New Yamaha ADV

[rboe]

My Quota napping, north of Ely Nevada. Rain storm made the road slick as snot - did not change colour!

[Cormanus]

Rboe, I hope it woke OK. You OK?

[LongRanger_imp]

Sorry to see this. And it looks like no help for miles -- hopefully you weren't alone. What happened to your right pannier?

On the bright side, if there is one, I've never seen the Great Basin that green before. Beautiful.

[rboe]

I was on a ride with some fello Guzzi guys. Alfred wiped his out too, and he had way more gear on than I, but I guess he was going faster as he got the chance to roll along in the "ditch". Caught a rock on the lower ribs taking a couple out. So he handed his keys to his pickup to a fellow rider while we waited with him.

Pain wise he was in bad shape; so out came the pharmaceuticals that guys had save from previous run ins with the medical community. We had him in "good" shape once his truck arrived. I think only one or two of us did not wipe out. Alfred was the lone causality. And he was better than a previous year where a fellow took out both wrists.

It took a few hours to wait for the truck, get it loaded etc. So by that time the road had dried out enough that it was fairly safe to ride it again. Funny thing, if we had just taken our time, less than a mile and we would have been out of the woods so to speak.

My right pannier took the brunt and was never the same.