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Author Message   J2blue Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 12:03 am:        Yay! Glad you were able to pull it all together despite the ickness. Of course I wish I could ride along, but I know you will take some good pics. Who is going to meet up with you along the way out there? I'm ready for the meetup tomorrow morning. The mirror was fixed with some epoxy and a 3.75 inch stick-on mirror from the auto parts store. Hopefully it will work for a few days. I have my rain gear packed and am ready to get up early and ride into the Springs.   F_skinner Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 12:13 am:        Jody, I will be staying with another BadWeb member in NE the first night and we will ride the rest of the way together. I hoe to see you tomorrow morning.   Zac4mac Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 05:27 am:        Have a great trip, Frank. I'm not going anywhere, time for my 18k service... fresh fork oil, oh boy. Picked up the engine oil and filter a couple of days ago. Drag Specialties has the number but no stock for the new K&N that was released last week. I need one and soon... Back to bed... Z   J2blue Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 08:19 am:        Good Morning! zzzzzzzzzzz   Jumpinjewels Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 10:19 am:        Good morning. Dan's out working on our bikes. We had some problem riding home after the rain with shifting. Couldn't get the shift peddle into gear without some difficulty. After that's done we're heading out for a ride before the rain, again. Have fun Frank and stay healthy and DRY. Keep us posted. Hope your mirror works Jody. Have fun on your ride today   F_skinner Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 11:59 am:        Tell Dan to check your primary chain tension and detent plate, I am sure he already knows that. I met up with the Altitude Riders and got the S2T out for a spin. It was great to be back on a bike. It was actually pretty warm in the Springs at 0830. It was 49 in Fountain when I left. Jody has his mirror fixed in a TN redneck fashion. He said it works well. They rest of the group took off towards Deckers. We had two tubers and three XBs show up. A pretty good showing. Frank   Jumpinjewels Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 04:25 pm:        We just got back from our ride, yah hoo!!! It was fun. Just Dan and I, Skye had to work. Met two more Buellers. A guy named Clint from Englewood on his Firebolt and his friend Brian, and a guy named Doug from Golden on his Scg. We rode up Deer Creek to Pleasant Park into Conifer. Saw the clouds rolling in and headed to Turkey Creek and back to Deer Creek. We were going to then go down to Palmer Lake but those dark clouds were looming, so we went to Franktown, then headed south and home the back way. We did over 300 miles this weekend. Seems to be a lot more Buells out there. Way cool!!   Jcbikes Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 08:56 pm:        Julie, I rode Deer Creek and the Turkey creek this morning on my bicycle. Just a few hours ahead of you. Got to get the pedaling in then did a Buell ride this afternoon.   J2blue Posted on Monday, June 01, 2009 - 12:28 am:        Wow, I've had an eventful riding weekend. Sure makes up for the wash-out that happened the previous weekend. Yep, I had a slow speed tip over on Friday evening. Fixed the mirror redneck style. Met up with several good folk at Perkins at 8 frickin O-Clock in the morning today, but it's cool. Scott's S1 looks even more impressive in person...and sounds impressive, too. I enjoyed the jaunt up to Deckers with him and Calloway. I parted company with the other two and headed west stopping to fuel in Divide. After some water and rest I came across another Bueller riding an '05 or '06 CityX and came over to him to introduce myself. Turns out he couldn't wake early enough to meet us for breakfast but had got the email. I conned/talked him into riding with me West on 24. I had hoped to go all the way to Buena Vista but a looming rain cloud made Hartsel a good stop to reconsider. John pointed to Hwy. 9 South and I followed and we had a good ride with much less traffic. After he left me behind to return to his home in the Springs I encountered mechanical problems. My shifter basically collapsed. Had to ride the bike in first gear back home sounding like a 50cc scooter straining to reach 40mph. No McGyver tricks up my sleeve for this one, parts will be ordered. Can you spot the redneck mirror fix? }   Jumpinjewels Posted on Monday, June 01, 2009 - 01:19 pm:        Jody, both Dan and I had problems with our shifters also, after riding in the rain on Sat. Dan fixed them but on our ride yesterday, while excelerating onto 470 I got stuck in 2nd gear. Had to pull over, Dan did some adjusting and no problems after that. John,I was wondering if you were out there among the hundreds of bikers yesterday. I do have to ask, why do some of them insist in riding in the middle of the road? It didn't happen just once, it was multiple times.   Jcbikes Posted on Monday, June 01, 2009 - 06:41 pm:        Julie, They are not allowed to ride in the middle of the road. It is legal to ride two abreast but when vehicles approach, you are supposed go to single file. I have been riding seriously since 1983 and try to be courteous. I think a lot of the riders out their are fairly new to the sport and do not know any better. But drivers need to be patient too. Yesterday coming down the lower part of the canyon from Evergreen, we were behind two cars and were staying with them, about three cars were behind us and when we got out of the canyon, a screwball started yelling at us to get the hell of the road. We where staying next too the white line and were doing about 30 mph and following behind two cars not holding anybody up. It goes both ways but I understand what you are describing too. WE ALL need to share the road.   