| Author | Message | ||
     Calidrew |
Twist of the Wrist and TotW II-$36 Road work to build leg strength-$90 for Adidas running shoes. New GP Pro gloves and boots 'cause your lap times are dropping and if you go down this time it's gonna' be hard.-$340 @ IMS. Torrential, Monsoonal, "If I hold my breath I'm gonna' float up," downpour at Inside Pass.-Priceless. Brian and I met Ebear, Jerry and Kathleen at Laguna Seca. We had four Buells, a Suzuki and an Aprillia between us. Two DNF's, the Aprilia and the Zook, so that was interesting. Compared to a lot of people I had a great day and as Brian said, "I never thought I'd go over 100MPH in the rain." It was cool to meet Trip and see Terry and Fireman Jim. I look forward to them announcing the Inside Pass schedule for 2008. | ||
| Bertman |
I will be heading down to Ventura Harley/Buell to pick up my 1125R on Saturday morning. Will have to make a little jaunt down to the Rock Store for lunch and a cool down period, so if anybody is in the neighborhood come on out and say Hi. See ya!!! | ||
| Bertman |
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| Lady_asb |
Woo hoo, Brett! How many miles on it so far? Al | ||
| Bertman |
178 miles put on it Saturday riding around. This bike hauls A$$! | ||
| Usroute66 |
Bertman, Welcome to the world of Rotax motors! That baby will wind and wind and wind UP. Combine that with a great looking bike, and this baby rocks all around. Congrats on being one of the first. Scott | ||
| Ebear |
Amen......  | ||
| Calidrew |
Eeeeeeeebeaaaaaar! Did you post any photos from Laguna Inside Pass? Andrew | ||
| Bertman |
I am still taking it a little easy on the break in as I am only up to 340 miles on the odometer, but the sound and feel as the engine tightens up from 5,000 to 7,500 rpm's sure is nice. Scott - Whatzup buddy. Now I can ride with you and Eric without feeling too out of place. | ||
| Usroute66 |
Actually, I have been so busy since Thanksgiving I had to go out and by a battery tender to keep the battery up. That is bad. I did make Sunday afternoon of the IMS show in Long Beach and can't decide on what to buy this coming year. Either a new Tuono or the Uly. I really want a bike with bags again. Yes, that motor really gets happy around 7K rpms, and smooths out to butter at 80mph. I always forget to shift into 6th gear. I rarely use it! There is so much useable power that you never run out. BTW, notice how you will be braking less...that motor does all the work for you, and once you get going, you can almost stay in 3rd gear for miles and miles, running up and down the power band, never taxing the motor. It is one fine machine! Matched with Buell's mass centralization design, your bike will give an Aprilia a work out to keep up. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
wanna get some legend on you? here's your chance. two-wheeled adventure icon Dave Barr will be in Lancaster, California this coming Sunday morning. you can read up on WHY here: http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29 8319 the latest info i have is that Dave will be at Antelope Valley H-D/Buell in Lancaster at 10 a.m. Sunday morning 1/6/08. here's contact info for AVHDB: Antelope Valley Harley-Davidson/Buell 1759 West Avenue J-12 Lancaster CA 93534 Phone: 661-948-5959 Fax: 661-942-4599 Toll Free Phone: 800-99HARLEY http://www.antelopevalleyhd.com if you're planning on trying to hook with Dave, i strongly suggest contacting the dealership and confirming his ETA. Dave and his son Luke are on their way back from the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum in Pickerington, Ohio as we speak, and, well, we all know the kind of stuff that can happen to mess up a schedule on a cross-country road trip. it's late notice, but i hope at least a few of you can make it. trust me, meeting this man is definitely worth the effort. FB | ||
| Slaughter |
Wow! Thanks for the heads up... that's just 5 miles from here... emails going out NOW! | ||
| Slaughter |
Hokay - just talked to Scott Kellerman (GM of Lancaster HD/Buell) He said this is not a scheduled event, he's dropping off one of the bikes, picking up another so there's nothing scheduled per se. He's on his own schedule. Those of us who live here will likely head over tomorrow just because Scott and the staff there are such cool folks and we'll get some of their free coffee. It'd be hard to recommend our Sandy Eggo contingent ride up here since the weather is so marginal and there's not a real hard and fast schedule. The 10AM time is a ballpark. He's coming in on 4 wheels from the AMA hall-of-fame museum. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
most excellent, thx Steve!  pertinent links: http://www.badweatherbikers.com/cgibin/discus/show .cgi?tpc=6817&post=1039616#POST1039616 (dial-up beware, lots of hi-res pix, but well worth the wait) http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=29 8319 FB | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
