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Good rule of thumb... mine is to have the hotel have a bar & restaurant... and they're getting harder to find.

The "not panic" thing is key!

Abzolutely concur! (er, absolutely... )

Excellent shot!

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Very glad you and Charming are okay (excepting the pulled muscle). I admire your pluck in sharing your misadventure! Years ago, with my wife on pillion, I dropped my new-to-me R1150GS at a 4-way intersection at a big bike rally in Hollister, California. It was duly witnessed by at least a couple...

Love to! And I'm not "giving up" my R18. 😉

And that number is only important from (1) a planning perspective, and (2) a historical persepective. It is about meaningless to guys getting shot at. "Cute" is belittling and offensive... don't make this discussion a personal attack. Based on such comments as yours it seems there is the...

I don't understand this comment and that's been bugging me. Bullets don't care if you're an apple or an orange. In both, people made it their choice to face those risks.

I didn't take his comment as a comparison of the combat environment or battle space of the two conflicts. I read his comment as a recognition that young people stepped up to the line. I am not trying to argue the point as we all have our perspectives but I don't think the intent was to...

Their website has a good description of all their product's uses. I use their Total Cycle Cleaner on the entire bike except for the wheels. Occasionally I have to lightly wipe areas to remove bugs, tar, etc. On the wheels I use their Wheel Cleaner and, if needed, scrub them with a soft bristle...

Let us hope they never have to do so. It is amazing what people can achieve when achievement is needed.

I have used S100 for a couple of decades, wven when I had to store a bike for a year or so; works fine for me.

This is an over-generalization and pushes rhe popular narrative of EVERY older generation. If you only look for the problems, you only see problems. I've worked with plenty of good, hard-charging and motivated young(er) folks and I've worked with plenty of lazy bastards who are my age...

Titusville Ironworks, Titusville, Pennsylvania, USA, is a century+ old ironmongery converted to a eatery and bar, a music venue, and a local venue for whatever. The place is huge and filled with local history. Much of the original machinery is still in place. In the large inside gallery are...

Venango County Airport Annual Fly-In and Cruise-In, in Franklin, Pennsylvania USA. Two or three dozen bikes, more planes than I wanted to count, and probably well over 100 cars, from hotrods to muscle cars to exotics, even a Ghostbuster's repro ambulance, plus the resident and operational WWII...

I've always carried a quart of oil when on the road... (a habit from the 'old days' of cars and bikes), so when I picked up my TC (150 mile ride home), I also picked up a quart of oil. Over 10k miles now and that quart sits, unopened, on the shelf in the garage. I do carry it for long trips...

Roger that. I've got a few decades under my belt also and the R18TC and the R1150GS are both impressive bikes.

How can one tell what bike they prefer unless they try a variety? One bartender's Old Fashioned will be preferable over another's, correct? They all taste good but that one just hits the right spot! Welcome back... sorta 😉🙂, and best of luck with your quest!

My "bling bling" TC has taken me, comfortably, on several long-distance rides (in excess of 2k miles) plus regular 60-150 mile local rides, here on the east coast. I average close to 50mpg and, filling up at around the 1/4-tank mark, typically ride 200-250 miles between fill-ups; conservatively...