Disher Family Fodder
Thursday morning…
Dad, I and a couple other guys are heading for the motorcycle holy land in West Virginia. That’s the location of this years FJR Eastern Owners Meet (or EOM).
We’ll meet up in east gate around 8am and then head to Lewisburg, taking scenic twisties along the way and avoiding all the highways we can.
Test embeding Google Maps:
We’re looking at 3+ days of fun riding the mountain roads… More later…
I didn’t produce these routes, the fine folks putting on this shin-dig get all the credit.
The thread with info about these routes is [here]
I’ve posted them here for convenience sake…
I have stuffed all of the .GPX routes into one Mapsource .GDB file here: ALL EOM-07 Routes in one GDB File.
(I have pushed these routes, through this file to my Zumo, then from the menu, chose ‘User Data’, Routes, select them, import, and it works nicely. I cannot comment on how well this will work or not work for any other device.)
For those folks who are GPS impaired, I’ve bundled up the Adobe PDF text directions for all routes and put them here:
All EOM_Text_Directions in one handy .zip file.
This should include all the latest changes that have been blessed by Heidi. If not, then they’ll be updated again.
Well it’s sold after all. AS-IS. (See previous)
I’m going to trailer it to the guys house tomorrow. He’s taking it as0is, not running the way it *should*, but it’s been appropriately discounted.
I could either spend time and $ fixing it, both of which are in short supply, or let it go and save the guy a few hundred that he can put towards getting it running right. I left it up to him and he decided to go for it.
So along with the bike he gets:
It’s all good but I’m going to miss that bike 🙁
Update: It was picked up tonight. Loaded in the back of a pickup truck and strapped down the most ridiculous way. They didn’t want my advice on how to strap it. They guys’s that was transporting it is a ‘stunta’ so obviously he knows what he’s doing. (that was sarcasm in case you didn’t get that).
If he makes it more than 10 miles down the road with out the bike falling in the back of the truck or breaking the side stand I’ll be impressed. Good thing he signed the bill of sale, AS-IS-WHERE-IS.
What ever happens to it now, aint on me. I sincerely hope that the buyer invests in a helmet and some gear. He seemed like a nice guy, and I really don’t want to read about him in the paper.
The ZX11 that’s for sale has had the wingrack removed.
The former information is here. Yep it’s still for sale, and I’m still working out the ‘carb/stall issue’ and I hope to have this fixed shortly.
Here are updated photos.
This weekend Kyle, my dad and myself, headed out to St. Louis. Why? That’s the starting location for this years Iron Butt Rally.
I wanted to run out there, see some bikes and meet some of the folks brave enough to attempt this rally.
We left Cincinnati at 8am Saturday and took a leisure ride out to St. Louis staying off the interstate and mostly on Route 50. We hit a few other squiggly roads when we could find them.
Our complete route was this:
The day started out really well, it was nice and cool, apropos 60 degrees, which can be chilly but we were ready for that. Somewhere about halfway through Indiana we hit a warm front and temps climbed rapidly. At 11am we were still under 80 degrees, buy noon we were well into the 90’s with a bucket load of humidity.
When we arrived in St. Louis, my bike said 103 degrees, dads said 107. It was hot. Route 50 west of Indiana pretty much blew, it’s flat and straight forever with very little to excitement. Was neat to see some of the country though.
In St. Louis we gawked at all the hardware and bikes equipped for the purpose… Riding 11 days non-stop to places yet unkown. The Aux fuel tanks, hydration systems, GPS gear, with backup gear, and aux lighting was all very impressive.
We stopped in and looked around for the folks that I wanted to meet. Unfortunately it was the end of a long hot day. They were getting cleaned up for the nights festivities and weren’t around. The hotel was booked solid (as we expected) so we needed to get rooms elsewhere. We headed up the road a bit and checked in to the luxurious St. Louis Hampton Inn. We showered and headed out to dinner.
After dinner there was a pretty significant storm was moving in so we didn’t head back to the other hotel. We talked about our route home, and cashed in our chips.
Sunday we left around 9am, and stopped at the arch.
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More photos are available in the gallery. We had a similar mixed ride home, about half highway, and half off the beaten path.
All told around 850 miles for the weekend, and it was hot and humid :/
