Sounds good Versy. I'll check my calendar at work and with the family and see what works for me. We have a major project going on at work that could possibly throw a monkey wrench into my plans but hopefully it won't. I am thinking first week of August but I need to look closely at things at to better guess what is the best time. Steve, being a realtor I believe has more leeway in being able to take off.

Savage Events for 2018
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Bike Week Trip to Florida   March 8-17  Cancelled
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Oldfeller/MMRanch/stewmills meeting badwolf/EdL
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Twisted Sister Run, Texas Hill Country Mid to Late April  
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Springman/MMRanch/Verslagen1/Lancer meeting Youzguyz
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TRIP TO SUCHES GEORGIA - May 30 to June 3rd
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http://twowheelsofsuches.com/
Dave/Oldfeller/MMRanch/stewmills
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Beartooth/Cody ND - August
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Springman/MMRanch/Verslagen1/Oldfeller/Lancer?/Hammer?
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A thought .......

Twisted Sisters is over half way to Cody, is there any possibility to chain the two trips together?

Doing so saves some of us at least 3-6 days of repeated travel time and the same crew of folks is going on both.

Take it from Verslagen's perspective, he goes to Twisted and visits Cody on the way back home.
We just ride along with him for a bit to keep him company ......

Who knows?   Neil might want to come along if we do it that way ......

I am beginning to see advantages to group travel, as when one gets sick or has a road incident he has coverage.

Oldfeller, glad to hear you retired. I still have a few years to go. Interesting what you mention about the hearing loss. I have not had any operations recently but my hearing has really taken a turn for the worse over the past year. I guess that is just part of getting older.

As far as putting the 2 trips together Versy is right, there is a good 1400 miles or so between the sisters and Cody.

Weather in Texas this year has been a bit odd, much wetter than normal. I do not know if this is going to continue or if that means we are heading into a dry spell soon. MM we need you Almanac!

Springman wrote:  Are our carbureted bikes going to need any adjustments to ride properly?  

I spent a "Tour of Duty" in ElPaso (5,000+ feet) .   I got there on my SX-650 Yamaha.  

At the time I didn't understand  much about fuel mixtures and such.   But it didn't take long to learn .   Seems like I went from 135 mains to 127.5 to fix it.  
I could have just left it alone and suffered the low MPG but I had about 20 months to spend there so I changed to the lean burn.   Funny thing is when I got back to TN I didn't feel the need to switch back !  
With the factory jets I was getting 42MPG average , with the leaning jets I was getting close to 50MPG.   Gas was cheep back then , but I like 50 more than 42 any day .    

Once ya have enough power the rest don't mater the way I see it !  

I believe I'm running 150 main and 47.5 slow speed .   I've got a colection to choose from if ya think you might like to try a different size.   Changing jets is less than a one hour thing.

ON A SINGLE that is !  

I do not know. I have been planning on doing some work on the bike and I guess I will find out then. As best I know I have the original jets in there and she seems to run just fine here at 100 feet or so above sea level. I'm running a stock air filter for the time being. I will be putting a foam air filter in it when I get the time to sit down and tinker on it a bit. Hopefully within the next 3 weeks or so.

It seems like I red that BearTooth Pass gets up over 10,000 ft.   If its get Colder as we go up then perhaps that will make up for any running rich problems we might have .  

I'm thinking extra Gas in the saddle bags for those long mountain passes ?

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28947-d209021-Reviews-Beartoot...

OK , The April must have been my error ?  

But

It may not matter anyway ,    

My wife is going to have a "Lump-ecctomy" some time in the next few weeks , and ...

I'll be wife sitting for the  month or so after , but she's worth that and 100 times more to me .  

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I'm hope ing the Dr's . get it soon so I can get away the middle of May .... and then .... again the last of May !