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Every since my trip to The Grand Canyon, Monument Valley and just a bit of Colorado I’ve been wanting to return to the Rocky Mountain State for a further exploration.
Colorado in July seemed like a good vacation spot, 2 days there, find a cheapish place to stay, make a few day loops, two days home and back to the real world.
I convinced a couple of friends Wayne and Don to ride with me to Abilene for lunch as both are retired and have plenty time to do domestic duties during the week unlike working folk.
About 45 minutes into the ride we saw an abandoned Goldwing 1500 that looked a lot like Waynes’ bike on the side of the road. He exclaimed over the CB that he was riding on borrowed time as he had 80k on his wing and alternators usually needed replacing after 60k.
He should have not tempted the karma gods.
And few miles outside of Cross Plains his bike coasted to a stop and was DOSR.
We messed with it for a while and they convinced me to push on as I had Tucumcari as my goal by the end of the day.
Wanye called a local Wing Rider listed in the GWRRA member book that help him trailer his bike back to Waco. Kudos to the man that helped.
I burned through the lunch stop at Abliene to regain some of the time lost trying to fiddle with Wayne’s bike and did a rest stop lunch near Post, Texas.
To be continued...
Colorado in July seemed like a good vacation spot, 2 days there, find a cheapish place to stay, make a few day loops, two days home and back to the real world.
I convinced a couple of friends Wayne and Don to ride with me to Abilene for lunch as both are retired and have plenty time to do domestic duties during the week unlike working folk.
About 45 minutes into the ride we saw an abandoned Goldwing 1500 that looked a lot like Waynes’ bike on the side of the road. He exclaimed over the CB that he was riding on borrowed time as he had 80k on his wing and alternators usually needed replacing after 60k.
He should have not tempted the karma gods.
And few miles outside of Cross Plains his bike coasted to a stop and was DOSR.
We messed with it for a while and they convinced me to push on as I had Tucumcari as my goal by the end of the day.
Wanye called a local Wing Rider listed in the GWRRA member book that help him trailer his bike back to Waco. Kudos to the man that helped.
I burned through the lunch stop at Abliene to regain some of the time lost trying to fiddle with Wayne’s bike and did a rest stop lunch near Post, Texas.
To be continued...
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