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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: houndguy on December 21, 2013, 10:42:01 PM
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So what trips, what adventures stick out in your mind in the last 12 months?
http://2smallerwheels.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-personal-top-10-list-for-2013.html (http://2smallerwheels.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-personal-top-10-list-for-2013.html)
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I take it you live in South Florida because the street I live on is Tarpon Drive. Good blog.
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My scooter trips are pretty uneventful unless someone gets close to knocking me down. I ride to and from work mostly, 6 miles each way. Other then that I grab some bagles or other light stuff from the store.
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The biggest adventure on my scoot was the first time I took it out on a 35MPH county road, into "traffic" - so I could go 1/2 mile to the school lot to practice.
I had my son follow me in a car to keep me from getting run over as I rode along scaring myself at 25mph.
I made the turn into the lot without getting killed.
I put about 250 miles on the scoot in that lot over the next couple of weeks.
Then I road it 3.5 miles to work, and back.
On my way home that very first day I came upon a small young lady who had dropped her new Harley dead in the middle of a 50mph / 35mph intersection at a stop sign. My very first day - and here is a motorcycle wreck! It was all I could do to get that thing back up on its wheels for her. That shook me up!
It wasn't really a wreck. she just dropped it when she stalled it at the stop sign. Tiny girl. Big bike.
Stig
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I'm going to cheat a little, I really wanted to ride to this little lake spot up north but couldn't, so I drove my late minivan. Anyway I just happened upon this little lady as the magic was happening and time stood still for a bit.
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Thinking back on it I'm not sure I grew but for a brief moment realized my place in the grand scheme of things.
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Going to the Sun Hwy, Glacier National park.
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It wasn't really a wreck. she just dropped it when she stalled it at the stop sign. Tiny girl. Big bike.
Stig
I have see that happen too. You need to have a bike that is best suited for you. When I first started looking around for a bike I was amazed that the salespeople were trying to get me onto 1200 to 1600 cc monsters.
That being said I am 6 foot tall and 210 pounds. I'm not a "small guy" by any means...but I was also brand new to the sport and did not want to kill myself.
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Several trips into low mountain range (Vosges, Black Forest, Kaiserstuhl [dont know if there is an English word for it], Thuringian Forest, Saxonian sandstone mountains) and my IBA ride.
2 Pictures from Saxonia:
(http://imageshack.us/a/img834/6683/9ant.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/9ant.jpg/)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img834/8232/xpad.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/834/xpad.jpg/)
And 1 from Simson museum in Suhl-Thuringia (former GDR manufacturer of 50cc 2-stroke bikes)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img850/3431/c7jc.th.jpg) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/850/c7jc.jpg/)