That's the trailer...I was just looking at your photos and couldn’t help noticing a wheel barrow? How did you pack that on your Honda?
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The river looks very high.
since it's about 800' from parking to the site, the park provides carts to schlep your stuff. Uphill this morning huff, puff, puff.I was just looking at your photos and couldn’t help noticing a wheel barrow? How did you pack that on your Honda?
It is but water's down from last week. Several roads marked "Closed" were passable. Oops
some more pics on the way back home today.
Creek crossing after this one on Good Nuf Hollow Road was about a foot deep, got my boots wet.
Dugway Road along the Mississippi
nice little back road campground, had an artesian spring.
Next time mebby.
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Ah man, I was sure that Africa Twin carried that wheelbarrow! Nice countryside there!
My friend and I just got back from picking up the FJR in Phoenix (to get it back to Idaho)where we stored it by the airport. We flew in and rode during the winter. From Phoenix we rode into Texas hill country. Rode through New Mexico and saw the White Sand Dunes and visited Carlsbad Caverns then down into Texas Hill country. I had a flat tire doing the Twisted Sister ride. The rock they used was about 3/4 in diameter and very sharp which sliced through my rear so was not able to plug it. So a $560 tow and $650 rear tire installed on the bike in Kerrville I was back on the road and could not get out of Texas fast enough. Everyone says the hill country is beautiful. It was ok, reminded me of SW Wisconsin. We traveled back into New Mexico and we had to stop at Billy the Kids grave of course. Made our way in to Colorado. We had multiple days of 28 degree riding in the morning hours. Not bad if you have the proper gear. I'd rather ride in that vs 100 degree weather. Lucky no rain or snow. Below is a shot from Silverton CO where we hit 26 degrees at 10,000 feet. And somewhere else that I cant remember. 4100 miles in 13 days, not sure how many more trips I have in me like that, the FJR has turned 81,000 plus miles and Im sure it has more miles left in her than I do. I have a 2002 Honda Blackbird coming my way so looking forward to working on that beast.
Taffy Gets A Ride Out.
First proper shake down ride following Winters Lay-Up.
Not too far today as I only have a few hours.
A short run to Usk town; and stop off at the town square.
Taffy looks good from 30 feet but does need a good clean and polish.
As you can see on closer inspection.
The weather held out with sunshine and some cloud cover.
Onwards to Abergavenny and my usual stop at the Oasis Cafe.
No stand out bikes today; but Taffy did get a small crowd "avin' a butchers hook" (London Cockney slang for having a look!)
A run up to Crickhowell then across the river Usk to loop back to Abergavenny via a country back road.
Then a hard fast run through some twisties back to Newport.
I'm pleased to say the bike ran well and felt strong.
I still have some clutch slip at 60mph when accelerating to pass other vehicles; makes it a bit chancy, but I was fine.
First proper shake down ride following Winters Lay-Up.
Not too far today as I only have a few hours.
A short run to Usk town; and stop off at the town square.
Taffy looks good from 30 feet but does need a good clean and polish.
As you can see on closer inspection.
The weather held out with sunshine and some cloud cover.
Onwards to Abergavenny and my usual stop at the Oasis Cafe.
No stand out bikes today; but Taffy did get a small crowd "avin' a butchers hook" (London Cockney slang for having a look!)
A run up to Crickhowell then across the river Usk to loop back to Abergavenny via a country back road.
Then a hard fast run through some twisties back to Newport.
I'm pleased to say the bike ran well and felt strong.
I still have some clutch slip at 60mph when accelerating to pass other vehicles; makes it a bit chancy, but I was fine.
Is that pavement marking in Welsh and English?
Yep sure is. All road signs in Wales are dual language even though less than 10% of the population speak Welsh. To be honest we have more Eastern and East European languages spoken than English now! But let’s not go there.
Heritage is and always be important, and should be preserved and revered.
That is true and I agree with the point in general. But it is effin annoyin when the Scottish Govt, and the Welsh Sennedd too, use bi-lingual road signs to make a political/constitutional point which I think interferes with the purpose of the signs.
