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I bought one of these a few years ago - huge time saver. Am amazed at how many times I've used it.

7 hours ago, Nute said:

No, bought it from the guy that did but he then lost interest so lots of kinks to iron out. It had less than 300 miles on it.  As I can’t afford a real one this is the closest im going to get. 
 

It’s great fun, tho ( when it’s working) I doubt it would beat a Tesla away from the lights. 

There;s a museum in town full of the real ones - all sorts of cool crap in there. I have some pics of it around here someplace.

They have lots of tee shirts for sale - gimme your size and addresss in a PM and I'll get ya one....

edit: added some pics

On 31/08/2024 at 03:02, Buckster said:

You can’t see their faces......

Thank fuckin' Christ for that!

Blasted for home after that. 900 miles in a couple of days with decent food and fun with the wife.

Even had a honey liquor still and sold various types of honey booze that they made.

That shit had to taste foul....

Hit a honey factory on the way outta town. They had every possible product that you can make with honey for sale....

Weird as Hell place that the wife picked for dinner (fuel station hot dogs would have been better). She had the planked salmon and I went with some kind of flat bread pizza. 3 beers with some kind of dip with bread chips and I was out the door for $161.00. A bargain!

Drinks in some old hotel bar before dinner reservations at 8:00. Good drinks and an annoying guitar player / singer ... 

Landed at our hotel in Durango; it was next to a creek with a bunch of guys fly fishing. I';d like to try that someday but don't know shit about it...

Road surface isn't perfect but good enough. Had a good time railing along all day...

There is a paved road on both the north and south rims if the Canyon, we rode the north side today...

Knocked out a short overnight trip with the wife on the Gold Wang to Duyrango, Colroado.

Cruised through the Back Canyon of the Gunnison National Park along the way. The Canyon isn't all that deep, buit it's about 50 miles or so in length. No other traffic at all...

It's a fuckin' heat wave here today with heat warnings out =high of 66F / 18C.....

I had to look up "CBT" on the internet to see what it was. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.

CBT:  https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CBT

3 hours ago, YamaHead said:

Another favorite less than 70 miles from home..... Hells Canyon 

Have ridden that several times but don't ever remember it being that green... was always pretty brown when I was there in the summer.

5 hours ago, YamaHead said:

Where is this -  any idea?

Great ride report - except for the heat!

When friends from Europe say "I'm going to be in El Paso, Texas. I should stop by and see you, how far is College Station from El Paso?”

3 hours ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

Are you retired Eric ?

Pretty much. I still make custom furniture as a side gig, but only work when I want to. As my summer is very short - just over three months - I have to squeeze as much riding in as I can during the nicer weather.

The back yard at sunrise today...

3 hours ago, Marcel le Moose Fondler said:

Great stuff Eric....that's some serious millage...

Had three days of over 750 miles per day - those were a bit less than fun towards the end of the day. Most other days were less. Trip was 14 days with three days off of the bike to rest up, laundry, oil change, etc.

27 minutes ago, YamaHead said:

Nice example.... there's always a few of these @ the VMX races...

I watched Marty tripes race one of these in Trans-AMA races when I was in high school.  We thought it was an exotic bike back then.

On 18/08/2024 at 05:55, YamaHead said:

Bliss....

It's bliss until you have to live here - then it fuckin' sucks!

On 16/08/2024 at 14:02, busabeast said:

i think you yanks/canuks call it a stickshift

Yanks neither, it's a driveshaft

But I made it home about 11-1/2 hours later with just over 5,300 miles added to the clocks.

It's good to be home.