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Thats what the 12 inch Ontario was for;just in case I had to.
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And spam sandwiches! I don't know many people who eat them, most folks I know look down on spam as worthless fare. But is can be pretty good when prepared properly.
I grew up in the northeast, and loved the forested hills there. When I first moved west I didn't think it was that great because the forests were not as thick, and there is a lot of brown. But it has grown on me since then, and I love it out here. There is no where I would rather camp and hike than in the Sierras. But to each his own. That is what makes it so great in the US - there is such a wide range of landscapes and vegetation that just about anyone can find what they like best.
The time I miss the east the most is in the fall - I used to enjoy hiking in the woods when the trees were changing, and the weather was crisp.
I grew up in the northeast, and loved the forested hills there. When I first moved west I didn't think it was that great because the forests were not as thick, and there is a lot of brown. But it has grown on me since then, and I love it out here. There is no where I would rather camp and hike than in the Sierras. But to each his own. That is what makes it so great in the US - there is such a wide range of landscapes and vegetation that just about anyone can find what they like best.
The time I miss the east the most is in the fall - I used to enjoy hiking in the woods when the trees were changing, and the weather was crisp.
JK,
LOL....Was going to call you "BRONSON",course he did the IMPOSSIBLE with that bike.....Early yrs.with the POWER Co.We were laying off guys temp.I had my job a friend told me he was going to head west until he got called back to work.Took his tools & $600 TO JUST SEE HOW FAR HE COULD GO(also had a small tent packed on his BEEM).Don't know if you can still do it but at that time you could get a pass to camp in National Parks.First night he put up his tent,campers invited him for dinner...after dinner asked if he could repair things...he could & did.Next morn a line of folks were waiting for him to get up! Mike returned 2 months later of traveling with more $$$$ than when he left!
Take care,
Jim
PS - JK I think we know each other from past correspondence.Glad to see you are all right!
LOL....Was going to call you "BRONSON",course he did the IMPOSSIBLE with that bike.....Early yrs.with the POWER Co.We were laying off guys temp.I had my job a friend told me he was going to head west until he got called back to work.Took his tools & $600 TO JUST SEE HOW FAR HE COULD GO(also had a small tent packed on his BEEM).Don't know if you can still do it but at that time you could get a pass to camp in National Parks.First night he put up his tent,campers invited him for dinner...after dinner asked if he could repair things...he could & did.Next morn a line of folks were waiting for him to get up! Mike returned 2 months later of traveling with more $$$$ than when he left!
Take care,
Jim
PS - JK I think we know each other from past correspondence.Glad to see you are all right!
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Indeed we do. I took my kids for their first trip to the Southern Colorado Rockies a couple of weeks ago. I took a few pics along the way, including one where we cut down some young aspen for hiking sticks. It took some good hacking with a Schrade stockman to take them down while being harassed by deer flies.
There were some nice moments every night around a fire toasting marshmallows and making s'mores. We whittled some nice green willow sticks down for the roasting.
Hope you enjoy the pics.
South Clear Creek Falls
Cebolla Creek - Powderhorn Valley
The Great Sand Dunes
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If we're talking cross-country pictures, methinks I'll have to put up some of mine. I'm not a half-bad photographer. 
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I'm a half bad photographer with a not half-bad camera.If we're talking cross-country pictures, methinks I'll have to put up some of mine. I'm not a half-bad photographer.
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I know it's not the most PC thing do these days but, here is a fun tradition I was taught by my father, who was taught by his father, and so on===>
http://www.arborglyphs.com/index.html
I know of a grove in Southern Colorado that has some dating back to the 20's and 30's
My father, grandfather and uncles all have their names "carved" (the best method is to use a thumbtack and slightly "score" the drawing)
It used to be a sheep camp........Hmmmmmm
What kind of knives did the Basque shepherders carry in the early 20th century??
I'll ask my uncle next time I see him
Hit any lightning storms in northern New Mexico jackknife??
