Yea baby New Years Day

[the Ferret]

wow mother nature treated us right today. Started off near freezing but climbed quickly into the upper 40's. Felt like spring ha ha. My brother and I take a traditional New Years Day ride (weather permitting) to set the tone for the year and today it permitted.
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Met my brother at a little restaurant we like to eat at called Mama's
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after lunch we headed across a road called St Rt 133 but old timers know it as Buffalo Trace as the Buffalo used this ridge to travel north south on their way too and from the salt licks in Kentucky. Once we hit the river road we rode east to a little town called Ripley where we stopped and watched the Mighty Ohio flow past for awhile while enjoying a cup of hot tea.
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leaving Ripley we rode west down the river spotting a Bald Eagle sitting in a tree over looking the river, until we got back home.

Great day, great tradition got in 100.4 miles today. Tomorrow they are calling for 1-2" of snow again. Ahh the fun of living in the Ohio Valley. Don't like the weather? Wait 10 minutes and it will change lol. Bike is back on the battery tender until next time .......

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[HikerToo_imp]

That is a heck of a rear fender on that first picture.

[the Ferret]

That is a heck of a rear fender on that first picture.

Lol...normally there are a couple hard saddlebags on there that take up all of that gap

[Cormanus]

Looks like a fantastic day. Cold and clear. Wonderful combination.

Happy New Year.

[rboe]

We had a bit more heat down here.

[IndianRider_imp]

Nice ride Ferret

My job took me to Lexington, KY and Maysville, KY back in 2004 and the area and reminds me if the fantastic roads in that area that I did on my 1999 Kawasaki ZRX 1100 .. Old memories and miss that ZRX

Route 165 , 10 and 22 in Kentucky the other side of the ohio river are amazing twisty routes as well ..

Cheers

[the Ferret]

One of my favorite places to ride. Cant believe you can remember those route numbers after 10 years, but you got them exactly right. 19, 22, 10, 165, 1504, 62 motorcycle nirvana

[IndianRider_imp]

Ferret,

Kentucky , West Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia has equal or even better traffic free twistie roads than even California .. That is my MY OPINION ONLY so not trying to piss our local CA folks ..

You will enjoy these pics in those fantastic twisties ..enjoy .sorry for hijacking your thread but I miss my KY rides a lot.. I was single then and almost every weekend was a trip .. The ZRX is one beautiful motorcycle and I'll get one again when I can in the future !!

[the Ferret]

Yes sir great pics and a great motorcycle. Se Ohio and northern Kentucky are a hidden gem of reat riding roads rarely discussed..thank goodness.