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Home from my bike trip.
Lowrider
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What's been happening around here over the past seven days? I don't have the energy to read everything posted since the night of Friday, Sept. 6th, so maybe somebody could just fill me in on anything significant.
Had a pretty good trip except for the damn weather in Arizona and Utah. I left the rainy northwest for the sunny southwest, or so I thought, and was damn-near drowned in thunderstorms down south while the weather here at home (Washington State) was in the eighties the whole time I was gone. I guess that's just the way my luck runs.
Rode some great backroads and saw some beautiful country. Rolled up over 3700 miles in seven days, actually just six days of riding because I spent 24 hours in Las Vegas. Went southeast down through eastern Washington and eastern Oregon, south down the length of Nevada to Vegas, east across Hoover Dam to Kingman, AZ and then rode the old Route 66 through Hackberry, Peach Springs, Seligman to Ash Fork and south through Prescott and Phoenix to Casa Grande. I'd been wanting to ride that piece of Route 66 for many years. North through Sedona to Flagstaff and Paige, north through Utah to Cedar City, back into Nevada to dodge more thunderstorms, north to Ely and Jackpot, into Idaho at Twin Falls and north to Hailey and Ketchum, northwest to Lewiston, back into Washington and home. Rode from Ketchum,ID to my house yesterday, over 850 miles in 16 hours.
Other than the horrible two days of weather in Arizona and Utah, it was a great trip. My battery crapped-out on me in Nevada on Thursday and I was lucky to be able to limp into Ely with nothing electrical working on the bike and the engine running poorly. A great little bike shop in Ely, Nevada, "Gone Wild" by name, specializing in custom Harley work, engine building, etc., fixed me up and put me back on the road. If any of you are ever in the Ely area on your scooter, make a point of stopping there to say hi and buy a tee shirt or something. Really good people and the owner is a top-notch, engine-building sumbitch.
The best roads I traveled were in Idaho between Ketchum and Graingeville. Beautiful scenery up through the Sawtooth Wilderness and the roads were absolutely made for motorcycling. Perfect pavement and twisty like a snake for 200 miles. If you haven't been through that part of the country, make a point of it. You won't be disappointed.
Good to be back here safe and sound.
Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
Had a pretty good trip except for the damn weather in Arizona and Utah. I left the rainy northwest for the sunny southwest, or so I thought, and was damn-near drowned in thunderstorms down south while the weather here at home (Washington State) was in the eighties the whole time I was gone. I guess that's just the way my luck runs.
Rode some great backroads and saw some beautiful country. Rolled up over 3700 miles in seven days, actually just six days of riding because I spent 24 hours in Las Vegas. Went southeast down through eastern Washington and eastern Oregon, south down the length of Nevada to Vegas, east across Hoover Dam to Kingman, AZ and then rode the old Route 66 through Hackberry, Peach Springs, Seligman to Ash Fork and south through Prescott and Phoenix to Casa Grande. I'd been wanting to ride that piece of Route 66 for many years. North through Sedona to Flagstaff and Paige, north through Utah to Cedar City, back into Nevada to dodge more thunderstorms, north to Ely and Jackpot, into Idaho at Twin Falls and north to Hailey and Ketchum, northwest to Lewiston, back into Washington and home. Rode from Ketchum,ID to my house yesterday, over 850 miles in 16 hours.
Other than the horrible two days of weather in Arizona and Utah, it was a great trip. My battery crapped-out on me in Nevada on Thursday and I was lucky to be able to limp into Ely with nothing electrical working on the bike and the engine running poorly. A great little bike shop in Ely, Nevada, "Gone Wild" by name, specializing in custom Harley work, engine building, etc., fixed me up and put me back on the road. If any of you are ever in the Ely area on your scooter, make a point of stopping there to say hi and buy a tee shirt or something. Really good people and the owner is a top-notch, engine-building sumbitch.
The best roads I traveled were in Idaho between Ketchum and Graingeville. Beautiful scenery up through the Sawtooth Wilderness and the roads were absolutely made for motorcycling. Perfect pavement and twisty like a snake for 200 miles. If you haven't been through that part of the country, make a point of it. You won't be disappointed.
Good to be back here safe and sound.
Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
Comments
He rode like the wind
fer seven days,
peferrin` the back roads
over the hiways.
This vagabond tramp
has straggled back home
He`s already plannin`
where next he`ll roam.
.218
Edited by - 218Beekeep on 09/14/2002 15:11:29
Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
You da man!
Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
.218
The gene pool needs chlorine.
Glad your home..
All the aholes and smartbutts,wierdo's,freaks,& trouble starters.
We're all still here man lol...
If we lived in a perfect world you would not be here
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"Just my opinion."
Not much going on!
Sodbuster: Lots of cool stuff on old Route 66. Things I'd seen in books about the MotherRoad and things I've seen in movies, but never seen with my own eyes. The Hackberry General Store is a real trip. Been there since the thirties. It's been filmed for a lot of movies and the memorabilia and stuff in the store is too much. Also saw Delgado's Snow Cones. That place has been operating ever since the Route was the only east-west road. Also the "world famous" Route 66 Motel. I had a real good time riding that stretch of American history.
The security at the dam was pretty tight. No trucks or buses allowed to cross the dam. The big rigs have to detour a long way around. They have checkpoints set up a mile or so each side of the dam and they are stopping everyone. We were waved through after slowing to a crawl, guess they figured you couldn't pack a bike with enough explosives to do any harm, but the vehicles in front and behind us were stopped and given the third degree. Things are sure different now. I rode across Hoover in 1994 and never saw any cops anywhere. Now the place is crawling with Feds. They even have the viewpoint parking areas fenced off with signs that read "Gov't. Parking Only."
You're right about the bad weather being fodder for good stories. I already forgot about how miserable it was and now just think back on it as part of the adventure. One thing for sure, when it rains so hard the roads are flooded and the visibility is so bad you're riding about 20 mph on a 60 mph road, it's a damn dangerous situation. Especially when there are other vehicles on the road (mostly big rigs) still highballing it through the storm. Very easy to get run over.
Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
My aunt and her new hubby belong to a bike club and just got back from a ride, as well. They were in the same area you just got back from.
Any chance you know them, or did you ride by yourself?
Name's are Linda and Steve. I can't remember Steve's last name for the life of me.
They live in New Mexico but ride just about everywhere.
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Boomer
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as it is by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed."NRA Life Member
Boomer: No, I wasn't alone, but there sure as hell isn't much out there in the Nevada desert. "Loneliest Road In America" is a very accurate description of Hwy. 50. There's something about the desolation of the desert that I really like, though. Something about the fact that very little has changed out there in the past few million years. It's very beautiful in its own right.
Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.