Its Over- Hot Link Lunch

KTC · March 09, 2009, 10:31:26 AM

Had a great time Saturday! I know everyone can't make every event but you certainly missed a good one this time around!

After all the time it took to remove the wheels, beat, bang and kick the tires off and on and replacing them, adjusting the chain it was all worth it. The bike is a different beast now. I got 110 miles on that last tank before i decided to put gas in it yesterday, guess I missed that *head-wind* gets a lot better gas mileage on those longer runs for sure.

I believe it is now Allen's turn to organize an event!

Thanks to Jim for putting this together you did an outstanding job! Kelly

guywheatley · March 09, 2009, 03:11:33 PM

I had a great time. Wish we could have gotten there sooner and visited more. Oh well, we'll catch up at MOOT Mag.
Here a few photos.
http://www.guywheatley.com/gallery/v/Pittsburg/

Jerry G Turner · March 09, 2009, 03:55:56 PM

Enjoyed the ride and all the fellowship in Pittsburg looking forward to the next one I think we logged a little over 400 miles by the time we got back to Arlington.

Curtis_Valk · March 09, 2009, 07:23:12 PM

More pics...........

TLRam1 · March 09, 2009, 10:17:29 PM

My turn.

What a great time and ride! Thanks for leading and coming up with the route Jeff H. (SliveradoCowboy)Ones who missed the gumbo you might want some next time you're through.

I wanted to get around and meet everyone, maybe next time I meet a few more, guess you were lucky this time!

My memory is not the best, if I ask your name many times please don't be offended, it's me or what I have lost!

This was our first gas stop, actually our second, the first one was closed.

Aw shucks, you didn't have to take my picture. He was actually putting his hand down, I happen to catch him in an unusual poseur, or did I.....

Hard to take photos from behind using my throttle lock and not running into the bike in front of you, here are a couple.

Looking around the corner you will see how much road we took up.

This was the bike Rodney rode we met him at Walmart in Wylie. This is Rods son who rode a orange VTX, I was told later they were somewhat competitive with a little drag racing on take-offs. On one take-off I stretched my legs some, passed up John (rode the Gold Wing), Rodney to catch up to Rod than back-off in position. John is use to me doing that at times, Rodney might have been surprised, I explained when I stopped. (Good Greg didn't see what we were doing in the back of the line)!.

As Robert alluded to earlier, John, Mike (rode green Kawasaki Sport bike), Robert (Magnum Magna) & Brenda, Myself (TLRam1) & Mary Ellen headed to Mineola. As we were sampling some hot links John made reference to a burger house in Mineola, that's all it takes for me to say, I'm game! So we joked a little more, Robert overheard or something and we ended up in Mineola. Great roads there! And we did eat a burger. Greg, I guess you better start inviting yourself, looks like I will never get around to it. LOL

A lady I acknowledged when we walked in offered to take a photo of us all, normally the photos do not come out well but the gesture is welcomed.

Starting on the left, Terry, John, Mike (Roberts friend) and Robert.

Greg C. is going to kill me......Yep, We headed to Blue Goose for more food and a beverage, yes, the MOOT ride was officially over.

Starting on the left, Robert (Magnum Magna), Brenda, Mary Ellen, blank spot was me Terry (TLRam1), on the right Mike (Kawasaki Sportbike), John (Goldwing) and Barbara.

This is Robert's wife Brenda, such a good photo I had to include it. The only way to recognize her is when you look for Brenda ask everyone to put their hand in front of their face.

Mary Ellen and myself headed to Strokers afterward, not many bikes, set and listened to the band for a bit than the singer came over introduced himself and talked a little.

While I was there I was admiring this guys Harley Fat Boy, good looking bike, had Sampson pipes and a 42 Mikuni carb recently put on. The guy threw me his keys and told me to take it for a spin. The first spin was somewhat impressive except his gloves flew off the bike, came back to get the Magna for a search and recover mode. We found them, he told me to take it for a real spin! Wow, it ran strong and well, hit 70-80 in a hurry! I missed getting a photo, nice blue color, plenty of chrome highlighted with blue LED's.

TLRam1 · March 10, 2009, 06:29:06 PM

A couple of notes,

Jeff, your CB antenna might need some adjusting, I didn't see what you were using.

When you put the distressed call out "your chrome cover came off" I didn't hear you, another time John heard you say something but said he didn't hear you well, I missed that too but picked up John's response, that is how I knew you said something and I asked John after we arrived. John responded something about "we are all here" or "no cars behind us". Anyway further testing will reveal if there is an issue or not.

Bob, since I didn't have a chance to ride back I am not sure how you CB performed. I think you will be okay and performance will be alright after you remove the Ipod speaker from the CB, we were jamming to Bob's tunes ever time he miked up, and talk in less volume as you did but the MP3 player over whelmed. Again more testing will determine optimum performance.

Curtis_Valk · March 10, 2009, 06:47:13 PM

On Jeff's CB he might want to look under the seat and find several connector plugs. Treat these with dielectric grease. My CB went on the blink in Colorado and Patron (Stan G.) had some with him and it fixed me right up.

Curtis

silveradocowboy · March 10, 2009, 08:08:52 PM

more pics...

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silveradocowboy · March 10, 2009, 08:13:40 PM

even more...

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silveradocowboy · March 10, 2009, 08:42:25 PM

Quote from: TLRam1 on March 10, 2009, 06:29:06 PM
A couple of notes,

Jeff, your CB antenna might need some adjusting, I didn't see what you were using.

I'm using the J&M cb with a zero plane antenna. It may need adjusting but according to J&M it shouldn't need any. They say the cables are of the proper length and warn not to cut them. I'm sure I can adjust the antenna up and down to see if that helps. If not I'll contact them and see what they recommend or take it to a cb shop.

Curtis, I'll try the grease also to see if that works, thanks for the tip.

silveradocowboy · March 10, 2009, 08:59:57 PM

Quote from: TLRam1 on March 09, 2009, 10:17:29 PM
What a great time and ride! Thanks for leading and coming up with the route Jeff H. (SliveradoCowboy)Ones who missed the gumbo you might want some next time you're through.

TY, the route turned out nice, I was nervous about making a wrong turn but it all turned out well. Only goof I had was not getting to the meeting point where Greg's group was, nothing exciting like a u-turn or bridge out.

Curtis_Valk · March 10, 2009, 09:24:24 PM

U-turns are always forgiven ..............bridge-outs are another story!

Curtis

TLRam1 · March 11, 2009, 12:03:50 AM

Good photos Jeff, do you have a landscape mode?

The CB was an unscientific test, I know from my travels with John we can be some distance apart and do well, you in the front and I in the back were not that far. More testing would be good to confirm this before you go into too much work.