So Welsh 'slow' signs read ARAF SLOW which takes longer to read and presumably confuses the 99.9935% of world population who don't speak Welsh. In Scotland, the direction signs are over-long because they put every place name in Gaelic and English even when the spellings are identical or vary by mebbe one letter. And the very small number of Scots who can actually speak Gaelic mostly comprise people who have chosen to learn it as adults. So they probably grok that Oban means the same as An t-Òban?
Ambulances in Scotland are marked Seirbheis Ambaileans na h-Alba. Mind you, if there's a hi-viz vehicle with blues & twos bearing down on you, you probably just get out of the way before reading the signage . . .
this reminded me of a time when my small college town made national news for a group with good intentions releasing an article on cultural competency before an Olympic trials event in 2008. It was basically an article on how to talk to black people and was mocked for making the town and college appear as if they had never seen a black person before, unfortunately all but a few articles remain to be found and not any of the ones clowning it. I remember because I had friends calling and leaving drunken messages LTAO about how out of touch and pathetic it made Eugene look. I'll save it for the rant thread or WTF as I thought it was funny.
It's mostly Teuchter nonsense, anyway.
I had to look it up, that's great and probably describes my Scottish bits of DNA "Teucher" I used to joke that my ancestors were either highlanders or really fast runners or else I would be taller. I get mixed results
Slimey Crud today, let's ride!
https://www.slimeycrudrun.com/
https://www.slimeycrudrun.com/
Pic dump from the slimey crud. Both ends were well attended. Met Allison for lunch at Leland, she had guys talking to her about period piece Old Paint all morning. 
Had a guy come up and shake my hand, I didn't recognize him. Then he called me Pete. I decided it was a complement to be mistaken for Peter Egan!
Had a guy come up and shake my hand, I didn't recognize him. Then he called me Pete. I decided it was a complement to be mistaken for Peter Egan!
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Time to wake the Westwind! Added a battery tender/accessory port up near the handlebars, poured in some fuel and brm brrm. I drain the fuel from the (lined) fiberglass tank when I'm not riding it. Put on mebby 20 miles, all good, then a bit of horsing around. ;^)
She'll sit on it, but won't ride it
She'll sit on it, but won't ride it
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Time to awake up the Westwind! Added a battery tender/accessory port up near the handlebars, poured in some fuel and brm brrm. I drain the fuel from the (lined) fiberglass tank when I'm not riding it. Put on mebby 20 miles, all good, then a bit of horsing around. ;^)
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She'll sit on it, but won't ride it
What’s your riding impression of that bike? Does it seem fast ( or could your TransAlp leave it in the dust? )
Definitely got the cool factor!
You had to ask dintjya?What’s your riding impression of that bike? Does it seem fast ( or could your TransAlp leave it in the dust? )
Definitely got the cool factor!
This is a 93 with a standard sportster motor (5 speed). So yeah the Africa Twin would smoke it.
Low RPM roll on power is the forte. Redline is 6K barely past where an XS650 wakes up LOL
Not extreme but a cafe, rider position ensures I won't be doing any 3 hour non stop rides on it. My knees have to sit outside the fairing pockets that "normal" riders fit in. With the low forward bars, fairing, and high pegs "comfort" doesn't start til M/L 80MPH.
Shifting is positive and reasonable, not snick snick like a Japanese 600 but not a big throw bagger clunk either. Takes some fishing to find neutral not unlike an XS
. Steering lock to lock is limited, quickly learn to adjust or an "Artie Johnson" could happen in the parking lot.6 pot front brake has good feel, reasonable lever, it'll haul you down with a firm two fingers. Rear brake is what you'd expect, want for a 1200 V-twin. Not touchy and that's fine cuz down shift to slow the rear.
Handling is stable, not real quick, but it doesn't resist being honked into corners. The slacker hasn't changed from the original rubber yet so I'm being pretty cautious here.
Controls are consistent, you know you are pulling, squeezing twisting etc. No "feels like an electric motor" here!
Guess it fits that go for a local ride on something a bit different, fun, niche.
It's bit of a oddball in the parking lot scene. So few folks know what ANY Buell IS much less what an early "barn built" RSS is about that very few notice, react to it even at the crud last year. I'll admit that's a bit disappointing. 
