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Some sleep and food, ready to type again. 
 

first off @durk so awesome for you to take the initiative to post the ride and put this together. And it seems like your not jinxed like me or Derek and granted with great weather when every where else around  it was raining. And my friend that connie fits you like a glove and you ride it so well and fast. It was perfect pace and smoooooooth. It could use more dampening and preload in rear shock if you have that option. 
 

it was fantastic to meet everyone. It felt like coming home to a family dinner without the dysfunctional component, well May be some 😄 all the familiar faces and meeting some new ones. These days over in NC as well I just go out and ride for 2 days all mountain roads and back but this one was way longer but so much more satisfying to have a goal to meet y'all. I wish I could have finished the ride but that would have been the death of me, good thing I split of when I did. 
 

next one I plan to take an extra day and finish the ride. Or better you guys join me for the WV loop on my way down or the way up. I took all back roads 16 mainly up and  back as well through Virginia 33. Beautiful. (Ps: if you haven't done wv 31 do it ) 

@Uncle Punki still clearly remember it as yesterday the first ride I think like 14 yrs ago or so. That was my second ever ride in US (the first ever one I low sided 🤣) still didn't know how to ride these big cc bike. You patiently waited and swept the whole way. I was feeling very guilty ruining you ride and asked you to go have fun multiple times. You were the one who's told me don't fear revving the sport bike engine to higher rpm. Till then I used to ride like in Indian mentality highest gear lowest rev more mpg 😄😄 since that day I haven't seen any rpm below 10 lol And yesterday, you pulled a fast one, literally came with Santa Claus beard and all mature and gentlemanly. I was thinking you changed, if not would never have chased you on tour favorite playground of 83 hahah but it turned out really really fun my friend, you still go like a mad man. I am pretty sure my bike flew for a bit going triple digit on one of those bumps 🤯, I could not keep that intensity going on the last fishy section with uneven pavement right on the corners but felt so good to see you just glide on that without one second of hesitation 👍🏽 Sorry to hear about the oopsy check eBay for parts, XR always shows up. The naked bike and those speeds is really crazy, I have a sore spot on the chin where the chin bar was pressed against from all the wind blast. 
 

@Grokked so sorry to hear this news, hopefully you heal up soon. Unfortunate and off course Joel is the right person with the great helping mind, especially southern Ohio is his region of reign. 👍🏽
 

@Pauly hope to meet you soon somewhere in the mountains my friend. Didn't get to talk much at all. @Skinny Rick we will keep talking about how to set up our bike. If you haven't done so far, make sure you set the preload right using the bmw tool. Transforms the bike. 
 

uploaded bunch of pics to the album, I set our early morning to do some  back roads and ended up in Muskie for the quintessential picture  

will definitely be doing this loops again, 3 days and no rain , a better seat and windscreen, it will be perfect. Some amazing roads. Don't know why I love 78 so much, it's the banking I guess, to just go through the whole road in 5-6 gear full throttle and not fly off the corner since the banking is so high is a rarity among roads in NC. 
 

Can't believe you missed epic ride for this 😅

Home safe, spent 15 hrs straight on the saddle today, will report back more tomorrow. Need to rest now. 

Whole body hurts, gear all soaked, still smiling. But dreading the thought of going back 10hrs in rain 🤦🏽‍♂️

6 hours ago, Uncle Punk said:

 

What in the fuckity fuck fuck is that damn thing? [(I love it!)(and know what it is)]

Last I heard you were done chasing the next bike since you found your haylo bike the king of all bikes - Hayabusa!

You really do have a sickness and should probably have a colleague do a mental evaluation because the illness is apparent to the rest of us.

 

5 hours ago, Pauly said:

Lol... You must have missed the R1250GSA, then? All I know is if you can't get down with a GSA, then something is definitely amiss in the grey matter. 

I won't deny any of these accusations 😭 as of now I need shock treatment. If not who in the right mind sells GSA and buys naked bike and then decides to cross two states on a rainy weather prediction 🤦🏽‍♂️

4 hours ago, B-Mac said:

The Gap event Cxl'ed. Today I road the long ass "SOAL" Southern Ohio Adventure Loop. (over rated).  I am draging ass right now stuffing my face with pizza and a oaky finish cabernet. But.... I will rise to the occasion and get my old ass on the Z1K in the morning and meet you after a productive bowel movment and a spirited ride to New Concord.

My man   behave when you show up, we are not gonna devolve into hooliganism oky 🤣 

11 hours ago, JustinNck1 said:

@2talltim has been sick last couple days... Talked to him this morning and sounded like he ain't gonna make it this weekend. I plan on coming tomorrow.

I was going to tell rick you said "yes" on first page itself and to add you to the list. Will be nice to meet you again Justin, even if not on an Fjr  

@max power said he might?  Where is @2talltim 

See you guys Saturday 🤙🏽

Looks like a good day, no rain forecast   

What happened to all the usual big ride OGs Hopefully you guys can make it, I see few of you guys are out of town for good reasons . ( @B-Mac 👍🏽 @Muckles 👍🏽 Tonik👎🏽) what about the usual life of party suspects? @Uncle Punk  @MidgetTodd @Helmutt @snot @DerekClouser @whaler @Shoop  @ricer1  missing many more multi time participants. 
 

looking back all these years, many we came to meet during these OR rides and became life long friends are no longer with us  😞 such is life.  Going to miss these guys forever. We never know when we going to get a chance again, So if there is any chance of making it happen just come by at least to the meet spot say hi and split off 👍🏽 

On 2/13/2022 at 11:49 AM, durk said:

May 14th. Meet at New Concord Marathon at 10:30. If the group grows we can switch the meetup location. I’ll create a new post soon with details. 

