ÜberDoober
05-10-2008, 04:09 PM
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5-10-2008
Breakfast ride to Pine, AZ with the gang from http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=78 (http://www.southwestrides.com)
With Formula One qualifying over at 5:30, I give myself an hour to get dressed, trowel on some make-up and gather my gear. I actually make it!
I ride up the Beeline Highway to the meeting spot in Fountain Hills and gas up. I see bikes I recognize along with the faces that go with them plus a gaggle of guys I've seen on the SWR board, but never met in person before.
Bikes lined up all in a row. A couple of Triumph Speed Triples, couple of nice Beemers and some guy that keeps showing up for a ride on a new 848 that nobody seems to know?
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=62
I'm happy to see fellow Doober, Mush, show up on his copper SV. Man, that's a nice color.
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=64
Here's one of the Triples with a cool GP exhaust. The one next to it has the regular dual undertail cans.
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=70
Of course, I have to toss in a picture of my "modern classic"
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=67
After a short rider's meeting about group riding, the pace and the standard safety pep talk, we rollout and through a construction zone that has us running in a nice formation at 55mph. When the road opens up, so do the throttles and in short order, the head of the group is out of sight and I'm at 85 in a 65. I'm thinking to myself, oh well, I'll just be dead last again so I park the needle at 75 and just let everybody go. I do wick it up between 95 and 100 in a few places it would be hard to get radared, but only for a few seconds and I slow back down to my snails pace of 75.
I do catch glimpses of Rob on his ST now and then and pass the designated sweep rider waiting for me at roadside, twice. I take no shame at staying at 10 over and almost get an attitude about the rest of the guys doing 85+ (++ is my guess?). Hell with them. It's not that I can't ride as fast as everybody else, it's that I choose not to. Before the ride was over, I had broken more than enough laws as it was.
We ride through Payson and the 13 miles to the Rimside Grill in Pine. We get our own room in the restaurant and a big long table for everyone. Food was great and the people were fun. I sat in the middle and kept an ear on the different conversations at each end of the table.
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=74
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=77
After eats, we straggle back to Payson to gas up. I hear my cell phone ringing in my tank bag and have to return a support call to a customer in Phoenix. The group takes off while I'm still talking which is cool so I can run my own pace without anybody worrying about me.
At the edge of town before the road opens back, I see fellow Doober Mush on his SV-1000 waiting in a driveway reach for his ignition when he sees me coming. Cool! Somebody to ride the 90 some miles back home with. That was nice of him.
I asked at breakfast if anyone had been down the little five mile side road to the town of Gisela and decided to take a little detour down it on the way back. Mush followed.
The road was bumpy as I remember it. I hit a heave in the middle of a sweeper that caught me a little by surprise so I held on tighter. There are 3 or 4 beautiful corners I hadn't ridden through in probably 8 or 9 years. I rode a good pace but have gone faster but when the pavement ended and the dirt began, I made a nice feet up u-turn with a gnarly surface under me. It's getting warm so I stop and pull the liner out of my jacket.
I took the road back out at a little faster pace and used the brakes some having sighted for sand and gravel on the way in. I'm sure I exceeded the 35mph speed limit. :)
Mush and ride together back to the valley, mostly 75/80 all the way and he's nice to ride with. Good rider and not too fast in the straight parts. I get a few handsignals from him but can't figure out what he means but we part company at the Bush Hwy. I would have gone that way but was just there last weekend and it was a copfest. I needed to get home to get my grandson and watch what was left of Indy Pole day so I had to take the quickest route.
There's more pictures in my albums if you want to look. Click the Member List then my name. Albums are right there!
One more I wanted to post was of Rob's cool Arizona flag helmet paint job. He's got a very nice ST to go with it too!
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=73
Thanks to RussL at SWR for posting up the ride and thanks for hanging back with me, Mush. I'd ride with you anytime. :)
5-10-2008
Breakfast ride to Pine, AZ with the gang from http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=78 (http://www.southwestrides.com)
With Formula One qualifying over at 5:30, I give myself an hour to get dressed, trowel on some make-up and gather my gear. I actually make it!
I ride up the Beeline Highway to the meeting spot in Fountain Hills and gas up. I see bikes I recognize along with the faces that go with them plus a gaggle of guys I've seen on the SWR board, but never met in person before.
Bikes lined up all in a row. A couple of Triumph Speed Triples, couple of nice Beemers and some guy that keeps showing up for a ride on a new 848 that nobody seems to know?
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=62
I'm happy to see fellow Doober, Mush, show up on his copper SV. Man, that's a nice color.
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=64
Here's one of the Triples with a cool GP exhaust. The one next to it has the regular dual undertail cans.
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=70
Of course, I have to toss in a picture of my "modern classic"
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=67
After a short rider's meeting about group riding, the pace and the standard safety pep talk, we rollout and through a construction zone that has us running in a nice formation at 55mph. When the road opens up, so do the throttles and in short order, the head of the group is out of sight and I'm at 85 in a 65. I'm thinking to myself, oh well, I'll just be dead last again so I park the needle at 75 and just let everybody go. I do wick it up between 95 and 100 in a few places it would be hard to get radared, but only for a few seconds and I slow back down to my snails pace of 75.
I do catch glimpses of Rob on his ST now and then and pass the designated sweep rider waiting for me at roadside, twice. I take no shame at staying at 10 over and almost get an attitude about the rest of the guys doing 85+ (++ is my guess?). Hell with them. It's not that I can't ride as fast as everybody else, it's that I choose not to. Before the ride was over, I had broken more than enough laws as it was.
We ride through Payson and the 13 miles to the Rimside Grill in Pine. We get our own room in the restaurant and a big long table for everyone. Food was great and the people were fun. I sat in the middle and kept an ear on the different conversations at each end of the table.
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=74
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=77
After eats, we straggle back to Payson to gas up. I hear my cell phone ringing in my tank bag and have to return a support call to a customer in Phoenix. The group takes off while I'm still talking which is cool so I can run my own pace without anybody worrying about me.
At the edge of town before the road opens back, I see fellow Doober Mush on his SV-1000 waiting in a driveway reach for his ignition when he sees me coming. Cool! Somebody to ride the 90 some miles back home with. That was nice of him.
I asked at breakfast if anyone had been down the little five mile side road to the town of Gisela and decided to take a little detour down it on the way back. Mush followed.
The road was bumpy as I remember it. I hit a heave in the middle of a sweeper that caught me a little by surprise so I held on tighter. There are 3 or 4 beautiful corners I hadn't ridden through in probably 8 or 9 years. I rode a good pace but have gone faster but when the pavement ended and the dirt began, I made a nice feet up u-turn with a gnarly surface under me. It's getting warm so I stop and pull the liner out of my jacket.
I took the road back out at a little faster pace and used the brakes some having sighted for sand and gravel on the way in. I'm sure I exceeded the 35mph speed limit. :)
Mush and ride together back to the valley, mostly 75/80 all the way and he's nice to ride with. Good rider and not too fast in the straight parts. I get a few handsignals from him but can't figure out what he means but we part company at the Bush Hwy. I would have gone that way but was just there last weekend and it was a copfest. I needed to get home to get my grandson and watch what was left of Indy Pole day so I had to take the quickest route.
There's more pictures in my albums if you want to look. Click the Member List then my name. Albums are right there!
One more I wanted to post was of Rob's cool Arizona flag helmet paint job. He's got a very nice ST to go with it too!
http://www.dooberville.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=5&pictureid=73
Thanks to RussL at SWR for posting up the ride and thanks for hanging back with me, Mush. I'd ride with you anytime. :)