Airborne gone riding coast to coast

I want to live in Phoenix. This place is down right gorgeous, close to all sorts of national parks, all kinds of awesome roads to ride, and everything is so scenic

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Apparently it's bike week here in Phoenix. Looks like I'll have to stick around a minute and get in with the crowd

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Not to terribly pleased with the oem chain I have. Freaking rivit chain almost forces you to go to a shop. I WAS going to replace sprockets and chain today.... guess not ghead: and I'm not buying a rivit gun to haul around.

And it's sunday...

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While I wait for the motorcycle shops to open up around here, and because everything is in working condition (I just want to have everything solid as can be before embarking on Utah), we will go play!

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Hit up the local inmates. Put the feelers out and I guarantee someone will give you a garage to tool in and probably some local stuff to check out.

Ah man! You rode up the Apache Trail? Awesome road and some nice dirt road to get away from it all.
Did you pull into the bustling Metropolis of Tortilla Flat?

I don't have the slightest what your referencing, and that is the ride plan for tomorrow. Today I just tinkered and adjusted. 5000 miles in and everything needed a good tightening.

Flickr is up and running with my photos. Link on post 1 on the top. Posted some of them to the forum. Also did a photo update and filled in some holes when the phone camera didn't want to give me results and stopped working.

OK, I see that was Google Maps, and not a GPS track. You'll have fun, but watch out on Fish Creek Canyon, steep, dirt, 1.5 lanes wide down the side of a cliff. But it's all like a miniature Grand Canyon in areas out there. State Hwy 88 runs out of pavement just east of Tortilla Flat.

Noted. I'll have to grab the tracks if i can and be a real adventure rider

Edit: I see what your talking about. This is going to be EPIC! I can't wait. If you don't hear from me or see some photos, you know what probably happened on that fat ass Wee. WEE right off a cliff Totally kidding....kinda

on a side note, SIGN ME THE HELL UP!!! http://www.wimp.com/speedflying/

VLA is the heat! Come on back to Bragg and I'll give you a lesson on RF propagation and how it works.

Those antennae are on a rail system, and can be moved into several configurations as needed for research. We've mapped galaxies, atmospheres, and more from that site.

/speedflying...

I was thinking the same thing! Oh how i would love to have a 10 minute rush like that. Stay safe, i read your wipe out post and either you broke two ribs and you wouldnt tell ever detail... or you are fine and wouldnt tell every detail. Call me with the details. Sounds like a fun story.

that was the whole story. I just got clumsy in Socorro. Only broke the blinker.



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Be sure to check the summer temperatures before you sign up for that.

I live in Houston currently, it won't be to hard to adjust

I'm in! I'm planning on doing a coast to coast trip on a yellow bike as well coming up soon here! Replacing a couple old parts on the old girl before I make the trek! Keep the shiny side up brother! Godspeed!

2wheel let me know when you post up the report and throw in the link. West to east or east to west?

"4-wheels move the body, 2-wheels move the soul"

Hit the shop today. Everything i needed was in stock minus the rear sprocket. I'll have that in thursday, and we should be heading to utah NTL Friday!

One of the service techs at Apache Motors here is an avid rider of southern Utah, and hooked me up with a quick list of all kinds of neat places and cool roads.