Nice Rumble
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What a great turn out we had today as 15 FJR's showed up at Fiddleheads Cafe in Hancock for our Covered Bridges of Southwestern NH tour. 13 bridges in total were either ridden through or pointed out. The weather was perfect with lots of sunshine and temps warming into the mid sixties. In attendance today were ionbeam and his wife Helen, snikr, fredw, cartfj40, pet07fjr, herfjr, hisfjr, rindgerider, dailycommuter, jmarran, S76, bkrk12, Charlie Hoss and his wife and myself. I'm missing one rider so chime in so we can get the correct amount. Apologies to any rider whose riding partner I've omitted. It's tough trying to keep track of everyone's names. Next year we'll need name tags.
After some refresments and meet and greets it was time to head out at about 10:30 a.m.
Some of the riders who had ridden over early in the morning need to fuel up so about 10 miles down the road we pulled into the local gas station.
Then it was off to find the first of many covered bridges. Most of these bridges are in the old mill towns such as Swanzy, Troy and Winchester.
We found some freshly paved back roads on the way.
We stopped for a photo-op at this bridge as it afforded us room to park. The group photo is coming as it's in someone else's camera.
Iris, (herfjr) and Jim's (hisfjr) wife in all her radiant beauty. And boy can she ride. She stayed right with me through all the curves.
We finally wound our way into Walpole where we stopped at the local pizza place for lunch.
It was good to see the '07 represented in our sea of blue and silver.
After lunch I had the opportunity to meet the local constable for the town of Langdon. There I was leading 14 bikes when an SUV with lights flashing on top proceeds to pull across the road and virtually set up a road block.
I coast to a stop next to his front bumper. He get's out and ask's me if I knew the speed limit was 35 miles per hour.
I said I didn't and he asked for my papers. He never told me what he clocked me at. The others behind said I was going about 40-45 mph. I have a clean record (fortunately) and he returned to his cruiser to look me up in their database. I think it also helped to have removed my helmet, had my glasses on and showed some white hair. I was also using lots of yes and no sirs. After about 5 minutes he came back and said he was giving me warning and to keep the speed down. He went on to say that a squid, who had been pulling wheelies, ran from him a few days ago and he broke off the chase so as not to get someone killed. Then he went on to ask me how I liked my bike. So I knew I was off the hook.
The rest of the riders waiting while I was being interrogated. Iris says she has a picture of me and the cop from her vantage point. And there it is ^
We were due a reward for getting away with that one and were handed RT 123A (the twistiest road in NH) without a single vehicle in front of us all the way out to Rt 10, about 20 miles. Wow! was that fun.
The ride ended at The Rowell Covered Bridge in Hopkinton at the intersection of RT 127 and 202/9. We said our goodby's and each rider was off to their respective destinations. Thanks to all for making this a fun ride. Perhap's we can make this an annual event.
After some refresments and meet and greets it was time to head out at about 10:30 a.m.
Some of the riders who had ridden over early in the morning need to fuel up so about 10 miles down the road we pulled into the local gas station.
Then it was off to find the first of many covered bridges. Most of these bridges are in the old mill towns such as Swanzy, Troy and Winchester.
We found some freshly paved back roads on the way.
We stopped for a photo-op at this bridge as it afforded us room to park. The group photo is coming as it's in someone else's camera.
Iris, (herfjr) and Jim's (hisfjr) wife in all her radiant beauty. And boy can she ride. She stayed right with me through all the curves.
We finally wound our way into Walpole where we stopped at the local pizza place for lunch.
It was good to see the '07 represented in our sea of blue and silver.
After lunch I had the opportunity to meet the local constable for the town of Langdon. There I was leading 14 bikes when an SUV with lights flashing on top proceeds to pull across the road and virtually set up a road block.
I coast to a stop next to his front bumper. He get's out and ask's me if I knew the speed limit was 35 miles per hour.
I said I didn't and he asked for my papers. He never told me what he clocked me at. The others behind said I was going about 40-45 mph. I have a clean record (fortunately) and he returned to his cruiser to look me up in their database. I think it also helped to have removed my helmet, had my glasses on and showed some white hair. I was also using lots of yes and no sirs. After about 5 minutes he came back and said he was giving me warning and to keep the speed down. He went on to say that a squid, who had been pulling wheelies, ran from him a few days ago and he broke off the chase so as not to get someone killed. Then he went on to ask me how I liked my bike. So I knew I was off the hook.
The rest of the riders waiting while I was being interrogated. Iris says she has a picture of me and the cop from her vantage point. And there it is ^
We were due a reward for getting away with that one and were handed RT 123A (the twistiest road in NH) without a single vehicle in front of us all the way out to Rt 10, about 20 miles. Wow! was that fun.
The ride ended at The Rowell Covered Bridge in Hopkinton at the intersection of RT 127 and 202/9. We said our goodby's and each rider was off to their respective destinations. Thanks to all for making this a fun ride. Perhap's we can make this an annual event.
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