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Over to the left side of OR in June for the 15th annual Hangar Dance @ an old friend's place in Boring (sister town to Dull Scotland)...for real, look it up. He's a CEO of a helicopter service w/ 3 Bell Ranger choppers @ his own FAA approved property along the Sandy river near Mt. Hood. This time of year, he's been slinging Christmas trees for the last 32 yrs. A coupla live bands & plenty of food & a car show top off that 3-day event. Always great to see a handful of old friends from back in the day. Hopefully, the misses & I will also make a trip to MN to see my parents & brother...as well as visit her relatives in ND before that awesome party.

Riding that far in one trip would frazzle our brains

I had to go to the other side of the city for a training day, I’m not sitting in traffic when I can make it a thirty minute ride on the bike.

why the fuck would you want to ride in freezing weather ...you nob

I'd like to do Belgium as well someday. Just for the beers....

This is my commute to work this morning, thank goodness I am on leave this week. Someone else's problem

The sound of the gopro has always been crap, too much wind noise and not enough sound from the engine/exhaust. I've decided to record the sound using my phone and merge the image and sound afterwards. This is the result of the trip to work on a foggy morning and the trip back home...

Some more Kwak porn...

Only have two scheduled so far. Hope add some more as the riding season gets closer. One; a route I've don e many times including Reno, California coast into Oregon and back home through Salt Lake City. Always fun. Two; the West Virginia down to Tennessee, Deal's Gap and back home via Oklahoma route. Have done this a few times before as well and it's always fun. Any of you wankers wanna come over and join us? It'd be fun to have a foreigner along to laugh at. And you'll get a fully guided tour of the USA for the low, low price of free. West coast ride is about 3,000 miles / 7 days and the eastern portion would be about 5,000 miles / 10 days. Could do longer as far as days goes if required.

Who has anything planned ...or thinking of planning.. we want to get up to Yorkshire for a week..... go to Mathewsons ,Bangers and cash when they got an auction on... also Vianden Luxembourg if we can ..

No it wouldn't - you'd be fine. It's not as hard as it looks. A few beers at night and you'd be good to go again the next day. I could also do a ride that doesn't leave Colorado - much less distance to cover, etc. But hotel prices in this State are very high for substandard rooms. Nice rooms are like $400 a night. It'd be nicer to get out to Utah and cheaper / better rooms with great riding.

My wife's company has 3 hotels in Anchorage, so I've gone there with her a few times. While she works, I just drive/ ride around looking at stuff. It's pretty barren outside of the bigger towns and the scenery isn't much different from my home area. Don't have a great desire to ride all the way there though. The insects in the summer are just unreal - huge turn off for me.

Assuming missiles aren't flying around by then, a Morocco trip at the end of 25 for sure, when the weather cools down. A longer trip than the previous ones, for sure, as I think I'll have less restraints. A couple of shorter rides around Portugal, and maybe one to Spain somewhere, although to be honest I would only do that for variety

Maybe a trips across the US...Sturgis possibly...I will be officially retired this Nov 29...

I had my full winter gear on today, except for boots, I just wore my usual Harley boots. I had found my triple layer sub zero balaclava that I bought many years ago as well, I stayed nice and warm and had the chin piece on my lid flipped open all the time. It was definitely starting to freeze on my way home, it will be getting dicey out there now.

I have some trips planned. Mainly to Asda.

Bike is sounding pretty nice with the sound recording like this.

In the words of Oats..."I am going outside, I may be gone sometime"

I'm up for a trip to the Pyrenees either that or I want to do some of the routes in the Flanders area of Belgium .

Bucket list destination....Denali AK...

Suzi's last GP effort....

As stated earlier....Lesson well learned-- & w/ NO injuries...BIG plus.++ You've definitely got some decent neighbors there. Now Shadow can further her biking experience by helping Dad re-assemble her steed. She's quite blessed to have Dad's experience @ hand for a resource.

Lawyer this afternoon...a little back and forth between lawyers...they want to put a no competition close that I can't work with in 25 km for the next 5 years ...wich I'm not in agreement with...hopefully it will be resolved by the 29...I agreed not to open another shop...that's it..I'm 59 still have a few good years in me..if I get bored by the time spring rolls around..I just might be going back to work...who knows ..65 is the old age pension here...who knows I have a boy who just might want to open up his own shop in a year or two after he writes his final exam...I'd like to be able to help him out if he takes that path.

Glad The Shadow is ok and not knocked her confidence.... neighbor knew , how could you not know you hit a bike. how well do you know the neighbor ? can you ask her if the rumor is true and her growler is horizontal.... asking for a friend

twat

And your not talking about cigarettes when you say having a fag in a layby

Shit this makes me laugh. Not thinking of an electric bike or car are you @Six30

Freddie gets a dead Harley

you twat

A bit of ice under the bridges but otherwise okay riding weather.

It was already -1c when I left, positively balmy.

Tell them no, you can't have restrictions on your work. Who knows what is around the corner, circumstances can change. Been through this with my Mrs when she sold her Hairdressing Salon 20 years ago now. They tried to stop her working at all within a 5 miles radius of the Salon for 5 years, we got the clause removed and the sale went ahead just fine. I think these clauses are a default that are put into business sales contract, of course you can't agree to that.

Somehow I had feeling that you'd been there when I posted it. Got a friend who lives in AK that's told me the mosquito's are the new black.

Been there twice - in the winter both times. Park was closed but you coyuld still see some of the good views, etc. Bugs / mosquitos are horrendous in the summer time.

Squarebody in the snow....My kinda Beast

Figured from and inexperience rider like you...my hand is ready on the clutch leaver ready for and emergency stop...but I have cat like reflexes you and the other hand are more like a sloth...lol...it's why you crashed your harley and got that fuck up paint job on the batwing...

Clutch pulled?

Glad she is OK, and hope this hasn't knocked her confidence. That your kid has been knocked off must be about the worst think you can hear as a parent, can't have been much fun for you either.

On a bike, being right and blameless doesn’t unhurt you after crashing. That’s a good lesson to learn early and without being hurt.

half right , would have to have a coffee with it...

I didn't want to go through insurance unless I had no choice. Even though it would not have been Shadows fault it would still have gone down on her insurance record at 17. Also as you say the bike would have written off for the sake of 4 plastic panels and a screen. The prices for those parts is exorbitant, blatantly a rip off in my opinion. The bottom speedo casing slone was £99 FFS. But what can you do apart from build an ugly street fighter/cafe racer type thing. Not something she would like or me. She likes having the best, newest, cleanest CB125F in the college car park. Also the woman didn't want to go through insurance unless she had to as her excess was £500 and next years premium would have gone up. Plus I didn't push it, but she did leave the scene of an accident. On the plus side Shadow is basically fine, if a bit sore, she can't wait to be back on the road. She is tough, has been thrown off horses many times in her young life . I will be getting busy with the super glue to get her back up and running while we are waiting for the new parts to come. I did chide her a little as she was going a little fast when it happened, only 15 MPH but still to fast to stop when the woman pulled out in front of her. I told her I had seen video of the whole thing. Definitely not Shadows fault but a little more caution would have probably avoided the whole thing. I may be being a little over critical but I have years of experience and you can't expect her to get that overnight. I did take her and her mum out for posh coffee and cake to chill after the event, but she is fine, up her boy friends now.

im going to have to issue a card here clive...you keep using the word snow... and we all know what colour snow is... please refer to it from now on as frozen particles falling from the sky...

Big Bend Ranch....TX...

Hard landing....using ALL of the suspension...

Yankee 500 z.....Ossa power'd...

Bad Lands Nat'l Park...SD...

Goat Lake...WA