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I ride off the pavement where the pretty lines end. Need a GPS trail to know where to go through the trees and what's a deer path vs MC trail. Here's a nice little rout around Columbus. Kind of hard to see the roads so a GPS would make it easier. It's about 200 miles, an easy morning ride.

It's all in fun. I never get harassed over the ugly nature of the V-strom or the George jetson sound coming out of my KLR's Muffler.

That's it! I love Harley. I have GPS routes all over the state and can make more instantly, even make JPG images in minuites. $5 each and sell them to Harley people who have tons of money!!!! I'll be rich!!!!

Buildings and stadiums used to have cool names, not "the life styles pavilion" or "Value City arena". What's going to happen when the building is done at the site of the twin towers and some Arab buys it? The Mohamed Husain Oil Wins memorial tower?

It's sad but true. I'll admit I have some friends who have Harleys that they ride. But these guys are hard core riders and spend most their time on Dual Sport or offroad bikes. When they get on the HD's they run the piss out of them and then almost rebuild them from the valve stem up!

Classic storys: 1. Co worker had a Honda cruiser he rode everwhere but lusted for a HD hard tail. Finally the day came and he got one. He used to ride to work every nice day. Suddenly he wasn't riding to work at all. Reason why??? The HD was so rough it hurt him to ride it, so he stopped riding! 2. Another Co worker bragged about taking the AD Farrow "Riders Edge" class and how she was doing so many rides with her HD friends. A year later we invited her for a ride out to 78 via 56 to 278. After several hours we had to stop and turn around because she was seriously fatigued. While resting we asked how many miles she had on her Sportster? "Just turned 600" she said. Scott and I looked at out trip meters and realized we had doubled her total miles in one day! 3. While out in The Bad Lands we stopped at Cactus Flats. Two HD low riders pulled up and marvled at the fact there was a KLR 650 and Honda XL 650 that far from Ohio. They asked my friends who many days it had taken to get there? We couldn't get them to believe this was the morning of day three of the trip. They'd taken 5 days to ride from Chicago. 4. While riding up Powder River Pass we kept stopping for photos. Each time we did a pair of Cruisers passed us and then we'd pass them again. We did this several times up the Mountain to 10,000 ft. At the top they stopped and got talking with us. His Gf was on a Shadow and he was on an HD. He asked if we'd had any engine studder coming up. Well the V-strom in FI, his GF siad no and neither of my friends on their 650's had issues either. His comment kept us laughing the rest of the trip. "I guess I need a diffrent tail pipe." Tool 5. My GF used to hang with a HD crowd. Lots of lether vests and such on loud Harleys that they took from one bar to the next. The first time I took her for a little ride around Troy we did about 30 miles. We stopped for a smoke break and she exclaimed, "I never knew riding a motorcycle was so much fun!" I looked at her and said, "I thought you used to ride all the time?" She answered, "We did but we never went anywhere."

Bump! Anyone,, anyone??? I thought this would be gone by now with all the people saying how much they like hitting the roads down there?

Carefull I hear they snore!

It's true, I don't like HD motorcycles or bikes that are designed to look good at the cost of safety. But what I really hate is the Harley culture and bad information they spew. Like, "don't use the front break you'll flip over the handlebars". WTF, the front break is 60% of a bikes stopping power! "Wearing a helmet will snap your neck in an accident". Yep, that's why every race bike rider has one on. "Loud pipes save lives", so remove the exhaust from your car and you'll never be in another accident! The list can go on forever. So if I lash out against the clueless, bull shit filled, chrome brained culture of the Harley Davidson Propaganda Machine, I hope you will forgive my ignorance. In the mean time I'll still wave at you because we're all on two wheels trying to survive to ride another day.

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Trying to make the first one easy, get the ball rolling you know. Besides not everyone knows to look for the photo properties.

Filled the room (I think dial up is too slow for this )

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That's the idea, gotta know where it is first. Second is to go get that photo.

Not from the sites I looked at. At least not once you add in shipping. The bend isn't real bad but it is noticible when riding and can be seen when spinning the rim. I talked to them today and they said no problem to repair.

You are correct sir Late night posting has side effects. Correction made, thanks.

The Wheel Warehouse in Kettering

First I'll admit that I'm stealing the idea from another site. Here's how you play. 1. A photo of your bike at a location is posted in this thread. 2. Clues in the photo or written in the post are used by others to identify the location. Tools like Google, mapquest or others can also be used to find the site. 3. First person to reach the location, get a photo of their bike at the site and post it gets to choose the next location that is to be found. Laptops and camera phones are allowed to be used! But real men get the tag and post from home. Rules: 1. the location must be accessable night and day, and not a site that would require the law to be broken to get the photo. 2. the location must be on a paved road so that all types of bikes can reach it. 3. The person posting the next tag location my use a "file photo" so that the game moves along faster. New tags MUST be posted within three days of the tag being obtained or the origional tag becomes active to the next person to post! 4. A file photo may not be used to get a Tag a location, the photo must be current and both the bike and object/location must be clearly visable. 5. Tags can be done day or night and if someone posts the location before you, you've been Bruced! 6. ALL locations must be in the state of OHIO!!! 7. If a group rides to the location to get the tag it is not required that they all be in the new location photo, but the member who post the tag MUST have their bike in the new location photo. 8. You can trailer your bike to a location but people will call you a pussy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a fun and adictive game that gets you to ride to new areas you might not otherwise ride to. So post good spots and hopefully others will post interesting areas too. So in an attempt to infect this site with this contagious game here is the first location! If you travel South on 33 far enough you'll find this tag.

It was the first time I'd ever been there. It was to get a photo of this: We play a game on ADV rider where someone goes out and gets a photo of a site with their bike. They can either include clues in their photo or written clues so someone can ride to that location and get a photo of their bike at that site. It's a cool game that gets you to ride to places you might not otherwise go, like Germantown.

Yeah, I use smilies way too much. I'm near Springfield, I just happened to be heading back from Germantown.

Price is right and they have 25 hour turn around, but does it work???

I simply have learned to hate the "I didn't see you" line as I can tell them exactly what they were doing that kept them from seeing me.

Just a suggestion, take 23 to 56 to 278 to 78 to 555. Then return via 50 to 339 N to 550W to 33N to 374W to 180 back to Laurelville, down 327 to 50 West to 23 South to 124 West to 41 N in Sinking Springs to 62 N in Washington Courthouse. NOW that's a 7.5 hour ride! Sorry to lunch break or smoke breaks included.