I also considered a KLR, I went to look at it right before buying the V-Strom. A lot to be said for that big thumper. Guys take them around the world and they just run and run.
Great bike.
Great bike.
Experiences like this can "build character", and resiliency I believe, for some people. Especially when someone is young, as you were.Breaking your hip on a remote ride is a nightmare scenario. Man! Glad you made it out to live another day. I had a similar experience when I was in high school. I was riding a dirt bike alone in the desert , which is not smart to begin with and I was riding along a trail that crossed side of a steep mountain.
I smashed my right knee on a rocky outcrop and was unable to get up. Took me a LONG time to get back up and then kick start that bike with a leg I could hardly stand on. I had youth on my side. I made it out ....barely.
Rules ??so we can use a bike other than xs for the photos? Since mine isnt running i would use my yamaha venture.Lots of cool places around here to shoot.
I shall be on the road tomorrow,camera in hand.I have a cattelac I want you all to see.
Cool.I have no problem with it. We all love interesting pics.
Maybe a points system.
Bonus points if an XS in the pic.
Bonus points if it's an old filling station.
Bonus points if the old filling station is still pumping gas.
And, the points don't matter...
Looks like VANISHING POINT,,, if I remember rightThere was at least one other Kowalski in the Movies, and he drove a white 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T.
Please tell me that I'm not the only person who remembers this flick, which was up there with Bullitt.
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I would suggest another new game, Take a Pic of Your XS at an Old Fashioned Drive In, extra points if the waitresses are on roller skates.close enough?
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The (still open for business with car hops, we had lunch) drive in is old, so are the bikes, but I think the riders are holding trump.
Extra points if she shakes her booty in your video.extra points if the waitresses are on roller skates.
... I remember watching it from a perspective that doesn't exist ...
Shake that Booty, Baby !Extra points if she shakes her booty in your video.
My drug days were over by the time I was 15; I was precocious. I ascribe the aforementioned phenomenon to a perturbation in the Multiverse.
Somewhere in South Dakota I came upon a locked up old gas station with a couple of old cars out front populated by a family of mannequins. Everything well-maintained. If there'd been mannequins inside playing checkers it really would have been Twilight Zone.