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The Ultimate Guide To Motorcycle Windshields
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This old bridge is now a bike trail… er… pedal, not moto…
Okay- new tag- where the road goes from paved to unpaved… an intersection will do…
Our state fair hasn’t started either. That’s just the sign.
Soo… if you’re fair grounds have a permanent sign (or even a temp sign advertising…) you should be good. Here is my Thumper looking back up the valley towards some lovely snowy mountains….
And the new Tag is:
The State Fair Grounds… or if you live in a non-agrarian area, an amusement park will do.
As long as your sweetie doesn’t do what mine did…
I told him I really wanted saddle bags for my birthday, even sent him some links so he didn’t have to worry about getting the wrong size, and what did he do? He went out and bought me a gear bag for BJJ.
I guess that he would rather me spend time rolling around with other men than riding a motorcycle.
… I still don’t have saddle bags …
Does it have to be snow capped or simply still have snow on it?
I may be stuck waiting for termination dust if I can’t make the ride to Chilitna on a clear day…Oklahoma beer is near beer- there is a state mandated 3.25% limit on the alcohol content…
Personally I can’t stand the stuff (near beer or the real thing).And your pictures of Alberta do remind me a lot of rural Oklahoma- just replace the canola with corn… Add on top the fantastic thunder storms you mentioned in an earlier post- it makes me homesick.
Not really planning any big rides. I’d like to ride up to Chilitna, but the season has been so wet that I don’t really feel like spending 8 hours on a bike to not see Mt. McKinley.
As for a riding buddy, I know the feeling- but I may have a solution soon. One of my friends told me last weekend that he totally wants to learn to ride a motorcycle but he would never do it by himself. He didn’t know I ride (okay, so I’m shy about it! I admit it!) or I think that would have come out last year when I was thinking about picking it up. So, we are signed up for the BRC at the beginning of August. We’ll see where that takes us.
In the meantime, I finally got my courage up to take the road up to Hatcher Pass- then I chickened out at the Motherload and turned around. *sigh* This afternoon, I think I’m going to go out and do Knik River road. I went to do it last fall, but when I got within about 1/2mi of the river, it was so freaking cold that I turned around. I have better gear, and the day is warm sunny…
Haven’t had a chance to watch the shows yet though they sound interesting, but I will say this…
Oklahoma has its own kind of beauty. From the rolling terrain of the Ozarks to the desert scrub of the panhandle, the diversity of flora and wildlife is incredible. However, it something that not everyone appreciates. In the summer it tends to be hot, humid and brown and in the winter it is cold, windy and brown.
For those of us used to the lush greenness of the pacific northwest, it pales in comparison.
And if you don’t agree with that- consider that for most of America, Route 66 is the only positive thing they know about the state. Otherwise, it is a bunch of rednecks who go to rodeos and tractor pulls, eat BBQ, and don’t have the good sense to drink real beer- though they drink plenty of the stuff that they call beer.
Okay, so while it always bothers me (and has for years- even before I knew anything about riding gear), at least now I know what’s going on. In Alaska, there is no helmet law for the driver, but there is for the pillion passenger. I can only assume that these guys are carrying the unused helmet for their girlfriends (or simply hoping to get lucky). Doesn’t make them any smarter, but it is something of an explanation.
