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Caption anyone???
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Here's a caption for ya:

"MEM unzipping her jacket from the pants" :p

Well he WAS wearing assless chaps.
Don't knock assless chaps ! :blush:

 
Ok,OK We know who has THE pic!!! :rolleyes: After meet & greet in the Fireside lot Fri PM, which we have NO pics cause the cam was in the room, all were thirsty.. so 7 barrell brew.(our waitress should have recieved the purple heart for this group.
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GREAT summary bluejag! :D

 
Santa and his elves in the off season, perhaps? :blink:

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Toophast is a man of few words. That's why he has to wear 'em on a T-shirt!

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Admittedly, I only have alot of similar shots as other folks, so won't bore ya with the repeats. ;)

 
Ok,OK We know who has THE pic!!! :rolleyes: After meet & greet in the Fireside lot Fri PM, which we have NO pics cause the cam was in the room, all were thirsty.. so 7 barrell brew.(our waitress should have recieved the purple heart for this group.
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GREAT summary bluejag! :D
Thanks MEM there MAY be one or two pics missing.. Can YOU ;) guess which one's??? :huh:

 
Thanks MEM there MAY be one or two pics missing.. Can YOU ;) guess which one's??? :huh:
Nooooo! There was no mooning....no camera at the hot tub ......<where's the scratching head smiley ?> :unsure:

Anything you want to run by me in a PM ? :D

And where's Gail in this subterfuge? We girls have to stick together

..... I must get Gail a Forum account

 
"We have a traitor in our midst."
DONT TALK ABOUT KEITH LIKE THAT! OOPS :rolleyes:
Well he WAS wearing assless chaps.

LOL I knew somebody was gonna like me parking under the awning with the Harleys. The hotel manager actually made me move my bike so I backed it in with the others. :yahoo: LMAO

If ya have the chaps you can do that kind of stuff. It was priceless to see a couple of the Harley riders had no rain gear and headed out to get soaked. Road Runner let me borrow his raingear so I could ride over to LLbean and pick some gear up. We were nice and dry for the ride back to NY with just wet boots and gloves. Thank you all for making this the best trip ever!!!!!!!!!

 
I love these photographs. So heartwarming to see my FJR Forum Friends having a ball with their machines and good buddies. Looks like a great time was had by all and friendships cemented forever!!!

 
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Helen and I opted out of the Whites part of the ride, we ride the Whites on a very regular basis. We would have enjoyed connecting for lunch but our route to the Fireside Inn would have us too far away to drop in.

We chose a route through central NH and then cherry-picked some roads in NH and VT along the Connecticut River. And with that, we're off.

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This is what we saw in the distance in the previous picture.

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Anybody want a huge Heavy Metal Mastodon for their front yard? Classy, very classy.

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I'm sure there must be a story behind this. This sign has been on this house for more than a year.

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The library in Alstead, NH

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High wheeler that is part of the bike rack.

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Corn, corn, corn. Everywhere corn.

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Experimental corn. Though they look like political signs, each of these signs is for a different strain of corn. Anyone up to try some delicious P33F832

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Baby VT mountains. The terrain is changing and becoming more mountainous.

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Just around the next bend in the river will be Lebanon, NH and the Fireside Inn. In the very near future I see a fast trip across the Fireside parking lot to the Brew Pub for lunch. That would be a 5:00 pm lunch 'cause we didn't stop along the way.

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Continued now as a FJR event -->

 
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Arriving at the Fireside Inn --

Without fail, every time we have been at the Fireside Inn there have been buzzards circling overhead, often dozens of them.
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While we were waiting for the Whites ride to return we walked over the the Brew Pub for a sandwich and on the way over I spied this Honda. At first I thought Classic 750 SOHC, mother of all inline 4s. Then I started to notice the bars are wrong, check out the mufflers (?), the steering head had a gusset welded in to rake the front end... It was a near miss at being a Classic.
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The group that got separated during the ride shows up.
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And the rest of the ride starts pouring in.
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Ride organizer Fred (in the baseball hat) mentions to Art (Road Runner) in the Yankee's uniform
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that this is the third weekend in a row that they have ridden together. Fred's wife Joanne in the back and (Gravity) Peter in the sweater.
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L-R Zip, Bluejag, ionbeam
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The Canuckistanians starting to gather. From what I've seen, I think that tobacco must be the fifth food group.
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Strains of Aerosmith's Back in the saddle again... and we are off to Jesse's for dinner.
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Da group clogging up traffic in a road destruction zone.
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We rode past a large dam that was turning water into electricity.
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Arriving at Jesse's.
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Nice horns! Though they are fiberglass.
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The waitress at the end of the table sure looks familiar...
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Barry is at least one drink short of having a good time
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In the background Geezer discovers that he is in the camera's eye.
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Greg warms up to the camera.
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MEM with her coat on taking her place at the head top of the table.
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Things heat up and get serious. The coat is off and note the left side of the picture -- the money comes out. Let the dancing begin
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The food arrived, the room grew silent and the cameras quit clicking. Anybody here old enough to know who Ross Perot was and his famous quote? Giant sucking sound...
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Breakfast, at first it was just ordinary early morning ugly.

