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Yeah I hear ya.

This thing does its intended job perfectly but I don’t know that I feel like I’m on a bike.

Still glad to do it though. Not every day you can ride one for this many miles.

Good question.

You would have liked it. '76 FXE painted orange/black like a 750 flat tracker. Alll polished, 98 inches, ported polished heads w.thin stem sodium filled valves, Hairy Sifton cam, back bored S&S B, dual plugged. Built by Mike Magaro aka "Shovelhead Mike" from Magaros racing engines.

Mid 10s 1/4 mile.

Clark,

How are the 'burbs treating you?

Have you found any good Polock food yet?

I don't think Deflave's gone no damn where. He lies like a fuggin' rug.

He's been settin' home eatin cheetos with one hand and scratchin' his ass with the other the whole damn time.

More like his nutz

Interesting bike. I've never ridden a K bike but have ridden a 1200 RT, which seemed like a great machine. I thought the on-the-fly adjustable screen was cool. I once did 700 or so with several hours in 110-degree heat on a SV650. That cured me of long, single-day rides and just about cured me of motorcycles. My primary bike these days is a 1200 GS. It is perfectly comfortable for 300 or 400 or 500 miles, then it seems more fun to stop and do something else.

Wrong.

Yeah I don’t really see the appeal. Lmao.

But he needed back and we got it done. Helluva machine but I don’t know that I’d ever buy an 800lb bike.

Bristoe and Birdkuhnt are flat AMAZED whenever they discover somebody has the equilibrium to stay upright.

TFF.

I think Birdwatchers has got some actual motorbike experience. Years ago on this forum he mentioned coming over the hill on some bike at Duluth Mn and seeing Superior and how he could almost see the curvature of the earth. He thought it was one of the great sights anybody could ever see. It's true, one of the great sights and I believe him.

I don't know why it stuck with me, but it did.

Birdwatcher types a lot of things.

😂

Person: I’m riding a motorcycle from here to there.

Birdwatcher: I have ridden further. You will dump it and I’ve been to Africa.

Person: Uhhhh, what?

The Madman and I made ribs last night on his BGE.

And I got pizza coming out of my ears.

Oh and he bought two kegs of Jai Alai. Which was a super great decision...

I made that trip twice.
Both in one day.
Left Bolingbrook Illinois around 6 PM and got to Crystal River, Florida around 3 PM the next day.
Only used 4 tanks of gas, two packs of cigs, and two quarts of coffee.
I55 to 294 to 57 to I 75
Only bad part was that damn mountain pass in Tenn.

Of course,,,,,,,,,,,,, I was in a 97 Sedan De Ville with the northstar engine!

Great memory, and damn we’ve been on here a long time.

To the best of my knowledge that trip was in 2003, but we did it in a car, (and Deflave AKA Captain Search Engine, search on “2017 miles in search of a Connecticut Warbler”).

You can indeed see the shape of Lake Superior, just like on a map, from the rest area overlooking Duluth. That was a great trip;up the northwest shore of Superior, west through Ely, up along the Rainy River through International Falls, Warroad and Lake of the Woods, south through the Red Lakes, west again through North Dakota, up the Yellowstone to Crow Agency, and then across via Devil’s Tower and the Black Hills before heading back south.

Never threw a leg over a motorcycle until age 27, but then never got off one until age 35 when I met my Ex. First car in my name didn’t happen ‘till age 40. Did about 250,000 miles on two wheels, most before I met my Ex.

Indeed, many things

All true.

Unless they’re not.

I'm thinking he was glad you came up.. or he missed his bike.

Kidding aside, sounds like he was glad to see you.

I would have totally blown my diet with the pizza there.

You gotta get some good Polock food while you're up there, though.