DDT (12)
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Sometimes ya just gotta go...
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« on: January 08, 2020, 06:24:04 AM » |
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Another year has come and gone... and we're still together! Yep, our girl and her aging rider are still making memories and doing what we do. Last Saturday we departed on our FROTY for the new year, and things just worked out fine. Didn't ride New Years Day, but close enough for those who consider calendars just so much 'excess and unnecessary baggage'.
We left the lair of Troutdude and Water Bug yesterday (our actual anniversary) after deciding to return to sunny central Florida instead of heading west. No urgent need for such a choice, but... We still have some unfinished business to attend, so duty calls and all that. Maybe in the near future we'll make that long ride after all...
Like with riders, scooters, too, have some issues crop-up from time to time as the aging process unfolds... Troutdude is my 'go-to-guy' for all matters mechanical, so... A little jaunt over to southeast Louisiana has never been regarded as a chore for either of us... In fact, that's one of the benefits of such an arrangement... especially when calendars are not a consideration, for us at least, so a one really long day or two relatively short day ride can be stretched into... whatever!
It was twenty-one years and 653K miles ago yesterday that I first laid eyes on our girl... in the showroom of the Honda dealer in Hendersonville, NC. It was love at first sight, and the first thing that popped into my mind when I spotted her was, "This could be the start of something really special!" I had no idea at the time just how prophetic those words would prove to be!!! Anyway, I'm proud to be here doing what I do, and I'm mighty happy to still be doing it with our girl!
We'll be going KSU here in Montgomery, AL, in an hour or so (want to let it warm a bit and allow rush hour traffic to ease-off a bit), and we'll be headed towards 'home'... of course, for us we're always 'home' where ever we are, but this time it means to my land-lady's house... Of course I ain't exactly sure when we might pull into the garage there... could be a long-cut might just be in our immediate future...
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« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2020, 06:30:12 AM » |
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Hope your 2020 year is great. Glad you saw Trout Dude and Water bug, good folks for sure. Hope to see you down the road soon pard.  |
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Farside
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Let's get going!
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« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2020, 06:39:37 AM » |
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« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2020, 07:15:10 AM » |
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I gitz The Distinct impression that maps and calendars are at best fer you anywho just Suggestions!  Keep on keeping on Bruce. lotsa us mere mortals duz live vicariously thru yer meanderings pre during and post trip.  I myself and some others I'm sure would NOT have it any other way. RIDE SAFE. |
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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Oss
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« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2020, 10:07:34 AM » |
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Safe winds and fair skies to you.  Oss |
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John Schmidt
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a/k/a Stuffy. '99 I/S Valk Roadsmith Trike
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« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2020, 10:44:57 AM » |
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21 years and 653,000 miles. Simply amazing ! 653k huh? What a piker! Buddy, you need to get out of the house more. Keep following that front wheel my friend. |
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« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2020, 11:52:22 AM » |
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With the mile figures and years figure I arrived at an Average of approx. 31095 Mls per year. I Know folks don't put dat many miles on their cages in a year. Any idea How Many hardleys you would have needed fer those miles? Yeah-me neither! RIDE SAFE. |
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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« Reply #8 on: January 08, 2020, 05:45:34 PM » |
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I was thinking about Bruce's post off and on thru the day. I wonder if I will ever come close to his feats and adventures. I like to think I could some day. I hope you keep on keepin on my friend. |
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« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2020, 04:43:08 AM » |
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I was thinking about Bruce's post off and on thru the day. I wonder if I will ever come close to his feats and adventures. I like to think I could some day. I hope you keep on keepin on my friend. Like I said in my first post-us mere mortals! RIDE SAFE. |
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2020, 04:06:37 AM » |
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Bruce how many miles you reckon is on your keister? Adding up those Goldwing miles before the Valkyrie?
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« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2020, 03:47:08 PM » |
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With the mile figures and years figure I arrived at an Average of approx. 31095 Mls per year. I Know folks don't put dat many miles on their cages in a year. Any idea How Many hardleys you would have needed fer those miles? Yeah-me neither! RIDE SAFE. That figures out to 85 miles a day. Not extraordinary. But thats everyday for 7,665 days  Keep hitting it Bruce. |
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« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2020, 08:18:46 PM » |
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Know you may need a bigger helmet after reading this but.....you are pretty much turning into a legend among us! |
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« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2020, 08:28:24 PM » |
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Know you may need a bigger helmet after reading this but.....you are pretty much turning into a legend among us! You ain't been paying attention. He's been in legend status for quite some time. |
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« Reply #14 on: January 13, 2020, 04:41:53 AM » |
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you need to contact HONDA and tell them your mileage. or maybe not, since they will probably retire your bike wanting it back to show the general public it can hit 600K miles no real engine/tranny issues (?) to promote HONDA reliability. Maybe if they give you a new Goldwing for your troubles???? Would be interesting to see if 1 million miles is do-able? Here I think 100,000 miles is a feat to be reached, especially here in the upper midwest where riding season is around 6-7 months per year. |
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Skinhead
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« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2020, 04:50:19 AM » |
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I'd contact Guinness Book of World Records and see what the record is for mileage on a Honda Valkyrie with no engine work.
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« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2020, 05:24:47 AM » |
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I'd contact Guinness Book of World Records and see what the record is for mileage on a Honda Valkyrie with no engine work.
I think he had that cracked head one time ? |
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« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2020, 05:39:36 AM » |
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I'd contact Guinness Book of World Records and see what the record is for mileage on a Honda Valkyrie with no engine work.
I think he had that cracked head one time ? That don't count. |
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