L-R Joanne (owns Fred W) Fred W and FJRed Ed
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But then the rain started to audibly pound on the roof and visibility out the windows dropped to near zero.
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MEM claiming this one for Canada.
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Greens ride leader Tom arrives, right side, black rain suit.
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People begin to trickle off, choosing not to spend a day riding in the rain and then have to leave for home on Monday in heavy rain.
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The rain paused enough for some parking lot talking and some toweling off.
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Everyone wanted to go on the Greens ride but the weather was making it sound like a bad idea.
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The Bluejags have decided to throw in the towel (so to speak) and run for dryer weather way down south in MA.
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And the 'jags are off.
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It's hard to recognize FJRob1300 without his cigar!
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Art decides that he is going to do the Greens ride.
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Pete decides to join Art. WooHoo the Greens is up to four riders!
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Co-organizer of the Greens Ride, Ed gears up. Ed has to make the majority of the Greens ride just to get home.
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Felicia tells Art that it's been nice knowing him and bids him farewell on his Greens ride.
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ionbeam and Peter cooking up a little GPS route for Peter's ride to Marlow, NH.
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MEM and passenger getting ready to head north, well, east mostly.
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Charlie Hoss rolls in just in time to see everyone else pulling out for home. Sorry Charlie. It was a wasted trip for him.
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Nice boot covers!
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aroostook heads home. It was nice to meet the man behind the avatar
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Suddenly I'm feeling kinda lonely. Nothing to do now but pack up and ride home.
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In spite of everything we had a great weekend. We took the long way to the Fireside and enjoyed the scenery along our route. Dinner was a fun event and I got to meet a lot of new people and see some old friends. Helen and I have ridden just about all the roads that were on the Greens ride so it wasn't a total loss for us. It's too bad that Tom and Ed's hard work went for naught this year but we will be back for next year!

 
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Although OM and his ilk intimidate the hell out of me, I'm going to throw caution to the wind and post a few of my pics while I'm having my coffee ....

Packed up and ready to roll

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Not too much traffic around Freddy Beach at 0730

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Lunch stop in Brewer, Maine, on Friday. This place is seriously a "must stop" spot. Rated by roadfood.com : "Overall: Worth planning a day around"

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The diner was full save for one little table by the window overlooking the Penobscot River

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And THIS, folks, will be my only Food Porn shot since nothing for the rest of the weekend was as worthy. The poor little hotdog bun was crushed under the weight. Mark counted 5 full claws in his. Me - I was too busy tucking into it to be counting.

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It was a perfect day for a ride. Some highway, Somewhere, New Hampshire

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Saturday morning......what would a party be without a few crazy Canuckistanis? I invited myself to join these guys: FJRob1300 (Rob) and Bungie (Steve). They were going to do all the planned routes but at their own pace and stopping for pictures. Did ya'll hear about Steve's ride through Ottawa on their way to CFR? We had a 50/50 chance of turning the correct way out of the hotel yard. First Kodak moment was in the Home Depot parking lot which we used to reverse direction on the highway :blink: Nice! :lol:

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All for now! More when I get home from work tonight :)

 
Saturday morning......what would a party be without a few crazy Canuckistanis? I invited myself to join these guys: FJRob1300 (Rob) and Bungie (Steve). They were going to do all the planned routes but at their own pace and stopping for pictures. Did ya'll hear about Steve's ride through Ottawa on their way to CFR? We had a 50/50 chance of turning the correct way out of the hotel yard. First Kodak moment was in the Home Depot parking lot which we used to reverse direction on the highway :blink: Nice! :lol:
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You know, I can never figure out why I always get tagged as ride leader when I have the worst sense of direction EVER and on roads I've never seen in my life. Throw in a French GPS that will nearly always have me doing 3 UTurns in the first 200 feet...

Truth be told, I was trying to ditch ya'all. :lol:

Looking forward to more

 
HUBBA, HUBBA, HUBBA, HUBBA, HUBBA, HU.....!!!! Thank Goodness, this thread is finally turning in the right direction. Old Michael, please report to the White Courtesy Phone ASAP!!!

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During our Greens/Whites ride we had a rider experience a shifting problem on the way to dinner, we summoned all of the tech gurus to investigate this problem and at first they were stumped... We've heard about AE shift problems but this was VERY different. After intense discussions we found the problem.... This rider was NOT on an AE but a Canadian prototype

that was code named the M.E. This is what we found...

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This is a new RIGHT foot, LEFT shift or LEFT shift ,RIGHT foot or some combination of all the above! It may be the next big thing in Moto GP/touring After some basic re training our rider and FJR were again as one

Thanks to all who once again got to th BOTTOM of another FJR problem

 
Yes, there was some serious head scratching going on during dinner to resolve the dyslexic shift issue. :rolleyes:

MEM, When I first touted the Eagle's Nest, I may have neglected to mention that all the local regulars (including me though I'm not really local) order their lobster rolls with an extra roll. Comes gratis.

And today, wouldn't you know it, I had to make a quick run to Bangah to work at EMMC. e finished up the job at ~4PM. So, I dashed over to the joint and scored 4 of their "finest kind" Lobtah rolls "to go". I am now a major hero with my family!!. Oh, and the 4 servings (8 stuffed rolls plus more meat leftover) fed everyone here and there are some leftovers.

Yumm-o... Lobtster and eggs for breakfast tomorrow. :lol:

 
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