Was going to put this under "Ride Report" but thought the significance of the end of the ride over shadows the report aspect.
Beautiful weekend, 10 of us leave Memphis Saturday morning headed to Birmingham for the AMA super bike races. Weather was great and the races were as thrilling as you can imagine, plenty of crashing but with no real injuries. Did some great roads around Leeds and stopped by 29 Dreams for dinner. Food was quite tasty plus a very good band with a million bikes, with most importantly, ice cold $2.00 long necks. We stayed Saturday night at a Holiday Inn in Pell City which is very close to Talladega and with the race there this week, lot's of pre-race set up crews were there with plenty of huge NASCAR trailers. Not mention what seemed like most of the BMW riders in the USA. Those guys really travel, they were from all over and all came in just for the races, since there was a BMW in the super bike events. Got up this morning to a sunny 80 degree day and we took lots of fantastic twisty roads up to Rocket HD just west of Huntsville. There on the floor was a near perfect 01 SERG with only 7K miles on it, complete with all the extras you'd want; 103, SERT, Hooker Headers, SEAC, and in "as new" condition. List for 18,895 so I offered quite a bit less to see how bad they wanted some business, they didn't! Best I could get them down to was 18,200 BUT my friend then started negotiating. He did much better than me, he traded his 03 RK w/ 24,000 miles on it for the SERG for damn near even money. Great bike in great shape at a great deal, I wanted it but I'm happy for him and I learned who I need to get to negotiate my bike purchases from now on. Anyway back to the ride, we headed back on the road and just when we got in Iuka, MS, about 100 miles from home, Dave on his 07 red SE Ultra decides to fling oil everywhere. I mean a classic 110 meltdown and I must add it had already crapped out before and had received the "fix", the new special gasket that is touted as the cure all. (It ain't!!!!) As we were all standing there in the gas station lot watching the oily mess one of the other proud 110 owners that had already crapped out a few months ago decided to take a look at his motor. You I'm sure guess it, yep, oil seeping out all over the motor. And yes, he had the new gasket done several months ago, you know, the latest "FIX".
After waiting all afternoon on a return call from HOG about the tow that evidently was not going to show up, we (almost) all rode home to Memphis, picked up a truck and trailer and drove back to Iuka to get the bike and brought it home. So it and the other 110 are heading to the stealership in the morning to get
, I have no idea what they are going to get since they both had previously been "fixed" with the new gaskets. It is now getting to the point if you are going on a ride outside the city limits you have to make sure there are trailers available to pick up the 07 and o8 bikes when they crap out. VERY SAD, thanks MoCo!
Here are some pictures, if you have a 110, you better not look.
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