It’s brisket time

[wibornz]

my reply to this got stuck somehow.

cool bike they are fun to ride on paved roads for sure. I cant describe how much soaking up that much highway slab doesnt interest me. Its by far my least favorite thing to do on a motorbike and i think iron butt riders are nuts. I like the way twin cylindets ride, and ADV bikes have served my purposes well as ive moved around the globe, and the KTM 1290 has plenty of thrust....knocks the sprockets off 600’s. 1000’s cant keep up in corners off track. Too much mid range If they cant carry speed. with the work ive had done it will loft the front wheel in 4th with throttle only......and it gets around places like africa. If i ever need more than the ~160-165hp ive got now, i can bolt on the super duke heads and get better than 180 at the tire. I could give your Concourse the early hit and wave as I go by.

i envy whatever job you have that gives you that much freedom time to spend as much time vacationing as you do. youre always posting about long expensive road trips. Keep living the life, dude.

I tried to like The GS1200 and the yamaha tenere 1200, I rode them and just could not get into them. I did have a Kawasaki Versys (actually my wife's bike) for a while and that was fun, but I like speed and it just did not cut it. I ended up with the Concours 14, because my wife surprised me with it at Christmas one year. I had planned on buying the ZX14.

When I sold the Concours, it had about 80,000 miles on it. I even rode it in the winter. My wife's first on road motorcycle was a ZX-10, She also had a Bandit 1250. I set here Bandit up so that we could travel and camp off the bikes. A quick funny story, we are riding into Canada and she is behind me on her bike, the Canadian boarder guy asked me like 20 questions as we were loaded down pretty good. He tell me to pull ahead, I look at him and tell him, "that person behind me is my wife, you can ask her those same question and I giggle out load and say good luck because I have no idea what she is going to tell you." I pull ahead, she pull up, he looks at her a waved her through.

This is by far one of my favorite motorcycle pics of me and my wife motorcycle traveling. This is up by Wawa on the north shore of Lake Superior.

A bud of mine and I had planned on riding motorcycles to Alaska when I retired, but hey we got into Jeeps instead and will now take Jeeps to Alaska. He said he would go, but fuck all the rain and being on a motorcycle. He is much happier with the Jeep travel to Alaska idea.

As far as the job giving me time to travel so much, it was a double edged sword. Working in prison, means there is always overtime......even if you didn't want it. Currently were I retired from, employees are being forced to work 16 hours days ever second or third day via mandatory overtime. There is never enough employees. Heck the MDOC could hire 1200 people today and there would still be overtime. I worked overtime and comped a lot of it so I could take extended trips. It is funny when I hear about people working overtime and they think they are knocking it down and I had employees that had worked 9 months with out a day off, and were working five double shifts a week and working on both of their days off. My wife is currently working a ton of overtime. Jeep parts don't buy themselves. She put in 104 hours last week, and this week, she has worked 16 hours on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and will work 16 hours today. She said that Thursday maybe, but she is only going to work 8 hours on Friday, and might turn down the 16 hours on Saturday as she is getting a little burned out and wants to do some winter camping. She is comping most of her overtime. Comp means work 8 hours of OT, get 12 hours off with pay. She retires in October, she said that she may bank enough hours so she can take from July to her retirement date off using comp trime.

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[Kurt0]

I tried to like The GS1200 and the yamaha tenere 1200, I rode them and just could not get into them. I did have a Kawasaki Versys (actually my wife's bike) for a while and that was fun, but I like speed and it just did not cut it. I ended up with the Concours 14, because my wife surprised me with it at Christmas one year. I had planned on buying the ZX14.

When I sold the Concours, it had about 80,000 miles on it. I even rode it in the winter. My wife's first on road motorcycle was a ZX-10, She also had a Bandit 1250. I set here Bandit up so that we could travel and camp off the bikes. A quick funny story, we are riding into Canada and she is behind me on her bike, the Canadian boarder guy asked me like 20 questions as we were loaded down pretty good. He tell me to pull ahead, I look at him and tell him, "that person behind me is my wife, you can ask her those same question and I giggle out load and say good luck because I have no idea what she is going to tell you." I pull ahead, she pull up, he looks at her a waved her through.

This is by far one of my favorite motorcycle pics of me and my wife motorcycle traveling. This is up by Wawa on the north shore of Lake Superior.

A bud of mine and I had planned on riding motorcycles to Alaska when I retired, but hey we got into Jeeps instead and will now take Jeeps to Alaska. He said he would go, but fuck all the rain and being on a motorcycle. He is much happier with the Jeep travel to Alaska idea.

