Where did you ride today?

I rode home to Pensacola. Where the angels are blue.

My three week roundabout trip is over. 5955 miles while traveling through FL. AL. TN. KY. WV. OH. MI. Upper MI. WI. IA. MN. ND. SD. NE. KS. OK. NM. TX. LA. and MS. I moved tags all the way and as usual I somehow missed getting the Indiana tag. Lots of rain along the way. Temps from 49 near Green Bay and 104 in Kansas. As usual the Black Pearl amazed me with flawless performance throughout the trip. It got me home again with 339,564 miles on the odometer! Quite the feat across Texas to home in the last 36 hours, 1022 miles with at least half of it running 80+ mph.

Thanks to everyone at the events I attended and I hope to see you all again soon.

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I think Spring may have arrived here! We had a gorgeous day yesterday, and I took full advantage of that by taking my 1300 around the "World Famous in New Zealand" Coromandel Loop. From home this was just a shade under 400km and took 5 hours, very little of that is straight and there is a great range of roads from fast and sweeping to endless hairpins. The sauce on this pudding is lovely views as the road travels up over bush-clad ranges and then hugs the coast alongside sparkling blue water and white sand beaches. Yes, I realise I am a lucky boy.
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I took a single short break at Kuaotunu beach, otherwise just hummed along in great style and comfort enjoying Honda's finest!
 
I think keeping oil in a museum might be a bit premature. I asked Mr Google and he/she/they said the world had a remaining stock of 1,650,585,140,000 barrels which equates to 47 years of oil left
at current consumption levels. Sorry didn't mean to start an oil thread...
 
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BEACH RIDE! And a quick pic at the most popular tourist trap store.
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I indeed have fallen for that tourist trap! :rofl1: I would assume you've eaten at Flounder's before? I thought it was quite delicious, but that's from a central Ohioan who has to trek to Lake Erie to get any decent perch!
 
Josh_ST said:
I indeed have fallen for that tourist trap! :rofl1: I would assume you've eaten at Flounder's before? I thought it was quite delicious, but that's from a central Ohioan who has to trek to Lake Erie to get any decent perch!
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I think everyone who's been to Pensacola beach in the last 40 years has been to Flounders. It was my first pick for the pic but the cars were blocking all the good shots of the joint and Ron's is right next door!

To answer your question, we wait until fall and winter to enjoy the beach eateries when the Ohioans are all gone! And yes we eat at Flounders sometimes.
 
Started in Poland, ended in Netherlands.

Doesn't take long to get across Germany... but unfortunately it rained almost all the way (last 50 km were dry).

Michael
 
Wasn't today, but I returned earlier this week from a 11-day ride. Around 5 days riding from a Gunnison CO base, and a small loop afterwards south and back east to Cleveland (OH). Stood briefly on a corner in Arizona and rode the former Devil's Highway (191 that used to be 666), which had been on my list for a while. I think I saw four ST13's during the entire trip. And chatted for a while with a new owner from KC on his 2009 at the Monarch Pass gift shop.

I left with around 160k on the odometer and it's now pushing 165k. I keep wondering if I'm crazy to take such trips on a bike with that many miles. The bike's never stranded me, but it has so many crucial original parts (clutch and alternator for example). Didn't skip a beat though.

I'll try to post a pic taken from US-191. I rode it southward and if I were to do it again, I'd ride 80% down and turn around. The last section was very tight with a nasty surface full of tar snakes. Not much fun at all.

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Rode the great river road in southwestern Illinois RT100. Grafton Illinois with my friends Walleye and other riders. Boy my 22 year old bike sure runs good. Member here Walleye and I on our 22 and 23 year old bikes sure did not have trouble keeping up with the newer motorcycles.
 
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