BkrK12
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I hope you will not be disappointed. None of us are that interesting. On the other hand, if the Mrss Beam and W attend, there will be some nice people to talk to.
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Dan
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Dan
Breakfast - 7/10/11
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Papa Georgio
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Won't be dissapointed, way better than the spaulding turnpike.
Forecast is looking good. Looking forward to a good ride. See you'se there!
wickedslow
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I'll be there, if I can find the place. I'll be the one on the FJR 
BkrK12
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Just a reminder, there is no parking lot entrance on Brown Ave. You have to go to the side street (Winston) just past the hotel. It comes up very quickly, on the right, after getting off I293.
Dan
Dan
DE OPPRESSO LIBER
Official Dumbass
Hope y'all have a good eat/ride. Fred, no performance awards, mmkay?!
Sitting here (at work)ruminating about coming back in for 3pm and wishing I was riding instead! Though I did pull an OM and rode to Jaffrey for ice cream without telling anyone last night!
Alan, in case you were wanting to ride 32 again from Athol to Richmond, NH, the road has been repaved and is in much better condition than last years ride around the Quabbin.....until you cross into NH. But still a nice ride.
Sitting here (at work)ruminating about coming back in for 3pm and wishing I was riding instead! Though I did pull an OM and rode to Jaffrey for ice cream without telling anyone last night!
Alan, in case you were wanting to ride 32 again from Athol to Richmond, NH, the road has been repaved and is in much better condition than last years ride around the Quabbin.....until you cross into NH. But still a nice ride.
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BkrK12
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Thanks to the attendees for your company on a very nice day. I hope it continued pleasantly for you after I had to drop off and head home.
Dan
Dan
MarFJR
URGNT
Yes,
Great day. Thanks for getting it going Dan :clapping:
Great day. Thanks for getting it going Dan :clapping:
ionbeam
2 FUN
I've taken some stray posts from other threads and I'm tying them together here in the Breakfast thread.
Since Fred knows so many good routes I'm perfectly happy to be a follower. One thing that I've learned is that Fred has a tendency to pass under certain situations, like when there is something in front of him, no matter how far up the road, he's gonna pass it :lol: When I see that the soon-to-be-passed is in range I close the gap to Fred as we come to a likely passing zone and usually I'm wicking up the throttle just as Fred makes his move so we pass together in a quick neat move. It's rare that I get pinched off and can't make a pass with him. There are a number of us that ride together fairly often and we synchronize pretty well as a group. New England secondary roads don't offer the same passing opportunities that other areas of the country have so we tend to dwell on this topic a bit more.
Following Dan must have been good because I ran an unheard of 48.6 mpg and Fred had similar numbers. I didn't realize how little gas my FJR was going to take, I just focused on getting a BIG fill. I was shocked to see it took only 5.0 gallons in 243 miles.
On a sadder note, I think my pillion's point & shoot camera is on its way out. Some of our pictures from CFR had focus and exposure problems and after sorting through our Airport Diner and Hungry Bear pictures it looks like its getting worse. That camera has done a yeoman's job and has taken literally tens of thousands of pixs. We had an unusually small number of good pixs and I had a hard time post processing many of them.
Instead of posting a hundred pictures of us flying in formation down tree lined secondary roads and since still pictures don't do hard cornering justice I've selected an assortment of things and places we saw during the day.
This is the route we took, Dan and myself leading to and Fred leading home from the Hungry Bear, located at Bradford:
The day started at the Airport Diner, just visible through the center of the two trees.
We are NOT a photogenic group before the first few pots of coffee have been consumed :lol:
L-R ionbeam Alan; BkrK12 Dan; midlife George; Fred W Fred and Mrs Fred Joann; Mrs ionbeam taking the picture. MarFJR Tony hadn't made it yet.
Someone else was out in their little yellow toy.
Traffic rotary done New England style with flowers and brick pavers.
Dan leads us around the corner to the left while Fred is yelling, "You missed the dirt road!"
This was a hydration stop that turned out to be interesting.
Several miles back we rode past a guy on a bicycle and didn't think anything of it. As we were getting ready to be on our way the bicyclist came flying into the parking lot yelling thank goodness he was able to catch us. We were stunned he could ride hard enough to catch us, the man must have been averaging incredible speeds. Turns out that he has been looking at FJRs and saw this as an opportunity to learn all about the bike. Yamaha owes us all a commission on his upcoming purchase :lol: Then, while we were talking with him he simply keeled over face first, splat on the ground. I was just getting ready to yell for someone to dial 911 and do a pulse check when he started struggling trying to get up. It was a bit of a scare but he said that he had not hydrated properly and it was HOT in the sun. Mister, if you do see this thread we all wish you well and hope you got home ok!
While we were stopped here we saw a FJR go by, one of several this day. He/she gave us a long look but didn't stop.
All of the flats along the river were planted in corn, corn, corn.
