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Who knew? There apparently IS a vintage/classic/historic motorcycle “scene” here in Tucson! Since we’ve been here we (First Timer, certainly) has been in bike nerd companion withdrawal. We recently took the SV out and hung around with some sport bike folks, but it wasn’t the same. No wrenching talk, too much plastic.
Then, like a lightening bolt of pure karma, we were saved! I hadn’t been on craigslist for months, but signed on one day last week to ooh and ahh over some kittens in the pets section (not a joke, I am a girl after all). I browsed the motorcycle listings while I was on and stumbled on a post that said little more than “people who like vintage motorcycles, wanna meet up?” I was skeptical at best, but First Timer got an e-mail back from the dude and lo and behold – they were planning to meet the next evening at a bar where I had already planned to be for happy hour with work folks. Whoa. See what I mean? Fate. So a good contingent of folks showed up, with a little bit of everything: ducati, honda, bunch of bmw’s and even an indian. They all seemed like nice folks, so we scheduled an early morning ride up Mt. Lemmon for this Saturday (today).
It was a smaller, but good group this morning – weighted toward the Japanese this time (oh, and a vmax and a harley showed up too – never really got the story on that). Weather was excellent. Half of us stayed up top for breakfast and to extend our time in the cool air (a real commodity here in the SW this time of year). Some pics from the cafe parking lot:
As you can see, we took the 550, two up. This was its first hard ride since the cleanup, and it did really well. We went up to about 9000 ft though, and the 550 certainly “noticed” the change in elevation. A grand time was had by all, and I suspect we’ll ride with these folks again.
Sorry for the verbose report. I’m done now – have to go change a clutch rod seal or something.
Laura
Then, like a lightening bolt of pure karma, we were saved! I hadn’t been on craigslist for months, but signed on one day last week to ooh and ahh over some kittens in the pets section (not a joke, I am a girl after all). I browsed the motorcycle listings while I was on and stumbled on a post that said little more than “people who like vintage motorcycles, wanna meet up?” I was skeptical at best, but First Timer got an e-mail back from the dude and lo and behold – they were planning to meet the next evening at a bar where I had already planned to be for happy hour with work folks. Whoa. See what I mean? Fate. So a good contingent of folks showed up, with a little bit of everything: ducati, honda, bunch of bmw’s and even an indian. They all seemed like nice folks, so we scheduled an early morning ride up Mt. Lemmon for this Saturday (today).
It was a smaller, but good group this morning – weighted toward the Japanese this time (oh, and a vmax and a harley showed up too – never really got the story on that). Weather was excellent. Half of us stayed up top for breakfast and to extend our time in the cool air (a real commodity here in the SW this time of year). Some pics from the cafe parking lot:
As you can see, we took the 550, two up. This was its first hard ride since the cleanup, and it did really well. We went up to about 9000 ft though, and the 550 certainly “noticed” the change in elevation. A grand time was had by all, and I suspect we’ll ride with these folks again.
Sorry for the verbose report. I’m done now – have to go change a clutch rod seal or something.
Laura
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