Nice route! Certainly the long way around.Originally Posted by Zviffer
Nice route! Certainly the long way around.
Yamaha FJR here.
How would you like to get roundhouse kicked with a motorcycle?
Glad to see there's a decent amount of bigger bikes here. I'll have a sport bike in fall, until then I'll just pretend my FJR is a 1000RR. Hope to meet some of you guys in the near future!
I sport tour on an old FZR.
John
KTM Duke 690
...or 100+ for months on end with 50% humidity and rarely getting below 90 at night...with 85% humidity to greet you in the morning. That is the main reason why we moved from away Austin. I put 16,000 miles on my Sprint in the past 9 years, probably about 1,500 in the last three years because riding just became too miserable to enjoy. It became too easy to put the top up on the car and turn the A/C on when it got too hot.
FZ1 bitches!
Gonna have hard bags soon.
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Bike: 2009 FZ-1 "The Hematoma"
No thank you... Born and raised in CO. I don't deal well with humidity.
Do not put off living the life you dream of. Next year may never come. If we are always waiting for something to change...
Retirement, the kids to leave home, the weather or the economy, that's not living. That's waiting!
Waiting will only leaves us with unrealized dreams and empty wishes.
I sport tour on my R1. Just did 1800 miles this past weekend (Fri-Sun).
Bob <------ Asshole Nazi devil moderator out to get each and every one of you
- 2002 Yamaha R1 (92K+ miles... bought new) ---------------------------------------->
- 2015 Yamaha Bolt C-Spec (Cafe Racer)
- 2004 Yamaha R6 (racebike)
- 2006 Yamaha R1 (racebike)R.I.P. 502 ~ Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it isn't the end.
vfr1200 here and always looking to ride, just got my bags on last month, new skins on it a few weeks ago and rode this weekend.. feels so good..
I'm always ready to go for a ride. I'm in Aurora and have an FJR. Also, Clovis is in Colorado Springs and has an FJR.
FJR hereBut I like to pretend its more sport and less tourer.
Some "spirited" FJR riding down Highway 7 located here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2_Cu...layer_embedded
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
1997 Honda CBR1100xx Blackbird w/ 85,000 original miles on it...
MRA Racer No.427
Blu/Wht '01 Gixxer 1000 (bought new) that has about 66k miles on it, and that I "Sport Tour" on.
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-Theodore Roosevelt 1907
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Blu/Wht '01 Gixxer 1K, '91 KX500
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2001 ZX12 here.
I camp
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Have you seen the shoe tree about 15mi outside of Ely?One of my personnal favorites is Hwy 50 thru to Reno.
Long straights broken up by serious twisties going over the passes in western Utah and Nevada. A little of everything to please most.Hopefully I get to ride out to MotoGP this year on that very road.
I like that road too
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Go Stoner #27 "The Absolute Intercontinental Ballistic Missile of MotoGP!"
Go Sykes #66 2013 WSBK Champion. Go Green!
The original tree was cut down by some asshole a few years ago.
A new tree has been established a couple miles from the original.
took some pictures when I rode out to MotoGP last July.
Riding down to Austin Tx for MotoGP in a couple weeks.
I'll look for some interesting thing during the trip.
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Man that's a bummer. It's been a few years since we ( my dad and I) have been on that road. Bummer the original was chopped down.
I met a woman at the gas station near the Morrison and I-70 exit who told me the story behind that tree. She is from Ely. Apparently a long time ago, there was a newlywed couple who in there celebration went out to the tree and threw a pair of each-others shoes up in the branches to symbolize happiness and ever-lasting companionship. They walked back to their homestead barefoot and that was that. The tree then grew to what it is(was) to this day. Pretty interesting huh?
Are you taking the multistrada down to Austin? You are more than welcome to stay at our campsite if you're throwing up a tent. Also more than welcome to come hangout by the fire anytime if you wish. Hope to see you down there.
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Go Crutchlow #35
Go Hayden #69
Go Stoner #27 "The Absolute Intercontinental Ballistic Missile of MotoGP!"
Go Sykes #66 2013 WSBK Champion. Go Green!
Bashed: You are more than welcome to camp with us. What Rob said. If you leave CO on the 17th spend the night half way at my place. Food, drink and a place to sleep. Purcell, OK. Let me or Rob know.
1990 ZX-10
1995 PW-50
2004 ZX-10R
2008 Concours 14
FZ1...depends on which jacket I wear as to weither I'm going "sport touring" or "spirited sport touring".
When I die I want to go to Heaven, just don't want to do it real soon!!!
I'm riding the Multi two up with the wifey so camping is a no-go situation.
I really do appriciate the offers though. We will be riding down Tuesday/Wednesday, then a trip over to the Three Sisters on Friday and Saturday/Sunday @ the Trackside. Give me a call and we can hook up @ the track, I'll buy you'all a beer.
719-459-3297
Se you'all down there, after watching the first races today, it will be awesome racing in all the classes.
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2008 - GSX650F
2008 GSX650F
2012 Azera, 2009 Santa Fe, 2002 300M,
2001 Aurora Sold, 1966 Coronet 500 Sold, 1992 3000GT VR4 Sold, and many others sold
I have a goal that might seem tame to a lot of folks, but I would like to ride my bike into each of the surrounding states around Colorado, just so I can say I've ridden in Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, and Nebraska. Has anyone ridden to any of these states? I would like to do back roads, super slab is so boring. Any ride route suggestions?
I recently bought sport touring tires 2 weeks ago, I plan to do some longer rides this season like to the western slope, durango, million dollar highway, possibly Taos. As for the headset issue, I figured maybe with all the sport touring guys in this thread maybe they can chime in on a good headset.
I bought a cheapy one off amazon to see if I would like it. But I just can't live without earplugs, the wind noise is too great (maybe my helmet sucks ass) but I would love to have a headset I could hear the navi turns and music and talk freely without having to hear the wind noise. Maybe I need a louder unit or a quieter helmet. Do you guys use earplugs and STILL are able to hear your music/talking on the headset?
2005 Suzuki SV650s Blue (SOLD), 2005 Kawasaki Ninja 636 Lime Green
Yes, with my Scala unit I can still hear over earplugs. If your current earplugs work too well consider less effective ones. I have some Hearo 33dB ones that work really well, but also some orange wally world specials that only reduce to <30dB.
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