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loving the look of the bumblebee!!

beautiful country!!

yes, it was! I'm learning to love the desert, after visiting Death Valley every year with our club. Something about the desolation, that really isnt.

yep, heavy bike. Especially noticeable when pulling it up from the sidestand. Weight is down low, tho, so it doesnt bother me when in motion. And, that torque!! dang! accelerates like a much lighter bike right up to about 90 mph, then flattens out. Not that you'd want to spend much time at that speed, given the lack of a windscreen and fairings. Love looking out over the single gauge, headlight and wide bars

Track day in the Mojave - Streets of Willow. Motorcycles keep you young!!

the voices, they keep speaking to me. you all are just pushers and the BMW lineup is my drug! (thank dog i keep forgetting to go look at Ducatis!)

jeez! what a bunch of codgers! I only have slight pain in my right shoulder. Course, Bruce will say i have an addled brain, based on my choice of bikes

well, guess i wont have to post an RR after all. You just duplicated our Labor Day trip ?

oh, shit! you were there for that? made the news and my brother had sent me a link to the article. will have to tell him of your involvement!

maybe i should have washed it. naw

Oh, and you. I forgot about you. I was really referring to my riding friends. Not the wanna be skippers. ?

Laurent would have to give me permission of course. If it isnt doable, then i will just return it and finding something in the UK

Maybe get there next year. Trying to plan a trip to Spain with a tour group, then keep the bike and head north into UK to see some "friends". You know, those online peeps you've talked to for years but never seen face to face. Plus a couple that i have met face to face.

Wow! nice photos!

Heading back to that area first week of September. Might even stop in Tin Cup this time, but they have great hot dogs in Pitkin ? Last time we were up Cottonwood, they hadnt paved the west side down to the reservoir. Huge surprise to go thru there a few weeks ago and see the new asphalt. reminded me a little of Stelvio Pass!. Gravel in the curve is always fun, too.

In countries where you dont speak the native language, it can be a great help. Same goes with unfamiliar areas when you have limited time. Sometimes it is not knowing where to research points of interest. I've taken two Edelweiss Tours, both of them well run, fun and great motorcycle roads experienced. Have also done two tours with Ride in Tours, which is a one man outfit (Laurent Dozias) who knows France inside and out, as well as a couple of other countries. Laurent has very reasonable prices and is freaking crackup to be around. Looking forward to one next year that takes me back to Spain!

Where most of these fine lads hail from, that distance would take them thru at least 3, possibly 5 countries. You're barely out of one state :). Love that part of the country!

Shhhh, dont tell anyone about Hwy 12, where my brother has been directed to spread my ashes.....

you dont have to tell me. ?

I think it was the promise of all that sex. He just didnt realize he was a receiver.

Great pics. Did you do Glacier and Going to the Sun Road?

Love those old buildings!

nope, me as well. i have my own Kum and Go pics from the midwest ?

the GPS mount on Flames broke a couple of rides ago and i havent gotten around to fixing it. Besides, i dont really like crutches like that, except for maybe following a BDR, or the CDR. So, i let Lu ride, an adventure all on its own. I'm not sure what skill you need to correctly use a GPS, but i'm pretty sure that skill is either missing, inverted, or broken in Lu. But, we usually seem to have the most fun following his lead, anyways. Lu is on the right, GT (from Nashville and now my brother's neighbor) is on the left. This is in front of brother's main garage. some of the brother's acreage, looking west. His shop is just visible on the left side of the pic. The gem of this little 10-acre piece is the shop. The former owner built dragster motors, so he needed some elbow room. (brother has a bike sickness, which is contagious. i'm not sure how many he has now, but it has hovered around 12 for quite some time. he is lucky in that his wife rides and some of these are hers) View looking northeast We had a great meal at the neighbors, lots of laughs and then finally off to bed. I think. I might have been overserved and am mis-remembering details. But, who cares. Next - mother nature tries to remind us that this is the year of whatever can go wrong, will............

Going as fast as FLames can, we actually shaved about 17 miles off the Google Maps distance. (mileage at mom's) The woman what welped me. 89, virus survivor (with NO hospitalization), with her 83 year old boy-toy. He was hospitalized, but as you can see there were no ill side effects. Sample of mom's world famous chocolate cake and off to bed. Part two of the ride north was scheduled for the next day - Boise to Stevensville, MT. See ya, mom! with less than 400 or so miles to do to MT, I didnt have to take off early, but the heat of the day convinced me to eventually get going. The route: Along the way, the overheated buddy from SoCal texted me his location and we decided to meet in Challis for lunch. He got there about 20 minutes ahead of me, but found a good little watering hole, the Challis Roadhouse. With the Covid stuff happening, each area and each state seemed to have different takes on what you could or couldnt do. Pretty much everyone was doing takeout for food, but this place was more along the lines of "we aint dead, so come on in and sit down and have cold one". One of the guys at the bar turned out to be a pro rodeo rider and his very good looking mother was the bartender. Of course, the rider's name was Ruger! (sorry, no pics of mom :() Ruger's been doing this insane stuff since high school and is currently recuperating from hip surgery. I guess we found something even stupider than riding motorcycles.