Arkansas Trip Sept. '08

[Bonwilder]

Glad you guys made it home!   Charles, where are you?  Brian, how's the arm?  Thanks for a great trip guys....ya'll get some rest today!

[Slag]

We hardly ever changed our running order on this trip. I have 3 hours of video of Bonnie, and you never get to see cdc.

[Bonwilder]

We hardly ever changed our running order on this trip. I have 3 hours of video of Bonnie, and you never get to see cdc.

great.

[Cyclone]

great.

+1 

[cdc]

3. Charles really can't hear me

cdc

[cdc]

5. My wife has twice the skill level as me 

DUH???  [moto]

cdc

[cdc]

We hardly ever changed our running order on this trip. I have 3 hours of video of Bonnie, and you never get to see cdc.

That's what I get for running sweep.

cdc

[newslacker]

Too bad we didn't get big bird on camera...

[cdc]

We hardly ever changed our running order on this trip. I have 3 hours of video of Bonnie, and you never get to see cdc.

or maybe I wasn't even there.....

cdc

[cdc]

Too bad we didn't get big bird on camera...

cdc

[Slag]

or maybe I wasn't even there.....

cdc

I have pictures 

[caffeinejunkee]

I have pictures 

Really, I see no pictures.

Until we see them *** simply does not exist. 

[fastwin]

There are no bad roads in Arkansas. It has been proven. Patrick and I had a semi boring ride up with cdc in tow about 15-30 minutes behind us. He left DFW after us but was catching up during our gas stops. The plan was to meet everyone at the Lodge on the Scenic Drive anyway at lunch on Saturday. Pleasant surprise was that the Scenic Drive had very little traffic and no officers. We met a real nice Multisrada owner from Shreveport at the Lodge. He was blown away by all the Ducs. He said that there weren't that many in all of Shreveport! He had a TriColore 1098 too.

Didn't stick to Route Master Swanny's ride on Sunday. Just picked some roads heading North and made a nice big loop and they were all awesome. Traffic wasn't too bad, could have been much worse. We tried to make "group passes" so we had to wait a little longer to clear the slow pokes but I think it worked out OK. Best to stay together if the group isn't too big. Hope no one minded.

Had a BUNCH of heavy (and I do mean heavy) fog at times but other than dampening the face shield it didn't effect the road conditions too much. Had to respect the possibility of wet pavement but it didn't slow us down more than a couple of percent off the group pace. Actually the fog enhanced the natural beauty of the ride. Nice, kinda cool spooky feeling to it. Did hit one stretch of some light rain on the last quarter of the ride but thankfully it was light and lasted only 15-20 minutes. Wasn't worth stopping for rain gear. We dried out by the time we got back to the motel.

Nice long day for those that rode home on Monday. Good time on the Scenic Drive as well as the curvy roads that preceeded it. Weekdays on those roads just rock! No traffic at all. Clear sunny day, no traffic and great roads... can't be beat. Got pretty boring after Talihena, OK but it always has been. Just 400+ miles of 80mph cruising from the motel to home. No cops, no problems, no tire trouble... just me getting everyone lost the mandatory 3-4 times over the weekend. Typical. Hey, but they were "minor losts" not "major losts"... it's an improvement. You know it was a great, successful trip if the biggest disappointment was finding out the only bar in town closed early on Sunday night. We offered to open it up and serve ourselves but they were not interested. Buzzkills.

I had a great time with everyone and cannot wait for the next run! Can't wait to see Zach's Scenic Drive video from yesterday too!!

[Cyclone]

13. Cruisers are not dirt bikes

They are if you put the letters GS in the bike's name!! It's still like wearing ice skates on wet cement but it's dignified!   

Really enjoyed the Arky learnin' list Tommy except #17  CAUSE I'm envious enough already !! Shoulda been there & done that !!   

[fastwin]

Does anyone know why my screen shows Cyclone's post being posted at 5:53PM this afternoon? On the main thread screen it shows his post as the correct 11:53AM. My post here shows 11:59AM (as it should) on the main thread screen but it shows as 5:59PM if I click on it as "last post" on this thread??? Puzzling evidence??

Anyway, Tommy's reference is to some local metric cruiser rider we were following in the rain on Saturday (shorts, tank top and no helmet... ) and all of the sudden he exits the road... fast. I thought he was pulling into a driveway that I wasn't able to see. But there was no driveway, he just shut it down and turned a hard right off the road facing downhill on a steep angle staring back at his rear wheel! I was right behind him and I saw nothing wrong and nothing had happened to him on the road. But there was no way he was ever going to get that heavy cruiser back up out of that wet ditch and onto the road! He just could have easily come to a stop on the small paved shoulder and everyone would have cleared him. It was on a straight, not in a turn. He's probably still stuck there!! Weird.