ScubaCinci

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Depending on the size of the group the range of bikes, we could end up with a few packs with their own pace. Jim would you say the pace we did last year was medium to medium fast? I know there were a few times Timmy went on ahead to blast out some of his favorite roads. I was perfectly fine with the pace we did.

I had a DRZ for awhile...I'll be impressed if your ass can do the whole ride - literally. I tried the gel seat and a seat concepts seat and I couldn't take more than a few hours seat time without getting super uncomfortable. But, it depends on your weight/build too...some people have no issues. Worst case you can take a more direct route on some parts to cut off time so you can give your bum a rest

Oh snap, that sucks. Now you not only have to deal with the original injury but the extras that come with being cut open. Not sure how a Dr could completely misread an MRI that badly. A completely torn ligament/tendon should be easy to spot to the trained eye...I can see if it was only partially torn maybe. The last few times I had MRI's the technicians at the MRI place interpreted the MRI and sent the images and their diagnoses to the Dr and then the Dr also read and interpreted it so at least 2 sets of eyes looked at it. He's probably shitting himself right now expecting a lawsuit.

@2talltim is not even a mod yet and shit's falling apart

Like what? Sometimes I have to click on the search icon multiple times before it actually registers it. Otherwise it works ok.

I'll probably be ~60ft underwater in the Caymans

Thinking about it...I've met quite a few celebrities. The most time I spent with one is Doug Flutie. My best friend growing up used to live next to Doug's family in Natick MA when my friend was very young. Doug and his family would come stay at my friend's motel where I lived in NY (years later of course). We spent several days hanging out with him and his wife over the course of a few years. Threw a football with him, rode in his Porsche, etc. I was 15-16 at the time and his wife's sister's showed up with them one year - my age, and were HAWT. They were huge snobs though...wouldn't give me or my friend the time of day but it didn't stop us from trying to get some action though

Yeah, I met him at the charity auction where we bid on (and won) the dinner and he was pretty cool. It'll be interesting to spend a few hours with him and his wife (who was super nice as well).

I'm having dinner with Marvin Lewis next week...

Haha...actually it should be an OR gang sign hand gesture. I can guess which one @Tonik would pick...

How come I haven't received my super mod powers yet? I have OR shirts, stickers and everything

That bike is hawt...good decision.

The intercom does come in handy...but you've managed to get along without it so far so I guess you'll make it without it I've honestly only used the intercom function one time and that was on this trip last year with Tim so he could tell me he was going to zip around our slow asses and rip it up.

...but not what you think. I was manuevering the Tenere around in the garage last night because I had planned on riding into work today. I was between my wifes car on my right and my SUV on the left. I put the kickstand down and started to dismount by leaning left to rest the bike on the stand. My spidey sense went off and I quickly righted the bike and sure enough, the thud of the kickstand I heard was not it reaching the deployed position but the stowed position The bike with the armor and luggage is probably pushing 700lbs. Had I not noticed it, I would've fallen over into my months old SUV, damaging that, the bike, and probably putting a serious hurt on me in the process. No way mi wife was going to pull the bike off of me either. I did this once many years ago on my first street bike - a CBR600F4I, except then I was outside and fell over into a mulch bed with nothing hurt but my pride.

That is not the same folder structure used on the iPhone (there is no itinerary folder) nor for what it sets up on Dropbox when used for the Cloud service. Yes, I did go ahead and create the itinerary folder and try it that way. It's not my first rodeo...it's just not set up to import routes on iOS yet. The fact that this folder doesn't exist by default supports this. I spent way more timing fucking with it than I should have...it just bugs me when something doesn't work when I think it should. I'm generally good at making things like this work so that also bothers me but I also have a trip to the Caymans in a few weeks to prepare for. All in all, I'd rather use the Garmin anyway so I can listen to audio from my phone without naggigation interrupting all the time. I can still use the app to get from point A to B in a pinch without a cell signal and I've saved off the hotel addresses on there already. It just would have saved me time to import your routes from Google. FYI - when I re-created your routes in Basecamp, I noticed a few spots where it takes a weird or unnecessary route when getting from one road to another. It's probably the way Sygic interpreted the route from Google between the given the waypoints and it's minor stuff. Had I not been recreating it, I would not have seen them. I'm pretty sure there were some like that last year (I remember some times when you took a different path than my GPS said) and I'm sure you are aware of the 'anomalies'. I only call it out for others so that if they are following the route and either notice we are deviating slightly or wondering why we took the route we did.

Did that as I thought maybe there was a particular naming convention required. It never creates a discrete file for the route. It seems to update a metadata file used by the app but I didn't start digging into that...not worth the time and effort to start interrogating that file and potentially hacking it to insert the routes.

I'm using the Sygic 13, 14, 15, 16 .itf format

On iOS you can import POI's but not routes. I found a 2015 post from someone who had contacted them about it and they "are working on it". It has nothing to do with security, importing routes simply doesn't work on the iPhone yet because they haven't built the functionality. I have applications that allow me to move files onto the phone in whatever folder I want and iTunes is moving the files over as designed, I can see them in the directory. Yes, Apple sucks and Andriod rulez blah blah. I should've looked into it more first. Doesn't matter, I have them loaded in my Garmin and now anyone else can too.

Or I can just get a nav app that works.

I recreated the routes in Garmin Basecamp and created the accompanying GPX route files for them. I loaded them on my Zumo 660 and they seem oK. Note, the start and end points for each leg are just the relative spots near the start/end locations - not the actual hotel addresses, etc. Basecamp is shitbox software and it was an extra step that I was afraid would fuck up the route I had created. Store the actual addresses separately in your GPS if need be as posted in the OP. It'd be nice if someone else loaded these up and did some spot checking to make sure I didn't fuck up...it's a bit painstaking to do. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3641568/GPS/OR_Fall_Gap_Trip.zip

I definitely want the route in at least one GPS for the ride. My phone has the routes loaded on it in the correct format but for some reason, Sygic does not see them. They should show up under favorites, right?

Because I'm using a stupid iOS iPhone (as some would say) I can't seem to import the routes into Sygic. I've tried to sync with iTunes, adding the routes to the available files for that app, added them to iCloud and Dropbox and setting the app accordingly but it never sees them. I have them in the .itf format out of the ITN app. If anyone has successfuly imported routes using an iPhone, let me know. And for the Android users...I don't want to hear it. Garmin doesn't like the routes made on Google unless you do A LOT of waypoints, otherwise it re-routes where it can for what it deems as the best routes.

It definitely is smooth!

I had told a few others already but I was just down there in the car and the Cherohala Skyway has been freshly blacktopped on the NC side (they were done but edge lines weren't painted yet). This is on day 3 of the itinerary for those not familiar with the area.