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Posted by CDNRatMan
- May 18, 2014, 18:20:46 PM Well woke up and the Forecasters were wrong again, for our May long weekend weather, this morning was clear and sunny, might have gotten as high as 60*F around mid day, but I did the lake ride again and this time I really went all out and went the other way......lol........did a spark plug swap yesterday after supper because I have never changed the plugs and so decided to put new ones in and everything worked out just fine.
Next ride take camera and put it in the new trunk.......
Posted by Troll
- May 18, 2014, 16:30:42 PM72 degrees...why wasn't it like that yesterday??? Oh well, it is TODAY!!! 86 miles of back roads...and I think I actually have a touch of sunburn, rather than frost bite!
Posted by greenbarn
- May 18, 2014, 07:40:27 AMQuote from: John Hopkins on May 18, 2014, 04:50:04 AMThat sounds like a great trip John, I'm jealous.I'm taking a week away starting tomorrow, I plan at least 1000 miles and I know the Drifter is good for it, Starting from my home town in South Wales I will cross the Severn bridge into England and ride to Alton Barnes to see the white horse....
John.
Quote from: CDNRatMan on May 17, 2014, 19:05:57 PMRatman, I believe they were forcasting more snow for you last night - hope they were wrong... It got down into the 30's here, and there were frost warnings. That's just wrong.been like 7 days of rain, thinking of asking people to donate some wood, for my ark..........oh well it is either snow or rain.......
Posted by John Hopkins
- May 18, 2014, 04:50:04 AMI'm taking a week away starting tomorrow, I plan at least 1000 miles and I know the Drifter is good for it, Starting from my home town in South Wales I will cross the Severn bridge into England and ride to Alton Barnes to see the white horse, this is a large horse carved into the chalk of a hillside, from there I will ride to London and follow the road through Essex to Felixstowe in Suffolk on the east coast of England..Years ago when the USA had a Airforce base in suffolk some people I knew took a weather balloon into Rendlesham forest near the base and draped it with strobe lights and towed it around the forest until some people from the base came to investigate, because the people from the base were very excited and shouting a lot it was easy to keep ahead of them and out of sight, the next morning the local papers were full of reports of UFO sightings and aliens spying on the base..so now there is a UFO trail in the forest, I'm going to visit that UFO trail..From there I will continue to the RAF war memorial at Mundesley, and then on to Baconsthorpe Castle in Norfolk..from there it's on to the Royal palace at Sandringham to look at the ruined church of ST James at Bawsey..and then on to the Kinema in the woods at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire, finally I will visit the Miz Maze at Wing in Rutland..You can google all these places and this may be all the riding I do until the end of May..or maybe not..
John.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- May 17, 2014, 19:05:57 PMbeen like 7 days of rain, thinking of asking people to donate some wood, for my ark..........oh well it is either snow or rain.......
Glad you could get out to visit your friend, and have fun......
Posted by Troll
- May 17, 2014, 18:25:31 PM252 miles today to see my friend who came in second place in a contest with a tree....The doctors sewed his head up and he looks good. He never has to decide where to part his hair, again...it's now permanent. It was supposed to be 65 deg, but they're still having winter up in Stevens Point...Silly me, I thought I'd be able to remove layers as the day wore on...I stopped in a little riverside park in Nekoosa on the way up for lunch. The pictures are of the Wisconsin River. The last time I stopped in this park, the place I'm standing in was under water!
Posted by CDNRatMan
- May 16, 2014, 20:25:56 PMand a fine job you have done.....
Posted by Troll
- May 16, 2014, 19:58:00 PMThanks...I patterned it after the Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover, "TEX"...at least that's what I had in mind...
Posted by Drift1
- May 16, 2014, 19:47:53 PMJust got home from a Kansas mission with the military and have the weekend off to return Monday 0400 for another mission . Wind and rain like crazy , but tomorrow is suppose to be nice and the shop I always deal with is having there open house and 120 mile ride so hopefully it's nice weather . If so I'll join the festivities and take some pictures of the turn out . Troll like the others stated , you've done a fantastic job on your bike . Truly looks like a " BIKERS " bike 
Posted by greenbarn
- May 16, 2014, 16:48:54 PMThat sure is nice, Troll...
Posted by CDNRatMan
- May 16, 2014, 16:36:43 PM 
very nice, we have one forecast for rain all weekend and one for some sun, now tomorrow is taken up with getting my buddy Nanook taken care of so after that I might get to go for a ride if the sun is out......
Troll no matter what the rest of them say that is one sweet looking ride.......very nice......
Posted by Troll
- May 16, 2014, 15:21:10 PMI got my to do list covered this morning, so out I go...it's all the way up to 50! woohoo! The sky looks like rain, but the radar on tv says no. We are supposed to have another river flood crest this weekend, like the 4th one this year! I took advantage of the dry time and put on a few miles. Tomorrow and Sunday are supposed to to 60 and 70. I'm going to try to visit a friend who had an altercation with a tree he was topping....meanwhile, back at the River: