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10-12-2005, 01:56 PM
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| Grandpa Before My Time   Join Date: Jul 2005
Bike: 2008 Kawasaki KLR 650
Location: Dallas, Texas Directly above the center of the earth.
Posts: 11,240
|  Talimena The Experiance
Sorry it took so long to get to this I have a lot going on right now. Anyway here it comes... My first group ride Long post Long Post Long Post Saturday 5am the alarm goes off time to get up and hit the road! Need to leave the house and drive for an hour to the starting point. (Remember to buy a new alarm clock) Left the house at 6:30am fueled up just down the street from the starting point. (a Honda dealership) In the parking lot my wife decides to stress test her modular helmet, it fails the test. Broken helmet an hour away from home where the spare helmet is, leaving in 30 minutes. Should I leave her here and let her ride the bus home? Maybe there is someone in the dealership who can help. I locate the coordinator of this shindig and he is going to try to track down dealer and see if they can fix it. Enter the dealership… This is a motorcycle dealership? Doesn’t smell like one! Since when does a dealership have a Starbucks inside,  and what the heck do they need a baby grand piano for?  Sign up is up stairs, in the arcade?! I need a GPS just to find my way around.   Signup goes smoothly,  we all watch a video on riding in groups, they go over the itinerary and we meet the road captain for our group and everyone in our group is given an orange bandanna to tie to their motorcycle. (thank goodness we aren’t in the pink group) There are 8 bikes in our group 1 BMW GPS installed (road captain) 1 Kawasaki Vulcan Classic 1500 (the only Kawasaki cruiser) 1 Suzuki M95 (the only Suzuki) the rest are Harleys. There are 49 bikes total and 70 riders. The groups are leaving 10 min apart and we will be the third group out. The first stop is 113mi away in Oklahoma. Our group has to wait for a member who has to buy his wife a new helmet. So we are now group 4. |
