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October VROOM
Oct. 9th, 2011 07:21 pmSo. October 9. 80 degrees. Sunny. How could we NOT go for a ride??
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kr4sh, mylisant, and Jeff this morning, and took off for points northwest! A perfect riding day, not too busy on the roads, didn't need either liner in my coat, beautiful foliage on the trees, especially once we got north of Windham. kr4sh remembered a really good BBQ place for lunch, on the way to Evans Notch. The Notch was beautiful. Stalled the bike a few times trying to get up a steep turnout, was frustrating... But parked safely and managed to get going again without too much internal dialogue. The 5 of us helped push a couple women in a stalled Honda Accord off the road to a safer landing spot too. Don't know what happened there.
Ran into the guy who was the previous owner of my Monster at a gas station on the way back. That was random. He came up, asked how I liked the bike, and then said 'It was never that dirty when I owned it!', then got a little upset when he realized the marks weren't dirt, but scratches... I related the exciting story, and decided not to tell him about the other two times I'd dumped... I wasn't happy when I did it either, but relax, 'kay? It's not something I plan on doing on a regular basis... /sigh. And he seemed a little put off that I'd taken the (ugly) green 'Monster' decals off the tank. Decided not to tell him those were the first things to go. Pfeh. Not your bike anymore, dude...
Interesting to note, too, that either my odometer orkurlon's odometer (perhaps both) reads funny. We filled up after lunch, after having filled the tanks at the same time that morning. Mine read 78.4 miles. His read 77.4 miles. Same thing when we got home, mine reads a mile and a bit higher than his. Strange.
The little $40 Panasonic LZ7 I picked up for a travel camera seems to work just fine too, now I just need to get a couple decent sets of rechargeable batteries...
Tired now, don't wanna go to work tomorrow, but it looks like it's going to be a reasonable biking week, at least till Thursday! Got some Stuff to do before my Grand Adventure to Montreal this weekend too... I am excited for Fall Harvest!
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| 10-09 October Ride |
J and I met
kr4sh, mylisant, and Jeff this morning, and took off for points northwest! A perfect riding day, not too busy on the roads, didn't need either liner in my coat, beautiful foliage on the trees, especially once we got north of Windham. kr4sh remembered a really good BBQ place for lunch, on the way to Evans Notch. The Notch was beautiful. Stalled the bike a few times trying to get up a steep turnout, was frustrating... But parked safely and managed to get going again without too much internal dialogue. The 5 of us helped push a couple women in a stalled Honda Accord off the road to a safer landing spot too. Don't know what happened there.Ran into the guy who was the previous owner of my Monster at a gas station on the way back. That was random. He came up, asked how I liked the bike, and then said 'It was never that dirty when I owned it!', then got a little upset when he realized the marks weren't dirt, but scratches... I related the exciting story, and decided not to tell him about the other two times I'd dumped... I wasn't happy when I did it either, but relax, 'kay? It's not something I plan on doing on a regular basis... /sigh. And he seemed a little put off that I'd taken the (ugly) green 'Monster' decals off the tank. Decided not to tell him those were the first things to go. Pfeh. Not your bike anymore, dude...
Interesting to note, too, that either my odometer or
kurlon's odometer (perhaps both) reads funny. We filled up after lunch, after having filled the tanks at the same time that morning. Mine read 78.4 miles. His read 77.4 miles. Same thing when we got home, mine reads a mile and a bit higher than his. Strange. The little $40 Panasonic LZ7 I picked up for a travel camera seems to work just fine too, now I just need to get a couple decent sets of rechargeable batteries...
Tired now, don't wanna go to work tomorrow, but it looks like it's going to be a reasonable biking week, at least till Thursday! Got some Stuff to do before my Grand Adventure to Montreal this weekend too... I am excited for Fall Harvest!
