great pic's, wish i could have made the trip, watching you guys is like i'm almost there......
,, ak nice bike dude, congrates
The first thing I asked Dave is "where's Marty?". Wish you could have joined us.
We're having a great time. We're at the National Hotel in Jamestown tonight. I think Don and Soozie are supposed to hook up with us here. Tomorrow is Yosemite......lookin forward to that.
I promised I wouldn't play too hard but one of the highlights for me was the ride with Sid and Mike for the 44 mile twisties from Ft. Brag to Willits. There's not a straight section more than 100 ft. long for the full 44 miles. Constant twisties with floorboards scrappin on both sides the whole way with speeds from 20 to 45 mphs. About 2/3 of our trip has been two lane mountain roads from sea level to 9,000 + feet.
Just having a great time, but wish the rest of the crew was still with us. We're having a blast with Terry and Karen (Rooster and Mrs. Rooster), Dave (Wrongway) and Donna, Steve (SMD) and Yolanda and Moto-Michael.
We did spend a couple of hours at Freedom Cycles this morning. Brad took all the guys in the back and showed us all the research that he's working on for the 09's. By the way, a tip that he offered.....one of his 09 research bikes that only has 250 miles on it....the wiring harness that runs along the frame under the exhaust bracket apparently has vibrated against the exhaust bracket just enough to melt through the wiring harness jacket. He's brought it to Harley's attention but suggests that everybody with an 09 zip tie their wireing to the frame fright by the exhaust bracket near the tranny.
He went on to explain that the reason that bracket gets so hot is because the stock exhaust has a catalytic converter inside the exhaust right by the bracket.
Oh, and I certainly owe Brad a note of gratitude for pulling my bike in and washing it up (I made the mistake of parking under a tree yesterday that was dripping tree sap) for me this morning.
We have many, many photos however, the mother board of my lap top fried up in the redwoods. Those photos will be posted at a later date.