Thread: Leaving out today

Sounds like a great trip. I hope the next one is great too!

go out west and meet met and new girl. maybe i should have gone further west.

My Yamaha FJ1200,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Originally Posted by Hirlau

My Yamaha FJ1200,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

That looks like a fast bike. My trouble is i need one like a recliner. My belly would be in the way.

Originally Posted by rhensley

That looks like a fast bike. My trouble is i need one like a recliner. My belly would be in the way.

At one time, it was the fastest right out of the factory.

I rode it when I didn't have a belly.

Originally Posted by rhensley

For those who have road the mountain trails (I want call them road more like a can of worms.) you know what it's like.

Iron Mountain road is one of my favorite roads to ride, when in the Blackhills area. As is Needles Highway and of course Spearfish canyon.

Aloha!

Have fun OP. Never been to Sturgis, but have been to Daytona many times. But let me tell you about rain on a bike;

I rode from Florida to Michigan the year a Hurricane came ashore but scaled back significantly in power leaving only torrential downpours and low temperatures behind it. I tried to outrun it going north. Big mistake. Not horrible wind, but big wind, perhaps 40-50 mph. Still, it poured cats and dogs and alligators when the rain caught me at the Florida/Georgia border. I distinctly remember being in southern Georgia riding about 20 miles north of the Florida border on I-75 and it was pouring so hard I had my 4-way flashers on going about 20 mph with my eyes on the white line on the side of the highway so I could make out where the road was. A truck was actually following ME on the bike with his flashers on.

As luck would have it, about 10 miles in that horrid stuff I pulled off on a rural exit that through sheer luck had a Super 8 Motel and a restaurant and gas station. Nothing else. It was like an oasis in the desert. I had to spend two nights there until the rain and wind passed. The owner took pity on me and let me pull my bike into his storage shed for the duration.

My riding gear was water "resistant" but not water "Proof" and it never dried out fully and I rode north in significantly lower temps after the hurricane passed in damp riding gear. By the time I hit Kentucky it was 55 degrees and by Michigan it was about 45. I froze my butt off. I've never been so cold on a bike.

So after that fiasco, rain doesn't bother me much, unless I am foolish enough to try to outrun another hurricane.

-Zip

1995 Triumph Trophy 1200 (AKA - Hurricane Bike)

I'm still working on the belly, but even when I did not have one, there is no way I could have gone half that far on a non-recliner. My knees can't handle being bent like that for so long. I need highway pegs.

Originally Posted by Hirlau

My Yamaha FJ1200,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

I am showing my age now, but that picture made me think of Street Hawk

Originally Posted by Utopian

I'm still working on the belly, but even when I did not have one, there is no way I could have gone half that far on a non-recliner. My knees can't handle being bent like that for so long. I need highway pegs.

I know there good bikes but I couldn't even in my younger days ride all humped up and vulgar looking. My back and neck would kill me.