I broke out the KLR

[weave]

Ken decided to head east looking for crappy blacktop and gravel.Knowing there would be no Starbucks to pose in front of, I made the decision to ride the KLR.Haven't ridden the thumper in months,Pushed the button and the damn thing started right up,checked the tires and found only 15lbs in each,
crap I gonna have to put some air in, I thought these bikes were easy to maintain!Let me digress a minute. Friday nite after an evening dining w/ wife and friends I check my PMs to see if Ken is comming, sure enough I have a PM
but its from some dude "hwy"... Hmmm Turns out to be some gezer riding a GS
and wants to come over for a ride( not to mention we were H.S. friends and grew up in the same neighborhood). Being the nice guy that I am I told himto show up but we were gonna ride crappy blacktop and some gravel.....he said they were gonna be here around 8. Well thats the time I thought Ken was gonna be here. Ken gets here at 7am hot damn another early starter.
With the maintenace (air) done on the KLR we decided to go for a short loop
to check it out. thought the cluctch cable felt funny, did not adjust it, looked for my spare but could not find it so I just put my faith in the Killer.
While I'm in my shed still looking for the cable I hear the sweet sound of a highly engineered german machine mixed with the un mistakeable sound of a thumper approaching. Well hwy arrived with another geezer on a DR 650,
I sold some over priced fuel to the DR with the small tank,He wanted to ride
6 miles back to get some fuel but finally decided to pay my price so he could hang with us.
Damn its Mon morning so hopefully to be cont.

[JayD]

More Roadmaster more!

[Juice]

Coffee12 Popcorn2

[weave]

Don't know what came over me this morning writing such a wordy ride report.
Must have been channeling Ted, hell this was just a small day trip around the block.
Ok Ted I'll get back to the story and I know I should have called it the
Bridge Out Tour.
We take my usual jump across the Bogue Chitto River and head north up some pretty nice roads till we get to the future Resevoir. It holds some nice gravel that I'm ready to tear up on the KLR when hwy wonders if there is away around, well there is but I'm not telling him. Instead I tell him that
I've ridden thru there with a 50 yr old women riding her own damn Beemer.
We just did a quick run thru on one road as I pointed out where the damn might go. Went to the old Log cabin built in the 1800's that might become a fish reef one day and took a break.
I gave old" hwy" a brief taste of some nice asphalt that the GS must have surly been grovin on when I made a turn into the WMA,now old Bens creek holds some nice gravel roads with some nice hills but the old "roadmaster"
took a wrong turn and we ended back on the nice GS grovin asphalt.Damn I was pissed that Kenny missed the best part of the WMA but I quickly turned into another section of gravel with some berms that you can get air off of if your not an old geezer trying to avoid the mud. I noticed Kens bike was covered with mud when we got out the other side.Headed to Pine to fuel up
so we could continue to weave our way around the block. Its a big block.
I hearby give up the name of roadmaster, I wanted to end up to the west when the crew had to return home, so I headed east. Connected some dots on some roads I hadn't ridden in along time and stopped to say high to a friend in Sandy Hook MS.
Guess its time to head west but we ending up going North to Tylertown
and lunch at the Sonic. the KLRs and Dr were quite comfortable but I could tell the Beemer was a little ashamed to drop its kickstand without a starbucks in sight.Finally back on the road heading west when bam
Bridge out sign, no problem we are on motos. Lying Bastards the bridge wasn't out just had a big ass crane parked so we could'nt cross. Well
we decided to go around the block(another big block) where I knew there was a bridge out sign up for the last two years and it never stopped me from getting around. Not only was the bridge out they were diggin the freakin grand canyon of Ms. Jeebus went around another block and I saw another Bridge out sign on the road I usually take. Now thats just damn good planning
get three bridges out in the same area at the same time.Not a problem f
or the former roadmaster we just had more fun on some nice roads. supper is ready got wrap after all this is just filler till we get another Ted report.
After the dogs greeted us at the end of the last gravel road the skies took on a dark color. we boogied west and I left the crew at the intersection
of 38 and 450, I had planned to leave them at Britneys doorstep but we will save that for another trip. Hope you guys stayed dry on the way home, I got just wet enough. By the way when I did get home I was really tired, much more so than if I had been sippin lattes at Starbucks with my beemer outside.

[hwy]

Would like to thank you and Ken for a great ride Sunday. Beginning with LA445 at Robert, then LA40 through Folsom to your place the ride was entertaining. After leaving your place all roads were fun and some challenging (power line gravel road) for a young dude like me. Good thing I'm in excellent physical shape. Starting with the gravel road over the Bogue Chitto I knew my extra lbs would always help me place the bike on the precise best track for every situation?
The ride through the future Washington parish reservoir the political thieves are planning was interesting and a good gravel road. One an old fifty year old woman on a BMW would like. Damn that Bogue Lusa creek. Or not.
After Ben's WMA we rode on a power line gravel road that had me slippin and slidin and it was't even wet? That's the only place I had a heart attack, thinkin about that 600 lb GS landing on me. I know Keith was probably frustrated poking along behind me on the gravel.
He can probably ride with you gravel hounds all day long. Hope I didn't cramp your gravel ridin style too much. Enjoyed the road and roads around Pine, State Line, old settlement, Tylertown, the big detour around Mesa Walker's bridge under repair and the missing bridge on Jewell. That bridge was sorta there just 3 weeks ago, when I had some trouble climbing, I mean plowing over/thru the detour hill at one end. As we approached that bridge I was thinkin I'll ride over this end, but maybe not the other side. So, with you and Ken off your bikes saying come on nothing to it-I thought about going over the hill for just a split second. Then I noticed there was no damn bridge there at all. So, off my bike with one of you saying you can jump it. Yea right. That was a canyon with steep sides. I wouldn't have tried rolling down the sheer side 30 years ago on my Ossa plonker. Anyway the roads, the lack of bridges around Smithburg and the great views above Mount Herman were fun. I had no idea we had such good hills with nice little roads with vertical and horizontal curves in southeast LA. And ridin between 2 human gpses- makes it easy. Years of fun ahead.

Needin an SLR

[Ritten]

Weave, whether you want to give it up or not, you WILL always be the Roadmaster!!Not.Worthy



Sounds like another awesome backroad thrash, even if you did it on the Killer. One problem with riding so far away from home is that when you come upon a really nice road with lustful curves, you don't push the bike quite as hard as one would knowing they could be home in just a few hours. You're the one who's shown us some of those curves right there in our own "backyard". In that regard, you are the master of the roads!!Cool12

[JayD]

Sounds like a good ride !

[Juice]

Awesome report. Cool12

[Flying Low]

sounds like another great ride by the master himself. i can't wait to join you for another ride Master Weave. hopefully, you can take us out to some of these same sights.

thanks for sharing y'all.

[hwy]

Should have mentioned, after Weave sent us west we just got slightly damp on the way home. Ken pulled into an x-brand gas store about 10 seconds before the deluge began. Back on the bikes 15 minutes later heading west.
It dawned on me why Keith and the DR650 didn't pass me 50 times on the gravel. No- it wasn't the laugh factor of watching me on the verge of falling. It was laying back storing the landmarks and intersections like Weave and any good human GPS would do preparing for that future ride. Ready.

[Rocky]

Nice report......I'm going to take up a collection and buy you guys a camera.

[chappy]

Wow, Weave has a way with words, reminds me of Jack Kerouac.