally sometime. That place oozes motorcycle camaraderie!