Sanity Ride...

Took a little ride today, you can read it here:

Sanity Ride....



And here is a good song that played on my mp3 player on the ride:

Got a new camera for Christmas...

It's nice and a big upgrade over my old Samsung Digi Cam. Expect to see more pictures soon...maybe even some from this Friday's The Last Ride Of The Year Ride To Eat. What's a RTE? Well, it's an even where motorcyclists ride a sizable distance to meet up for lunch....It sounds cool and is 250 miles away.

So, dork that I am, I am actually planning on leaving home at 5-5:30 in the morning to make it to the Stagecoach Cafe in time to see all the bikes. Past TLROTY's have had over 800 bikes, so that will be cool to see.

Crazy? Maybe, but it sounds like fun to me. Plus, I've been wanting to ride to Alabama for a while and this may get me motivated enough to do it.

This is what I want for Christmas.....

Dan Moto exhausts sound good and are priced a lot lower than name brand exhausts. Good reviews, too....

Toys for Tots Ride

Got up this morning and decided to make the Toys for Tots run this morning, even though it was cold and there was a chance of rain. That wasn't the biggest thing on my mind, that made me question whether I wanted to leave the house.

Not to get too depressing but my wife became ill at work and I took her to the emergency room Wednesday and they found a 2.5 inch brain tumor.... They are 99% sure it's benign but surgery is a must. An MRI is scheduled so we are waiting on the results to have a better idea of what we are looking at. But, to say the last few days have been a bit weird is a bit of an understatement.

So, anyway, my wife asked if I was still going and to be honest, I was already talking myself out of it because I'm just worried. But she said to go and enjoy myself and she'd be fine and I may not be able to ride too much for a little while. I told her I may go and went to bed still talking myself out of going. But then I realized that I needed to go and if I stayed she would probably  be upset with herself that this was keeping me from having fun. So, I decided to go.
I got on the road only slightly behind time and made a stop at WalMart for the present.



Riders from two local forums had decided separately to meet up at the Home Depot near Capital City Harley Davidson, where the Run started. One of the forums is Tallahassee Motorcycles, a local forum I started.

So I pulled in a few minutes before 9am and saw no other bikes there.



There is a thread on Maximum Suzuki talking about bushwhack camping and someone mentioned that two forum members took a cross country trip and would stop at Lowes or Home Depots and sleep in the sheds in the parking lot. I thought that was really kind of cool so I took a look at the sheds and could see that could be done.

I also like to kid my wife and tell her once the kids are grown we are downsizing to one of those micro houses, or the North Florida equivalent, one of these. But hey, that two story shed has plenty of room......She's still not buying it, though.

We ended up with two Tallahassee Sportbikers forum members, four Tallahassee motorcycle forum members, two Chrome Divas and four or five sportbike mc group all at the parking lot. So, four different groups picked the same spot to meet up and ride in.



One of the Chrome Diva's rode this Ninja. One day I will own a Ninja 250, 500 and a 650. Don't know why but those are some nice looking bikes to me.



Supercool VW powered trike.



Not quite as cool (but still pretty cool) Suzuki Burgman powered trike.



Not too sure what bike this is but it looks good. Is it a Honda Rune?



This dog was cool. He was also a ham and when anyone pointed a camera at him, he would pose, one ear up, one ear down. Note the doggy windshield.



Nice old Goldwing.



There were two Buells there and yeah, they still grab my attention from across the parking lot.



I need one of these. Badly. Very cool.




This Jawa was parked next to the Ural. So they win the coolest bike duo at the Toys for Tots.