Motorcycling 2012
Local MeetUP Euro motorcycle group ride, 128 mi. for the first day of the year, temp in mid 50's.
Pics. to follow. https://photos4.meetupstatic.com/phot..._82863262.jpeg https://photos1.meetupstatic.com/phot..._82863282.jpeg |
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1st of January, to work: 24F, back home: 34F :D
I haven't seen anyone else on a motorcycle and I have no pics, it was not interesting and it was dark anyway :D |
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06 Jan 2012, temp. in the low 50's, put little over 140 mi. on the Beemer w/a friend riding his F800GS.
No Photoshop, just natural light. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...b19cd3f293.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...f129b5f928.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...bbe54a498e.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e09215da49.jpg |
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Those are some beautiful bikes there!
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Went out on my Sherpa did some tank hunting:
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Last weekend we had a 'warm up' for the upcoming 48-hour run beginning this Friday. We visited castles and twisty roads near and in Austria.
https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...881c127c25.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...6ab2cdbd50.jpg It was also a good practice of hypermiling in a formation. In a loose formation, per definition :D Ride report and more pictures: https://www.cleanmpg.com/forums/showp...3&postcount=22 |
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We've finished our first 48-hour run:
https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c9a3ab8148.jpg All of them have been thematic so far, this one was about the hills (I wouldn't really call mountains anything in Hungary, since Trianon, 1920) of our country - we rode as close to all the highest peaks of every area as possible on paved roads. We started in the Southwest part of Hungary, so we visited a friend who lives very close to the start. The village is called Hossz?het?ny and it became the first stop of the run too, being the closest to the highest peak of Mecsek. This was the place I had some time to take a few pictures on our hike the day before the start. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...9834762782.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...bb98526f67.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...f2ba8f6159.jpg We spent the night in the village then filled the tanks at the gas station closest to the start. I also took pictures about the odometers, and these, like most of the other pictures, are purely documentary. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...289968cd60.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...4265fbe459.jpg To tell the truth, I still don't know how can I take pictures during riding, if I don't want to waste a.) fuel (if I see something I have to brake to stop there and not much later from where it'd take several minutes to walk back in a hot riders' outfit) b.) time (of which we didn't have too much) The trip was a challenge, I wanted to try my stamina and navigation skills. I turned the wrong way a few times, it wasn't surprising. What was - that how few and small mistakes I made compared to many others in the same run :D So here come the few I took for the pictures themselves: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...be8afa3107.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...539d69b575.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...3540b63a12.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e2f62bc9d3.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...ba967f33e0.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c724281f35.jpg But we've seen many beautiful places in this tiny country, where we absolutely have to go back. We've trodden a lot of fantastic roads and incredibly bad ones too. I've learned a lot, or it may not be the best word, but I've surely improved at a lot of things. About being the best at fuel economy - well, all the others who wrote about the run, wrote numbers from worlds apart. Except for shiNIN, who beat me in the end. All her tanks were a little better than my ones, except for the last one, which was worse because of the strong wind and the hurry of the last day. Which proved to be the trickiest part, with the worst, narrow bumpy roads, one of them I don't want to see anymore, even in my nightmares: the road is one lane "wide", it's full of huge potholes, gravel, broken twigs and surprise sharp turns... it's outright dangerous. The numbers for the trip itself are (they're different to the log in Teresa's case due to the fill-to-fill method I used instead of the usual light-to-light one): Ciliegia: 12.45l for 462.5km - 2.69l/100km = 87.379 US MPG 13.11l for 489.8km - 2.68l/100km = 87.878 US MPG 12.47l for 455.3km - 2.74l/100km = 85.88 US MPG 4.83l for 158.3km - 3.05l/100km = 77.115 US MPG (estimated - somewhat better than the tank finished next day) ------------------------- 42.86l for 1565.9km = 2.737l/100km = 85.93 US MPG Teresa (in Ciliegia-kilometers too, the difference is roughly 1.4%): 12.62l for 458.3(464.7)km = 2.75(2.72)l/100km = 85.41(86.60) US MPG 13.29l for 482.7(489.8)km = 2.75(2.71)l/100km = 85.43(86.68) US MPG 12.65l for 449.4(455.7)km = 2.81(2.77)l/100km = 83.56(84.73) US MPG 4.60l for 155.6(157.8)km = 2.96(2.92)l/100km = 79.56 (80.68) US MPG (estimated - same as the tank finished next day) ------------------------- 43.16l for 1546(1568)km = 2.79(2.753) = 84.25(85.45) US MPG (Tired of math) |
