Old_Rider:

Yikes......we got the Ying/Yang pair of motorycles on the trip.  You got everything on your bike, you are riding to and from the trip, and you are completely packed and ready to go.

Me.....I have stripped everything off my bike, I am trailering to the trip, and I have not even started to think about packing.......

Regardless......We both got everything we need to have a great time!

Let's see, since I am in a car and have "unlimited space" I am bringing two lawn chairs, a tool box, a pillow, a light blanket, a coat, riding gloves, a val-pack of toiletries, a long sleeve shirt, some pants, short sleeve shirts, a bathing suit, underwear, socks.

.... and I always take my spare gasoline bottle and my road rash kit.


We always eat out and we don't carry much with us other than a cell phone and a wallet when we are out on the road.



Did I mention that we tend to roam wide and far and fast and free?    

That we always carry the bathing suit with us on the bike (along with some spare underwear) as the only time we would actually dare to go swimming is if the nubile young girls are doing the mountain siren thing off in the too too cold mountain burbling brook and such like irresistible nonsense?

Do bring a suit though, as we can never tell when the urge to get into a big round rubber boat and get our old bodies all beat up again might overcome our God given common sense ....


Never been zip lining yet either.      

old-rider:

We kinda got this unrwritten rule that a Savage rider should plan on stopping for gas every 100 miles to avoid hitting reserve in the middle of nowhere.

I am thinking........you better start looking for gas every 80 miles!

There's no denying that a full/modular has more protection but I sure like riding with a 3/4 & movable shield so I can feel and smell the wind in the cool mountain air.

Lacking both Lancer and Toymaker to help moderate the excesses of the group (snicker snicker) I guess the mountain moderation duty falls on .....

Sir Dave the Moderate

I am no longer moderate as such (simply crip & old now).   And on mountain trips I have never been known much for moderate.

So, we put Dave out front on his RYCA and I'll follow along somewhere behind him, gently encouraging him some.

So, we got Old-rider to be our daily chronicler and picture taker reporting back to the list, MM to be trip planner and Dave to be pack leader of the riding string in the curvies.   MM and I are the mountain trip old timers, so we will just crack jokes all the time and enjoy ourselves.

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 06/08/13 at 06:03:45:


I am not much on leading.....I am too easy lost on those roads.  Last year I just kept BigZuk and MMRanch in sight.....and motored along behind without worrying about where we were.....or where we were headed.  Like being a Kid again........"Are we there yet?"

Just take a lot of digital pictures and make up a lot of stuff about what pics turns out good.    Video footage takes a lot of memory space and we never have anything good show up on video (that we are willing to talk about anyway).

We got wives you see, and if they knew what we really did we'd all be like Toymaker, forbidden to come back next year by wifely decree.

Nobody believes what we do on these trips anyway ....      

We have told sooooo many tall tales about running Hurleys off both sides of the road (two at the same time no less) that the only folks who believe anything about these mountain trips are the ones that actually go on them.

That's why we always have the new person to be the chronicler, to him it is all fresh and new and folks think he MIGHT be telling the truth, mostly.