durk Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 I head back to teaching Monday. Today was essentially my last free day to ride before I have to go back to the joys of teaching teenagers. I ran my usual route of 164-9 into Cadiz. Then I decided to run down 250 to WV250 to WV7 and then hit 536-556-145-148-9. The new pavement on WV250 is already getting beat up. By no means is it terrible, but they have already had to do some patch work. On a positive note there was very little gravel, probably the cleanest I've ever seen 250. I had a blast. I need to ride that road more often. I basically used WV7 to get me to 536. To start my ride on 536 I ran into mowing. Not exactly how I wanted to start things off, but eventually things cleared up in time for me to run up on Bambi staring at me. Thankfully I spotted him early, and with a few honks of the horn he headed up the hill into the woods. After those distractions I focused on getting comfortable on 536. Definitely felt better today compared to when I ran it a couple weeks ago with Doc. I was not squeezing the bars and puckering around every corner. I still need to spend more time on that road. My plan was to run it north then south and back up again. When I stopped, however, I could smell plastic melting. My lower fairings were getting cooked from running at 10-12k rpms. I decided it was best to make my way to 556, plus I got some looks from home owners as I went by. I figured they would not be pleased to see and hear me 3 times. The rest of ride home was great. The only issue was I saw a car smashed into the guardrail on 164. Nothing like 450 miles for 9 hours to prepare me for the real world again. Took 1 pic (stole the idea from Doc) Note: sign said 536 would be closed 8/22/2017 for 3 days 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NinjaDoc Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Wish I could have joined you, but was working till late evening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durk Posted August 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Left this morning around 7:30. I figured you were working. Eventually I'll get some weekends to free up and we'll get together again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Mac Posted August 17, 2017 Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Good luck and stay safe in the classroom Durk. I will try to ride 536 for you and keep the preferred line clean. I had a math teacher back in 72 that had the new 4 stroke Kawasaki Z1 900cc. That was a bad ass bike back then and as a 14YO dirt bike rider I thought that was so cool. I cut him a lot of slack in class and behaved for the most part in between boners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durk Posted August 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2017 Thanks B-Mac for keeping 536 clean. Not sure what to say about the boner comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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