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In spite of a lingering ailment, I took a solo ride yesterday, to the southern part of Ohio, and across the big river to visit a friend. It was a great ride, one way is about three hours and about 150 miles. It's a good way to go to Hillbilly Hotdogs or anywhere near Huntington. My trip looked like this: Turning Right out of The Great Circle Earthworks in Newark, Ohio OH-79 S (Left turning lane) Hopewell Drive OH-13 S OH-256 W OH-664 S into Logan, Ohio Left onto West Hunter Street Right onto North Mullberry Street (OH-93 S) OH-93 S OH-327 S Go under the freeway (US-35) and STRAIGHT onto: C H and D Road (Jackson County-Route 2. A RIGHT and quick LEFT at the stop sign (CO RD-41, Dixon Hill Rd.) C H and D Road is not marked at it's southern end, so make a note, for your return trip, of the small white building on the east side of the road, with a door in front to it's cellar. https://www.google.com/maps/@38.869902,-82.542343,3a,75y,329.31h,65.25t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sJBlyY_iPz0MtXORgbqDZIQ!2e0 ...and... https://www.google.com/maps/@38.87031,-82.542539,3a,75y,20.06h,79.79t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1smLrroIJmMvi5xztiH4q0Aw!2e0 I wondered about the name of this road, and this is what I found. On June 6, 1895 the Cincinnati and Dayton Railroad Company, the Cincinnati, Dayton, and Ironton Railroad Company, and the Cincinnati, Dayton and Chicago Railroad Company were consolidated under the name of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad Company. This was the C H & D that ran to the east of Oak Hill and connected with the rails of the old Iron Railroad that came up from Ironton to Dean. OH-233 E (Go Straight) OH-141 W (Turn Right) OH-775 S (Go Straight) OH-7 S (Turn Right) Crossing the bridge and going upriver on WV-2 N will take you to a popular motorcyclist destination, Hillbilly Hotdogs, in Lesage, WV. Any motorcyclist worth their salt will visit there at least once. Riders, solo, and in groups, pour in and out of there on every weekend with pleasant riding. This route takes you through villages and communities off the beaten path which are the places that interest me the most. History never appealed to me in my school days, but I can't help now but to wonder how these places came to be, and how some, once bustling, have come to be not much more than some scattered dwellings and a sign on a post. Here are some of the communities you will travel through or skirt the edges of on this trip. Newark Heath Fleatown Jacksontown Thornport Thornville Rushville Bremen Oakthorpe Logan Ewing Creola McArthur Dundas Hamden Wellston Winchester Oakhill Waterloo Arabia (I didn't see any camels.) Wilgus Scottown Proctorville I left Newark at 6 AM sharp at a temperature of 53 degrees and made it all the way to McArthur before I had to put on a sweatshirt under my jacket, which already contained a rain liner and a quilted liner. Some of those valleys were very chilly but I welcomed their cool air when returning in the heat of the day when no amount of airflow seemed to give me comfort, in spite of my mesh jacket and having shedded my riding pants. There was little traffic, being a Sunday morning, which pretty much gave me the road all to myself. I saw no cops on the way down but followed a Sheriff out of McArthur on the way back. He turned off, heading east on OH-56, which was about five miles later. There were plenty of twisties that I took full advantage of and road surfaces were very clean. The worst road surface was the county road, but still it was clean and you could put the juice to the bike without worrying about it. I saw deer, groundhogs, squirrels, and numerous birds. A great blue heron flew above the swampy area of the Cooper Hollow Wildlife Area on the county road. One surprise was finding Amish buggy signs very far into southern Ohio. I don't remember exactly where and Google isn't helping me. I left Newark at 6:00 am with 20 miles used out of a full tank. I sure was glad to see the top of the 30th street bridge as I neared the Ohio River as I hadn't stopped for fuel, and once below Wellston, fuel stops were non-existent until I got to the river. My little GS 500 has a range of about 200 miles, but I didn't really want to put that to the test. The time stamp on my fuel receipt is 9:11 am. With traffic, the trip would have taken much longer. That was my ride. I enjoyed it but was worn out by the time I got back home. It was a fine day for riding. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. .

