Back from eating, outback ribeye... had to fuel up for the weekend... never know if we'll be out in the hills, lost and eatin' pinecones. So I added a few pounds and so did Kev.
Bike is still chattering, either rockers or maybe a bushing or something, you should hear me coming tommorrow...bout a mile away.
Although there were a couple times after riding about 62-64 mph were it just seemed like I hit a "zone" and didn't really hear anything except the thrum of the engine and felt the vibes of the road (well that and the pain in my azz and elbow that never went away totally), it was great feeling and I couldn't help but smile...really big
We stared out in the fog of the morning, cool to hot to cool and back to hot, fogged up my glasses and sometimes the fog got so thick we had to slow to about 45mph for fear of rearending someone. Couldn't see behind because the mirrors fogged too, was like that for about 3hrs till the sun finally burned the fog up.
Anyway we made it to Atlanta and it only took us 9 hours...ok, I complained alot, and stopped for gas every 90 miles to be safe. Put in about 1.7 gal. per 90 miles so i'm figuring 52-ish mpg? and at 2.9ish gal I guess I really could push 140 miles per tank if I needed to I suppose.
Loggin off, gonna do some other surfin' and get showered and slept up till the mornin', I don't know when we will leave, got plenty of time to get there.

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 06/11/13 at 18:39:44:


Shore 'nuff

I was sworn to secrecy I tell ya!  My roomy is Lancer not my bud Kev. Well I got here last, because, well, let's say this, I'm the first blood sacrifice! Yup, an hour out I pulled into a parking lot to call the wife (she buzzed me), and as I turned in I hit a patch of loose gravel, down I went!
Almost immediately gas started draining from the cap onto the ground. I had hit the kill switch on the way down, but being excited I thought there might be a fire if it got on the pipe, so I tried snatching it up, ya know,clean and jerk.
Well I ended up popping something in my lower back, know I'm gonna change my name to old stupid rider.

I was hoping I would be able to ride up Friday and maybe meet yall for lunch or something and say hi to everyone.  But, it didn't work out.  Too many commitments around here.

I hope you all have a great time.  

Pics

Day 2 was almost as fun as my trip up here....LOL... almost.
I got up at O' dark thirty to go make the coffee so's the older members wouldn't have to wait for it to brew...then had to log on so I could fill them in on any important news.
After they got up they decided to yak fer a bit while I was sweeping out the cabin...oh the joy's of the new guy
Out we went for breakfast a short trip, well semi-short trip to find walmart and a breakfast place nearby, well after only 2 wrong turns we found one. Food was good, bellies full and sunshiny day...lets go!
We headed out after lookin' at a map and took a long fast....did I say fast? cars were blurrin' buy and I could only manage warp 2 to OF's 5 or 6, the interstate was great to us, we hit our turn-off and off....road we went.
Did I say off road? well after about 20min of blacktop we were climbin' hills that donkey carts could climb (or a good four wheel drive vehicle).
About 25 minutes into the hairy-hair pins and loop-back gravel deathtrap we decided that google didn't know what a blacktop was and turned back around and headed downslope, yeah...dave didn't have to even turn his racer on but once, he coasted.
Well we got back on the road and hit up the wheels of time museum only to find out that there was a can-am convention on that side of the mountain....holly hanna's...literally thousands of them!
After spendin' about an hour at the museum we decided to split.... Lancer headed back and OF, OR and Dave decided to hit the dragon and loop back around.
Yeah we did a loop alright, loopdy lue and a thunderstorm or two! We spent most of the rest of the day dodging raindrops and getting soaked, while Lancer hit wally world and got a smidge wet, the terrible three were soaked to the bone! I've still got cold feet!
After we returned home in the third downpoor of the day, it stopped rainin' yeah Stopped! So we dried out did some laundry, Dave washed his bike (yeah even after all the water that soaked us he washes it) and guess who shows???  MMR!!! yeah buddy! and now there are 5! The fearless five! ok... fearless four...i'm still a little timmid  
Anyway I didn't spell check or anythin so i'm done for the day...

Old_Rider out!

P.S. I hope this link works
http://s1047.photobucket.com/user/Orphistle/library/2013%20Savage%20Trip?view...

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 06/14/13 at 15:51:44:


Musta wore OR out though....seeing as how yer doing the reportin tonite  

....next time I will be fit enough to ride more than I did this time

Ya know we gona "Hold Ya To It "

Better show up on something either too Big for OldFeller to eat or too Fast for him to catch-it !

I had a rather uneventfull trip home (300 miles/7hours).    The bike rally was still going on when I got to town !   That was a nice supprise.  The races start in an hour and a half so I'm off to the shower and on to the races I hope .