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Well everybody, let's ride SE Ohio! :yahoo: That's what the thread said, visions of a nice comfortable autumnal ride through some of the best roads SE Ohio has to offer.
<CUE the loud sound of a needle scraping across the width of the LP> The forecasters put snow and rain in the forecast?? :angry: Well, understandably the plans of many began to change in the days before. :huh:
Suckas!!!
The roads were dry, the riding was great, and the company waseven better well...pretty darn good. :clapping:
:lol:
Dave Kaye and I travelled on Friday...I have to give Dave credit...here it is Friday morning, it is in the low 40s and rain is starting to fall, and is forecast for the whole day, with snow forecast for Saturday, and he is willing to ride 500 plus miles though this crud to ride roads he's never ridden...on a stock seat no less. On top of that I made a navigating error out in the sticks...and with the overcast sky, did not realize I had made a turn south on a local Indiana road instead of east. For about a half an hour, we wandered in a scary twilight zone west of Muncie, IN. I had a turn sheet, but no large scale Indiana map...just an atlas...that did us no good with a local road. Anyways, I screwed up...and atleast Dave (who I've never ridden with before) had an automobile type gps that was going to get us to our destination...via Indianapolis. Dave was good natured about my screwup, which combined with the gps routing us southwest to Indy, added 100 extra miles to the trip and cost us some good riding time in SE Ohio on Friday.
We did get to Caldwell via 78...in the dark...which was interesting with all the dips and elevation changes on 78. After seeing a bunch of deer in a clearing, everything looked like deer after that....I even slowed down for a wooden mailbox! :lol:
Anyways, we got there and saw other FJRs...more than I thought I would.
Met the Ohioans...whom I've never ridden with before...except for Denny.
Here is Dave/scrapedup and Dave Kaye(from Wheaton)
Here is Dave/scrapedup's buddy Joe (his daughter is at Wheaton College-coincidence? I think not!) and ride leader Denny/drc32-0...who I rode with one time before back in 2005. He rode behind me and watched me go ditch surfing on OH 56 after I drank a cup of stupid.
Here is Tom/tstaff, another ride leader, along with others in the room watching football and chilling with a beer or two the evening before the big ride
Here is Joe, El Toro Joe, having a daily cigar...
Here are the Bockelriders...very nice people...some of the smoothest 2-up riding I've seen
Well, seeing as no other day riders were known to be showing up, we had a nice leasurely breakfast at the good restaurant next door as we waited for the temperatures to rise a little bit. The roads were dry, there was no snow, and there was no rain - which was terrific! :yahoo:
There were 8 FJRs and 9 riders...two groups, one led by Denny, and one led by Tom...all enjoying a great day...though maybe about 20 degrees too cold. But hey, we're tough midwesterners...we can dress for that! Here we are about to take off, notice the lights are on...meaning the engines are running and people are saying to themselves,"enough pictures already! Let's ride!"
We all had a great day...I took no pictures I was having too much fun on this all day winding roller coaster with a view that is SE Ohio.
I hope others had a good time. I had about as fun a time as you can have on the FJR...the roads were Sweeeet! :yahoo:
Well, some had to boogie home that day in a light drizzle, others stayed and had dinner with us back in Caldwell. We said goodnight and woke up the next day to ice on the windshield from frozen precip, and frost on the seats. Dave Kaye had to get home earlier than me so he slabbed it back on his stock seat, and I took my time touring on 78 west down toward Athens, so I could take 56 west and north. Both of these roads are great...a fun dessert after the main course on Saturday.
Here are some photos from an early Sunday morning overlook on 78 west as I headed back toward home...
There were so many other images, better images and scenes, as we passed by the countryside. Anyone that got a chance to run 255 can attest to the beauty found on that road.
Finally, I took a wrong turn in Athens on my way to 56 and found myself going down a wrong road I had been on 4 years before. I stopped and took a picture of the place in Athens, OH where we had our last drink break before my ditch surfing in 2005. No...I didn't have a beer. Denny was there...he can attest to that. I asked the bartender for a Pepsi...little did I know she gave me that cup of stupid instead...
Thus ends my story of another successfull run out to SE Ohio. I have ridden here atleast once a year since Mike Carpenter/Yamaholic gave me a tour in the fall of 2004. I somehow forget how great the roads are...until I run them again. I will always come back.
