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Needed a bike to do Prudhoe Bay on: Succumbed to the call of the GS, finally The power and smoothness of a 6-cyl is fun! Wasnt going to go the liquid cooled GS route, until I rented one in Europe. getting older, so an upright sport bike is perfect! Mind wasnt maturing, so a normal sport bike had to be had. followed by a slight upgrade and, then stupidity reigned and i had to have the newest somewhere in the middle of the lunacy, got the Rallye version. Great offroad bike with all the electronic nannies Should stay away from the dealerships, as the updated XR called my name out.

First bike Second Switched to Kawasakis (first crash, too. got an extra thick collar bone cause of that bike) What do you do when you turn 40? Of course, you buy a .... Vibrated so bad the air cleaner bolt would back out, the headlight would break. Compression so high, it would bend the starter ? then, you go amurican, fully! Was the brother's, but he got fed up with the dealer not being able to fix things, so told them to sell it and he moved on to BMW Which led me to this: and, then this:

is that wishful thinking? Hey, Sportsterboy!

Welcome!!

be careful what you ask for ?

seems pretty common nowadays. so common that when we are out on a trip, chatting up people we meet, when they ask how we all met we just say "eHarmony" ?

Got to get Frijole in here. He loves Colorado and White Rim Trail. He has no plans to ride this year, but these pics could change his mind!

Very similar here. i would just add that i've met some really good motorcycle enthusiasts thru all this online stuff, that i wouldnt have met otherwise. Even Bruce, whom i plan on meeting in the flesh someday soon. Dont really care what bike you ride, just that you love to ride. Grew up on Hondas, went thru Kawis and a Groundpounder and a Road Glide before choosing my current brand. I just love tweaking the nose of those who think their bike choice defines them, and defines them as better than others. Especially them KTM guys. They are totally clueless ?

Colorado is one of our favorite places to ride. Lots of mountain and forest roads, beautiful scenery!

i'm just here for the attention.....

anyone know these guys?

my, my, my. kiss and tell, are we?

racing team mascot was a little pig. wearing lipstick. just like the bikes

Rumors that i might have sniffed the pillion seat are false. totally, false. probably

you mean why she is standing here with studded snow tires? Sandra Bullock's boy-toy had a little tv show and this bike was built to ride the ice road in Canada, from Inuvik to Tuktoyatuk. After doing that, (and raising hell on ADVRIDER) he sold tried selling the bike. I eventually got it from the BMW dealer in St Louis, Missouri. It had 2,400 miles on it then, 115,000 on it now. It is now referred to as the Uber bike by all the friends who come west to ride.

The XR is a good canyon racer when you get old and dont like the bent over position

Start off with Bruce's favorite GS - Flames Then, a fun one to hooligan on: This was a big improvement in offroad "stuff" - the Rallye

and, yet you bought a boat....

ah, the Bjorn Borg era?

Margaret Thatcher?

At least she didnt say she was looking for facts

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!

There is one section on this road where you come around a corner, vertical rock going up on one side, and flat area to the other. Except, the direction we have ridden this, as soon as you start the corner, the radius decreases drastically, and you face a gap in the rocks along the outside edge of the road, giving you a view of about an 800 foot drop! If you arent paying attention, you will be playing superman instantly.