well i'm back from my 450 mile (350 today) trip to mt st . helens and meeting greg and julie. wow what a great ride. pictures to follow.
i started the trip on saturday by riding the first 100 miles in the afternoon, i then left thumper in the hotel room while my wife and i drove the cage home so i could announce our speedways biggest race of the season. we then drove back to the hotel and crashed, sunday morning at the crack of noon we headed out up white pass to mt st helens. it was a bit chilly and just a few drops of rain an hour in.  i made a slight miscalculation on i distance and time so i missed the 1430 meet with greg and julie, but was able to cross paths on the road. we stopped and chatted, looking over the machines. the word that comes to mind when looking at greg's is "clean". julies has some really nice touches and my wife thinks is "prettier". i also believe that's julies story and she's sticking too it.  there was a gift shop/coffee house where we sat and swapped stories of the road. it appears many other riders of all types of machines got the memo of mountain day, because many made the trip to st helens.    

we made our good byes and split up  for the ride home. as i rode through the mountains atune to all the sounds being made by the machine i could hear the change in tone the tires made as i worked the curves, or was that just the squealing as i really got to widen the contact patch.
drafting the wifes cage i was able to make it the last 110 miles back to the farm. last trip i fell 2.5 miles short and had to call for her to come with fuel.




ok the mountain's obscured by clouds, but trust me, it's there.

to all who participated, thanks it was a great ride, we'll have to do it again next year.

sluggo

Jenn:

I too was rained out (see above post)

I think [glow=red,2,300]Lake day [/glow]is a great idea.

Decide a day, and I'm in!.

Could be lake, river, pond, ocean, etc....Heck.even a large puddle.


cheers


Michael

Well, I guess it's the other direction - I think I have saltwater for blood- arrrr mate

dang odd - s-a-l-t-w-a-t-e-r

Well here's my feeble attempt. This is a ridge in the Ozark "Mountains" in south Missouri and north Arkansas. I probably should have used a fill flash to show the bike better since the light apparently "tricked" the meter. It's a new camera I'm still learning. Oh well. It was getting late, a storm was moving in (as shown by the clouds), and I still had 2 hours to ride to get home. Got home at 10:35 pm amid lightening strikes! I don't do well with lightening since a little incident in Vietnam.

http://predator.bikepics.com/icon/suzuki-savage-04-bikepics-373624.jpg [img][/img]

I guess the pic will show in the post though it doesn't in the preview. If not I'll try again.

short round wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:06:


nice shot. i hope you don't mind i linked to it for you.

Well I got about a half hour from the house and realized that I forgot the camera. Oh well, the important thing was to RIDE right?  So I blew off the "mountain" hunt and just rode.  Put 100 miles on the Savage and left all my stress and worries at the garage door.

Looks like Sluggo wins the Iron Butt award at 350 miles. I did 285 and thought I would get it, darn!