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     Kcbill |
We met at Patty O Quigleys at 119th and Roe. But next week we will be at The Other Place in Overland Park down town on Wed. nite. We are going back to Wed. as this place is a bike nite place all summer. Plus we know other rides of the none Buell brand that we ride with from time to time. | ||
| Daves |
The hotel you want in Waterloo Ia the Heartland Inn on Marnie Rd. Right by the shop and BattleTrax grounds. Here's the phone number. 319-232-7467 I picked up another vendor at the sport show last night, they sell RC cars. Going to set up a miniture BattleTrax course for them to race on. I also am working on a pocketbike dealer from Des Moines to come up. The Stunt riders are a done deal now too. You guys don't want to miss out! Still to fast to ride a Goldwing Dave | ||
| Racerboy |
Hey Bill...What other place are you meeting at next week?...Inquiring minds want to know... John's on first... See Ya! Bob | ||
| Tripper |
Hey MOBsters, It was great to see all ya'll and to know the Buell group is growing. We made it home in 23 hours, a little worse than the 17 hours it took to get to KC. We were only good for 60 minute shifts and even that was hard. I definately do not recommend back-to-back all nighters. 1,893.8 miles in 50 hours with a 90 minute nap in an abandoned house in Olathe. I ran into a curb executing a u-turn and destroyed a tire, changed it in a St Charles parking lot at 1:30 am, bought a new tire in Nashville, entered slay the dragon at two dealers along the way (no t-shirts, they were selling them!). The home bed felt like heaven. | ||
| Shazam |
some of this you all heard at dinner on thurs.... my Wed night festivities: I made a banzai run 13 miles through Jonson county without touching a road! it was the nature trail.......asphalt walkway/bike trail that runs from downtown Olathe all the way to Johson Drive. I waited til the storm passed on Wed. night then decided to make the run, new rainsuit needed testing. no Joggers, no baby strollers, shitty conditions but when else you gonna do it? I sat in the parking lot at northgate waiting for a break in traffic(trying to be sneaky getting started).....no cars here we go! onto the trail under the bridge it goes....and curles up on the other side right back to the road! WTF! wow, look at all the cars! if I could just get started the panic would probably go away.(as I'm sitting on the sidewalk trying to figure out what just happened) quick, gotta get outta here. make a right on to the sidewalk and run it about 60 yards down to where a gravel drive meets the street(so I don't have to jump the curb). pull back onto northgate head north for 1/4 mile and turn around, scratching my head, cause I know the trail starts over here somewhere. as I am heading back south watching the sidewalk I see where the trail splits off and ducks down into the woods! bingo! cross the bridge pull back into the gravel drive..... this time I have to go about 200 yards down the sidewalk and accross the bridge(on the sidewalk, between the guardrail and chain link) I'm thinking Please don't let the cops come now, as I am crossing the bridge. I decided to get it over with quickly and in my haste I overshot the fork in the trail. slide to a stop(still on the sidewalk adjacent to northgate) make a hard left and run down the hill in the grass to the head of the trail......into the woods and home free! Here's where my first lapse of forethought caught up with me....there are some really nice houses that back up to the trail a couple of hundred yards in.....it's ten O'clock at night and raining. the trail/path is about six feet wide and beautifully smooth asphalt, this might work out OK if I can just get passed this neighborhood, lights are coming on in EVERY house I pass. The trail is set about twenty feet into the woods behind these people's back yards and my pipe is LOUD and my high beam is on. as I'm swerving through the trees I'm starting to wonder if this was such a good idea?.....then my worst nightmare occurs....the one thing above all others that I fear (aside from crashing and not being found for a week) happens.... the first creek crossing is washed out! the water is flowing at least 8" deep real swiftly across the path. I'm looking at it thinking no, no, NO! I've only made it about a 1/4 of a mile and already I'm screwewd! so yes, I had to turn around. Now all those houses that had the lights on now also have people on the back porches with phones to their ears.....this is getting crappy quick! that was the longest quarter mile ever! get back to the entrance at north gate and realize I have to go BACK across the bridge on the side walk and there are cars all over the road....again not good! I made it to the gravel drive and pulled off the side walk when the first squad car rolls by.........did he see me on the sidewalk? crossing the bridge? is he turning? wait, wait, OK he's not after me. Next stop, find the next place to get back on. ran north up ridgeview and took a left onto 119th ran it down to just before the railroad tracks and got back onto the trail...here we go and yippee! no houses. long straightaway, good speed, OH F^$#! first ninety degree corner, forgot this wasn't designed for seventy MPH....decide to take it down a peg. I was just excited to be back under way and out of the grasp of the popo