(09-14-23) UPDATE
(09-21-23) THUMPERCAFE #61 in VT.
(09-28-23) ...on the "flip-flop"
(10-05-23) HOPE to see YOU in OCTOBER ... #000
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NED TALKS TOOLS...
Hi Jack,
I enjoyed seeing your travel tool kit (as featured on our History Page). Looks good, here are a few items I’ve found very handy. The one on left holds the ends of a drive chain together while you make repairs.
I have found a lot of uses for the forceps.
And the small magnet is used for retrieving dropped screws, etc.
Wishing you good weather for the ThumperCafe Meet in Vermont., it should be beautiful (as featured on our Event Page). The fall colors are just starting here in the Rockies. The bears are coming down out of the high country and roaming around our neighborhood. They love our old crabapple tree, it has survived many a mauling.
Hi to Carrie. Keep on Thumpin’. Ned Cochran #1917 CO
THANK YOU, NED ... excellent suggestions! Thank you!
Best Wishes and Carrie says, "Tell Ned ... "Hello, Ned - enjoy your own local color there in Colorado!!" - #000
*My tool bag when ready to roll weighed some 55 pounds.
My clothing bag weighed 15 pounds. Add to that my rainsuit and gloves ... which got me WET in June ... so tomorrow, I'm going to get some rainproof spray and give that baby a good coat of whatever that stuff is, including my "waterproof" riding boots which took on water as well back in June ... who knows, we might have some rain, ya' think?
Carrie remarked that we might have a ride like Kerry Buckey did coming from Arizona to Kansas for the FSSNOC FEARLESS and FAITHFUL FAMILY REUNION ...
I replied, "Geeez! I hope not!!" (grin) - #000
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FROM 09-07-23 UPDATE:
I WAS HOPING FOR AN ICE COLD CAN OF LEMONADE FROM JENNI'S POP MACHINE ... wasn't to be.
"OUT OF ORDER" read the faded and jaded magic marker scrawled note affixed to the glass with an old used band-aid.
Did this ruin my day? Of course...of course, NOT!
With the local pilgrims waving at me with their winnowing forks, it was 155 miles of sunshine and backroads on Anavah, my 411cc Himalayan Royal Enfield, shown here parked in a tiny sliver of cool shade on a warm early September day, the day after Labor Day. Gas mileage upon refuel was 68mpg...
The day before that was, well, you know ... anyway, it was 131 miles that day on a test ride of the Kawasaki KLR650 model "s", to check out the new Bridgestone AT41 tire set, so how'd it go? Did the front tire feel balanced? Smooooooth as a Gold Wing!
Two days after the photo above, which would make it today, it was a rural loop ride to meet up with and enjoy the company of our local Moto-Coffee group at Benny's Burgers in Cheney, Kansas ... 84 miles round trip for us. Carrie joined me on her Piaggio 155cc scooter, she calls it "Liberty". It rolls right along on the Kansas tarmac with my sky-blue Royal Enfield Classic 350, a tiny white jewel in my convex rearview.
Weird weather today, tho - "It's a bad air alert due to Canadian smoke.", advised Buck, #5465, our club's local unofficial weather analyst (grin). I wondered why he was wearing that gas mask and a Haz-Mat suit. Actually, now that I think of it, it looked pretty good with his camouflaged-wrapped KLR650 Adventure.
George, #5263 was there on his KLR; a lively debate on the maintenance schedule intervals for valve adjustment on a KLR ensued. Anyone know what they are, miles-wise? If so, you know the drill...
Ro - #5357, and Hieb - #5174, the Rebels ... I call them the Rubbles (from the Flintrocks Show), a sweet couple mounted on their sibling Rebel 300s.
Stan - #4856 was there on his 13,000 mile KTM390Adventure, the orange one. He spontaneously conducted an even more spontaneous chain adjustment tutorial using a not-to-be-disclosed-here KLR as a verbal and visual example ... and I was his unsuspecting accomplice!
And, a tip of the entertainment-is-where-you-find-it helmet to the gentleman in the black pickup who provided us with an air show of close proximity, think leaf blower and parking lot trash (not us)! Of course, the cloud of dust added to the already semi polluted atmosphere (Canadian smoke) of Benny Burger's Drive-In. When he was asked politely by Buck, "Would you like us to move?" Mr. Sensitive replied without letting off the trigger, "If you want to..." - yes, we moved to the other side of the lot.
Oh yeah, see another FSSNOC personality who was published in a recent Thumper News, ... find him on the Event Page. In fact, don't miss a thing, visit every page you can find before you ride off into the noontime sun...
Keep On Thumpin... #000
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