Rally Rethink

[ponch]

Originally Posted by schoeney

Don't laugh. After 800 miles in 100 degree heat I would have rather trailer it.

It would have made a lot of sense for the Colorado trip. Lots of miles and vacation time needed, lots of miles on boring highways (I80 and I84).



The only time I would have regretted trailering it was when I pulled into the parking lot and heard the razzing from the Knuckleheads

I felt that way after Crescent City. Thing is, I'd still have to take a decent amount of time off, but I would be fresher when I got there and home. Another option is to fly in and rent.

So how was the ST? What kind of mileage were you getting? Was the engine heat a lot to deal with?

[Kawhead]

Originally Posted by ponch

You could always trailer the bike.

Or if he were low enough he can trailer it and force a man twice his age with a terminal medical condition to drive day and night 'till he gets there.

Originally Posted by blowndodge

Now that the 2013 rally has drawn to a close I have one thought that I usually have. Most rallys are at the end of June. All if us west of the Rockies end up passing through hundreds of miles through the deserts. There is ALWAYS a heat wave going on and this year is no different. Two straight all day rides in well over 100 degree weather has me concluding that late June/July/August are off the table unless Im driving up the coast.

Whomever voted on these months for whatever reason can pound sand!!

MY GOD MAN!!! GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF! Get back on the sauce and calm down. A few hours of sobriety makes a a damned pitiful sight of you! Now go below to your quarters, powder your under carriage and put some clean big girl panties back on.

Oh cry me a fvkin river! Two days of riding in 100* weather. Boo hoo hoo!

If everybody don't vote to have a rally where BD wants it, go pound sand. That china cabinet crashing sound you just heard was the sound of a thousand sympathetic members heats breaking in unison. Mine included.

I realize you hate me now, but in time you will come to appreciate my crude efforts in attempts to make a man of you, if that ever happens.

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[cactusjack]

Originally Posted by ponch

The compromise is to start real early, like 4-5 in the morning and ride until noon or so. That's what a lot of people here do. Only idiots like me commute in 119˚ weather.

...while wearing a leather jacket, I might add.

The problem with riding that early in the morning is the increased risk of having a run-in with large game animals.

[Kawhead]

Originally Posted by cactusjack

...while wearing a leather jacket, I might add.

The problem with riding that early in the morning is the increased risk of having a run-in with large game animals.

Good GRIEF

The solution to the problem is to get right with the Lord and you wont have to worry about hitting large game animals.



Just a suggestion.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by cactusjack

...while wearing a leather jacket, I might add.

The problem with riding that early in the morning is the increased risk of having a run-in with large game animals.

It's worse without it

[waterman]

Well, BD now knows what I felt after Crescent City and Kanab last year. If we hold the next rally somewhere west of where we were thinking, I might be in the trailer mode for the first time ever. I don't know if I could take the salt flats and Idaho again.

[Kawhead]

Originally Posted by waterman

Well, BD now knows what I felt after Crescent City and Kanab last year. If we hold the next rally somewhere west of where we were thinking, I might be in the trailer mode for the first time ever. I don't know if I could take the salt flats and Idaho again.

I'm willing to bet he never considers the thoughts and feelings of his VBA brethren. Luckily he's met me and I'm kind hearted enough to undertake the daunting task of making him a more considerate, suave, debonair, gallant, statuesque, model of manhood. In the end he'll come know what it's like to be me.
In so doing these major difficulties, to him, will become as threating as a baby's laughter.

I have a major task of undamaging 58 or 60 years of placation and kid mitten treatment, but I'm up to it.

[Sin City Stan]

Originally Posted by ponch

The compromise is to start real early, like 4-5 in the morning and ride until noon or so. That's what a lot of people here do. Only idiots like me commute in 119˚ weather.

That's exactly what we did. Kickstand up early and the afternoon in the pool.

[replay13]

Packed up my tent by flashlight in WY at 3:30 am to get on the road early. Spent the afternoon in Elko, NV in a air conditioned room and by the pool when it was 107. Back on the road at 4am today (Elko, Nv to Medford, OR)... worked for me.

[Kawhead]

I had a blast out there with every body! My only complaint was once we got into Kansas they wasn't as many Baskin Robins, Dairy Queens an Sonics to stop at to get a ice cream or a milk shake so I could eat them in Tom's freezing cold ass truck. That fleece throw he kept in there for his wife just wasn't enough to keep me cozy as I slept between ice cream stops.

A heavy Blanket and more moonshine next time or he can pound sand. Ain't no scene in making a poor feller shiver like that while he's trying to sleep. My feet got cold too cause I'd pull my house shoes off when I got back in the truck (ice box).

[schoeney]

Originally Posted by replay13

Packed up my tent by flashlight in WY at 3:30 am to get on the road early. Spent the afternoon in Elko, NV in a air conditioned room and by the pool when it was 107. Back on the road at 4am today (Elko, Nv to Medford, OR)... worked for me.

Smart!

[dshelly]

This thread is starting to sound more like an old lady's quilting bee then a bunch of bikers.

[waterman]

Originally Posted by dshelly

This thread is starting to sound more like an old lady's quilting bee then a bunch of bikers.

2 years ago we rode across the salt flats and northern Nevada and then back from Burns, OR across Idaho with hot enough temps of well over 100. We were all wondering what in the world we were doing.

[ponch]

I was there too...119 is worse. Need www.veskimo.com

[blowndodge]

123 beats 119...