2nd Official Back Safe Thread!

[schuitz]

WTF?



I left Mark and John to take the ferry across Lake Champlain, where it was clear, but probably blasting 35+ knots. Headed through Elizabethtown, and about 10 miles outside of Keene this Sauron-grade wall of evil black cloud shit the likes of which I've never seen is coming over the peaks. I pull off on the shoulder to don some wet gear and go maybe another 2 miles before deciding on a new plan: getting the hell off this road. Pulled the bike onto some dirt a little ways off the road, crouched in the bushes and hunkered down as this crap came through the pass at 40mph first as mad wind, then rain, hail, and finally snow.

A nice woman in a Subaru pulled off to make sure I was OK, I convinced her that I was golden since I was in fact LMAO under my helmet at the snow coming down. After the worst had passed I took off and hit a tavern about 3 miles up the road to get some coffee and wait it out. Of course I had no idea the place was there at the time, but there's no way I would have made it in time anyway.

After my coffee the bloody sun was shining, so I rolled on to Lake Placid and checked in, where the above photo was taken.

This morning I was gassing up in Saranac Lake when up pulls Jim-Orange-Rocket-Crazy-Fat-Tire and Andy(?) Speed triple. I guess they'd hit some of it too. I split off and headed north on the 30 and rolled into Ottawa around 1:30pm.

Thanks to everyone for such a great time.
Mike

[mark]

Wow. I'd heard that the cold front moving through (which hit here in Burlington around 4:30 and tore a shitload of fresh leaves off of trees) had some snow mixing with rain in parts of the Adirondacks, but I didn't expect it to be that much snow!

Weird-ass weather this spring.

Glad you made it home safe!

--mark

[Hedge]

Maybe you boys should have left with me & Benny instead of staring at Boss Ed's forest! We ran it back in just under 3 hours with not a drop of rain! Still had time to cut the lawn and water it before the wife came home from Maryland. Good seeing you Pat . . . we will ride some more this summer for sure.

Well we had to sort through our garbage and make sure it was in the correct canister, and then check all the toilets to make sure they were flushed correctly - wouldn't want to get a bad rep with Mr. Ed.

I wonder how Boss liked that there Chili in his Garbage Can?

[bennybmn]

You must be a New Yorker. It clearly says separate your shit, and Only New Yorkers ask for special privaledges!

[97TB]

WTF?


I left Mark and John to take the ferry across Lake Champlain, where it was clear, but probably blasting 35+ knots. Headed through Elizabethtown, and about 10 miles outside of Keene this Sauron-grade wall of evil black cloud shit the likes of which I've never seen is coming over the peaks. I pull off on the shoulder to don some wet gear and go maybe another 2 miles before deciding on a new plan: getting the hell off this road. Pulled the bike onto some dirt a little ways off the road, crouched in the bushes and hunkered down as this crap came through the pass at 40mph first as mad wind, then rain, hail, and finally snow.

A nice woman in a Subaru pulled off to make sure I was OK, I convinced her that I was golden since I was in fact LMAO under my helmet at the snow coming down. After the worst had passed I took off and hit a tavern about 3 miles up the road to get some coffee and wait it out. Of course I had no idea the place was there at the time, but there's no way I would have made it in time anyway.

After my coffee the bloody sun was shining, so I rolled on to Lake Placid and checked in, where the above photo was taken.

This morning I was gassing up in Saranac Lake when up pulls Jim-Orange-Rocket-Crazy-Fat-Tire and Andy(?) Speed triple. I guess they'd hit some of it too. I split off and headed north on the 30 and rolled into Ottawa around 1:30pm.

Thanks to everyone for such a great time.
Mike

That's some funny stuff right there!

[jefff1]

Arrived back in WNY yesterday ....386 miles from Spencer, Mass. where I went visiting on sunday after the BTB...Did it in 6.5 hours and it was great...I never was in any rain after the Thursday arrival for the BTB...awesome....and what did I find for my birthday when I arrived back but a nice pair of SPIDI boots and a package from Touratech...oh yeah

[marde]

Arrived back in WNY yesterday ....386 miles from Spencer, Mass. where I went visiting on sunday after the BTB...Did it in 6.5 hours and it was great...I never was in any rain after the Thursday arrival for the BTB...awesome....and what did I find for my birthday when I arrived back but a nice pair of SPIDI boots and a package from Touratech...oh yeah

Glad you made it back safely, and a belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFF!
Hope to spend more quality time with you next Bash.

Marty

[jefff1]

Thanks Marty...I had a great time at the Madison on Saturday night and I look forward to more next year...Now just work on keeping that gar lit...lol...

[LoVel]

Robin and I got home at 5pm Wednesday night. We did camp for three nights and I almost killed one buzzard one turkey and one deer on the parkway. Robin said she didn't realize turkey's could fly so well. I told that was because she had never gotten close enough to one but the buzzard was the closest. I actually slammed on the brakes and ducked. That little bastard was trying to make his own carion. Fuck you, you sorry buzzard. It only rained(frog strangler) on us one time the whole way home and it just had to be on the the top of Mt Mitchell in a construction zone(gravel). Couldn't see shit, the rain was flying, the thunder was crashing and the bonnie got a little wet and tried to stall. All the excitement had to happen at the exact same time.