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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fljab" data-source="post: 724597" data-attributes="member: 19079">I just got back today and had a great, if short, time!  I stayed in Robinson as a Best Western as my friend, Hoagy Carmichael, lives there.  We had a group of us that met there and rode up Friday night for the meal/get together (I was #30 of the LD award riders).Met again Saturday morning for blessing of the bikes, then rode over to Moonshine.  I left fairly quickly after that as I had my OEM front tire - flat wore out - on the trip up.  I tried 2 Yamaha dealers (including the one in Casey) with no luck.  I headed back earlier than I wanted to and found a great dealership in Evansville, IN that put on a Continental while I waited.Looks like Moonshine is now on my list of "must do" annual events.  I saw a few other FJR's (there was a sh*%load of ST's!), but only talked briefly with one guy at the Moonshine as I was about to leave.  I got screwed up going out of there and did ~4 miles on gravel roads before I hit good pavement and connected to IL 1 to Vincennes and US 41 South to Evansville and on to I-24.The FJR did great on the trip, but man, that throttlemeister just ain't gettin' it!!  I have a AVCC but haven't installed; looks like that needs to get a higher priority on the farkle/install list!I did 2230 miles per my odo round trip from my house.</blockquote>