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Julie and I got em out today - - 39 degrees n sun here in Colo. Wore my new skullcrush PASGT style helmet santa brought for Christmas. Love that thing! Don't even know you have it on. Zoom!!

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450 today and 700 tomorrow coming back from California (Napa) visit w my son for Father's Day. And I'll be back out again next month for his wedding. Hwy 50. ( Utah section is very bleak and in need of repaving ). And for gawds sake do NOT stay at the Ramada Inn in Ely -- ghastly bad.

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Hell yeah! First ride since my shoulder surgery Nov 02. 34degrees. Nice lil spin from home in Roxborough Park to Castle Rock (mebbe half hour RT).

What the doc don't know.... (he's not a rider ). Some things a guys just gotta do

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And again today! 36 degrees and sand in the curves going the back way to the state park. Big storm coming tomorrow so taking advantage of every opportunity.

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Heck yeah! " Immediate deployment drill": told my wife " lets go " as in right now, as is (just finished working out). She jumped on her Vic and me on my RM and off we went -- 38 degrees, shorts n singlet cuz I am defying winter!!

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Just got back from big ride thru New South Wales on my Scout. No issues except one hairy incident when a deer appeared from the forest went to run across in front but was gobsmacked at my black thunder Scout (with burbly Stage 1 pipes) and ran back in to tell her mates. Just love being out in the country admiring the scenery along the way. Took in the National Motorcycle Museum in Nabiac and the newer one in Tamworth up the New England. Both museums sadly did not have a lot of old Indians. Wonder whether there are represented in numbers in museums in good ol US of A?

You bet there are! We've even got a 1953 Roadmaster on display in one of our local Red Robins ( restaurant ) in Highlands Ranch ( near where I live)

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Hell yeah! Break between storms so I rode to our local Rocky Mtn IMRG meeting -- one of only two guys to do so. Good to hear about the 2017 ride calendar and think about those nice warm rides to come. One hour saddle time and well worth it. Ice and snow gettin out of the driveway and one spot going down range to get to the feeder street, then all good. Shoulder was barkin afterwards (surgery Nov 02) but the ride was worth it. Love this bike!!

 

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Heck yeah!! Another break btwn storms -- 62 today here in Colorado and minus seven tomorrow nite. So me n Julie fired up the bikes and off we went!

 

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Oh yeah! Between storms so seize the moment. Julie n I rode our bikes to c rock for lunch. Just realized this is a scout thread tho... sorry. I!ll have to start a Roadmaster thread!

 

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Eskimo Quin graciously moved this from the scout forum to an all-models / general one, noting the thousands of views and posts under the original scout format. Congrats tho to all of you scout owners who got this ball rolling -- true testament to how much you guys n gals ride and love your bikes! And particular thanks to taboothe ( OP) (and proud scout owner) for coming up with the idea -- nicely done!

 

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Oh yeah! Carpe diem btwxt storms -- Julie's got the week off so we spooled em up and did the 'cigar loop' ( Roxborough to Larkspur via Hwy 85 to Sedalia, hwy 67 to 105, south to foxton road, loop back). Camels were NOT out today...

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YES!!!! 70* in Delaware today!! Crazy warm for us and my first ride out since I got the new look!

Good lookin paint job, Lizzi!!!

 

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A brisk but clear day to hop on the bikes and get Julies in for service. While we were there we (of course) had to look at the new Indian showroom at Indian of Denver. Look what Julie was eyeballing!!

 

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Yep-- sub-zero tomorrow so jump on and ride today! Carpe diem!!

 

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Cold and dreary here in Colorado but roads were good. Took julie to get her Vic, which had Vance & Hines plus LED headlight installed -- all ordered up prior to the big announcement. Good ride back -- brisk! 42 degrees. About 90 mins R/T.

PS: " a chilly ride is better than no ride! " // Confucius

 

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Hell yeah!! 167 mi ride to eat at South 40 Saloon in b-yootiful Elbert CO with three buds. 34 degrees and blustery wind at start, low 50's by end. Storm comin' tomorrow so it's carpe diem!!

 

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Julie and I hopped on the bikes for an early morn ride to Larkspur, then Franktown. 33 degrees when we got close to the Palmer Divide. A tad brisk but a brisk ride is better than no ride!

 

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Just got back from my first long distance ride on the Scout!
My friend and I decided as we both had this week off we would do a ride from Sydney to Mildura and back (look it up on Google maps).
We left Sydney on Monday morning at 9am and got back at 10am Thursday....2044 kilometres.
First day we went to a place called Wagga Wagga, the temperature hit 38 Celsius and we were melting!
Second day drove across a flat plain for 3-400 k's(560 k's all up) and the temperature hit 45 Celsius(113 Fahrenheit), my mate was on a Roadmaster and was nearly passing out with the combined heat from his engine and the sun. Made it to Mildura and had to quench our thirsts over and over again with copious amounts of amber nectar!!
We decided to leave Mildura at 5am the next morning to miss the heat the only problem with that is you have to be very wary of kangaroos, wallabies, emu's etc at that time of the morning as they have a tendency to leap out in front of you in some sort of insane death wish.
Tucked in behind a pick up till it got light and all was well, well sort of as the temperature started climbing again and by 10am was 42 C!
We had a big day in front of us as we were heading back to Sydney and wanted to do a lot of kilometres, ended up doing 707 K's.
The temperature kept rising and topped out at 46(115F) felt like my hands were burning off!! We had to keep stopping for water to pour all over my mate so he could keep going as he wasn't used to the extreme heat (being a Kiwi,wont hold that against him!!!)
Finally arrived at Cowra and once again headed straight for the Pub for life saving liquids and the Pub had no beer!!!!!! only joking, they had no beer left after we had been there for a few hours!!!!!we were ever so slightly thirsty.
Got up early again for the final run back to Sydney and you wouldn't believe it but it was cold. We had to go over the Blue Mountains and the temperature dropped to 11C.This is where my friend got payback as I only had a thin pair of gloves and my fingers froze off, they are still on the highway east off Cowra some where! He turned his heated grips and heated seat on as was toasty with the lovely glow coming from the Roadmaster"s engine.
The Scout never missed a beat, I must admit the stock seat was a little uncomfortable but all in all ok. Ibuprofen helped!!!
I was testing out my new Memphis shades wind shield and Viking saddlebags. I don't think I would have been able to do the trip without the windshield and love it.
The Viking bags had a modified spacer which I had my friend make so you could slip them into the original spools and just use 95mm bolts to go into the fender.....worked really well and stayed tight the whole trip, will get him to make me another 2 about 5mm longer as I have just slightly scuffed the belt guard nothing major. You can see them in the photos.
Will do another trip soon and try out the new Corbin Touring seat.


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What a great ride report!! Those of us in the northern hemisphere are envious -- altho I suspect when we first hit that kind of heat we'll be looking for your reports saying how chilly it is. Great info too on the equipment mods.

 

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Julie and I jumped on the bikes and did the Franktown Loop. Her new Vance and Hines sound fabuloso-- so good I can't hear my shift points for the first three gears( and that's w her riding behind me) 44 degrees starting from our house and down to 38 degrees at Palmer Divide. Love this bike! Love this woman!