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Atencion mis Compadres, mi CFR 2011 es finito; arrived at Casa de Stanley en El Barrio del Chandler just half an hour ago.

Ai Caramba, what a great motorcycling vacation. Muchas Gracias to Senorita Maria Elena for hosting such a great FJR event!

18 days and 8K miles, plenty of smiles and miles; great conversations and fun, with some of the nicest folks in motorcycling!

 
beemerdons said:
Atencion mis Compadres, mi CFR 2011 es finito; arrived at Casa de Stanley en El Barrio del Chandler just half an hour ago.

Ai Caramba, what a great motorcycling vacation. Muchas Gracias to Senorita Maria Elena for hosting such a great FJR event!

18 days and 8K miles, plenty of smiles and miles; great conversations and fun, with some of the nicest folks in motorcycling!
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Me alegro que hayas llegado a casa, sano y salvo!!Ojalá nos encontremos otra vez muy pronto! El CFR fue una experiencia estupenda para mí...ya estoy soñando al próximo rally!!

:D

Patty

 
Peppermint said:
beemerdons said:
Atencion mis Compadres, mi CFR 2011 es finito; arrived at Casa de Stanley en El Barrio del Chandler just half an hour ago.

Ai Caramba, what a great motorcycling vacation. Muchas Gracias to Senorita Maria Elena for hosting such a great FJR event!

18 days and 8K miles, plenty of smiles and miles; great conversations and fun, with some of the nicest folks in motorcycling!
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Me alegro que hayas llegado a casa, sano y salvo!!Ojalá nos encontremos otra vez muy pronto! El CFR fue una experiencia estupenda para mí...ya estoy soñando al próximo rally!!

:D

Patty
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+1, Gunny! Your Spanish is excellent, Peppermint Patty. Consider yourself formally invited to Papa Chuy's 63rd Birthday Party which will be held in Alamos, Sonora Estado, Mexico on October 28, 2011. I will be posting up the ride details under Upcoming Rides here on our FJR Forum this weekend. I'll mail you a PM.

 
Wow! Qué honor...celebrar el cumpleaños de Papa Chuy!! :) :) That sounds like quite the event and I'm so very honoured by the invitation, Don! If there's any possible way I can do it, I will!! :)

Patty

 
Home safe and sound after a total of 10,750 kl between N.B. and Newfoundland ! I know thats not alot for some of you iron- butter's but does it count if I did the last day slabbing the tran-scanada from freddy to T.O ?

I also want to express my thanks to Mary Ellen and all her helpful crew. I'm glad I made the trip and will also be back. It was nice to see some of the old faces that are still happily motoring on.

No flat tires for me but I slightly kissed a young doe on the right side mirror north of freddy ... Thankfully no major mishap just an I'm awake moment ! It was great to see some new faces and have the helpful tech tips (Don) from those far more knowledgeable than I.

 
GDSFJR03 said:
Home safe and sound after a total of 10,750 kl between N.B. and Newfoundland ! ... It was great to see some new faces and have the helpful tech tips (Don) from those far more knowledgeable than I.
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Tech tips from BeemerDon??? :huh:

Don barely knows which end of the screwdriver to hang onto. The only other silly bugger more inept around here at wrenching is BikerGeek but he at least has the excuse of being a geek.

They made Don a supervisor when he was working to get him away from the tools before he hurt himself.

Ray & Allan are indeed very knowledgeable folks. FredW talks a good story and will waste no time telling you that you are doing it all wrong.

But Don ... that's just plain funny :lol2:

 
yamafitter said:
Tech tips from BeemerDon??? :huh:
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Geeze, Bill. You must have missed it when Don showed us the 'Zonie bike wash technique.

He was able to clean all the way 'round his bike without once getting out of his chair or more importantly, without spilling his cocktail! :p

Now that's a highly useful technique!! ;)

 
GDSFJR03 said:
Home safe and sound after a total of 10,750 kl between N.B. and Newfoundland ! I know thats not alot for some of you iron- butter's but does it count if I did the last day slabbing the tran-scanada from freddy to T.O ?

I also want to express my thanks to Mary Ellen and all her helpful crew. I'm glad I made the trip and will also be back. It was nice to see some of the old faces that are still happily motoring on.

No flat tires for me but I slightly kissed a young doe on the right side mirror north of freddy ... Thankfully no major mishap just an I'm awake moment ! It was great to see some new faces and have the helpful tech tips (Don) from those far more knowledgeable than I.
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Most of a week in Newfoundland without seeing even a single moose (or deer) and you managed a close encounter with a deer a few minutes after heading back home! Glad it turned out well.