The aforementioned dastardly trailer, I have a lot of pictures with that infernal trailer in the lead.
For Dogs sake Dan, it's a passing zone and look at all that passing room!
Stupid Canada Geese brought everyone to a halt.
Lunch at the Hungry Bear! Please note that when the Breakfast Club gets together to eat, we eat. We don't get to know the items on the plate, we don't name them like a friend or take group pictures of the soon to be devoured. When we dine, we eat. Gone in a second.
We followed this driverless gold car for quite a way, being patient for a proper passing zone. Just as we came upon the proper place the car pulled over and let us by.
One of the glimpses of Newfound Lake.
Sidecar guy says HI.
For a moment I though I was home early.
Dunno if the Freds saw this. Momma turkey actually has 3X the number of chicks as shown in this picture. Squint hard into the blur!
In another 45 minutes without any significant pictures we arrived home.
Which isn't to say that Fred didn't pass anyone, he just was more conservative in his passing choices.
Ya should have passed the trailer, we all would have been fine. There were multiple places where the riders back in the pack could have passed and caught up with us, it isn't like we were taking a lot of different routes where they may have missed a turn. We have managed even with big rides like the Green & Whites and the Covered Bridges. Besides, that guy needed to be passed just to make a statement about his creeping pace and failure to yield to the line of traffic he was building up.
You'd be surprised, Dan, how many FJR guys can get around a slacker on the road. And being in VT, it would have been completely legal!! Yeah, I'd have passed him.
But it was a Fine Day Out! The air was clear and fresh. The views along the CT river were (nearly) delicious. Nothing could mess that up...
We did stop for lunch at the Hungry Bear Pub, even though nobody was all that hungry after the late (and big) breakfast. I am most appreciative that everyone made that supreme sacrifice as I wanted to include the Hungry Bear as a lunch stop on one of the NERDS routes but had never eaten there. It's a keeper. (Bison Burger was delish!)
After lunch, the six of us (four bikes) rode across Rte 25 to 25C (a bit bumpy) to 25 again then down Rte 3A past Newfound Lake. We split up in Franklin with George abd Tony heading west on 104 and Alan an I continuing down 3A and 3.
All I can say is, if I could just have just a few more days like today in my life, I could die a happy man.
As Fred said, it was a day of greats -- great company, roads, weather, scenery and lack of any unexpected _________.
Since Fred knows so many good routes I'm perfectly happy to be a follower. One thing that I've learned is that Fred has a tendency to pass under certain situations, like when there is something in front of him, no matter how far up the road, he's gonna pass it :lol: When I see that the soon-to-be-passed is in range I close the gap to Fred as we come to a likely passing zone and usually I'm wicking up the throttle just as Fred makes his move so we pass together in a quick neat move. It's rare that I get pinched off and can't make a pass with him. There are a number of us that ride together fairly often and we synchronize pretty well as a group. New England secondary roads don't offer the same passing opportunities that other areas of the country have so we tend to dwell on this topic a bit more.
Following Dan must have been good because I ran an unheard of 48.6 mpg and Fred had similar numbers. I didn't realize how little gas my FJR was going to take, I just focused on getting a BIG fill. I was shocked to see it took only 5.0 gallons in 243 miles.
On a sadder note, I think my pillion's point & shoot camera is on its way out. Some of our pictures from CFR had focus and exposure problems and after sorting through our Airport Diner and Hungry Bear pictures it looks like its getting worse. That camera has done a yeoman's job and has taken literally tens of thousands of pixs. We had an unusually small number of good pixs and I had a hard time post processing many of them.
Instead of posting a hundred pictures of us flying in formation down tree lined secondary roads and since still pictures don't do hard cornering justice I've selected an assortment of things and places we saw during the day.
This is the route we took, Dan and myself leading to and Fred leading home from the Hungry Bear, located at Bradford:
The day started at the Airport Diner, just visible through the center of the two trees.
We are NOT a photogenic group before the first few pots of coffee have been consumed :lol:
L-R ionbeam Alan; BkrK12 Dan; midlife George; Fred W Fred and Mrs Fred Joann; Mrs ionbeam taking the picture. MarFJR Tony hadn't made it yet.
Someone else was out in their little yellow toy.
Traffic rotary done New England style with flowers and brick pavers.
Dan leads us around the corner to the left while Fred is yelling, "You missed the dirt road!"
This was a hydration stop that turned out to be interesting.
Several miles back we rode past a guy on a bicycle and didn't think anything of it. As we were getting ready to be on our way the bicyclist came flying into the parking lot yelling thank goodness he was able to catch us. We were stunned he could ride hard enough to catch us, the man must have been averaging incredible speeds. Turns out that he has been looking at FJRs and saw this as an opportunity to learn all about the bike. Yamaha owes us all a commission on his upcoming purchase :lol: Then, while we were talking with him he simply keeled over face first, splat on the ground. I was just getting ready to yell for someone to dial 911 and do a pulse check when he started struggling trying to get up. It was a bit of a scare but he said that he had not hydrated properly and it was HOT in the sun. Mister, if you do see this thread we all wish you well and hope you got home ok!
