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Tick one from my bucket list!
09/27/17 at 23:23:03

Just spent the last 4 days, and 2400 kms, driving(!) through the Canadian Rockies. I can't begin to describe how beautiful this corner of the world is, you can see it all on u-tube. Massive mountains, beautiful lakes.
I now understand why most bikes I see on the road are HDs or BMWs. You need an engine that can easily lope (or loaf) along at 60-70 without breaking a sweat, 8 hours/day, a break after 4 hrs, is a hard slog, enjoyed not endured.
I've been here 20 years, but only had a car I'd take out of town in the last year and a half.
Totally enjoyed, but glad I'm home! Cool

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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10667 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Tick one from my bucket list! Reply #1 - 09/28/17 at 05:25:39 Mountain riding is just awesome.
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Ruttly Serious Thumper Online Thumpers Rule Posts: 5111 Manteca , CA Gender:	Re: Tick one from my bucket list! Reply #2 - 09/28/17 at 05:38:14 Head for the hills cause behind them hills is the mountains ! Yeah I obviously live in a valley
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Papa Bear Senior Member Offline Posts: 476 Canada ... near the Motor City Gender:	Re: Tick one from my bucket list! Reply #3 - 09/28/17 at 14:12:45 It would be a great ride on the Island too Cool beans !
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Reply #4 - 09/30/17 at 09:57:50

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You should know that : With the 25 tooth F/pulley , your LS-650 will run along at 70-75mph with no sweat ... (might perspire a little on really looooong mountain grades) and still run up-hill in 5th gear just fine. Wink

I crossed the Ozarks last summer while packed for a week (w/tent and sleeping gear) and never had any thought of needing more motor (75-80mph Super-Slab Style). Cool

Year before last I did almost the same trip on my Harley and melted the guts in the rear muffler... Embarrassed

Now the Harley has the same 12" shorty mufflers that the LS-650 does.

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Reply #5 - 09/30/17 at 11:53:37

MM: Congrats on quite an achievement! The bike may have the endurance, but I don't, lol, at least on a bike. 2 hours and I'm done.
I was getting leg cramps after 3 hours behind the wheel! Put it in 'cruise' and started doing leg exercises. Worked! Advanced age is my excuse, and I'm sticking to it! Cool

ps: you/we should start a thread detailing the longest trips people on this board have taken. It might inspire others to be a bit more daring/adventurous on this big single! Cool

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5837 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Tick one from my bucket list! Reply #6 - 09/30/17 at 14:48:19 South Tx. from Middle Tn. has been my longest so far. Some of us are CONTEMPLATING meeting at a campground somewhere around the Black-Hills area ??? I would be ridding to that ... 1400-1500 miles one way .
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badwolf Serious Thumper Offline Ridin' my Lil' Bagger - 153k miles so far Posts: 802 Palm Beach County, FL Gender:	Re: Tick one from my bucket list! Reply #7 - 09/30/17 at 16:10:57 zip, We have a thread for mileage hall of fame. http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1391195461 MM and I are both in there as Ironbutts. I guess that's better than just butt heads!
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Re: Tick one from my bucket list!
Reply #8 - 09/30/17 at 16:30:54

MM has a dream of going to see Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills next summer going out by way of Lancer's place.

If he extended that trip a bit he could take in Yellowstone and visit the budding supervolcano caldera that is gonna kill all of us fools eventually.

(notice I don't mention the big ditch as it is jest too far out of the way, plus erosion simply isn't my favorite thing)

If he planned it well, he could get Lancer and Verslagen to mebbe play as that is really closer to those guys than it is to MM or me.

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MMRanch Serious Thumper Offline Evil flourishes if Good Men do Nothing. Posts: 5837 LYNCHBURG TN Gender:	Re: Tick one from my bucket list! Reply #9 - 09/30/17 at 18:47:36 Bucket list are wonderful things , I have found the more things on mine I do. ... The longer the list gets ! 😕 OldFeller , you know we could put our Savages in the back of my truck or on a trailer behind your car and campground our way along for a week or two ...
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zipidachimp Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1417 surrey, b.c. Gender:	Re: Tick one from my bucket list! Reply #10 - 09/30/17 at 22:02:38 I need to get out more! on my bike! I'm embarrassed by my lack of production. My mind thinks I'm riding a grenade: blowout from a tube tire, chain tensioner at 18mm and counting! Howinell do you guys put on all those miles without incident? I'm impressed!!!!
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Tick one from my bucket list! Reply #11 - 09/30/17 at 23:39:05 w/out incident? the only thing that didn't happen (collectively) is the one where a semi puts 9 consecutive tracks over your a$$. Stuff happens, we become educated, we go on.
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Re: Tick one from my bucket list!
Reply #12 - 10/01/17 at 03:55:45

zipidachimp wrote on 09/30/17 at 22:02:38:

I need to get out more! on my bike! I'm embarrassed by my lack of production. My mind thinks I'm riding a grenade: blowout from a tube tire, chain tensioner at 18mm and counting! Howinell do you guys put on all those miles without incident? I'm impressed!!!! Cheesy

Long rides are not as hard on the chain tensioner as short ones are.....we believe the problem is hot/cold cycles - not miles ridden.

It is time for you to get a modified cam chain tensioner.....then go on more long rides!

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Reply #13 - 10/01/17 at 11:38:33

MMRanch wrote on 09/30/17 at 18:47:36:

Bucket list are wonderful things , I have found the more things on mine I do. ... The longer the list gets ! 😕

OldFeller , you know we could put our Savages in the back of my truck or on a trailer behind your car and campground our way along for a week or two ...

Yeah, I know -- let's see how the prostate surgery goes and how complete the crotch recovery is. Getting sliced open and having to heal again ...... I just did that. Now I gotta go do it again.

I think the recovery process on this one writes the story on these long term mega trips.

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zipidachimp Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1417 surrey, b.c. Gender:	Re: Tick one from my bucket list! Reply #14 - 10/01/17 at 12:14:33 I have a versy on S41, I need one on S42, both are '08s
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