Ross

 
Fred W said:
yamafitter said:
Tech tips from BeemerDon??? :huh:
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Geeze, Bill. You must have missed it when Don showed us the 'Zonie bike wash technique.

He was able to clean all the way 'round his bike without once getting out of his chair or more importantly, without spilling his cocktail! :p

Now that's a highly useful technique!! ;)
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I forgot about that. My most sincere apologies to my good friend Beemerdons and I beg his forgiveness for my previous outburst.

I actually have a modified 'Zonie technique where I use an office chair on casters so I don't have to get up to move the chair.

 
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canucklehead-biker said:
Sitting in Thunder Bay, looking at a map, and thinking "I could do an SS1600 (and then some) tomorrow... " :blink:

Then we could close the "everyone got home" thread. :clapping:

Launch time is 5 am. Hoping for good weather, and a shortage of moose.

https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=2e194de31a36937c0

Griff
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Hope you're having a smooth, safe ride home, Jeff! It was great meeting you and Lucie at CFR - hope we cross paths again!

Fais-attention à toi, mon gars ! :D

Patty

 
The official Russell seat test started as planned from Thunder Bay at 5 am eastern... saw 4 moose, 2 deer, and a timber wolf between T-Bay and Dryden.

Got drenched between Ignace and Kenora. So I don't have to wash the bike :)

Then melted (28 degrees C) as soon as I crossed the border to Manitoba.

40+mph headwinds (and that boat anchor I tow around with me) dropped me to only 200 kms a tank through Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Stopped for a bite in Regina, and the winds disappeared and it was a gorgeous evening to ride. Apparently, all the bugs thought so too, and I picked up about 20 lbs of them on the bike between Regina and Swift Current. So maybe I do have to wash the bike after all...

Figured to make Calgary around 1 am local time. The last 4 hours or so would be in the dark. As it turned out, it was darker than I'd counted on: lost one low beam, then the other about 30 kms from Medecine Hat - and that was enough for me.

Parked it for the night in the Hat, will finish the last 3 hrs or so of the ride in daylight. About 1700 kms of a 2050 km trip. Total for the whole shebang: 19,000 and change.

Methinks we can consider everyone home now. Hell, I could walk from here :)

Thanks again to MEM and her team for a great CFR. Can't wait for 2012 :)

 
Rolled into the barn at 1:30pm local.

After nearly 20,000 kms, 9 provinces, 20 states and D.C., my front PR2 waited until it was 100 km from home to take a nail and blow out. Interesting handling with a flat front tire being pushed from behind by that condo I've been dragging with me for the last 37 days... :dribble:

Sticky string repair, and nursed it home ... so NOW the ride is really over. :clapping: :drinks:

Kudos to the anonymous dude on a Harley who pulled over to see if I was OK, then rode escort for the first 10 miles or so to make sure the repair held. The Karma gods are surely watching. :fans:

Glad to be home :)

Time for some maintenance before heading down to Idaho Falls for WTF-0 (or whatever they are calling it) :huh:

Griff

 
WOW,, is all I have to say! Good to hear you made it home safe and sound, and have something to do to fill in your down time. (maintenance)

Cheers, shakin

canucklehead-biker said:
Rolled into the barn at 1:30pm local.

After nearly 20,000 kms, 9 provinces, 20 states and D.C., my front PR2 waited until it was 100 km from home to take a nail and blow out. Interesting handling with a flat front tire being pushed from behind by that condo I've been dragging with me for the last 37 days... :dribble:

Sticky string repair, and nursed it home ... so NOW the ride is really over. :clapping: :drinks:

Kudos to the anonymous dude on a Harley who pulled over to see if I was OK, then rode escort for the first 10 miles or so to make sure the repair held. The Karma gods are surely watching. :fans:

Glad to be home :)

Time for some maintenance before heading down to Idaho Falls for WTF-0 (or whatever they are calling it) :huh:

Griff
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canucklehead-biker said:
Rolled into the barn at 1:30pm local.

After nearly 20,000 kms, 9 provinces, 20 states and D.C., my front PR2 waited until it was 100 km from home to take a nail and blow out. Interesting handling with a flat front tire being pushed from behind by that condo I've been dragging with me for the last 37 days... :dribble:

Griff
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An epic journey ! Cheers to you !! :drinks:

It was so good to see you and Lucie, Jeff. And I'm enjoying 2 cups of Cafe du Monde coffee every morning :)

 

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