Georgia Bound

[Stichill]

Glad you guys liked the report. I know I always get amped up reading others' reports...right now I'm working on EmptySea's "letters" series. Great stuff!

The GT has been doing yeoman's work in the sport-touring category, emphasis on "sport." It's about as maintenance-free as one could imagine with that belt drive and long service interval on the valve clearance inspection. I think I've put 15k miles on it, which all happened between May '15 and July '16 (I spent my entire late summer & fall this year prepping the Stichill country estate for my daughter's October wedding).

I'm still eyeballing the CB as a more relaxed about-town and day-tripper. My CBR250R is a bike that begs to be wound out and ridden like you stole it, and the GT is a bike that demands a certain level of rider commitment to the task at hand. It's at its best when the "upper half of the motorcycle" is performing as well as the lower half. It's not a bike that you just tool around on.



Ferret and EmptySea, I'd be very interested in ideas about rides in West Virginia. Our traditional "lead Weasel" is not going on the trip next year...he's taking three weeks' vacation for a solo Montana-Alaska run on a pre-equipped 2011 KLR650 he picked up recently.



So the rest of us are currently working on potential trip ideas. I've been looking at [url=https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1018794,-82.1404092,10.36z/data=!5m1!1e4]this area northeast of Asheville, NC. I'm thinking there might be some nice rental cabins around Watauga Lake.

Let's definitely get together sometime this spring, Ferret. That Scioto Ribbers joint looks like a tasty destination!