More VA / WV / MD mapping.
Assuming I can get both the R1100S Guest Bike and my DR650SE operational before Saturday, we're planning on a hopefully longish day ride. Sadly, a multi-day overnight was not in the cards for this Bruce visit.
Doing a 35-day lap around the lower 48 with a focus on seeing National Parks and other national treasures. Starting and ending in Bowie, Maryland
I've decided to risk riding the DR despite the worn chain. We're just going to go on a few hour short little local ride before my meeting at 4.
A group ride for Washington DC metropolitan area riders of BMW K1200S and K1300S and friends.
We're going to attempt a bit of a longer ride today.
The weather is nice. Time for a short late afternoon ride.
I'm not sure where we'll head but the weather is gorgeous and it's time for a ride.
The plan is to head to Southern Maryland to check out that road Mike showed me and maybe a few more.
A by-invitation promotional event for Colorado Motorcycle Adventures new expansion to Arizona. Meeting in Phoenix, then based out of Bisbee, there will be 4 days of riding both on and off road.
Sadly, the oil filler cap on the R1100S has failed again, so I have to pull the valve cover. As a result, I changed the oil and filter on the DR650SE and adjusted the chain. I'll do valves and plugs at a later date. There's really not much of a plan for this ride. I figure we'll just tool around where the mood takes us.
Duncan and I replaced the front brake lines on the 'S today and despite the late hour we've decided to do a short shake down ride.
Meet at the Sheets in Frederick, KSU 0930
Stitching together a few segments found on road Curvature project maps, with a loop around Prettyboy Reservoir.
Thinking of using what could be one of the last good riding weekends of 2020 to explore how many times I can cross the Potomac above great falls without getting totally lost. This would be my first foray into creating a ride plan on Miles by Motorcycle, so hoping to get some suggestions and feedback from other riders.
Duncan and I are talking about riding tomorrow (Monday the 19th) but are not yet sure where we're going to go. Maybe do a loop through Southern Maryland and look at one of our favorite tree tunnel roads, Route 224? Not sure.
Years ago, I bought parts K100RS from Craig. He recently reached out on messenger saying he had picked up a K1300S and was interested in being shown some good local roads. I thought maybe we could show Craig and Tim some of our go to local roads maybe doing a loop up through parts of the Power of Left and then to points North looping up towards Catoctin. My only constraint is that I am having some electrical work done on Saturday so will have to wait for that to be completed. I'll post updates here as it gets close to completed. So consider the two o'clock departure time a rough guess. I figure we can all meet at Duncan's house. Seeing three K1300's following an R1100S should be a noteworthy sight.
The sky is cloud covered but there is little in the way of rain in the forecast.
Not really sure at this point where we should go. I suppose it'll depend on how well we are both doing tomorrow. Lately, it's been a toss up. Maybe back to the Indian Springs Road area we rode with Bruce?
The plan is to head to points North and West to revisit the area we rode in yesterday, temperature permitting.