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Took the DosEquis out today for a spirited ride.. among some fast company
https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...59ab5704af.jpg 14 year old machine did not disappoint, still pushing the pace among the Hayabusa.. |
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Visited the WWII Weekend event in Reading, PA today.. before the rain started
video of Fake Stug III in action: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...b0097df8b4.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...0206d01f86.jpg video of B-29 taking off: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...0445a5c2f8.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...3976301cd9.jpg Red Army troops: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...7b31c32658.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...4f0ef8682f.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...33b54db272.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c4d422cd22.jpg |
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Bikes:
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Great pix, wish I could have been there:thumbup:
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That cannon-towing scooter thing looks funny :D
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Picked up another salvage bike, this one cleaned up nicely:
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Tatra Quick Visit
(part one) So we had a short and 'low cost' trip to the High Tatras, to see the (probably) closest 'proper mountains'. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...b74b801c73.png The plan was to travel through preferably small and twisty roads, and definitely NO motorways (they're no fun, even though they are free for motorcycles in Slovakia). Thanks to the range of our bikes we could just 'skip' Slovakia in the hope of the cheaper Polish gas. This was our first trip to a non-neighbouring country (to Hungary, I mean), though we really hadn't seen much of Poland, except for some nice mountain roads and tourist-infested towns and villages. We entirely crossed Slovakia, though. First day's target was Tatransk? Lomnica, below the Lomnic Peak (2634m/8643ft). As we couldn't book a room cheap enough 2 days before the trip, we brought a tent with us too. It was a nice little challenge to place it so it wouldn't deteriorate Teresa's aerodynamics even more (I'm bad shaped enough sitting in the saddle :D). In the light of the tank averages it wasn't a huge fail. The Hungarian leg of this route was familiar to us, even a bit of Slovakia (until we finished our breakfast in front of a store in Sahy), and there are nice roads in this first leg too (like the Slovak road 564). I took the first picture of the trip here: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...969f4dc2bd.jpg Hungarian headline, with Chinese text. And this all in Slovakia. The next few were made after a short detour through a narrow and quite bad road (patches of gravel were scattered around) trhough Zajezov?: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...8363a7af5b.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...fd68fc72a6.jpg On the way back we took a few next to V?glask? Huta - Kalinka too: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...1df78b5b37.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...efab52bf15.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...20049968e6.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...0d84b62cb4.jpg We can thank this detour to the Slovak military - a road I wanted to ride through was closed with a barrier, and a guard house. In the guard house I could phone with someone who knew Hungarian (English didn't prove useful there). What the map shows: a village in there, with all the roads leading to it closed - was true. It looked so nonsense I didn't even believe it, but that someone in the phone confirmed it. The next leg (after a bit of road 50) is a nice treat for the bikers. Though it's hard to stop anywhere to take pictures, the road 529 itself is great, it's full of nice curves and the pavement is good on most of this stretch. It runs mostly in the forest, but sometimes you can see the valleys below, and even a small lake. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...d8c9be1279.jpg Then the treat continued, after a town called Brezno (the photos were taken next to the town). https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...5962d9d456.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...de5347f674.jpg The next 'wave' were the Low Tatras: the nicely meandering Road 72 crossed the mountains at a 1232m/4042ft high pass, making miles of FAS possible after the climb (I still prefer gliding to engine braking until it's too hard on the brakes). The new dropout bearing passed the test. The scenery from the pass: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...0278290f9f.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...6d3d03d479.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...504cb43510.jpg And the north side, on the way back (it was really beautiful): https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...b626a97393.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...4d6cb8de9b.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...7bbe71b712.jpg |
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The next mountains were the High Tatras themselves. The peaks are all crammed in a small area and the mountains have a very distinct, steep edge. Approaching them, as they pierced the clouds, felt similar to seeing a really, really big monster in a dream. I mean, they felt high. They even dwarfed the Necrogiant for Painkiller.