While we were stopped here we saw a FJR go by, one of several this day. He/she gave us a long look but didn't stop.
All of the flats along the river were planted in corn, corn, corn.
The aforementioned dastardly trailer, I have a lot of pictures with that infernal trailer in the lead.
For Dogs sake Dan, it's a passing zone and look at all that passing room!
Stupid Canada Geese brought everyone to a halt.
Lunch at the Hungry Bear! Please note that when the Breakfast Club gets together to eat, we eat. We don't get to know the items on the plate, we don't name them like a friend or take group pictures of the soon to be devoured. When we dine, we eat. Gone in a second.
We followed this driverless gold car for quite a way, being patient for a proper passing zone. Just as we came upon the proper place the car pulled over and let us by.
One of the glimpses of Newfound Lake.
Sidecar guy says HI.
For a moment I though I was home early.
Dunno if the Freds saw this. Momma turkey actually has 3X the number of chicks as shown in this picture. Squint hard into the blur!
In another 45 minutes without any significant pictures we arrived home.
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wheatonFJR
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Nice report Alan!
Do you guys always wait for "proper" passing zones when on a group ride?
Sounds like it was a fun day. Except for the slow part.
Do you guys always wait for "proper" passing zones when on a group ride?
Sounds like it was a fun day. Except for the slow part.
ionbeam
2 FUN
BkrK12
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:dribble:
I really am genuinely sorry to have annoyed everyone. I made the decision not to pass based on the fact that we were spaced out ove 300 to 400 yards of road. The guy in the truck clearly had isssues with me being behind him and I didn't want to pass him and then slow up right in front of him to wait for the rest of the group. At the time we hit the pictured passing zone, he had speeded up from 10mph under to 10 over and we were getting close to White River anyway.
I'm sorry someone didn't tell me I was going too slowly when we stopped. I would have been happy to speed up. If I had been by myself, I would have been going a lot faster ( and that trailer would have been in front of me for about 3 seconds).
None the less, for me at least, it was a nice day.
Dan
I really am genuinely sorry to have annoyed everyone. I made the decision not to pass based on the fact that we were spaced out ove 300 to 400 yards of road. The guy in the truck clearly had isssues with me being behind him and I didn't want to pass him and then slow up right in front of him to wait for the rest of the group. At the time we hit the pictured passing zone, he had speeded up from 10mph under to 10 over and we were getting close to White River anyway.
I'm sorry someone didn't tell me I was going too slowly when we stopped. I would have been happy to speed up. If I had been by myself, I would have been going a lot faster ( and that trailer would have been in front of me for about 3 seconds).
None the less, for me at least, it was a nice day.
Dan
Nah... No problem, Dan. If is was a problem one of us would have piped up.
Sometimes it's plenty cool to toodle along and take in the scenery.
I know that when I've followed you in the past (just the two us) you were considerably more aggressive, so I figured it was the "weight of responsibility" for the group.
Believe me, I know that feeling quite well.
Sometimes it's plenty cool to toodle along and take in the scenery.
I know that when I've followed you in the past (just the two us) you were considerably more aggressive, so I figured it was the "weight of responsibility" for the group.
Believe me, I know that feeling quite well.
ionbeam
2 FUN
Dan, ride leader is a responsibility and you did the right thing for the right reasons. No reason to be sorry. Heck, we will continue to put you out front until you learn to conform the the group ideal :lol: (what ever that is). Seriously, we enjoyed most of the pace where we could literately smell the roses and have time to soak up and enjoy the scenery. The only issue with following the "Sheep Wagon" was the irregular pace which required some attention to the vehicle in front of us instead of vacating and focusing on the scenery which was worth ogling. So I won't accept an apology where one is not needed. You done gud, and we expect more... your route was excellent.
Edit: I see that Fred W stepped in and said what needed to be said. I just PHD.
:lol: (what ever that is). Seriously, we enjoyed most of the pace where we could literately smell the roses and have time to soak up and enjoy the scenery. The only issue with following the "Sheep Wagon" was the irregular pace which required some attention to the vehicle in front of us instead of vacating and focusing on the scenery which was worth ogling. So I won't accept an apology where one is not needed. You done gud, and we expect more... your route was excellent.Edit: I see that Fred W stepped in and said what needed to be said. I just PHD.
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And I forgot to compliment ionbeam Helen on a nice job with the photos.
My pillion was too busy soaking it all in. Our camera never made it out of he trunk!
If that's what Helen gets with a broken camera, well... :yahoo:
My pillion was too busy soaking it all in. Our camera never made it out of he trunk!
If that's what Helen gets with a broken camera, well... :yahoo:
