Motorcycle Adventures

[crosscountry]

Some of you know by now that I ride motorcycles. Well, I ride a lot. This summer I rode from St. Louis to central Maine then back. After that I thought I'd ride over to California and see what that's all about. From there it was Seattle on my way to San Antonio.


Anyway, I besides BAUT I also belong to a motorcycle forum called IntruderAlert. It got the name from the model of motorcycle that the members ride, Suzuki Intruder

anyway, I've started a story thread over there where I post my stories. I've only done one so far, but I plan to post all about the 25000 miles I've ridden so far this year.


here's the link


http://www.intruderalert.com/cafe/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=63123

yep, there are plenty of pictures too. I took over 2100 on the California trip alone. Some of them are pretty good.

[crosscountry]

I'm kinda dissapointed no one has replied. :(

[MrObvious]

Sorry mate, didn't see the thread till now :(

Another biker eh, cool :D

Looks like a fun trip too. My long distance riding days are pretty much over but I used to do a lot of riding when younger. 2000miles on a long weekend etc, the good ol days :D

Glad to see another biker on the forum too.

[crosscountry]

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[MrObvious]

Thats a lot of milage since Jan.
Take some advice from an old timer, stretch your back and legs regularly, it makes a world of difference in the long term :)

[crosscountry]

you and I both know that.

[crosscountry]

here is a link to the second installment of my travels.


enjoy

http://www.intruderalert.com/cafe/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=63480

[crosscountry]

my most recent chapter


http://www.intruderalert.com/cafe/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=65118

[Candy]

Great stories. I'm glad your mother is watching you. ;)

Well, the ride back was just as amazing. The mountains go on forever and we were taking our time in them. I snapped quite a few on the move. This was the first time that I ever tried to take some while moving, but they turned out great.
I was going to ask if you were taking those photos while riding, but never mind. You better be careful!

BTW, that Astronaut looks familiar. :razz:

[crosscountry]

I borrowed him ;)

[breeze]

Hey, cross.

I certainly would have replied earlier had I seen the thread. I look forward to checking out your stories.

Keep the shiny side up!
Breeze

[breeze]

Cross,

Love the pictures. I grew up in the mountains of Northern New Mexico and your pics make me a little homesick.. :sad:

Great stories. Thanks for posting the links. Gives me some inspiration...

Breeze

[Candy]

http://www.cosgan.de/images/midi/verschiedene/c110.gif

I wish the Smilie had a clean face like yours. :razz:

[Titana]

my most recent chapter


http://www.intruderalert.com/cafe/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=65118


Interesting story. The pictures were fabulous....


Titana........

[crosscountry]

the pictures only get better

[Candy]

the pictures only get better
Why does this excite me for some reason? :razz:

I saved one of your photos to my hard drive, and it said "Illinois Home". Are you from Illinois, originally?

[crosscountry]

actually, I'm from Texas. Lived there 24 years. (I don't have the accent however)

I was living in Illinois last year when that photo was taken.

[JohnD]

CC,
I drove 2500 miles across Europe in three and half days last month (the Club Triumph Ten Countries Run), but I didn't post about it here, a Science and Astronomy site.
John

[crosscountry]

Yes you did.

[crosscountry]

here is a story about another trip I took: one from last year.

I was in Pensacola, Florida.


http://www.intruderalert.com/cafe/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=66949

[captain swoop]

I ride around the roads of North Yorkshire. A fave run is from Stokesley on the Cleveland Plain, along Bilsdale, over the top to Helmesley where on any summer weekend you can safely say there will be at least 3 or 400 bikes parked on the Marketplace. After lunch it's along the Scarborough Road to Pickering then back across the moortops past the Filingdales Early Warning station abck to Whitby then over the moors again back to Guis.
Stokesley to Helmseley is prob the best biking road in the world if you are on a Sportsbike, twisty 2 lane with sweeping curves and swooping hills.

Unfortunately there are up to half a dozen deaths a year on it, esp on weekends when the Moto GP or Superbikes has been on TV

[captain swoop]

I don't have a bike at the moment. I killed my Ducati on some wet slippery leaves a couple of weeks ago. (Sob) Going to replace it in the New Year. Another Duke, or an Aprilia.
I was looking at a lovely 'Repsol' Honda replica at the weekend and I am ptempted by a Yamaha in 'Rossi' colours.

[LurchGS]

Well, I didn't have a Ducati - just a POS Honda XL600 back in the day. Bent it all to heck when I took a bird-strike to my faceshield - and sold it for what I paid for it. Good investment.

Current plan, though, is to pick up a BMW R1200RT come income tax time. Or maybe sooner if certain things work out.

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[Candy]

here is a story about another trip I took: one from last year.

I was in Roselle, Illinois.
When am I going to see the above posted here? :shifty:

I enjoyed your memories. One request, more photos of you.

[crosscountry]

When am I going to see the above posted here? :shifty:

I enjoyed your memories. One request, more photos of you.
I've only been to Chicago twice. Once I flew into the city and was laid over for a couple hours. The other time I was riding back from Minnesota. I was there for Labor Day last year.


Don't like toll roads:mad:


Maybe in the spring I'll ride up there. I've got plenty of pictures of me on a motorcycle.



here is one of my favorites

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4969/maine2redone9hi.th.jpg (http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=maine2redone9hi.jpg)

of course it rained on me.... I have that reputation.

[tmosher]

Well, I didn't have a Ducati - just a POS Honda XL600 back in the day. Bent it all to heck when I took a bird-strike to my faceshield - and sold it for what I paid for it. Good investment.

