Weather was SOME HOT but clear as a bell and JP had invited me over, so saddled up the Dark Shadow to test her out on a little ride yesterday. Didn't want to get up on the superslab since I am still in the "break in phase" and suppose to keep it under 5k rpm (which is right at the 70 mph mark), so took old 90 over to Lake Charles. GPS mount came in day before yesterday and was a snap to put on the morning before I pulled out - Thanks again TP for turning me on to that site - a few dollars cheaper than ordering from RAM direct.
Good thing about taking old 90 is you get to groove on some of the old houses when you go through towns.
Going to have to play around with the GPS mount some - washes out really bad with sunlight. So, pulled up to Hard6's and parked with his Valks so the ladies could get to know each other.....
Ms Mary was out shopping, so JP whipped up a "light lunch" for the boys.....
Got to spend some time with my dear old friend and jabber jawed for a couple of hours. Then I had to skedadle home to walk the dogs (or so I thought). Got a ways down the road and realized the time must have been wrong by an hour on the clock I looked at when I was at JP's, so I had an extra hour to ride, so ride I did. Went down towards the coast. There was a 5 mile gravel loop through a reserve that I wouldn't have taken the Valk through - but it was made for the Vstrom.
Got to see some pink flamingos and even a couple of little gators poking their little heads up out of the water.
Then down along the Creole Trail along the coastal marsh.
Took a ride through the Rockefeller Reserve (about 10 miles of gravel - again, I wouldn't have ridden the Valk - on purpose - through it). Vstrom did fine.
Then a slow ride back home. Got in 249 miles yesterday - the bike did well. Not a Valk and you don't have the wind protection - a lot of wind at the helmet level - but still a fun little bike. Plus, the main thing, got to spend some time with a friend.
