Memorial Weekend Trans Dakota Ride is a 100% Success
Thanks HarPot.......
You got it.....! The very reason I Love riding the TSDAT.....the people I meet....priceless!
Thanks for writing about it.....
Nice riding with you Tim. Did you find out what fender your son on his Strom?
Speaking of the me generation, did anyone get a selfie with the Bison? ;D
WREA mag just did an article on Scenic and interviewed one of the older residents, I wonder if it was the same lady you talked to at the gas station?
It's a Touratech fender and it is still in their catalog with a bunch of other VSTROM goodies.
Quote from: Bogus Jim on May 31, 2016, 11:44:50 AM
WREA mag just did an article on Scenic and interviewed one of the older residents
Found the article, her name is Bernita Bloom. Lives on a ranch east of Scenic, been there all her 90 years.
Thanks Harry, nicely done. I'm still not quite sure about the hobbit thing tho...
The Hobbit thing got me lost as well.
Also, had I had a bike half the weight of the one I was riding I may have held on to my card, but after seeing the fate of the other big bike in the group, I'm glad I handed mine in. You see I have nothing to prove to myself or anyone else. I have no inner Hobbit to discover because I found him or her or it or they a long time ago. I've climbed 2000 foot rocks, skied the headway of Tuckerman Ravine, I've paddled the length on the Connecticut River, and I've ridden inside a plastic barrel the length of Angle Street.
All these things and many more have left me with a body that can only take so much more abuse. Is this the reason I should find another sport? I think not.
This whole life is a journey we all travel in different ways and at different speeds and at different times. Mine started at age 3 and still hasn't stopped. I just manage my risk a bit differently now.
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Loads of Thanks Jim that has got to be her. She said she lived east of Scenic. Under her name I found a 2011 article that said she used to teach at a public school in Scenic. Do you have a link or anything to that WREA magazine article? When I googled WREA I came up with Wyoming Rural Electric Association. Thanks
Sleddog: Sorry I didn't mention the trail itself. I haven't sat down to properly learn how to use a Garmin.
My son said he loaded the track but the only thing I could get the Garmin to do was take me home. I didn't study the map because I knew everybody else had. Instead I spent hours looking for my prescription back brace that I never did find and today and I am having hard time standing straight. One of the things the TSDAT did was make me really regret trading off the BETA 450. I kept thinking how much fun the TSDAT would be if I added a wind screen to the Beta and road with the bare minimum of luggage. It would be like our own Taste of Dakar. If Rosco doesn't sell my old Beta pretty soon I just might get her back and solo ride the TSDAT like the Taste of Dakar.
"The People I Meet...Priceless!" That's it in five words. There was a young girl in the Yukon holding the stop-go sign on a road construction project that I had a long conversation with- that I'll never forget (my wife was on the 1150Gs with me.) There is the native Canadian that I sat with for about an hour at a Teslin, Yukon gas station. He explained just how he survived living there. 'You can trade a 25-pound lake trout for two cartons of cigarettes." "We stock up on fish because it can be 35 below for weeks up here in the winter." Have you seen this video www.vimeo.com/76342730 It's about the people.
Dr Psyko: Bingo you win. If you have read the Hobbit you would know that Hobbits hate adventure, they want their lives to be plain, simple and perhaps a very drunk. When Bilbo finishes his first adventure he now lusts for more. Because of the physique of a Hobbit the thirst for adventure is not a testosterone thing, it's an enlightenment thing. Over the last 45 years I would say every canoeist I have met that does multiple day trips said it all started with the Hobbit. Well there was one Beemer rider in Canada that said it all started with 70s progressive rock and I said like "Olias of Sunhillow" and he just about fell over. I could have said like your inner Jack London but his stuff hasn't been on the silver screen for half a century. The Hobbit is a name that should be known by everybody.
Quote from: Harry Potter on May 31, 2016, 11:04:26 PM"The People I Meet...Priceless!" That's it in five words. There was a young girl in the Yukon holding the stop-go sign on a road construction project that I had a long conversation with- that I'll never forget (my wife was on the 1150Gs with me.) There is the native Canadian that I sat with for about an hour at a Teslin, Yukon gas station. He explained just how he survived living there. 'You can trade a 25-pound lake trout for two cartons of cigarettes." "We stock up on fish because it can be 35 below for weeks up here in the winter." Have you seen this video www.vimeo.com/76342730 It's about the people.
Funny! As I was reading what you wrote in the above quote, I thought "I've got to post a link to Ashes Before Dust, he'll like watching that" Isn't that a great 1 hour clip?? Real people telling it like it is.....
This is Phillip O'Conner. He is the lone resident, along with a few prairie dogs in Capa, SD. Talk to him, he's got interesting stories that'll make you feel good that you took the time to listen.
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t349/jbackerphotos/Online%20Photos/DSCN1332.jpg)
Quote from: Harry Potter on May 31, 2016, 11:04:26 PM
Do you have a link or anything to that WREA magazine article? When I googled WREA I came up with Wyoming Rural Electric Association. Thanks
Close, West River Electric. I don't think the magazine is online, I'll see if I can scan the article to a PDF tonight.
I have connections... here is the magazine, the article is near the end.
http://www.westriver.coop/sites/westriver/files/PDF/WREA_June2016.pdf
Thanks guys :) That's her and that was a really good article.
Perhaps I should have kept my man card comment to myself. Mitch thanks its karma that my clutch got burned up. I think hes right! :)
Sleddog: I met a guy in Belvidere, very much like Philip, while riding the Beemer and we talked along time. Then several years later I saw him at the east Kadoka truck stop and we talked again for a long time. Something about being on a bike opens up so many more friendships.
Quote from: Harry Potter on June 01, 2016, 12:36:56 PM
Something about being on a bike opens up so many more friendships.
I find this to be very true. several years ago my bike trip partner Jeff had to bail out at the last minute due to an injury. I decided (reluctantly) to go alone. Ended up having a great time! I met more people on that solo trip than on all my other trips combined. If you haven't done a solo trip I would highly recommend it.
I certainly agree on the weather aspect of it. Smallest amount of water on some of those roads..... No apologies necessary HP, it's tough to try to please everybody on a trip like this. There are too many different types of riders, fast riders, slow riders, riders that take in the scenery when going by, or having to stop and photograph, riders that like long breaks, short breaks, the list goes on and on. Best thing is to find riders like you, or hit the trail solo style. All said and done, I had a blast and enjoyed every minute of it, even the 120 min spent playing in the mud sweating my butt off. Thanks for participating! See you next time!!
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I hope there's more than one category for BMW riders. :o
I pick on BMW riders because I am one. Also like dissolves with like so we talk to each other a lot although KLR riders are a lot more interesting to talk to.
Fletch you are so right on solo rides.
I love solo rides. Strangers find you more approachable and EVERYONE has a motorcycle story.
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