Mens fall ride 2013

[wildezt_imp]

Nice ...! thank you for sharing Ferret.!

 

[Offroad]

Every fall, some of us men take a trip with no wives along. We get to ride till we are tired of riding. We eat what we're not supposed to. We cuss, belch, fart and leave clothes strewn about the hotel room, and we don't watch girlie shows on tv at night lol. We've been to W Va, the U.P. of Michigan, the Blue Ridge Parkway, Deals Gap North Carolina and northern Ga, se Ohio and northern Kentucky. This year we decided to make a return trip to West Virginia/ nw Va. The roads in sw W Va and nw Va, are just awesome to ride. Unmatched natural beauty combined with limitless curves, and very little traffic, make this an ideal place to ride motorcycles. This year an extra bonus was the near perfect weather. A few sprinkles one evening that didnt even require rain gear, temps in the upper 40s to mid 70 s everyday. Just gorgeous weather. Lets look at some of the 200 pics I took during the week.

The men getting ready to take off Monday morning..l to r. My sons fil Jimmy, my younger bro Randy, my son Brian, and yours truly



First day was a straight shot there. 7 hours I think, about 350 miles. We checked into the Holiday Inn Express in Weston W Va which would be our base for the next few days. Nice place, with heated pool and Jaccuzi which felt great every night after a long day of riding. Using the hotel as a base, we made loops out of there everyday using it as a starting and ending point. That way we were able to leave our luggage in the room, and just carry what we thought we would need for the day.

Just south of Elkins W Va is a resort called Snowshoe. Neat place to ride thru. Plus you get to be envious of the people that can actually afford to stay there in the clouds lol

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After Snowshoe we headed down to Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park. On the way there, there is a series of esses you ride thru that are not only devilishly curvy, but cambered with elevation changes in the middle of them, just an awesome stretch of highway.

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The view from Droop Mountain ...I love mountains

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After Droop Mountain we headed west and picked up the Highland Scenic Highway, a beautiful stretch of road thru the W Va mountains

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My brother Randy riding along the Scenic Highway

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A view along the highway which you can see a section of in the upper left hand corner of the pic

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We got back to the hotel, just as the sun was setting behind a nearby mountain

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Ferret, I like your windshield and tank bag....what brands, models are they, where did you get them.
Any noticeable deflection etc from such a tall fork mounted windshield?

 

[Cormanus]

In the Antipodes, and in the UK I think, we call 'Fall' 'Autumn'. So "Men's Fall Ride" does not sound good to us—neither for rider nor bike!

 

[the Ferret]

Wow this is an old thread, soon we are coming up on the Mens "Autumn" Ride ( per Cormanus) 2014 whichwill be to the Berea, Kentucky area and the Dan'l Boone National Forest, Red River Gorge, Mammoth Cave area

Anyhow offroad, the windshield is a National Cycle Street Shield EX, and the tank bag is a Tourmaster Select series tank bag

No deflection was noted with the shield, it performed perfectly, but there is quite a bit of buffeting and noise associated with it. That was on my 2013 CB. Haven't tried mounting it on my 2014 yet, and Im not sure its going to fit on the DLX.