I think this guy already made a mental note of the dates. 

on side note applying for off days, will be coming up through 16 and 536 and 800 and stuff, heck yaaaaa 🤙🏾

hope yall doing well. If this is planned and picking a random date with 2 months lead time I will also try to join. Miss riding with you folks, but not at all missing that weather any bit  

Make it in august 😭

Let’s just say the experiment failed, this thing is harder to ride the tight stuff but way more rewarding. Overall the tendency to attack corners and all goes away but still this bike hides it heft and speed. 
 

so I made the gap trip, all back roads one day up one day down. Wanted to meet @Blitz but timing didn’t work out. Next time any of you guys making a gap trip let me know may be I can try and meet up. 

Awesome pics, Glad to see you guys having a ball, I wish I could have made it and met you there. Next time coming to dragon or even back of dragon WV  shoot me a message I will try to meet you some where 👍🏾

Dangit, may be next time. If ever a group of you guys coming down. Or even doing WV trips let me know, will try to meet up. 

2 hours ago, Tonik said:

Going to keep this here for future, and probably soon, use.

Wish I could get down there next week to see you, I miss you man.

For sure plan a gap trip or at least a back of dragon WV 16 trip. We can link up. But choose roads with high speed  sweepers only okay 🤣

1 hour ago, Uncle Punk said:

Wait! Do you have three bikes now or did one go towards the Busa? (Please don't let it be the XR, I really want a new one)

I have had a Busa and understand you wanting one kinda but kinda not.

Mine was a 2005, the bike fit me better than any bike I had ever ridden, I put the most miles on it in the shortest period of time than with any bike I've ever owned, 15,000 miles in 16 months. It was a fantastic bike for riding on the street, I did my first three track days on it, totaled it on the third trackday. What a fun capable bike that does the backroads better than expected.

What I don't get other than your cultural issue is the ZX14 gave you everything the Busa has.

PS. Watching you ride the XR in your posted videos I'm impressed with how well you handle that thing.

Both the 890 and XR are listed for sale, the 890 is among all the bikes I owned the one I loved the most. I would venture to say the best one for corner carving ever. Been getting quite some query on that I haven’t responded promptly cause I don’t want to sell haha 

the XR is still new, it’s a 2020 looks new as I take care of them really well, with almost all bmw options and packages and factory warranty left with nice upgrades fresh tires fresh service and will also get all recalls which includes new brembo calipers and fluid flush before sale. Asking 18.5 looking to score around 18, but for You i can do even lower, pm me punk we can talk. 

https://m39t6.app.goo.gl/K8brC

On 7/7/2021 at 6:15 PM, jschaf said:

Nothing like reliving the past.  I remember Roamr & me seeing Nivin on his Busa Circa 2014 at the Bolivar DQ.

Good old days, I think that day I was wondering if I should hide or not haha was embarrassed to be seen with a zx14 lol 

On 7/7/2021 at 1:48 PM, Uncle Punk said:

Really???

He already has a 890R and a second gen S1000XR. What the hell is his problem?

 

I'm really jealous of the new current XR. 

Riding Those bikes is like have two evil dark angels on both shoulders, no one is advising to slow down. Such a hoot but dangerous. The Xr was the perfect bike for me, in term of comfort handling weight height  ergonomics electronics everything  perfect fit. Still don’t know why I went with this piggy 

On 7/7/2021 at 8:30 AM, TimTheAzn said:

haha I just saw Nivin got a busa. That man has already owned more motorcycles than I will during my entire life.

😄 social media is crazy, I didn’t know you knew 

On 9/29/2020 at 7:12 PM, snot said:

And 1 went to NC....

 

Miss all you guys 😞

On 9/29/2020 at 8:53 PM, motocat12 said:

The state switcher also switched bikes frequently

Not anymore, back to resident like salary and I am fiscally responsible now hehe

On 9/29/2020 at 9:08 PM, Pauly said:

Oh, you mean 7-Eleven. Yeah... he moved. 

still thank you but not come again 🤣

Welcome Rich  

that day I was waiting for @durk when I saw you, you see the similarities with Cbr and tail bags there right  

should link up with @Skinny guy as well since he rides the same roads you do most days

8 hours ago, DerekClouser said:

Are you running hypersmooth stabilization?  Not sure which GoPro you have, but it's possible you are recording at too high resolution/FPS and they are shutting down hypersmooth stabilization.  Run 1080/60 and the camera stabilization is phenomenal.  This could be your issue.

Finally got a good laptop and able to compress with proper codec and things seems to work out pretty well   

Dayum

RIP link  

he was a great guy and very good mature rider as well. Seems like the car crossed center line and got him. I am100% sure he was atgatt and riding within his limits And reacted and did everything right. And despite that it’s just what it is. This is really sad news.

Stay safe out there OR fam. just today I was telling my wife how OR cultivates a lot of safe riding habits. for eg last 10 yrs we didn’t have any fatal crash or even real bad crash for members and in the NC FB group in the three months I been lurking I think 4 fatalities and other real bad accidents.