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...continued More of Canyonlands If you go to Canyonlands, you need to stop at Deadhorse Point on the way out. Another really awesome view. We went over the La Sal mountains and up 141 to Grand Junction. This is a great road between the canyon bluffs. It's so fun on a motorcycle. We...

...Continued Leaving monument valley On the way to Moab we stopped at Goosenecks State Park just SW of Moki Dugway which is an interesting view. I didn't have my wife with me so I thought Moki Dugway would be easy going, but I found myself nervous on it. I was not as recovered mentally from...

I planned this trip exactly a year after our wreck in May of 2022 where I totalled the Goldwing. My wife's right arm is over 90% recovered and her left wrist is in good shape again. She still can't move her ring and pinky fingers and they don't think she'll get those back. She's still not been...

I just got back from a trip on the FJR riding around CO, NM, AZ and UT with my nephew on his S10. It's the first long trip of any kind I've taken on the FJR in 3 or more years. My wife and I were riding the wing on all our long trips before our accident a year ago and the MT10 replaced the...

Tammy and I had a low-side Thursday on the second day of our Ohio trip on the Goldwing. We didn't even make it out of Kentucky. We both have broken wrists that need surgery. Tam got it a lot worse than I did, which I can't figure out. I have no other injuries except the wrist. She had a level 5...

Still loving my 2007 FJR that I've had since May of 2012. It gets a little neglected because I ride my MT10 90% of the time and the wife and I take our long trips on the 07 Goldwing.

I am leaning now toward not doing a Pacific Northwest trip in Oct. It is still an option, but it's a little colder with more chance of snow in the high passes than I might want to deal with. We have Icefields Parkway / Banff on our bucket list so it makes more sense to do some Washington with...

You guys helped me do some planning for a trip to Banff and Washington this summer that never happened because of work. Canada would have been out too because of COVID (Ross correctly warned me last winter) but I still tried to make Washington work to no avail. I have one slight possibility now...

An 18 year old friend of mine saw my MT10 this last weekend and we started talking about bikes. He has never ridden but is getting ready to take the MSF course and get a beginner sport bike. I'd personally like to convince him to get something less sporty, but he has been looking at MTs and...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XtHxXhoqhsPcl6NF8vB1y3M3bqrSuwi1/view?usp=sharing I hope the link above works for this post. I wrote and recorded an instrumental song this week and thought I might share it here. It's got an easy Adult Contemporary feel that could go well with a motorcycle...

I thought for a couple days this week I might be needing to make some trips to Edinburgh, Scotland for work this summer. I was looking at places I could rent a bike there and take a week to ride. I found I could rent an MT-10 for 700 EURO which sounded really good.  But now it looks like the...

I've had Banff on the list for destinations for a few years but it's never worked out.  We are seriously thinking about trying it next Summer.  It looks like I could slab it out to Seattle and ride around Mt Rainer and then across the Northern Cascades and then up. For first draft, I have us...

My wife and I have our screen saver set to random pics and most of them are of our motorcycle journeys across North America.  We like to name the locations as they pop up. I thought I'd see if it was any fun for the forum to play along.  I'll post three at a time and you can guess one or more in...

All sold! Sold the tankbag here, and both jackets on ebay. Priced to sell since I'm cleaning out the garage: - Men's XL Cortech GX Air 2 summer mesh jacket size 46. $50 shipped to lower 48. - SOLD - Womens or Youth Yamaha Factory Racing Mesh Jacket. Labelled men's XS but fits women's medium...

Anybody have a used Rev-It Horizon Jacket in XXL size in decent shape they'd like to get rid of? I bought one used several years ago and it's the only jacket I really like.  The zipper is about shot on mine. 

Birmingham to NC (and VA) October 11-16 2020 I had just about decided not to do a trip report on this since it was another trip on the Goldwing, but after enjoying some of the other ride reports I thought I’d go ahead and share.  People on this forum helped me find these roads initially and...

I just got an MT-10 and I've been trying to get a feel whether this bike is more manageable on occasional gravel / fire roads than the FJR or worse due to it's tweaky torque.  I grew up riding on gravel and in fields but that was on little bikes.  Still I got the basic understanding of...

Maybe it's just this off-kilter year of 2020 getting to me, but I'm starting to think about switching bikes.  While I hate to think about getting rid of the FJR because it will likely always be my favorite bike, it is the better choice if I get rid of one.  I love the FJR because of the fun it...

I know this will likely be taken as a stupid question, but I got bit last week with my normal process, so I thought I'd ask what you guys do.  Before I worked from home due to COVID, I had a rural commute so I'm in the habit of never putting the bike on the center stand unless I'm doing...

We rode a "greatest hits" tour of popular NC (and nearby) roads this last week and Tammy asked me which one was the most technically challenging.  Also, how do NC roads compare with the other US twisty roads?  I've been contemplating that and am wondering what you guys think.  Factoring out...