Great day jack, thx for sharing. Hopefully we can ride again some day. A nice clean clear ride. Lots of pics from me and good write up from you okay

That overlay is pretty neat, always love finding videos that show track map/location when trying to approach a new track. So the Sony software did the whole overlay? Ever try dashware or anything similar? Hopefully I'll be trying to figure this crap out after the next track day.

Well hell, if it's a party at my house I might as well attend too. You read it wrong. Quoting the text I sent, "I can call around tomorrow (Friday) for a notary that would be open on Sunday." Your reply was "All you need is your signature notarized. I've done this enough times to know." I can post a pic of the text convo if you're interested. Most car dealerships will do the title transfer beginning to end with both of us there and that's what I was planning on doing. Bear in mind, no money had been exchanged, so checking into notarizing it myself with no buyer present was all good will toward someone I'd never met or seen before. So I did go to the BMV on Friday, who then informed me that doing just my own signature with nothing else on the back and then just handing it off to you was actually illegal. Reference this website: https://www.ohiobar.org/ForPublic/Resources/LawYouCanUse/Pages/LawYouCanUse-607.aspx But I'll clip the appropriate section: Q: All I want is for the notary public to notarize my title transfer; why won’t he do that? A: The state government appoints the notary public to ensure that documents are valid. You must sign documents such as title transfers for automobiles and affidavits in front of the notary, or you must personally tell the notary that you have signed. If a notary refuses to notarize your document, it is likely to be because you have not met this requirement. Buyers of automobiles sometimes will take an automobile title to a notary and ask the notary sign to off on the transfer, despite the seller’s absence. The notary is not permitted to do this, and should always refuse such a request. Also, the notary must refuse to notarize any document that is not complete or contains blank lines, or a document that the notary has not witnessed or acknowledged. Also, this website says this: Make certain the deal is going to be completed before executing the Assignment of Ownership. The buyer does not need to be present for the seller to complete the Assignment section; but, the seller must have the name and address of the buyer in order to complete the section and have their signature notarized. So essentially, the only legal way to go about this was I'd have to completely sign off the title to you with no cash in hand. Sorry, but just your word that you're showing up on Sunday is not enough to make me sign over ownership of my bike, regardless of whether you've "done this enough times to know." If you would have been open to going somewhere on Sunday and doing it together, everything would have been fine. Also, our "negotiated price" was again something that was just based on good will. I told you what I'd take for it and there was no confirmation afterward. Price was never mentioned again. This being internet dealing, unless someone tells me that they will specifically pay $X for Y product, I have to assume they're going to come to my house and lowball me because that's all that's ever happened in this situation. Combine this with the title transfer issue and there's a definite risk of me now being stuck with either accepting a much lower price than what I was expecting or be left standing with a voided title on a good bike. And anyway, you were supposed to come Sunday afternoon. I texted you it was off on Friday night. It's not like you were on your way down here to pick it up already. This wasn't intended to be a personal insult to you. It was me making the call that trading to a friend that I've known and trusted for a long time trumped making a deal with an internet buyer asking me to do something that's technically illegal before any cash had even changed hands. I apologize if it inconvenienced you or pissed you off. You could have been an adult about it and asked me directly for clarification, bitched me out on the phone, whatever, but my last text went unanswered and you instead decided to just spout off on the internet instead. If that still makes me the asshole, so be it. But I'd rather people make that determination themselves based on what actually happened vs. one guy being all angryface about a couple cherry-picked circumstances. TL;DR: The bike's going to a new home, some people are pissed, I feel like an idiot for typing this much, and none of this actually matters.

Just to clarify. During the first year it is free to upgrade, if you upgrade during that year you get to keep if forever for free. Once you get it for free, it remains free forever. If you wait for a year to upgrade then you have to pay.

What's the smallest DR they make? a 125? Is that one street legal? I think ti would be a ton cheaper than a Grom, and just as fast. Not as short, but the larger wheels would make it less scary at speed.

West Virgina.........