I love spur of the moment lightning storms
I dream of hitting the lotto and driving across the USA in a drop top Vette and stopping at every "trippy"/unusual/off the beaten path spots I can find
I'd prolly do some sort of photo journal/blog as well
Your motorcycle trip reminded me of Dan Ackroyd who drove an old highway patrol Harley across the US to get to Belushi's funeral and Neal Peart (drummer for Rush) who rode a Harley 55,000 miles across North America after the deaths of his wife and daughter===>
http://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Rider-Travels-Healing-Road/dp/1550225480/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/103-1902758-5675011?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187806713&sr=1-2
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Nice link, Trent. Considering the time spent by those herders out there and the time spent on their carvings it kinda seems like a blending of a little of their spirit with the trees and the area.
When you mentioned lighting storms I was reminded of that trek out of Alaska posted earlier. I think it was in Kansas. I'd been chatting on the CB with some truckers as we went along after dark. We were dropping down into an area that was surrounded by hills when it started pouring rain like crazy. The big rigs and me in my overloaded pickup were cussing and weaving around four wheelers that had just stopped in the road. Then the lightening kicked in. What a show. It was hitting constantly with multi-tongues of ranging from white to purple. All around us it was, slamming the high ground. Sometimes it seemed as if we were inside a dome made of lighting bolts. It was striking all around at once and just kept hammering at a rapid pace. Rarely would it be dark. The lightening storm raged so long and so hard that eventually my eye started to burn and ache while my head started hurting too. That was an incredible experience that I cherish. Absolutely wild in a true sense. I put in something like around 850 miles that day and slept in the parking lot of truck stop that I arrived at sometime around midnight or so.
When you mentioned lighting storms I was reminded of that trek out of Alaska posted earlier. I think it was in Kansas. I'd been chatting on the CB with some truckers as we went along after dark. We were dropping down into an area that was surrounded by hills when it started pouring rain like crazy. The big rigs and me in my overloaded pickup were cussing and weaving around four wheelers that had just stopped in the road. Then the lightening kicked in. What a show. It was hitting constantly with multi-tongues of ranging from white to purple. All around us it was, slamming the high ground. Sometimes it seemed as if we were inside a dome made of lighting bolts. It was striking all around at once and just kept hammering at a rapid pace. Rarely would it be dark. The lightening storm raged so long and so hard that eventually my eye started to burn and ache while my head started hurting too. That was an incredible experience that I cherish. Absolutely wild in a true sense. I put in something like around 850 miles that day and slept in the parking lot of truck stop that I arrived at sometime around midnight or so.
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I wanna go here someday
I think no guarantee that you will see and lightning
You pay the money lightning or not
I think you have to pay extra if you want to take pictures
http://www.lightningfield.org/
http://www.sfaol.com/mccord/lightning.html
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First, I throughly enjoyed the tale and your courage to cross the country on a Skirtster is unquestioned.
However, I for one take umbrage with the above statement. My 2006 Street Glide is not only beautiful, compliant and comfortable over the long haul but in 7,000 miles it's been utterly reliable. Just another man's experience and, as I believe you to be quite a thinker and open minded, I'm sure you will accept it as such.Sorry you've had your difficulties but H-D has never aspired to be BMW while certainly Honda-Davidson has taken more than a few cues from the overhyped American icon. Call me a "brainwashed yuppy" if you will...
While we disagree on the preferred mode of two-wheeled transportation, I could not agree with you more that the Guadalupe River is a special place. Nothing more relaxing than a good float, or fishing with frinds.
As for pocket knives, I'm down to one-- a Mcusta Take. A bit fancy but quite pleasing in it's simple, elegant design.
Stay well and keep the tales coming...
The only Harley worth a damn is the Sportster and the discontinued Dyna Sport. The rest are ugly useless slow and have no suspension travel. The Nightster (new Sportster) is actually not a bad bike but 60HP is quite weak. I do like an old school hardtail kick only shovel or pan but they are as different from the average chromosexual garbage barge as they are from a modern sport bike.
I have a Honda 919 which is a sport bike but with no plastic and a comfortable dirt bike riding position. No fairing though so not ideal for cross country but not terrible either.
