Ride report

[DIGGER]

I was at my hunting lease couple weeks ago 160 miles away and left some keys there that I need.  Good day for a ride so I headed out on my Valkyrie at 6:30 am this morning.  Got my keys at the lease and headed back and took a detour coming home to go down some scenic country roads and managed to get in a 360 mile day.    Pulled in to my driveway and I was 2 miles short of 120,000 miles so I cranked back up and ran down the street and back and now have 120,002 miles on my Valkyrie.

Around 7:00am this morning I was on a 2 lane windy twisty road out of Bartlett Tx on hyway 487 and topped a small hill and in the ditch was a badly mangled Harley Dresser.   I stopped and felt of the engine and it was cold so it didnt just happen but just for precaution I walked all around the area in high grass looking for a body.    A man in a truck stopped and we did a thurough search in the tall grass.   Nothing but motorcycle parts there so I left.   The man in the truck said he would call it in to the police as soon as he got to the next town and got a signal on his phone.....hope and pray the rider/riders are ok.

[f-Stop]

Congrats on the 120,002 milestone!   

Kinda creepy to find an abandoned bike in the ditch.  Hopefully, whoever was on that Harley is OK...

[Jess from VA]

Guys who crash out with alcohol (or something) in their system will often walk from the scene and deal with it later (sober).  Maybe not, maybe so.  

I did that very thing one cold snowy night in college (car).  I slid into a ditch, couldn't get it out.  Did not want a breath or blood or field sobriety test (beer), so I hiked the mile to my dorm room, and went and got it in the morning.  (no damages or injury)

I locked it, although no one likely wanted my old beater jalopy.