nautical1

What is your definition of long distance? There are plenty of people on here who do 350+ miles day on supersports and are fine. Jbot and myself just did 300+ miles and I was perfectly fine until about a half hour from home when my throttle hand got tired (my fault for not having a crampbuster for slabs). Are there better choices for that? Sure, but it's not too bad as long as you're riding twisty back roads. Long boring highway rides are another story. I'd say stick with the SV, especially if it means not having to take out a loan for a toy. Financing a seven year old bike for five years seems silly, especially if you get tired of it and want a different bike.

If you want really laid back then Top Sail Island is pretty desolate. The problem is there aren't a whole lot of restaurants or shopping unless you go to the main land which can be quite a drive depending how far north on the island you are. If you want historic then Wilmington is also a pretty cool city to check out but it's been a few years since I've been there so I'm not sure if it's changed at all. Also, if you can push your vacation days back then I'd go the first week of the off season which is the first week in September, rates drop quite a ways and there's a lot less people. Do you want to stay on the beach or is anywhere fine?

Please point out where I said DV is funny. Get the stick out of your ass and don't take everything you read to be so serious. People always try and find an issue with everything now-a-days, not my problem you think it means something it probably doesn't..Can't please everyone. Exactly. If something can be taken out of context then it will be and people will get bent out of shape over it.

Who said anything about domestic violence? His definition of "stands up to a beating" could mean in the bedroom, different strokes for different folks. Don't overthink random pics!

I dodged it all the way home from southern OH. It was actually a really nice day.

Alright I can meet in Freeport at the gas station. Only one showing up on the map is TJS Gas & Go at 237 E Main St. FREEPORT, OH 43973 which I believe is the Marathon. I guess we can meet there at 11:00 since everyone else backed out so far. I may just slab it there, not sure. Anyone else interested in riding meet at that gas station at 11:00, just post up here. Should it rain we'll just ride east to get out of it, but we should be good.

I'll be posting in the morning to confirm everything and unless we get a downpour it's a go. It's looking pretty good at the moment.

Let's say 14-9-332-164-Azaela Rd SW/Pleasant Valley Rd SE to 800. From 800 we'll just look at a map and hit any road we see that looks good once we go as far south as we want or just stay on 800 and enjoy it. Once we want to head home I'll write a route down to get home. For those that want to be back by 3 I can show you a few roads back home or 77n won't be too far away either if that's what you wanna do.

Let me find a route and I'll post it in a few as for ETA I'm not entirely sure but I can give you updates along the way, just pm your digits. Give me a few for route details.

We can try and be back by 3 and at 12 we'll see where we're at and head back if we have to. I saw his tame pace last week and it was a pretty good pace. I have a problem with getting over my issue with not wanting to go faster for the fear of hitting gravel in a turn. Sometimes I pick it up to a nice pace and other times I feel like miss daisy ha. I have no issue with watching and learning from faster riders either. For whoever is in let's meet at the Marathon at 9:15-9:30 and head out pending storms. If it's only a light drizzle we'll still head out since, as said earlier, it seems to be staying west. And jbot if you're in C-bus just head east and meet us somewhere. We can meet you on 800 or somewhere and just ride south, if people need to break off they can at any point but I have all day. You know you wanna. I can even text you when we're heading down.

Either route #1 or #2 looks good for me, I can do either spot. We'll say 9:15 meet up and 9:30 kickstands up? We'll stop for lunch around 12 at where ever looks good down there. I'm leaning towards route one unless people want to meet in Bolivar.

Showing 40% chance of storms for tomorrow but it looks like most of the rain is staying west of where we'll be riding. I'll decide the route and meeting details later on today once I know who is for sure in so people know what the plan is tomorrow. For those who are interested, what kind of mileage or how long of a ride do you want? Deep down you know you want to ride ha.

Exactly.

Get the pistol on the way back from riding?? Get a new tire so you can finally join in on these exciting rides! Depending who goes and start time we could be back by 3:00, depends how long of a ride everyone wants to do. Whatever works.

By the way, that's a guy.

No one wants to tag along? If people want to do a shorter ride we can push the start time back and do a different route.

Alright so this weekend is looking decent so far besides the slight chance of rain so I'm looking to take advantage of the day and head south. The plan is to spend a few hours heading down, get some food and relax, then head back north. Meeting Spot: Depends on route Start Time: 8:00-9:00am at very latest Duration: Home by dinner? Mileage: <300 miles Pace: Relatively tame, just go your own comfortable pace 1) Meet at Marathon gas station off of 76 at 14. 14-9-644-164-9-145w-800n-any road home 2) Meet at DQ in Bolivar off 76. 800s-148w-9n-149w-250n-151e-north up to 164w-644n-9n-14 3) Meet at Bolivar DQ off 76. Take 800 south all the way to the river and head back. 4) Any of the roads down there that people want to ride. Any variations will work as well, I basically just want to get out and enjoy new roads which is mostly anything south of 151 and this is what I came up with by just taking a quick look at the map and from roads Paul (Isaacs Papa) mentioned.

Price and size of tires?