110 HP ,excellent brakes ,good suspension and a veru comfortable ride.
The new rubber mounted 1200 Sportys are not bad and are the fastest Harleys but I would much rather have one of the Triumph Scramblers. Less than 8 grand very reliable
and designed for gravel and back roads.
Honda may make a few garbage barges for the chromosexual american market but they make much better bikes for other markets.
I would love to take a cross country trip on the new Kawi concourse. It has everything a Beemer does but 10 grand cheaper and 160+HP.
As for what knife I would take my usual fixed EDC my Scrapyard SS4 which has a polished blade and much thinner edge. I would also pack my CS norse hawk. I prefer a H&B but the CS is what I have.
I have a Honda 919 which is a sport bike but with no plastic and a comfortable dirt bike riding position. No fairing though so not ideal for cross country but not terrible either.
110 HP ,excellent brakes ,good suspension and a veru comfortable ride.
The new rubber mounted 1200 Sportys are not bad and are the fastest Harleys but I would much rather have one of the Triumph Scramblers. Less than 8 grand very reliable
and designed for gravel and back roads.
Honda may make a few garbage barges for the chromosexual american market but they make much better bikes for other markets.
I would love to take a cross country trip on the new Kawi concourse. It has everything a Beemer does but 10 grand cheaper and 160+HP.
As for what knife I would take my usual fixed EDC my Scrapyard SS4 which has a polished blade and much thinner edge. I would also pack my CS norse hawk. I prefer a H&B but the CS is what I have.
Texas Slim, I appoligize if my remarks about Harley-Davidson motorcycles gave you a case of umbrage, but I speak from a standpoint of having a highly touted brand let me down on a repeated basis. If Harley does not aspire to be a BMW I can understand. But if both BMW as well as the Honda's I have owned have given automotive like reliablity, they I find it unacceptable that a brand as touted as H-D, cannot, especially in light of what they charge for them. Just what ARE they aspiring to be? In 50,000 miles each of riding on two different BMW boxer twins, 68,000 on a '72 Honda CB750, and 36,000 on a BMW K75, with zero malfunctions, and 100% reliability, it proves that with modern materials and production it is possable for a motorcycle to be as reliable as a car. Thats 204,000 miles of trouble free riding vs 36,000 PITA operation of a Harley.
Not only was my sportster, or as you slightingly call it, a skirtster, (I've heard all the macho sportster cuts while in in the H.O.G. chapter out of Battley Cycles) prone to electrical and gasket problems in daily service, Karens big twin 1340cc superglide had its share of issues. I used my sportster in daily service as a commuter bike and put a bit over 36,000 miles on it in 5 years. Once it got over 20,000 miles it started to develope problems. It was sold because I refuse to have a machine that I can't count on to get me home.
If it was just my bike, I could accept that it may have been substandard. But a friend who is one of the harley faithfull has a 82 electraglide, and used to go on rides with us. It broke down so many times that we started to have Sunday rides without saying anthing to our friend because we just got tired having to go home and come back with the trailer for him. So thats 3 out of 3 Harleys we had experiance with compared to other brand motorcycles.
But I appologize if my blatent remarks gave offence, perhaps I could have put it more diplomatic in answering the question from the poster. I hope you continue to have good service from your choice of ride. Check back with me when you get over 20-30 thousand on it and ride it coast to coast.
Not only was my sportster, or as you slightingly call it, a skirtster, (I've heard all the macho sportster cuts while in in the H.O.G. chapter out of Battley Cycles) prone to electrical and gasket problems in daily service, Karens big twin 1340cc superglide had its share of issues. I used my sportster in daily service as a commuter bike and put a bit over 36,000 miles on it in 5 years. Once it got over 20,000 miles it started to develope problems. It was sold because I refuse to have a machine that I can't count on to get me home.
If it was just my bike, I could accept that it may have been substandard. But a friend who is one of the harley faithfull has a 82 electraglide, and used to go on rides with us. It broke down so many times that we started to have Sunday rides without saying anthing to our friend because we just got tired having to go home and come back with the trailer for him. So thats 3 out of 3 Harleys we had experiance with compared to other brand motorcycles.