for now! this trail is switch back after switchback through the woods, lots of rabbits trying to outrun the bike! get to the first bridge a wood decked arch over the creek and as I'm climbing over it my rear tire breaks loose....Damn rain has this wood slicker than snot! regain the tail and proceed on into the abyss. there were a couple of tight spots as it is hard to maintain a leisurely bicycle pace when all you want to do is crank it up. found a couple of spots where the heavy rain from the storm had created mudslides across the path...gonna have to watch for those! kept on motoring...just me this obnoxiously loud pipe the the dark moist air, and the occasional raindrop! The trail turns up near society again near the end of woodland where it meets 87th right along the railroad tracks, well actually it runs along the railroad tracks (don't forget the train sneaking up behind me and laying on the horn at about eighty, scared the SHIIITE out of me, I didn't know the tracks were twenty feet away, cause it was pitch black and they were elevated) the trail even crosses under them in a few places through ribbed steel tunnels. damn this pipe(bike's) is loud! that was the only dry pavement I saw on this run... in the two tunnels. the wood bridges were the slickest surface I have ever ridden on! or so I thought. Up to this point I had traversed many a running water across the trail and a few muddy spots, but none prepared me for the next "near" disaster. remember that the trail is tight and twisty sometimes you can only see ten feet in front of you before it turns uphill, right, left or who knows? I've never been on it before and had no I dea what to expect. I knew from living in the area for so long, I had seen the trail from 10hwy, from shawnee lake, and knew there was a trail like it behind the ball fields at johnson drive and had heard it was continuos....needless to say this trip was way overdue. I think the longest straight-away was about four feet or it seemed. Oh yeah, back to our emergency... I come around a right hander, and find a large puddle in the trail. no problem, straighten it up, off the gas, too late! not exactly a puddle! about 3-4" inches of mud with a thin film of water over it! first the front end slides...no steering feet come of the pegs searching for mother earth, but with the bike going out from under me, my left foot hits the ground before my right and like a pogo stick throws me the other way. the bars are going from lock left to lock right faster than I thought possible, as my feet were now also in the mud and the front tire is moving steadily out from under me pointed in a direction it is not travelling...I hit the footpeg at this point with my left shin so hard that it made my teeth hurt! I got bucked over to the other side and did the same only not as hard. but the bike was still up! I can't believe and still don't know how I didn't go down. there is no possible way to come any closer to losing it! I try to find my seat and get my feet back into operational positions and motor on! Don't worry there's more fun ahead! about the time i start getting near shawnee park I find my next obstacle nuisance....the hail storm has left milions of marbles of ice like slush in some spots and the running water from the heavy rain had made little drifts out of it, not to mention all the leaves, branches and other debris the hail had knocked out of the trees. back to a snails pace, which is pretty prevalent due to the nature or the trails turns and elevation changes! did I tell you about all the rabbits? millions of them! saw a coupla deer too! no big deal as all wildlife was in panic mode to clear out! did I tell you my pipe was loud! so, now I'm pushing on with a severe pain in me left leg and fully covered with mud...I have only seen one spot to have gotten off the trail and start thinking that it would be a long ways back if I had to turn around now, and the mud hole didn't seem so appealing! there were also alot of spots where the trail forked and split off into unknown direction (maybe four) I always took the turn that seemed to head north, I guess I got lucky....because as lost as I was, I hadn't had to turn around, and I hadn't come to any deadends either! maybe those were paths to parking areas? There are some really big hills back in there! the trail goes up and down some very steep slopes that would/should make someone on a bicycle scared and there was always a turn at the bottom oh and water running across the path. there were a few areas that were really cool. one was a really tight left hander that immediately climbed about forty feet through a stand of evergreens up the side of a hill ( all the needles knocked out of those trees were not so cool!) the other spot I actually stopped had a smoke and pissed. It was on top of a hill along the creek and had a great view of a valley with just a few lights from houses to remind you of civilization. I sat there on a park bench and reflected for a while...mainly on whether or not the cops would be waiting for me up ahead, the chances of which I thought were pretty remote due to the fact that I hadn't gone through any more neighborhoods. In fact between 119th street all the way to shawnee mission parkway you won't see a single house! this section is ripe for the picking! but remember, it will be full of pedestrians during daylight hours! When