I headed down to Coutts to meet TurboDave and Bluestreak Friday morning, I had caught Hal's post on his misfortunes before I left.
Fueled up and headed out, merged into traffic on the QE 2, set my speed a bit faster than the traffic flow, working my way through traffic I saw another bike up ahead, well I guess He saw me too cause I heard him crank that Harley from a half a mile back. He cranked it up to about 140 kph (87 mph) His pipes saving lives left, right and centre. I contentedly followed the thundering noise about 1/4 mile behind. Run Rabbit Run.... Gotta give him credit, he kept it up for about 10 miles before the Ape Hangers wore him out. See you Later Dude.
Backed off the speed for awhile, then Mr Nissan Titan comes barreling along, drop in behind him, back up to 140- 150 kph, Almost made it to Calgary, As we crested a hill, Mr Nissan hard on the brakes. Radar trap, Thank You very much. Sorry about your luck Mr Nissan.
Hit Calgary around noon, Deerfoot Trail is a Freaking Zoo, finally make it through and continue south on Hiway 2, Sky clouds up in the West
I play hide and seek with rain showers all the way to Lethbridge. Call Kasey on the cell as I get close to Lethbridge, She's tied up and can't make the border run, but will meet up later.
Pull into Coutts around 4:00 pm, park the bike alongside the security fence where I can see the crossing and hunker down to wait. Wind starts picking up and the temperature drops rapidly, hmmm, Big Ass Black Cloud coming in from the West. The rain hits and then the hail started. I fired up the bike and headed down the street to a big tree overhanging the sideway, drove up on the sidewalk and sat out the hailstorm, (Thank you Odot for your wisdom)
Some of the Hail is approaching baseball size and starts knocking small branches off Odot's tree
Finally the storm blows through, so I head back to my spot to watch the border crossing, a bunch of Semi Trailers have decided to block my view, so I head out to the Hiway and park on the first approach coming out of the border crossing.
A few minutes later just after 5:00 pm, here come a couple FJR's
After a brief stretch of the legs, we head up to Milk River to get Fuel and the receipts to finish off the Border to Border run.
TurboDave and Bluestreak need another 120 odd miles to complete the BBG 1500 (it's only 48 miles from Milk River to Lethbridge)
We head west out of Milk River on Secondary 501, a nice stretch of pavement with some sweepers to keep it interesting, heading towards Cardston. Kasey calls, she's heading out to meet up with us. A quick stop in Cardston for a fuel receipt
Start heading back toward Lethbridge, The idiot leading the group misses the turnoff from hiway 2 to hiway 5 but soon realizes his mistake, a quick U turn and we are headed in the right direction.
Come up over a hill and lo and behold another FJR sitting on an approach, Kasey on her 03, She drops into the line and we continue along. All of a sudden I glance in my mirror and see arms waving in the air.... WTF......Bluestreak comes on the radio.. Just completed 1500 miles...
Pull into Lethbridge and stop for fuel and receipts
The Motel was just right around the corner, We pull into the parking lot and FastJoyRide walks out to greet TurboDave and Bluestreak.
CONGRATULATIONS DAVE AND STEVE