But I appologize if my blatent remarks gave offence, perhaps I could have put it more diplomatic in answering the question from the poster. I hope you continue to have good service from your choice of ride. Check back with me when you get over 20-30 thousand on it and ride it coast to coast.
The new Concours14 is pretty slick looking. They were giving demo rides at the Concours Owners' Group National rally in West Virginia in August. I'll stick to my old-style '03 Concours though - 100hp is plenty for my flower-sniffin' riding, and the old tech = doing my own maintenance. I have about 35k on it with no issues, and it has been an ideal mount for long, moto-camping trips. It's not all that easy on the eyes though as far as style goes.
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My current Beemer (my third):
'01 R1150GS
I also have a great Honda cruiser:
'01 Honda Shadow Saber
Motorcycle is my preferred mode of locomotion. I ride rain or shine.
todd
'01 R1150GS
I also have a great Honda cruiser:
'01 Honda Shadow Saber
Motorcycle is my preferred mode of locomotion. I ride rain or shine.
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I just took my first long trip on a bike. Austin Tx to the salt flats of Utah and back. I had lost my EDC Caly3 or that would have gone. I wound up taking a Spyderco Cricket [ss,pe]. I was not camping, traveling very light. Mom and Pop hotels and small town cafes. 3 days there, a day on the salt, 3 days back. I never felt underknifed.
The bike was Triumph Bonneville.
I did order another Caly3.
The bike was Triumph Bonneville.
I did order another Caly3.
I don't really know to this day.
I started riding in 1967, and I always loved the bikes. I'd rather freeze taking my motorcycle to work on a winters morning than take the car. I rode thru to 2002. By 2000, I was getting a bit bored or something, and the bikes were not pushing my button like they used to. But I can't put into words just what it was. I do know as late as 1990 something if you had told me I was going to give up motorcycling I'd have laughed and told you "yeah, when they pound that last nail in my box". But somthing did change about 1999-2000. By June 2002 the bikes got sold.
A few months later I saw in the local paper that Vespa had opened up a dealership on Wisconson Avenue in Washington. I always had a sneaking admiration for them as they had some pretty trick engineering in them. Like a solid splined drive shaft right into the rear hub, the single side swingarm suspension front and rear allowing a spare tire change on the road while on the center stand. I just thought they were cool little vehicles, and I always liked weird European stuff like VW bugs and Opinel knives. I was a loyal beatle driver for 20 years, as well as a big fan of the BMW boxer twin motors. But there was always another bike to ride, and I felt a little weird about riding a SCOOTER!
But once the motorcycles were gone, and I found myself at an age where I don't give a tinkers d--- about what people think anymore, I paid a visit to the Vespa dealership and was bit by the bug. In September of 2002 I found myself going down the road on a new Vespa ET4 150cc, and having a big grin on my face. I was having fun on two wheels again! but the ET4 was still not quite there. It was a quiet 4 stroke engine with a CVT automatic tranny. In 2005 Vespa got an exemption from the D.O.T. to bring in he old 2 stroke 4-speed Vespa again. I traded in immediatly. Now Karen and I ride two PX150's and having more fun than I've had on two wheels in a very long time. Karens sister rode hers and then bought a new LX150, and brother in law Roger rode Karens and bought a GTS 250. Now we all go on weekend rides and call ourselves "The Mild Ones". We've gone everyplace we took the Harleys exept for the interstates, been to Westminster, Middletown, Frederick, Ellicot City, Lisbon. Every Friday morning when the Bill Moran B.S. breakfast club has our meeting I ride it up to Middletown. In a little over two years I've had the PX150, I've put 10,000 miles on it with zero problems. They even have a little spare tire under the left cowling.
Would I consider a long trip? heck yeah. One last good adventure before Karen has to check me into the old soldiers home. I am looking into having the scooter shipped to a west coast dealership and flying out so I can have one last adventure riding back across country on my Vespa. My trip in 2000 on the Harley was sort of anti-climatic. Too easy with a big bike and American highways. I'm thinking a scooter from L.A. to home would call for some carefull navigating to pick state roads away from the interstates. The PX150 has no problem cruising at 50mph. At 75 to 80mpg that gives me very similar range that I had on my sportster.
