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Big skies, that's what makes or breaks a landscape for me. Obviously old people homes are going to be the last things open to visits, Pete, see if you can hold on for a couple more months

These have got to be worth an extra 30hp.

With my Bagheera not feeling well, my friend let me take his Himalayan for a ride. Her name is Snowy. ? Not used to the white tank, but she is rather pretty.

Going up in altitude on variable road surfaces, adverse cambers, sheer drops, strong crosswinds, and at the summit it was cold enough to give me white fingers! Then on the way back I stopped to check out the Old Peoples Home (cos at 66 you never know)......and they put the barricade across the road!

Very remote.......this is actually the road......it's not some rural path!

Lose or Loose, i always fuck those two up! Still got her in the basement, going to nail her to a wall in my future man cave as a decoration.

Nice shot! ?

Thank you Rick for writing this. And thank you for being such a good friend to me. Tomorrow will be four years since Billy left us. I sure do miss him. He was a one of a kind true friend. Love you Billy

not nearly enough chrome on those wires! You was robbed.

I like that idea the screen on my 650 buzzes as you rev bloody annoying ?

So it should get you up to 50bhp then @Buckster?

Only 30bhp , you've been done ?

Ace Pete, just the sort of roads I'd be looking for

Nice to see you can high center that bike and not crush the exhaust pipes!

Yeh......9 weeks!

As I recall we did get some strange entries.....a mobility scooter was one, not sure if we had a lawn mower or something like that?

Narrow roads like that are what i seek out here when out for a ride ?

99.9p here too. As kids we used to run anything we could get running round the corn fields at the edge of our estate. Charge kids to have a ride around the field to raise 16p for half gallon of 2 star.

For some reason the Gov told everyone to buy diesels with some nice incentives. They now realise they're cancer and respiratory prob causing polluting dirt machines. I agree, should but the road tax on fuel.

An old one Bob. It a Japanese import Toyota Alphard i call it marmite, you either like it or hate it LOL

A little fix for the windshield shaking at speed, which on the Himalayan is common. Just get an old mountain bike tire, well that's what I used because I had one around. Cut out a strip and place under the shield, in-between the tread, way less shaking and it looks rugged! ??

Saying goodbye to a friend

We finish up in Moab and head back to Ouray to cool off and play in the mountains. Plus, we had business at the top of Engineer Pass to finish. We stop in Dolores and spend the night at Big John's, as he was to follow us up to Engineer with all the sign materials. The next morning we take off up towards Telluride so that we can cross the mountain range by way of Ophir Pass. Otherwise, you have to go in a big loop thru Durango, to get to Silverton, at the bottom of Engineer. But, first. we have to make Chis an honorary 'murican: Big John loads up his jeep and we take off. Ophir is a fun and beautiful pass, but the last section before the top is very rocky. This trip, we made it without much drama. At the top, the "smooth" section of Ophir. Unpacking the sign stuff from John's Jeep. the Cap'n and Chris take the post out to the point. This is the spot Jim had spread Billy's ashes the year before, after getting blown off of Imogene. the big guy - Big John Davis. We have learned over time that the "big" in his name actually refers to his heart. Just dont tell him you know that ? After getting the sign installed. Billy's good friend, Jim, on the left. Spiritual leader of AGALOS. On the right is some crazy dude from England. He had brought along his own tribute to a friend lost. The sticker was placed on the back of the sign. Jim had brought along a little bottle of Billy's moonshine and we offered up a toast. When i find Stephen's video of the ceremony again, i might post it. After our little farewell to good friends, we headed back down to Silverton for lunch. While in the restaurant, i pulled out a forest service map i had gotten from somewhere, and was looking up the roads we had been on. I focused on Engineer Pass, having just left there. Imagine the shock when i noticed that near the top, there is a little spur road which was shown on the map. This spur road was named "O Point Road" and it was exactly where we had erected the sign, one year after Jim, Chad and Larry had settled on this spot to spread Billy's ashes. No one in the group had any idea that we had ridden down a "road", and no one believed that this road was called O Point Road, or what we now call Odom Point Road!. It had to have been Billy the year before who had made sure Jim had ended up at this place. Nothing else explains the coincidence. at least in our minds. You can google "Odom Point" now, and find that it truly has become a popular place. Our next goal is to take his widow, April, up and show her where Billy now lives.

Welcome Rod, glad you managed to find us ? Sorry it took me 3 years to reply to you. ?