Rally Rethink

[coacha]

Originally Posted by ponch

How was it? Should have eaten up the trip.

A bent shift fork means a tear down, no?

Tear down or new to it engine. We will see.

The Beemer did great for the most part. I did a BBG1500 on the way out and could have certified a BB1500 on the way back but didn't get all my receipts. Only problem I had was an overheating issue but I think it was a combination of altitude and something else...which I will begin finding tomorrow.

[coacha]

Originally Posted by schoeney

Nice meeting you Coach!

Nice to meet you to Schoeney. I really like the ST, nice, quiet bikes that eat the miles. Hope you had a great time and a smooth trip back home.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by coacha

Tear down or new to it engine. We will see.

The Beemer did great for the most part. I did a BBG1500 on the way out and could have certified a BB1500 on the way back but didn't get all my receipts. Only problem I had was an overheating issue but I think it was a combination of altitude and something else...which I will begin finding tomorrow.

I hope it's nothing serious and cheap.

[coacha]

I am hoping it is the radiator cap. I've read on the BMWLT forum that is a possible cause. Worst part of that is all the plastic and the tank have to come off...about 4-6 hours of time for that, yippee me!

[ponch]

I don't have to worry about antifreeze. :) that said, you should take care of anything else while its apart. Because of Tupperware, sometimes I wish I got the GSA.

[Kawhead]

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!!

Lying ass lier! Lest it be more than three maybe four states of travel. Your big monkey ass will attend! What other bunch out there is gonna put up with you?
Everybody else ('cept me) pulls into the parking lot, dismounts from their steel steed, stretches, takes a deep breath of the fresh mountain air, and are awe struck by the majestic beauty as if God had placed Estes Park there for just them.

The next sight they see is ol' grumpy ass himself, so inebriated that there has yet to be invented a breathalyser with a scale high enough to score him. Chain smoking Macanudo Baron de Rothschild cigars one after the other. You can hear him bichen, "I don't know what the hell possessed me to come here. This altitude makes every funken bone and joint in my body ache."

I know you threaded this for the rest of the folks and please accept my humble apology for letting the adorable kitten out of the bag.
See you in 2015!

[MustangMan]

As Johnny Carson would say. "How hot was it?"

[Kawhead]

It was so hot I had to keep turning the AC colder in the truck and pulled the sun screen down so the bright sun would quit waking me up on the trip.

Dern it musta been hot out there.

[poppy]

That was probably a shart, not a fart.

Originally Posted by Kawhead

Mexican food, Rocky Road Ice Cream, and beer gives me the nasty farts and Tom had to let the window down and I think one time it got up to about 72* in the truck.

It killed the hell out of a fkn Fly that we picked up somewhere outside of Wichita.