Jumpinjewels Posted on Monday, June 01, 2009 - 09:54 pm:        John, It was just weird yesterday. Usually the bikers and cars are fairly polite. It just seemed that it was unusually out of sorts yesterday. My worry is that someone could get hurt. You be safe out there. Hope to see you on Sunday. Are we all ENJOYING the rain????? Maybe the weather is getting to people. (Message edited by jumpinjewels on June 01, 2009)   Jcbikes Posted on Monday, June 01, 2009 - 11:08 pm:        I like the rain for the moisture that we need but this is getting ridiculous. I have been living in Colorado 31 years, and I think this is the greenest I have ever seen the front range. I did a road trip two weeks ago from California to Colorado on I-80 and once you turned south on I25 from Wy. into our state, Oh my God the green. Nothing like this West of here and that includes Ca.   Buell_nm Posted on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - 01:02 pm:        Julie, I'm going to be heading up that way again this week. I'm doing the 2nd W.O.W race at HPR this weekend. I'm heading up on Thursday, and thought I see if you were going to be around.   Jumpinjewels Posted on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 - 04:42 pm:        Kim, either give me a call or pm me. If you need a place to stay you're welcome to stay at our home. We live in Castle Rock which is still a ways from the track. Let me know. My cell is 303-589-8150   Zac4mac Posted on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 09:46 am:        Just went out and checked the rain gauge I made a few weeks ago... 3/4 of an inch... in one day. Changed the fork oil for my 18k service, lots easier than I expected. Gotta put Loretta's mirrors back on. Seems I broke a wire in the key-switch harness, while checking side-to-side movement, and had to tear into the front-end wiring to fix it. Forecast is calling for rain again today, maybe this afternoon. I'll take my chances, it looks gorgeous this morning. Z   Buell_nm Posted on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 12:20 pm:        Thanks for the offer, Julie. I've got a place to crash and shower while at the track this weekend. I'll be heading through Castle Rock about 4pm or so... I may just stop and check out the Frank Town feed while I'm there so I can miss all the rush hour traffic around Denver. I'll give you a call. Kim   Jumpinjewels Posted on Wednesday, June 03, 2009 - 10:27 pm:        Kim, I work until 4:45 on Thurs in the Littleton area. Call me though and if we can get together we'll try. Be safe and hope you do well at HPR.   J2blue Posted on Thursday, June 04, 2009 - 08:23 pm:        Zac, your da man. Got my parts over night! signed: Another satisfied High Country Buell customer.   Zac4mac Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 09:25 am:          J2blue Posted on Friday, June 05, 2009 - 11:55 pm:        Lynn, have you heard from Frank?   Jumpinjewels Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 01:00 am:        Second that. Have been looking for posting from Frank about his trip.   Lynn Posted on Saturday, June 06, 2009 - 10:08 pm:        Julie and Jody sorry about not posting back right away , Frank just emailed me to tell me that you guys have asked about him. I don't do really well on this website, get lost easy anyways he just called me and decided to leave this morning and as about a hour ago, HE is in Lincoln Nebraska, he should be home tomorrow night if weather and bike co-operates If you guys would like my phone number just PM me and I can send it. thanks for asking about Frank.....   Zac4mac Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 12:06 pm:        Lynn - I sent Frank a couple of my guardian angels. They've been kinda bored around me lately... Can't wait to see pix after he gets home. Zack   Jumpinjewels Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 03:08 pm:        Zack, PM sent   Lynn Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 04:53 pm:        Thanks Zack, for the angels....Frank just called me and is about a hour out of town, he has been riding most of the day in the rain, ...........so he is just really tired.....thanks jodi, Julie and zach for checking on him. It is so cool to see how everyone cares so much for him.............Lynn   Lynn Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 06:05 pm:        Frank is home!!   F_skinner Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 09:10 pm:        Here are some of the pics. Posting pics to this site is becoming a real pain. http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/37/ 439445.html?1244423239 Hopefully some more of us will be able to make it next year. It was a good trip even with the rain. I got rain all day today and most of the way out of Colorado on the way there, I had one rain free ride from NE to WI. Good time.   J2blue Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 09:10 pm:        Glad to hear it, thanks for letting us know. We'll have to wait to get his full report once he is fully rested.   Jumpinjewels Posted on Sunday, June 07, 2009 - 09:22 pm:        Glad u made it home ok. Sounds like your rain gear may have come in handy?????? We all need to get together for a ride and hear about your adventure.