hope y'all don't mind a little Dave Barr-related reading material, courtesy of the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum: Dave Barr Dave Barr, a professional soldier until a landmine explosion ended his military career, went on to set the standard for long-distance motorcycle riding with a series of epic journeys that established him as an international icon of the human spirit’s capacity to overcome physical adversity. Despite the loss of his legs, he has ridden around the world, across Russia in the dead of a Siberian winter, and to the four farthest points of Australia, all aboard Harley-Davidson motorcycles. In the process, Barr has written books, produced documentaries, earned two Guinness World Records, and established a foundation to support a charity that assists disabled people. As an inspirational speaker, he points to his accomplishments—including his avid participation in sport skydiving--as examples of what can be achieved by struggling with life’s circumstances rather than caving in to them. Barr was born April 12, 1952, in Los Angeles, California, and was abandoned in the backseat of a car. After nine months in foster care, he was adopted by Guy Barr, a Navy veteran of World War II in the Pacific, and his wife, Lucille, who had worked in an aircraft assembly plant during the war. He bought his first motorcycle, a ‘61 Harley-Davidson Panhead, after he returned in 1971 from Vietnam, where he had earned 57 air medals, including a single-mission decoration for valor during his combat tour as a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter gunner. He rode the Panhead coast-to-coast-to-coast and immediately bought his second bike, a 1200cc 1972 Harley-Davidson FX Super Glide. While serving in the South African army in Angola a decade later, Barr’s unarmored vehicle rolled over an anti-tank mine and exploded. He spent nine months in a Pretoria military hospital, undergoing 20 operations, including four to remove his legs in stages, skin grafts, and agonizing physical therapy to learn to walk again. When he was released from the hospital, Barr volunteered to go back to the combat zone where he’d nearly been killed to finish his enlistment on prosthetic legs. Barr mustered out in December 1982 and returned to his family home in West Covina, California. He took the Super Glide out of storage and refit it to accommodate his prosthetics. He added an electric starter and an overload spring to the brake pedal so he could ride with his artificial right foot resting on it. On his first ride, a casual thought occurred to him, and it put his life on a new course that would take him around the world and to some of its most extreme and challenging environments. He described it this way in his first book, Riding the Edge: “Wouldn’t it be something to share this simple accomplishment of riding a motorcycle as a double amputee with disabled people the world over? Perhaps I could be a role model for those people who might someday suffer the loss of good health.” Seven years later, he piloted the Super Glide out of Johannesburg, South Africa, on a 9000-mile transcontinental ride to raise funds for the Leonard Cheshire Foundation, an international charity that assists disabled people. In September 1990, nine months after completing the African ride, Barr again left Johannesburg on the 18-year-old shovelhead, turned north and kept going. Riding six of the world’s continents—he couldn’t find a way to get the bike to Antarctica—Barr logged 83,000 miles through the world’s most dangerous and unforgiving regions during the 3½-year trip. Riding the Edge, Barr’s 500-page account of the world ride, includes grainy, black-and-white images of the legless man wrestling the bike through axle-deep mud in Cameroon, of him hanging on as the machine throws up a rooster tail of sand in the Sahara Desert, and of him standing next to it at the Arctic Circle in Norway. There’s the bike parked at the foot of a primitive bridge across a Brazilian river; waiting for a tractor to clear an avalanche from a pass 12,000 feet up in the Chilean Andes; overturned on a dirt track in the Australian outback. After enduring virtually indescribable physical and emotional hardship, overcoming mechanical failures, and plowing through thousands of miles of red tape that dozens of governments had wrapped around the ride, Barr made it home in May, 1994. Barr retired the Super Glide with a quarter of a million miles on the odometer in 1996, the same year he set out from Le Conquet, on France’s Atlantic coast, aboard a 1996 Harley-Davidson Sportster 883 equipped with a sidecar. Almost four months after leaving France, Barr arrived at the Pacific port city of Vladivostock, Russia, 9,375 miles east of his starting point. Much of the ride, which was undertaken in winter because the route was plotted to cross hundreds of miles of Russian marshland that could be traversed only when frozen, was made above the Arctic Circle. Guinness World Records recognized the achievement, which Barr recounts in his