With about 3 hours sleep I got up at 7am and headed out the door to meet up with the other 2 guys for 7:45 and 8am respectively. The first guy was over 5 minutes late so I headed out to meet the 2nd guy and seen the first guy heading towards me and flagged him over. As we both headed for the other meet up saw the 3rd rider already there. I told the 1st rider 7:45 sharp and as it was I gave him 5 minutes. He didn't say nothing about it.

The 1st rider has a 2003 Kawasaki Nomad 1500 with punched out baffles and he brought his 12yo son which is okay by me, not my son. The Kaw rider wants an HD but what he paid for the bike he's got a lot of bike there but those punched out baffles were annoying. The 2nd rider has a 2000 Lowrider with sky high apes and loud pipes too. And we headed out.

Normally we have breakfast first but opted out this morning to get going. The Kaw rider had to be to work for 4PM. We first headed into Laconia and stopped at the HD shop (65 miles). I didn't need nothing but its always nice to see whats new and exciting. After less then 30 minutes we headed up to N Conway to White Horse Motorcycle gear (50 miles): https://www.whitehorsegear.com/ I tell you we are pretty lucky to have this here. In the summer this 50 mile stretch from Laconia/Meredith to N Conway is a freaken parking lot and rarely will I go this way come summer. Laconia Bike week is insane,lol. Add the HA world and USA rally one year and well the popo had there hands full.

Any of you HDRF regulars ever heading this way give me a holler. I'll show you some places.

Before we got to the warehouse, about 10 miles away everyone was crying they were hungry so we stopped some mom and pop breakfast deal, I forget the name. I picked up the tab because I'm a nice guy.

When we got to White Horse Motorcycle gear we proceeded to tear thru the ware house to see what they had. The lowrider owner smartly bought a tubeless tire patch kit and a mini compressor, boots for his girl and a nice set of cruz tools. Me, I was gonna get a book about motorcycling Alaska but I was gonna pay 29$ for about 9 pages for my section, not worth it. Do need to purchase rain suits and some long under wear eventually.

We were in and out of there in about 45 minutes and headed to the Kangamangus Hwy and Lincoln,NH. The views from the Kangamangus are breath taking and memorable. The ride up and down windy and steep in places but easily manageable. We did stop for an photo op. Rolling into Lincoln for something cool to drink was relaxing. Its a hippy ski town kinda place that in the summer is to small for all the people there. Loon resort amoung others are situated there as well: https://www.intervalworld.com/images/_re ... i_mcl1.jpg When we were there it was neither ski time nor summer vacation so it was enjoyable to be there. When everyone but me went in to get a drink 3 B-52's flew over head, no bullshit...that was weird.You cannot mistake those for anything else. Huge and Navy Grey. They look to big to be flying. There is PEase AF base here in NH.

After heading out of Lincoln it was just a short jaunt down I93 South and another 25-30 miles down rt 118 and we were close to home. I don't know about the other guys but I rolled into my driveway at a little before 4pm and a totalk of 240+iles for the day. I was beat but had to go back into town to PU my 4 yo grandson I was dying(tired), I volunteered since I knew we'd be back in town by 4pm..

The day was no where close to getting over. At 6PM me and a few friends were converting my wifes jeep hardtop to a soft top, never done it before was told it was no big deal. By 7pm we had the hard top off, on blocks, covered and the prep parts on and ready for the soft top. We took the soft top out of the box and saw the new factory soft top had mouse holes chewed in it so the owners headed back to there house to get the other one. They got back about 8pm. By 8:30 we had the new soft top put on except one last piece, the rear window...went to put it on and it was the wrong one, way to short. We had to take the soft top off and put the hard top back on. It was 9pm..not bad for 3 hours sleep, I was dying. I'm to old for that shit.

I didn't get up until the crack of noon the next morning. The only thing I did was spray the bike down with S100, rinsed it off, wiped it off,waxed it and went back to bed. Working midnites.

Will have pictures in a couple days. Not smart enough to get pics from camera.

Wild Hawgs!

Sounds like you guys had a nice ride Bad.

The weather was perfect, the summer rush has yet to invade the area, it was relaxing. Would have liked to stay out a smidge longer but we leave together we come home together.

What you been up to KS? I know you're not just working 24/7. You and momma been on the WG much? Its fixing to get hot down there... better get in your road time before the summer sizzle arrives .

BI,
thanks for sharing!!
sounds like you had a good day - nice to have you back on 2 wheels.
I've been through that area back in 1995 - was spectacular back then - hope is still is. Urban creep and all...
You can PM me if you ever need any explanation on the pics - happy to help you out.
You should be able to just connect your camera to your PC with the cord that comes with the camera, load it into the PC - re-size them and post.

As for washing the rig:
I have a trick I've been using for years - saves the wipe down part of the clean up -
USE your leaf blower to dry the bike after you hose it off - Saves me 20 minutes of chamois wiping and makes it easier to wax.

Perfect crisp and sunny day too. The area is feast or famine. In the summer, fall (leaf peepers) and winter its urban compact. In the spring a ghost town.

Trouble with calling you for advice about the camera (and thanks) I am home while you are working and working when you are home, wnd shift. But if you could PM your phone number I could at least call you and walk thru the process,might help?

It really doesn't take much time to towel it off. Nothing fancy. I do have a shop vac with a reversible blow/suck motor but WTF would come out of it, I use it for every dirty job in the book. Leaf blower eh? Wonder if thats better then those motorcycle specific blowers they sell?

leaf blower much better than those bike specific blowers,

Thanks RK and DS...guess I'll look into a leaf blower..any HP better then another?

I use the electric one - I've seen a decent one for $30 - if you just need it for the bike - w/o the leaf chewer or vac bag.
Start at the highest point and work down and back - make sure you don't get to close and bump the paint.

Doesn't white show the dirt almost as bad as black

Its a go and not show bike so I figure dirt comes with the package.

I try not to spend to much time cleaning. S100,rinse,wipe down and wax. I use the S100 wax which is also pretty much wipe on/wipe off..bees wax. Its probably not the best wax but its wax? Have always considered a blower deal, just nevered looked into it. I see them using them at the HD shops when they are washing the bike. I want a better garage, I always put that project on the back burner for other stuff like new roof,new well,new furnace,redo this room or that room. My turns coming up quickly...