Long distance rider
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I took delivery of my 2023 trail in the second of sept. This will be my final bike. My riding history goes back to Texas in the late 50’s when as a 12 year old I could ride an old Allstate scooter. Fast forward 10 years and I’m in Germany riding first a 441 shooting Star and then a 650 thunderbolt. Next came a R100GS which was the first of several BMW’s. K1100LT, R1150, R1150RT, K75S, F650GS, R80RT, Yamaha XT225, and now the little Trail 125.
I tried to get off motorcycles in 2017 so I got a Polaris 4 wheeler. That didn’t work out too well, an hour and a half on my first trail ride I rolled multiple times down a steep trail. Got my first helicopter ride since Viet Nam out of that incident.
But there have been some interesting things along the way. While living n New Mexico my wife and I had the coffee detail at the 1995 Sipapu rally up by taos. We were up early on Saturday morning making coffee when this guy sort of limps up. Turns out it was Steve Attwood, the winner of the 1993 Iron Butt. He had thumped a deer just outside of spokane and spent a few days in the hospital. His goal of a repeat Iron Butt was over. he of course out of the Iron Butt for missing a checkpoint. We spent the next two days talking motorcycles. I’ve been damned fortunate, several hundred thousand miles and not a scratch. At 77 in not quitting though, just downsizing.
I tried to get off motorcycles in 2017 so I got a Polaris 4 wheeler. That didn’t work out too well, an hour and a half on my first trail ride I rolled multiple times down a steep trail. Got my first helicopter ride since Viet Nam out of that incident.
But there have been some interesting things along the way. While living n New Mexico my wife and I had the coffee detail at the 1995 Sipapu rally up by taos. We were up early on Saturday morning making coffee when this guy sort of limps up. Turns out it was Steve Attwood, the winner of the 1993 Iron Butt. He had thumped a deer just outside of spokane and spent a few days in the hospital. His goal of a repeat Iron Butt was over. he of course out of the Iron Butt for missing a checkpoint. We spent the next two days talking motorcycles. I’ve been damned fortunate, several hundred thousand miles and not a scratch. At 77 in not quitting though, just downsizing.