Planning on meeting a bunch of GoldWing DS'ers in Summersville, W. Virginia for one of their bi-annual ride-ins (I had a Wing before the FJR).
Haven't done a whole bunch of "planned" riding - usually just hop on the bike and ride till I am tired and then head back home. About 1200 miles 1 way. Plan on pulling out of my house at around 11:30PM on 07/02 to start the trip and ride it straight through and see if I can't get my SS1000 in. Figure get most of my night time riding in when I'm still fresh and then the end of it should still be daylight (unless I get delayed drastically - then I'll just 2 day it).
In case you can't tell.. I'm already ready to go! Now I'm just leaving the bike parked until it's time to leave out. Got new rubbers (very important
) and new rain gear (because I KNOW it's going to rain on me) - had Road Toads before but broke down and got some Olympia Horizon gear, and I really like it.
This will be the first long trip I've taken on the FJR (before now, it's been a max of around 250 miles 1 way.
And yes, the girl's dirty, but with all the rain we've been getting here in Texas I know that within a few hours of heading out I'll hit at least 1 shower so I figured why waste the time on the minor stuff and changed the oil again (only had 1800 miles on what was in it) and flushed the brakes/clutch again.
Haven't done a whole bunch of "planned" riding - usually just hop on the bike and ride till I am tired and then head back home. About 1200 miles 1 way. Plan on pulling out of my house at around 11:30PM on 07/02 to start the trip and ride it straight through and see if I can't get my SS1000 in. Figure get most of my night time riding in when I'm still fresh and then the end of it should still be daylight (unless I get delayed drastically - then I'll just 2 day it).
In case you can't tell.. I'm already ready to go! Now I'm just leaving the bike parked until it's time to leave out. Got new rubbers (very important
This will be the first long trip I've taken on the FJR (before now, it's been a max of around 250 miles 1 way.
And yes, the girl's dirty, but with all the rain we've been getting here in Texas I know that within a few hours of heading out I'll hit at least 1 shower so I figured why waste the time on the minor stuff and changed the oil again (only had 1800 miles on what was in it) and flushed the brakes/clutch again.
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