Okay....I know a few others have taken pictures out there...post 'em up and add a quip or two.
<CUE the loud sound of a needle scraping across the width of the LP> The forecasters put snow and rain in the forecast?? :angry: Well, understandably the plans of many began to change in the days before. :huh:
Suckas!!!
The roads were dry, the riding was great, and the company was
:lol:
Dave Kaye and I travelled on Friday...I have to give Dave credit...here it is Friday morning, it is in the low 40s and rain is starting to fall, and is forecast for the whole day, with snow forecast for Saturday, and he is willing to ride 500 plus miles though this crud to ride roads he's never ridden...on a stock seat no less. On top of that I made a navigating error out in the sticks...and with the overcast sky, did not realize I had made a turn south on a local Indiana road instead of east. For about a half an hour, we wandered in a scary twilight zone west of Muncie, IN. I had a turn sheet, but no large scale Indiana map...just an atlas...that did us no good with a local road. Anyways, I screwed up...and atleast Dave (who I've never ridden with before) had an automobile type gps that was going to get us to our destination...via Indianapolis.
Dave was good natured about my screwup, which combined with the gps routing us southwest to Indy, added 100 extra miles to the trip and cost us some good riding time in SE Ohio on Friday.We did get to Caldwell via 78...in the dark...which was interesting with all the dips and elevation changes on 78. After seeing a bunch of deer in a clearing, everything looked like deer after that....I even slowed down for a wooden mailbox! :lol:
Anyways, we got there and saw other FJRs...more than I thought I would.
Met the Ohioans...whom I've never ridden with before...except for Denny.
Here is Dave/scrapedup and Dave Kaye(from Wheaton)
Here is Dave/scrapedup's buddy Joe (his daughter is at Wheaton College-coincidence? I think not!) and ride leader Denny/drc32-0...who I rode with one time before back in 2005. He rode behind me and watched me go ditch surfing on OH 56 after I drank a cup of stupid.
Here is Tom/tstaff, another ride leader, along with others in the room watching football and chilling with a beer or two the evening before the big ride
Here is Joe, El Toro Joe, having a daily cigar...
Here are the Bockelriders...very nice people...some of the smoothest 2-up riding I've seen
Well, seeing as no other day riders were known to be showing up, we had a nice leasurely breakfast at the good restaurant next door as we waited for the temperatures to rise a little bit. The roads were dry, there was no snow, and there was no rain - which was terrific! :yahoo:
There were 8 FJRs and 9 riders...two groups, one led by Denny, and one led by Tom...all enjoying a great day...though maybe about 20 degrees too cold. But hey, we're tough midwesterners...we can dress for that! Here we are about to take off, notice the lights are on...meaning the engines are running and people are saying to themselves,"enough pictures already! Let's ride!"
We all had a great day...I took no pictures
I was having too much fun on this all day winding roller coaster with a view that is SE Ohio.I hope others had a good time. I had about as fun a time as you can have on the FJR...the roads were Sweeeet! :yahoo:
Well, some had to boogie home that day in a light drizzle, others stayed and had dinner with us back in Caldwell. We said goodnight and woke up the next day to ice on the windshield from frozen precip, and frost on the seats. Dave Kaye had to get home earlier than me so he slabbed it back on his stock seat, and I took my time touring on 78 west down toward Athens, so I could take 56 west and north. Both of these roads are great...a fun dessert after the main course on Saturday.
Here are some photos from an early Sunday morning overlook on 78 west as I headed back toward home...
There were so many other images, better images and scenes, as we passed by the countryside. Anyone that got a chance to run 255 can attest to the beauty found on that road.
Finally, I took a wrong turn in Athens on my way to 56 and found myself going down a wrong road I had been on 4 years before. I stopped and took a picture of the place in Athens, OH where we had our last drink break before my ditch surfing in 2005. No...I didn't have a beer. Denny was there...he can attest to that. I asked the bartender for a Pepsi...little did I know she gave me that cup of stupid instead...
Thus ends my story of another successfull run out to SE Ohio. I have ridden here atleast once a year since Mike Carpenter/Yamaholic gave me a tour in the fall of 2004. I somehow forget how great the roads are...until I run them again. I will always come back.
Okay....I know a few others have taken pictures out there...post 'em up and add a quip or two.
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