Hope I answered you okay zeppos.
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Mr. Knife...
One day, when I'm not quite so worn down, I may respond in full or at least sensibly as the case may be. For now, let me say that I did not mean to offend with the Skirtster comment. It was intended as a wink and a nod to someone who no doubt had heard it before--hince the smiley. Again, your commitment to riding a Sportster cross-country speaks to your bonifides. Truth be told, the Sportster designs of the past few years are, in my humble opinion, the best looking ever. It's just that at 6'4", 245, I look a little silly riding one.
That being said, I do not believe that riding cross-country or riding to work daily (God, I wish) or racking up tens-of-thousands of miles is prerequisite to speak with some knowledge in this forum. I have been riding one motorcycle or another most of my 47 years and am fairly experienced. In other words, this is not my first time around the block on a scooter. I've owned several bikes, ridden many more and busted my ass a time or two.
Like Unsub, I love an old Panhead but not the oil slick they leave in my garage. As for kicking-starting, Man I miss those days. But those bikes kick back; my knees just won't take it. And "chromosexuals?" Please. Leave the name calling to the schoolyard. In return, I promise I won't bag on sport bikes and the (very often) idiots who ride them.
For the record, when I got rid of my H-D Night Train after 15,000 trouble free miles, my choices were the BMW 1200 RT and the H-D Street Glide. The BMW is one Hell of a motorcycle, just not what I was after at the time. Of course, after watching "The Long Way Round" with Ewan McGregor I was ready to dump my H-D and ride a Beemer around the world. If you haven't seen the movie, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
Lastly, we have a common interest in the Vespa. I've wanted to restore one for a long time. One of these days that project will move to the top of the list. Let me know when you decide to ride cross country-- maybe we can race Vespa to Vespa. Now that's sport!
For now, when I feel the need to terrorize the neighborhood, I hop on my lovingly restored 1969 Honda Z-50 K1 MiniTrail; my first love and first taste of freedom on two wheels.
Now on to important stuff, like, Ford, Chevy or Dodge???
Respectfully,
db
One day, when I'm not quite so worn down, I may respond in full or at least sensibly as the case may be. For now, let me say that I did not mean to offend with the Skirtster comment. It was intended as a wink and a nod to someone who no doubt had heard it before--hince the smiley. Again, your commitment to riding a Sportster cross-country speaks to your bonifides. Truth be told, the Sportster designs of the past few years are, in my humble opinion, the best looking ever. It's just that at 6'4", 245, I look a little silly riding one.
That being said, I do not believe that riding cross-country or riding to work daily (God, I wish) or racking up tens-of-thousands of miles is prerequisite to speak with some knowledge in this forum. I have been riding one motorcycle or another most of my 47 years and am fairly experienced. In other words, this is not my first time around the block on a scooter. I've owned several bikes, ridden many more and busted my ass a time or two.
Like Unsub, I love an old Panhead but not the oil slick they leave in my garage. As for kicking-starting, Man I miss those days. But those bikes kick back; my knees just won't take it. And "chromosexuals?" Please. Leave the name calling to the schoolyard. In return, I promise I won't bag on sport bikes and the (very often) idiots who ride them.
For the record, when I got rid of my H-D Night Train after 15,000 trouble free miles, my choices were the BMW 1200 RT and the H-D Street Glide. The BMW is one Hell of a motorcycle, just not what I was after at the time. Of course, after watching "The Long Way Round" with Ewan McGregor I was ready to dump my H-D and ride a Beemer around the world. If you haven't seen the movie, you owe it to yourself to check it out.
Lastly, we have a common interest in the Vespa. I've wanted to restore one for a long time. One of these days that project will move to the top of the list. Let me know when you decide to ride cross country-- maybe we can race Vespa to Vespa. Now that's sport!
For now, when I feel the need to terrorize the neighborhood, I hop on my lovingly restored 1969 Honda Z-50 K1 MiniTrail; my first love and first taste of freedom on two wheels.
Now on to important stuff, like, Ford, Chevy or Dodge???
Respectfully,
db