End of Florida Rides for now
Harley-Davidson of Ft Myers had their Motorcycle Safety Saturday and free test rides on 2007 motorcycles. Kandi went with me and bought the boys a new full face helmet. Because her mother was coming over I had to take them home and could not ride the new bikes! I wanted to test ride the Softail Classic, Fat Boy, V-Rod, Ultra Glide and a Big Dog Chopper. I took them home and went to ride my 'Beast" back and Kandi said "No Way! You were just there! You don't need to ride another bike!" So that was that.
A week later I took the boys on their last ride to Ft Myers Beach, Lovers Key State Park and Bonita Springs. Jordan took video with our Sony HandyCam of the rides. They were bumpy but that's okay. I then made them into a DVD. Jordan and I went to Times Square on the Beach and a Steel Pan Junior High School band was playing. It was nice and they let Jordan try playing. I got that on video tape.
We loaded up the bike on the trailer and headed home. The ride up was terrible. By the time we got to the Tampa Bay area the Love Bugs were everywhere. I stopped 3 times to clean my windshield and Jordan cleaned Cora's. We stopped in Southern SC for the first night. Then we took off around 9am. 5pm when we stopped for supper it was in Northern Virginia. Kandi said she had a migrain head ache so we got a Hotel room for the night. I then noticed that my trailer tires were low. As I was pumping them up at a gas station I noticed that they were bald, they had no tread on them and also had bumps on the tires. We made it home with out the tires blowing. On the way home we took rt 655 back towards Cassville. It was then I made a mental note that I had to ride the bike on this section of road. It had many twists and hills on it. I drove it before but never rode on it.
Jordan and I took the bike to Shade Gap the next day to mow my mother's and Aunt Nancy's grass. Coming into Three Springs the road was blocked and we had to take a detour. The detour lead to the last part of rt 655! Jordan scream in the back. I asked him if anything was wrong. Jordan said, "Dad this is awesome! One of the best rides ever!" So that assured me to ride the whole rt 655.
I rode my bike up a couple of days ago to Altoona VAMC for my Doctor's appointment. I was running late and rode 70-75 mph the whole way. Yes even on the 45mph 829 outside of Cassville. It was a very Spirited ride. The way back I saw 2 deer standing along side the road at 3pm. Normally deer aren't out at that time of day.
The whole month of May I put less than 200 miles on my bike. That was the fewest out of any month since I bought my "BEAST" back on June 9, 2006. Maybe I'll be riding more in the summer months. I doubt it. I tried to ride 2 days ago and Kandi said, "No! You don't need to go anywhere! Just stay at home." So I couldn't even ride out to the Lake. I wanted to see my friends at the boat dealerships and see how much the dealerships changed. Oh well that's my life.
A week later I took the boys on their last ride to Ft Myers Beach, Lovers Key State Park and Bonita Springs. Jordan took video with our Sony HandyCam of the rides. They were bumpy but that's okay. I then made them into a DVD. Jordan and I went to Times Square on the Beach and a Steel Pan Junior High School band was playing. It was nice and they let Jordan try playing. I got that on video tape.
We loaded up the bike on the trailer and headed home. The ride up was terrible. By the time we got to the Tampa Bay area the Love Bugs were everywhere. I stopped 3 times to clean my windshield and Jordan cleaned Cora's. We stopped in Southern SC for the first night. Then we took off around 9am. 5pm when we stopped for supper it was in Northern Virginia. Kandi said she had a migrain head ache so we got a Hotel room for the night. I then noticed that my trailer tires were low. As I was pumping them up at a gas station I noticed that they were bald, they had no tread on them and also had bumps on the tires. We made it home with out the tires blowing. On the way home we took rt 655 back towards Cassville. It was then I made a mental note that I had to ride the bike on this section of road. It had many twists and hills on it. I drove it before but never rode on it.
Jordan and I took the bike to Shade Gap the next day to mow my mother's and Aunt Nancy's grass. Coming into Three Springs the road was blocked and we had to take a detour. The detour lead to the last part of rt 655! Jordan scream in the back. I asked him if anything was wrong. Jordan said, "Dad this is awesome! One of the best rides ever!" So that assured me to ride the whole rt 655.
I rode my bike up a couple of days ago to Altoona VAMC for my Doctor's appointment. I was running late and rode 70-75 mph the whole way. Yes even on the 45mph 829 outside of Cassville. It was a very Spirited ride. The way back I saw 2 deer standing along side the road at 3pm. Normally deer aren't out at that time of day.
The whole month of May I put less than 200 miles on my bike. That was the fewest out of any month since I bought my "BEAST" back on June 9, 2006. Maybe I'll be riding more in the summer months. I doubt it. I tried to ride 2 days ago and Kandi said, "No! You don't need to go anywhere! Just stay at home." So I couldn't even ride out to the Lake. I wanted to see my friends at the boat dealerships and see how much the dealerships changed. Oh well that's my life.
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