I got to shawnee mission parkway, I actually thought I was at johnson drive, for some reason(location of a park on the right) I thought the ballfields were to my right and all the lights were out....cut me some slack it was dark. This is where I planned on getting off....because I couldn't think for the life of me where else I had seen the trail up north, where does it cross midland? where does it cross the river? .......no it can't go any further....but it did! I went under what I thought was Johnson drive through some mudpuddles and across some gravel...right into the back of a neighborhood! hmmmmm? the thought of having to turnaround again, running out of trail somewhere...I started to doubt if I shouldn't turn around and find an exit behind me! so I did! I turned the bike around and went back under the road and realised only after stopping to read a park sign that the street I had just encountered was indeed SM parkway not johnson drve.......so there was more! and at least one more exit path ahead some where. turned the bike around, back under the overpass and into the neighborhood! this time the trail runs along the fences in the back yards......and these people have NO backyards! the corner of the subdivision finds me twenty ffet from a big grey house rounding the corner of his fence, cool that guy is watching the news! wonder if I'm on it! then poof back into the trees along the creek and the houses are just a faint memory as the turns and condition of the trail consume me again! the hail stones aren't as bad here but still find piles of them from the wash here and there. lots more rabbits and more of those slippery wooden bridges. then I see the ball fields lit up like Paris for lindberg. If there are no officers of the peace in that parking lot then I'm home free! Which is how it happened! I did see one more squad car heading that direction but it was after I was back on unholy ground. sorry if I got a little long winded, but that was a fun ride and I wanted to share it with you all. it was only thirteen or fourteen miles but took about forty five minutes to an hour to run with sight-seeing stops thrown in, and backtracking! happy buelling! | ||
| Tripper |
Call me if investigators start asking questions. I'll remove the evidence from here. u are truly a sick one. Iv'e done that ride many times on my bike. Used all 21 speeds. The first turnaround you made due to the creek being over the trail is about 1/4 mile from my old house. The trail ends at an overlook on the Kaw River. You missed about 4 miles. | ||
| Tripper |
Jean (u know, 'Mrs. Tripp') asked me today if that story you told Thursday was true. I'll print out your essay above and let her decide. | ||
| Kcbill |
Racerboy that is the name of the restaurant. It is called the Other Place. | ||
| Kcbill |
Hey Racerboy, Who's on second. | ||
| Richieg150 |
Got my bike back from Frank today about 3.He put in a new starter clutch,and clutch plates and spring,which he had to run all over hells half acre and chase part to finish the clutch!Thanks alot Frank for spending the time to do all that,also many thanks to Bill and his brother in law for filling in my parts shortages, so I could pick up my bike today ,instead of tomorrow night!  There were lots of bikes out today,including the most important one---MINE LOL. See you all at The Other Place this coming Wed. night RAIN OR SHINE! | ||
| Daves |
How many of you guys are coming to the Track day on April 10th? I haven't got any forms back from you. Ride to the edge! Dave HD/Buell Cycle Center Waterloo Ia dave@iowaharley.com | ||
| Shazam |
Dave, sorry for the delay I will put it in the mail tomorrow, picking up a track bike tonight (I hope). also my leathers came in....I am trying to decide what to have stenciled on the back...."FOLLOW ME" or "LEADER" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (leader would make a lot of people feel good passing me) | ||
| Cyclone1 |
Hippie Dave, Mine will be in the mail tomorrow as well. I'm probably going to have you order those peg relocators from Trojan real soon..unless you just happen to have those in stock   | ||
| Daves |
Cool, any more of you guys want to step up to the plate? I thought about putting a slow moving vehicle sign on the back of my leathers just to mess with people! Cyclone1 Give me plenty of lead time on the peg locators. It takes about 4-5 weeks to get stuff from England Ride to the edge! Dave | ||
| Usapitbullz |
I keep getting beat out on ebay for a set of leathers. I might just have to buy them direct! Damn, I hate retail!!! Are you guys meeting tonight, or tommorrow. | ||
| Shazam |
Wed. night at the "other Place" 83rd and Metcalf 6-6:30ish | ||
| Racerboy |
Hey Sam...I'm wondering why you guys don't get together on Tuesday's so you can watch Speed on TV?...That seems to be the standard for MC's here... See Ya! Bob | ||
| Richieg150 |
Jeff and I will be there around 6:45 or so! | ||
| Kcbill |
That's probably not a bad idea Bob for winter weather. The Other Place has a huge bike night during the bike season. We know lots of people that come out for it. We will go often times riding with others. The big inch bikes like to run us. Never been beat by any of them yet. We always give them a good spankin. It's about time people start coming out again. | ||
| Kcfirebolt |
Sorry I missed you guys last night. How was the turnout? |
