Oregon, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, etc

[flynrider]

Excellent trip report, Pdedse! I've been following along all the way. I've been wandering the back roads of the west for many decades and it was great to see a lot of familiar sights.

I didn't have time for a big road trip this summer, but you've definitely got me looking forward to next year. Thanks!

 

[the Ferret]

Haven't been posting to this for the last week because I was on our annual Men's Fall Trip which I will be doing a seat time report for. At night i would check in with my I pad and do a little modding and answer a few "easy" threads but wanted to wait until I got home to digest the rest of your report pdedse and I'm glad I did was well worth the wait and just a fantastic seat time report. Glad everything went well and you arrived home safely.

Had to laugh about you saddling up a squirrel comment. My CB went on the Mens Fall Trip this year but not with me in the saddle. A nephew from Nevada flew in to join us this year and I loaned him the CB as it was closest to what he rides back in Nevada, an NC700. I rode the ST. This morning I got up to go for my morning ride as usual and couln't wait to get back on my CB. After 7 days and 1400 miles on the ST, it felt so light and responsive, maybe too much so. I was riding down the road and said to myself "this thing is so tiny". I'm only 5'6".... I can't imagine being 6'4" and riding one. It has to feel like a mini bike.

Anyhow, thanks again for the great report. I enjoyed it immensly. The pics and narration were all outstanding.

Thanks, Ferret, glad to know that you enjoy the road reports, I cetainly do. Clarification, you thought the cb1100 was tiny or the other bike you were riding?

Thanks, Ferret, glad to know that you enjoy the road reports, I cetainly do. Clarification, you thought the cb1100 was tiny or the other bike you were riding?
The CB. I found it ironic that you climbed off the CB and thought the KLR was small and squirrley (at least that's what I took away from your statement) and I climbed off the ST and climbed on the CB and the CB felt small and squirrley to me.

 

[pdedse]

Haven't been posting to this for the last week because I was on our annual Men's Fall Trip which I will be doing a seat time report for. At night i would check in with my I pad and do a little modding and answer a few "easy" threads but wanted to wait until I got home to digest the rest of your report pdedse and I'm glad I did was well worth the wait and just a fantastic seat time report. Glad everything went well and you arrived home safely.

Had to laugh about you saddling up a squirrel comment. My CB went on the Mens Fall Trip this year but not with me in the saddle. A nephew from Nevada flew in to join us this year and I loaned him the CB as it was closest to what he rides back in Nevada, an NC700. I rode the ST. This morning I got up to go for my morning ride as usual and couln't wait to get back on my CB. After 7 days and 1400 miles on the ST, it felt so light and responsive, maybe too much so. I was riding down the road and said to myself "this thing is so tiny". I'm only 5'6".... I can't imagine being 6'4" and riding one. It has to feel like a mini bike.

Anyhow, thanks again for the great report. I enjoyed it immensly. The pics and narration were all outstanding.

Thanks, Ferret, glad to know that you enjoy the road reports, I cetainly do. Clarification, you thought the cb1100 was tiny or the other bike you were riding?

Thanks, Ferret, glad to know that you enjoy the road reports, I cetainly do. Clarification, you thought the cb1100 was tiny or the other bike you were riding?
The CB. I found it ironic that you climbed off the CB and thought the KLR was small and squirrley (at least that's what I took away from your statement) and I climbed off the ST and climbed on the CB and the CB felt small and squirrley to me.

Got it. I think the KLR felt more thin and squirrley, because it has a 35" seat height...I just got so used to the CB feeling after the trip that made the KLR feel like a new bike to me even though I've had it for 8,9 years and have ridden it bunches. It's fun to have a couple different rides.

Excellent trip report, Pdedse! I've been following along all the way. I've been wandering the back roads of the west for many decades and it was great to see a lot of familiar sights.

I didn't have time for a big road trip this summer, but you've definitely got me looking forward to next year. Thanks!

Thanks much Flynrider...I hope you have the chance to do get that road trip in next summer...and post pics! I don't know the right half of the U.S. very well, but the left side has some amazing places to ride.