second book, Riding the Ice, as the first and fastest motorcycle ride across Eurasia. Guinness awarded a second world mark to Barr in 2002 in recognition of his 10,000-mile Southern Cross ride. At the age of 50, he took a 2002 Sportster 883 equipped with a two-ton winch mounted on the crash bars to the four farthest compass points of Australia, completing the ride in eight weeks despite several major spills that resulted in serious injuries, nearly impassable terrain, and restrictions on reaching the remote points, which are not accessible by roads. At the easternmost point, Byron Bay, park rangers refused Barr permission to ride to the water’s edge, but allowed him to roll the Sportster down 60 stairs to the Pacific Ocean. At Wilsons Promontory State Park, Barr’s southernmost goal, park personnel refused to allow Barr even to roll the bike to the water, but he kept his record bid in place by unbolting the front wheel and lugging the 32-pound assembly three kilometers down a slippery, bare-rock cliff to the Bass Strait. “If you’re not willing to take risks, you’re going nowhere,” Barr told an interviewer in 2003. “I took [the disabilities] and used them to give my life meaning so that maybe someday someone will be able to say, 'I met Dave Barr and if he did all of these things as he is, then surely I can live my life normally.’” In addition to being a member of the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum, Barr was also one of the individuals who were part of the Museum's exhibit, "Heroes of Harley-Davidson," presented by Progressive Motorcycle Insurance, that marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of Harley-Davidson. A photo of Barr on his old Super Glide, during his around-the-world trip, showed him posed in Tiananmen Square in Peking beneath a huge poster of Chairman Mao. Barr described the photo as the perfect juxtaposition of opposites: the Mao banner symoblizing the control and oppression of the Chinese communist system, and the Super Glide representing the freedom of the road. Barr was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum in 2000. He currently lives in California. © 2008, Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum link: http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/halloffame/hofbiop age.asp?id=124 | ||
| Slaughter |
Sunny and I are gonna be there. Couple others. He's picking one bike up from Famous Daves BBQ in town and dropping it off at Lancaster. We'll just abuse our free coffee priveleges there while we wait... thanks for the heads up Ferris! | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Steve, that's just so great, thank you! please do me another HUGE favor. Dave's pretty old-school when it comes to communicating. not only is he not 'net-savvy, it's even hard to get him to sit down and compose an e-mail. that's not a condemnation of the man, just a self-admitted fact, and i spent some time with him in Ohio the other night trying to explain the value of a 'net presence for someone in his position, i.e. someone who is in the business, at least in part, of self-promotion. would you PLEASE tell him that folks have been following him online since Wednesday, both here on BadWeB and on ADVrider (almost 2000 hits on the ADV thread since Wednesday night!), and that SO many people want to say hi to him and express their admiration, even if it's "only" electronically. i leaned on him the other night as hard as i felt comfortable, but didn't want to be pushy. he needs to be aware that anyone who shows up tomorrow morning to meet him heard about it via the 'net, and that there are people literally from around the world who have expressed their respect and support for him online these last few days, folks who otherwise would have no other "efficient" real-time way to do so. ADVrider.com, in particular, is a potential GOLD MINE for someone in his position. after all, the only folks who hang out there - and there are THOUSANDS who do so every day - are people who are addicted to two-wheeled adventure. Dave's kind of peeps, in other words. i really, REALLY want him to sign on to BadWeB and ADVrider and say, "Hello from Dave Barr!" and if he does, the rest will take care of itself. but first, he has to be convinced that the teeny little initial learning curve is worth the investment of his time, and if he knows that anyone who shows up in Lancaster tomorrow morning is there because of the power of the 'net these past few days (publicity that didn't cost a cent to generate), well, it's all good. please give him and Luke an extra-big hug from Ferris & Denise (ask Sunny if you're too shy  ), and have a great time! thx again, Steve, i REALLY appreciate it. FB | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
