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Savage_Rob Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Mechanically Inclined Amateur Posts: 6972 Texas (Dallas area) Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #45 - 09/19/07 at 08:21:01 Very cool. Thanks for the update Paladin.
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Bobbert Serious Thumper Offline CHOP IT Posts: 836 Los Angeles, CA Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #46 - 09/19/07 at 11:01:46 PS- feel free to visit me on your last leg home if you're coming back on the 405 at any point. Im 10 minutes off the road and about 10 minutes from LAX.
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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10661 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #47 - 09/19/07 at 12:27:21 Very nice pics of the ride, I especially like riding through cow country, having lived in Oklahoma for some years I really miss the small country roads...tractors, cows and horses...a good wind blowing and being able to see the horizon in all directions. here in SC the trees prevent seeing the horizon almost all of the time.
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Reply #48 - 09/19/07 at 17:11:21

Bobbert wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09:

....if you're coming back on the 405 at any point. Im 10 minutes off the road and about 10 minutes from LAX.

I'll be coming in on the 105 getting off at Crenshaw. I'm also just about 10 minutes from LAX (25 minutes in the cage Grin

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Made it to Wickenburg on US-60 and had to stop 'cause I don't remember how to get home from here. Will look that up after dinner. Also more pictures to post after dinner. Did I mention dinner? Ciao!

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forrest Serious Thumper Offline No matter where you go, there you are. Posts: 986 Kennesaw, Ga Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #49 - 09/19/07 at 17:19:52 Sounds like a blast. Stay safe.
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Paladin. Serious Thumper Offline Hamster Posts: 4929 Sunny Southern California Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #50 - 09/19/07 at 18:33:39 LANCER wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: ...a good wind blowing and being able to see the horizon in all directions.... In that case you'll love this MOV file. New Mexico, but typical of so many places in the West.
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Reply #51 - 09/19/07 at 19:04:09

Today I left Springerville AZ via AZ260 so as to pass through Pinetop etc.. Beautiful High Pines, AKA "Why I avoid the Interstates":

For what it's worth, I was rather dismayed when I hit the Pinrtop-Lakeside all the way down to Show Low. Built up, yuppified, rustic log cabins built side by side on 50 foot wide lots. ARRGH!!!

So I just got gas and rolled south on US60:

Hit the lowlands in the Phoenix area -- so much like home -- worked my way thru and ended up in Wickenburg, a 275 mile day. Tomorrow is the run home thru Parker and Twentynine Palms -- staying off the freeways until that last 125 miles.

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T Mack 1 - FSO Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline sold 2001 LS650 for a 1986 XLH1100 Posts: 2919 Emmaus,Pa Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #52 - 09/19/07 at 19:29:01 Wow......Are you sure you don't want to trade all this for my cubicle world of corporate American......Paying my dues and dreaming.......
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Yonuh Adisi FSO Serious Thumper Offline Savage Jedi (Knight) Posts: 3622 Pilot Valley NV, aka Tatooine Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #53 - 09/19/07 at 20:38:29 Paladin. wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09: In that case you'll love this MOV file. New Mexico, but typical of so many places in the West. Hey Paladin, was that .MOV file before you hit Soccoro? That landscape looked familiar.
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Reelthing Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Fish or ride that is the question Posts: 5397 Houston,Tx Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #54 - 09/19/07 at 21:18:32 Good views, man that trip looks like a blast!
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Reply #55 - 09/20/07 at 03:05:29

Yonuh Adisi FSO wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:09:

Hey Paladin, was that .MOV file before you hit Soccoro? That landscape looked familiar.

I took a picture of the Billy the Kid Country Inn at 5:20am PST which I posted on maps.yahoo.com before leaving at 8am (6am PST.) The video was shot at 7:09am which puts it about 50 miles west of Fort Summer NM, or somewhere around 10 miles east of Vaughn (where I had breakfast.)

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Yonuh Adisi FSO Serious Thumper Offline Savage Jedi (Knight) Posts: 3622 Pilot Valley NV, aka Tatooine Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #56 - 09/20/07 at 11:00:22 Okay, that's why it looked familiar. I have traveled that recently going to Sumner Lake. You didn't by any chance visit Sumner lake while you were there did ya? If ya didn't, you missed some very beautiful scenery.
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SavageWahine Serious Thumper Offline Aloha & Hang Loose Posts: 1553 Beautiful Kauai! Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #57 - 09/20/07 at 11:38:47 You sure look like you are having a good time!! Thanks for the pics!
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Reply #58 - 09/20/07 at 19:23:39

More picture posting later, made it home. Gassed up in Parker AZ, putted at mostly an indicated 50mph on CA62 to the Pilot Truck Stop in North Palm Springs -- 155 miles, 2.2 gallons. While I could take the stock saddle for the first 570 mile day and the rest of the days the accumulative result of 2700 miles/9 days is considerable pain. *WILL* have a different saddle for the next trek.

The bike itself performed flawlessly -- not bad for a city bike.

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Reelthing Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Fish or ride that is the question Posts: 5397 Houston,Tx Gender:	Re: Thumper on Tour Reply #59 - 09/20/07 at 20:29:00 How was the oil consumption for the trip?
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