Walt Ride 2010

We're drawing nearer to Walt Ride 2010. The plan is to start in Red Wing, and leave for Fond Du Lac sometime in the AM after breakfast. Probably gonna hit a few twisty hightlights on the way to Mark's, time depending. This should be ab awesome ride for all involved.

Memorial Day ride....

Looks like Little Timmy and I are heading out for a ride on Monday. If your interested, we should meet at Smokey Row and load up on coffee in the AM. Good day.

New Triumph model here

Why am I posting this? Could it be that I am biased toward Triumph. Yeah, and so what? Looks interesting and Triumph is selling it in the $13,000 range. Now if I could only convince my kid to not go to college this fall......

more here:
http://www.motorcycledaily.com/17may10_triumph2010sprintgt.htm

Random Motorcycle Picture of the Day

This is good. This is what we like to see when we ride. Straight is very, very bad. No good; bad mojo.

Houston County....

Little Timmy and I got a chance to bust loose for the day. (I promised the Fair Marie that my weekend would be divided thus: one day for riding and the other for projects around the estate.) Nothing against Wisconsin roads, but we ride the ABCs a lot. It's been a while since I've had the opportunity to ride down to Winona and Houston counties, and today was the day. All in all, you can string along a pretty decent route on the Minnesota side of the river. Sure, there may be a few stretches of pavement that are straight for 20-miles, but there is no shortage of twisty roads. I still contend that Houston Co. Roads 4 and 10 are two of the best in the region. Not a lot of traffic; decent pavement. (There is about a half-mile stint of gravel on Co. 10 that crosses a bridge, but it's been like that for years for some reason or another.) And Hwy 76 between Houston and Caledonia, is one of the most kinked-up stretches of road out there. (Too bad we had a LEO in front of us.) We racked up about 300 miles, and still managed to miss other county highways that I recall being good to ride. Sounds like another ride down there will soon be in order.

Random Motorcycle Picture of the Day

The Crud Run; As only told in pictures......

by the sharp eyed Doug, our man in the field. The esscence of the Crud Run is that it is rife with good, ol' bikes that included a nice Moto Morini; a pimped out Triumph chopper; a Harley with attached canoe and a nice small-displacement Honda.