latest: "Denise just got off the phone with Dave. he and Luke are holed up with a friend in Bullhead City, Arizona, which puts them about 250 miles east of Lancaster. Dave has NO idea any of this online stuff has been going on since their departure from Ohio on Wednesday, but we DID have to try to pin him down on an ETA, so we fibbed a little and said a buddy of ours wanted to meet him in Lancaster tomorrow but couldn't get there until 10 because of church. sorry, Dave, hope you'll forgive us. so, if Dave & Son are rolling early (which is Dave's default mode), 10 a.m. - or a little after - in Lancaster is entirely doable." | ||
| Slaughter |
DONE! Jerry - gotta say THANKS for the heads up - what a great guy and TRUE enthusiast! I'll be downsizing the pics for posting here but for now they're up on the hosting site. Great guy! Weather today is pure scheise - wind, rain, cold and getting worse. Doubt that we would have even had more people show up if it were a formal welcoming since it is just miserable here. Pics soon as I get them downsized - just now have to go back to work today (long story about working today) http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/403336/PICT0 017.JPG http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/403336/PICT0 013.JPG http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/403336/PICT0 009.JPG http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/403336/PICT0 014.JPG http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/403336/PICT0 010.JPG http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/403336/PICT0 015.JPG http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/403336/PICT0 011.JPG http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/403336/PICT0 016.JPG http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-9/403336/PICT0 012.JPG (Message edited by slaughter on January 06, 2008) | ||
| Slaughter |
Some snapshots as we were getting ready to drop the bike off here at Lancaster. Note his kickstand retention bungee... really worked well for him by giving him somthing to grab and pull it up/clip to the frame. Much easier (for him) than using his foot/leg to retract the kickstand. HECKUVA great guy! Thanks again Jerry         | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
excellent, thx Steve! glad you could make it, and thx for the pix! did anyone else show up to meet Dave??? | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Jerry - gotta say THANKS for the heads up - what a great guy and TRUE enthusiast! you're very welcome, and yes he is, and yes he is. | ||
| Slaughter |
Heck, just two others showed up. Tim was sick and Candice was busy covering up all their exterior landscaping stuff to prevent wash-off during the rains. One of the guys who showed up was named Chuck or Scott (not Scott Kellerman - the GM and sponsor) - I'm embarrassed to say I forgot his hame. He is the one who took the pic of me with Dave - and I did the same for him using his camera. Got to overhear more discussions about "what's next" HECK - I didn't realize he lived at Caliente! Sunny and my FAVORITE mountain ride... awesome. Got his business card. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
very cool! it's Scott (scott_h on ADVrider), who has been following along online since Ohio and said he'd be there to meet Dave today - cool! bummer 'bout the weather, but the buzz on the boards this week, and the fact that ANYONE showed up there today (an "event" that wasn't an event, and that wasn't advertised), is gratifying. i'm gonna give him a chance to decompress from the trip (him and Luke drove from Cali to Delaware in THREE days, and that's including half a day lost in Bozeman, Montana having a tranny put in!), and then lean on him REAL hard to sign on the boards and say howdy. thx again, Steve, it must have really made his day that ANYONE showed up this morning just to shake his hand and say hi. FB | ||
| Reepicheep |
Excellent! | ||
| Unibear12r |
I had planed to be there but with a hundred miles to get there and a late start... well I didn't go. But I called at 10:15 and talked to one of the salesmen and asked if he knew Steve Slaughter or Dave Barr and asked him to pass on my hellos. The salesman told me that Dave had been there talking to Scott K. when he started work and he hadn't seen him in a bit so I figured I missed out all round anyway. If so I would have missed him even if I had got there when I HAD planned to at ten. Caliente? Has he moved? I thought he lived up at the Lake area. That puts him almost next door to me! Great guy and fun to ride with. | ||
| Slaughter |
Glenn - my bad - he lives in Bodfish (just re-remembered... brain cells no longer under warranty... manufacturing defects!) - NOT Caliente. | ||
| Jerry_haughton |
Glenn, he was there at ten, right on time, but no worries, thx for sending good thoughts his way. yep, still in Bodfish, right next door to his Mom. | ||
| Ebear |
WOW...wish I knew about this...I woulda gone!! But Hey...anyways if anyone is planning on riding Sunday ,Scott and I are doing a little ride from Long Beach south on the Beach Route....any 1125r's wanna get help breakin' it in???? Meeting 10'ish in LB.  | ||
| Ebear |
 Overlooking Elsinore Sunday....Awesome day for a ride!! |
