Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Some days it works out...

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Last night we had our usual meetup at Flanagan's Ale House.  It was Ken, Vince, Vicki and myself.  We didn't ride due to impending w...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Rear Tire & Olympia GEL Gloves

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I priced a rear tire at Derby Cycles in Shelbyville, KY.  This is the only place I've had any maintainence done on Lois (first service)....

Sunday the 19th of July - Riding with KC!

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Ken had an awesome route picked out from Crestwood Kentucky down to Taylorsville Lake!  Lots of nice road there, and miracalulosly the weath...

Saturday July 18th - Jailhouse Pizza

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On Saturday, despite impending precipitation doom, Steve led me, Jan, and Jim on a great ride through Southern Indiana along the Ohio, artfu...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Tuesday Night Ride

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We had a plethora of Italian and Japanese scoots last night.  Pack leader was Steve on his black Suzuki Burgman.  Following was a couple Hon...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Saturday

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Saturday I rode to Corbin, Kentucky.  It was about 3 hours and an exercise mainly to keep my interstate and distance skills from deteroratin...
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Trip to the Vet

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I had to run to the vet today at lunch to pick up some drugs for my defective dog. It calls for possibility of rain this afternoon, so I fi...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

GASOLINE RALLY09-Departure - No Nathan, no New Steve

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I accidentally overslept. I woke when Jeremy texted me at 9am to see if we could leave early because he was tired of watching television. I...

GASOLINE RALLY09-Saturday Evening Raffle & Party at Radio Radio

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Radio Radio seems like a pretty cool place. Kat and I got inside and I saw the swag I had been missing all weekend---they had coozies!!! I...

GASOLINE RALLY09-Saturday Morning - The Big Show!

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This was the deal I had been waiting a year for! We got over to Speed City Scooters a little after 8:30 and there were few people there. Th...

GASOLINE RALLY09-Meet and Greet at the Monkey's Tail

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Kat and I headed over to the Meet & Greet early...I wanted to make sure I got the correct size of shirt. They were passing out the rall...

GASOLINE RALLY09-Launch point: Dead Scootopia

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Jeremy decided to meet at Scootopia's old lot for our Gasoline Rally gathering point. I got there a little later than I had planned, an...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Pre-Rally Weekend

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Saturday I went and did errands. I went first to Yamaha of Louisville to get the stuff I needed for my 'tune up' this weekend. I g...
Thursday, June 18, 2009

Some days it pans out...

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The weather looked pretty bad today, but I made it to work without a stopover to pull on rain gear! The HR lady just told me that the stor...
Friday, June 12, 2009

Misty Rain, Idiots, and St. Louis Beer

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Although it was misting rain today, I had to ride the scooter.  I am very happy to have it adorned with my IBA plate back.  I threw on the l...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The Finished Product

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I am happy as a puppy with two peters!! From Iron Butt Saddlesore 1K My certification packet for the Saddle Sore 1000 came in the mail today...
Thursday, June 4, 2009

Rainy days...

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My general rule for commuting via scooter is this: If I can get on the bike with a dry seat, I'll ride to work. Generally I will just ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Retractable Camera Mount

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What I wanted was a camera mount that was retractable...like the anti-theft ones in retail stores. It is a hard to come by item for a regul...

Farkle Bar

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I am almost done with my farkle bar for the Yamaha Majesty. If you don't know what a farkle is... Motorcycle accessories are features a...
Friday, May 29, 2009

I am now a member of the Iron Butt Association!

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I got my email from the president of the Iron Butt Association today.... Dear Kelly Nall: You are receiving this e-mail because of your app...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Decision on LD riding

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After this weekend, I have come to the decision that I need to work on my setup a lot before I do too much more long distance riding. The st...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Sunday Exploration: Finishing my A-Z collection

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If you've been reading my blog any, you probably know about my Everywhere, A to Z collection. I get pictures of my scooter with road si...

Sunday Exploration: US-68

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On US-68 headed toward my collection points, I saw this Yamaha dealer, so I stopped to get a picture. From Izzy's International Lunch ...

Sunday Exploration: Wilmington, Ohio

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From Izzy's International Lunch & Ride Fortunately, Wilmington was not just one dirty flop-house, crackwhore motel. Apparantly they...

Camping in Southern Ohio

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If you wait until last minute on Memorial Day weekend to get a campsite for the night, you will likely experience epic failure. It was arou...

Izzy's ride - Back into Cincinatti along US-52

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The day was still good, and weather holding at perfect. We did a regroup just over the river after the ferry. From Izzy's International...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Izzy's ride - Augusta, KY

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We got to Augusta, Kentucky which was the area that had the cool ferry. It also has the hollywood Clooney's home (Rosemary, mother and ...

Izzy's ride - Rabbit Hash to Augusta, KY

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The route to Augusta was awesome also. The guys did a great job planning this all out. Notice in front of me is (I believe, but I could ha...

Izzy's ride - Rabbit Hash General Store

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We pulled into Rabbit Hash, and the whole place was packed with mainly bikes and a few cars. I think we had the only scooters there. No wh...

Izzy's ride - the ride to Rabbit Hash, KY

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We got on the road and it was a pretty good ride to Rabbit Hash. I think Rabbit Hash is one of those "motorcycle heaven" places w...