As far as the job giving me time to travel so much, it was a double edged sword. Working in prison, means there is always overtime......even if you didn't want it. Currently were I retired from, employees are being forced to work 16 hours days ever second to their day via mandatory overtime. There is never enough employees. Heck the MDOC could hire 1200 people today and there would still be overtime. I worked overtime and comped a lot of it so I could take extended trips. It is funny when I hear about people working overtime and they think they are knocking it down and I had employees that had worked 9 months with out a day off, and were working five double shifts a week and working on both of their days off. My wife is currently working a ton of overtime. Jeep parts don't buy themselves. She put in 104 hours last week, and this week, she has worked 16 hours on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and will work 16 hours today. She said that Thursday maybe, but she is only going to work 8 hours on Friday, and might turn down the 16 hours on Saturday as she is getting a little burned out and wants to do some winter camping. She is comping most of her overtime. Comp means work 8 hours of OT, get 12 hours off with pay. She retires in October, she said that she may bank enough hours so she can take from July to her retirement date off using comp trime.

good shit man. Enjoy that retirement.

i had a R1200GSA that i liked, but it needed more engine....hence the KTM now.

 

[wibornz]

good shit man. Enjoy that retirement.

i had a R1200GSA that i liked, but it needed more engine....hence the KTM now.

Riding the GS was like riding a tractor. Super smooth, almost like an electric motor feel, no peaks no hit in a power band. A big yawn fest for me. To bad, I wanted to like it.

 

[Kurt0]

Riding the GS was like riding a tractor. Super smooth, almost like an electric motor feel, no peaks no hit in a power band. A big yawn fest for me. To bad, I wanted to like it.

yeah but theres no better bike for traveling the globe, and thats what i needed. The KtM has met that need too i guess.

 

[coldstart]

Riding the GS was like riding a tractor. Super smooth, almost like an electric motor feel, no peaks no hit in a power band. A big yawn fest for me. To bad, I wanted to like it.

If you turn off the traction control it becomes an animal. You can also hold wheelies at like 12 mph if you're good enough.

 

[coldstart]

good shit man. Enjoy that retirement.

i had a R1200GSA that i liked, but it needed more engine....hence the KTM now.

Not sure how much more engine you need. If it felt boring on the dirt, you have to turn the electronic aids off (very easy) to get to have some "fun".

With them on in gravel, you can pin the throttle and you'll barely accelerate.

I have about 250,000 miles on various boxer GS bikes in all sorts of conditions and I never wished for "more power". What I did wish for sometimes was a lower range first gear, but that's it.

 

[coldstart]

Oops. Back on topic. Giving Mission BBQ some business tonight. I like those guys.

 

[Kurt0]

Not sure how much more engine you need. If it felt boring on the dirt, you have to turn the electronic aids off (very easy) to get to have some "fun".

With them on in gravel, you can pin the throttle and you'll barely accelerate.

I have about 250,000 miles on various boxer GS bikes in all sorts of conditions and I never wished for "more power". What I did wish for sometimes was a lower range first gear, but that's it.

i like fast bikes for one; but loaded with luggage, extra water, extra fuel, at elevation, going for an 18wheeler pass on a 2 lane was an experience/exposure i wanted to take as little time as possible. Africa it was great. eastern europe i wanted something with more ass.

 

[Kurt0]

Oops. Back on topic. Giving Mission BBQ some business tonight. I like those guys.

so good. Their smokey mtn bbq sauce is my jam.

 

[wibornz]

If you turn off the traction control it becomes an animal. You can also hold wheelies at like 12 mph if you're good enough.

For some odd reason, why would you think that I did not ride a wheelie on the GS? My motorcycle motto is, " IF it can't pull a wheelie, I don't even wan to ride it."

IF you think wheelies at 12 mph are fun, you should try some at 120+ mph. ON the subject of wheelies, I love pulling wheelies while the bike is leaned over coming out of a corner and transisioning into an up shift just as the bike comes upright and pulls through the next gear.

 

[wibornz]

i like fast bikes for one; but loaded with luggage, extra water, extra fuel, at elevation, going for an 18wheeler pass on a 2 lane was an experience/exposure i wanted to take as little time as possible. Africa it was great. eastern europe i wanted something with more ass.

Want a fast pass, loaded down like this, running 70 mph, down shift to 2nd gear, WOT and in about two seconds you're at 110 mph.

I don't stick around big trucks either. I was following one back in the early 90s and a semi truck trailer tire blew apart and a large chunk of the tire hit me in the chest at hwy speeds, about knocked me off the bike, big bruise on my chest and left arm. From then on, I stay away from big trucks and pass them quickly.

The dam bag chair would shake like crazy at high speeds.

 

[chacomaya]

Not sure how we got from brisket to motorcycles, but hey, I'll play along...

 

[Punknhed]

I LOVE TRAVELING BY bike.... the rain does suck though. I cant get myself to buy a bike like you guys are showing, ill stick to my slow ass Ultra. lol.

 

[RoadiJeff]

Although I have a motorcycle, whenever I hear people talk about bikes this is what I think of. I've been to a lot more places on it than I have on my motorcycle.

I have a slow smoker, too.

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