Current plan, though, is to pick up a BMW R1200RT come income tax time. Or maybe sooner if certain things work out.

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Have you seen the K1200 yet? Saw one sitting in Champion in Charleston a couple of weeks ago when I was dropping off my K75 for a minor cosmetic repair. The K is definitely on the funky side...not like the other R's or K's that are out there. Price was in the mid 12k range.

BTW, minor in the case of my K75 is around $2,000 or more...mercifully, it's got full coverage - I pity Dairyland...they've paid out more than I've paid in. This makes the third time in ten years the bike will be rebuilt...wreck in 95, theft in 01 and a wreck in 05. Maybe I should stop riding...nah, that thought died a quick death.

[Candy]

here is one of my favorites
Did you get a free map? ;)

[crosscountry]

Did you get a free map? ;)



how did you know?:D

[Candy]

Later, in the afternoon before Barbara got home, I asked if we could visit the FL visitor center. I wanted a state map and I liked the free ones. (still do)
:p

[LurchGS]

Have you seen the K1200 yet? Saw one sitting in Champion in Charleston a couple of weeks ago when I was dropping off my K75 for a minor cosmetic repair. The K is definitely on the funky side...not like the other R's or K's that are out there. Price was in the mid 12k range.


Heh - yeah, I saw it, and decided it's not what I'm after. Looks too Japanese fo r my taste - all crotch-rockety and that.

[tmosher]

Heh - yeah, I saw it, and decided it's not what I'm after. Looks too Japanese fo r my taste - all crotch-rockety and that.

I'll agree on that one. If you get BMW MOA magazine, you'll see that most don't like the looks of the thing.

One of these days I might go back to the old R100's. My first two bikes were R100's (1978 and 1983). I traded in the 83 for my current K75/3 (which was changed to a K75C).

However, it looks like I may lose the K75 - the repair tab is $3,800 (that's just for a dented gas tank, cracked fairing, scrapped engine cover and a couple of clipped marker lights $1,400 parts, $1,000 paint, and $1,400 labor). Dairyland may total the bike considering it's got a value of around $4,000 or less - two options with that - payoff for fair market value or sell at salvage value back to me plus difference between the salvage and market value. Heck, the bike only has 26,000 miles on it.

Decisions, decisions...

[LurchGS]

whatever gets you back on the road (in style) fastest.

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Rice is good in a bowl, but in a bike, it's baaaaaad

[captain swoop]

I have yo say I like Race reps and Super Sports, I only ride at the weekends or summer evenings and I like to 'get my knee down' Maybe that's why I keep ending up in the gutter

[LurchGS]

yah, drink will do that to yah! 8-{)}

[tmosher]

whatever gets you back on the road (in style) fastest.

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Rice is good in a bowl, but in a bike, it's baaaaaad

Waiting on the appraiser to see what happens. I'd surely love to get one of the last R100's made - which I believe was in 95 or 96??? Of course, not a Mystic - too much plastic on her.

[crosscountry]

The lastest story of my trip across the country.


http://www.intruderalert.com/cafe/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=69542

[LurchGS]

nice. and you didn't tootle up to denver to see me. I'm hurt.

I'm going out back to eat worms

[crosscountry]

Denver is later in the trip. I wasn't very active on the BABB back then


that and you don't have your location listed. oh, and I didn't even slow down when passing through.



excuses...

[LurchGS]

right excuses, excuses :)

Not that I blame you for not slowing down.. I hate Denver. Not that there's anything wrong with the city or the people, but I do love the ocean... Coos Bay was good. I liked that place.

Well,there is one thing about Denver that reeks - why did our forefathers plant cities under monster inversion layers? Denver's is the third strongest in North America (behind LA and the Mendenhall Valley outside of Juneau)

[Candy]

Scary, Cross, but very cool! Keep the stories coming, please. I enjoy them very much. Always wear a helmet.

[suntrack2]

motorcycle if puncture in jugle that's great experience of my past life, once upon a time there was a big thorn on the road, and that thorn was thick in the built moved in my motorcycle's tyre and gone in the airtube later a big craker like experience in the jungle, there was a big bang of that tyre's noise. :)

i was passing through, i was alone at that time and the evening started after the sun is getting down on the horizone, but later i got help and moved safely from the jungle, in short the punctureless tyres are best in the jungle ! and a stepny must be there with the motorcycle, but really the problem with "where to keep helmet on the motor cycle, when there is a big journey, keeping helmet on the head continuously just impossible for me then i placed it on the mirror rod, later started journey, but where to keep the stepny on the byke that's a real problem, can we run motor cycle on methane ? if so, then on mars the futured motor-rover can run on the methane gas!

sunil

[crosscountry]

Scary, Cross, but very cool! Keep the stories coming, please. I enjoy them very much. Always wear a helmet.

I do always wear my helmet. :D


right excuses, excuses :)

Not that I blame you for not slowing down.. I hate Denver. Not that there's anything wrong with the city or the people, but I do love the ocean... Coos Bay was good. I liked that place.


I love the mountains. The ocean to me is just a barrier to more riding. Sure lots of good things come from the ocean, but give me a home in the mountains!

[LurchGS]

I'd accept a home in the mountains - if I could see the ocean from my front porch.

Actually, a home in the mountains where I could see the ocean would be ideal, come to think of it.

[crosscountry]

latest story

http://www.intruderalert.com/cafe/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=72866

[crosscountry]

latest edition

http://www.intruderalert.com/cafe/index.cfm?page=topic&topicID=73955