I tried catching my buddy Nick cleaning his helmet's visor with the gas station's windshield scrubber thing, but was too slow with the camera.
Here we all are. You can just barely see my neighbor's Honda Silverwing behind Cary's big 1500cc cruiser.
Here we are on top of Spiral Highway:
We snagged an unsuspecting tourist to take our pictures:
Disaster! On the top of the Spiral, my poor Rad's turn signal was drooping really badly. The effects of my roommate bending the snot out of it (after he dropped my bike, moving it without my permission
), my repair and someone bending it AGAIN in a parking lot finally took its toll. We decided to hit up a NAPA a few miles off and get some epoxy putty stuff.Here's Cary cleaning the area with a gasoline-soaked chunk of paper towel:
Best picture of the field repair I could get:
Halfway down Rattlesnake Grade:
Yours truly:
Here we are at the bottom, at Boggan's Cafe. Top notch burgers and shakes. Here's a picture of a Marion Berry that you could get a shake made with:
It's huge, huh.Here's my shake with said Marion Berries:
Nick, taking it easy on the chair:
We continued on straight towards Enterprise, OR. At this point we were done with the set of twisties (which were covered with gravel, we had to take it real easy). 4,100 feet high, according to my GPS.
Cary on his Kawa cruiser:
Not even five miles from home, Cary catches up to me after I rifled through some twisties and tells me the turn signal is fubared. I pull off to the side and perform a roadside repair to limp home:
And I finally made it, all safe and sound.
Hands down, this was the longest ride I've ever done. I think we put in about 150 miles today. I took some aspirin before leaving and wore a lower back brace Cary brought for me and my back felt fine the whole time. Maybe that flyscreen isn't needed after all.
Bonus picture showing how far over I rolled on my rear tire:
I actually got it all the way to the lip on the way down Rattlesnake Grade. And drug a peg on the twisties coming out of Anatone. Oh, and my bike rolled over to 23,000 miles on the way back and I'm officially at 4,000 miles in the saddle.