The road 538 needed hairpin bends to get up to the line of mountain villages at 800-1300m, then the road 537 runs through them all, with cute, mild bends. The villages' names are poems in themselves, like Tatransk? Zruby, Vysok? Tatry Dolny' / Stary' / Horny' Smokovec or Vysok? Tatry Tatransk? Lomnica. It was a game to guess whether we were inside one of them. The signs marking their beginning were spartan, when you saw "some (long and incomprehensible) black Slovak text on plain white background", you had better slow down, that had may been a village you just had entered. After setting up the tent we went on a stroll back to the village. The campsite was outside, a few kilometers south from the main street, and a bit more from the cable car station. A very nice trail connected it to the village: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...35af264284.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...f162961d43.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...08cfe863f3.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e4c4dd3e84.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...aa5ffd4045.jpg We tried some local food too, cabbage soup, Pyrogs with Bryndza (Slovak sheep milk cheese), steamed dumplings and Zlaty Bazant beer. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c3f36077fc.jpg (Steamed dumpling, one of the foods I think to have the funniest names - in Hungarian, at least: it sounds like it was made of steam :D) On the way back we ran into a HUGE deer in the darkness, inside the village. Needless to say, I took a lot of pictures of the mountains, the Lomnicky St?t (and the Slavkovsky St?t, I guess), in the evening, in the morning, wide angle, normal, and close-ups (up to 300mm, great tool for scenery :D) https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...0840f0d472.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...3caf34e023.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...dc572aed68.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...4ed500c368.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...b72366cc5c.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...46bfb8be35.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...2b85282fdf.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...01ea8a5f03.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c982297761.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...36f1d3fe6c.jpg After setting up the tent we went on a stroll back to the village. The campsite was outside, a few kilometers south from the main street, and a bit more from the rail car station. A very nice trail connected it to the village: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...35af264284.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...f162961d43.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...08cfe863f3.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e4c4dd3e84.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...aa5ffd4045.jpg We tried some local food too, cabbage soup, Pyrogs with Bryndza (Slovak sheep milk cheese), steamed dumplings and Zlaty Bazant beer. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c3f36077fc.jpg (Steamed dumpling, one of the foods I think to have the funniest names - in Hungarian, at least: it sounds like it was made of steam :D) On the way back we ran into a HUGE deer in the darkness, inside the village. Needless to say, I took a lot of pictures of the mountains, the Lomnicky St?t (and the Slavkovsky St?t, I guess), in the evening, in the morning, wide angle, normal, and close-ups (up to 300mm, great tool for scenery :D) https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...0840f0d472.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...3caf34e023.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...dc572aed68.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...4ed500c368.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...b72366cc5c.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...46bfb8be35.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...2b85282fdf.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...01ea8a5f03.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c982297761.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...36f1d3fe6c.jpg First day was 376km/233.6mi according to google maps. The bikes will never agree, even with each other, so let it rest :D |
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Second day
https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...bf2faa958c.png Our plan was to ride around the High Tatras (there is no road that would cross the central, steep and rocky area). Teresa's low fuel light had been on since the top of the Low Tatras (it came on at 387km/240.5mi), so I was a bit (not too much) worried not knowing the exact distance to overcome, but I trusted my calculations. Zakopane was quite close, after all. So we got round the mountains from the South and East, now I know where we should have stopped (yes, it's still a huge problem for me to reconciliate riding and photography :o), and reached the Polish border. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...7b8d6db162.jpg For some reason cars were queueing there, thankfully not in our direction... and when the queue ended we found a parking spot next to the serpentine road (practically a gazebo). It was full, of course; good that the bikes are so small. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...5cf187c3c9.jpg Zakopane, our 'target' was awful. It might be a nice place, but it was crowded, teeming with tourists, showing the face of a busy city (while it's not a big town, really). Here we finally found a fuel station and filled up the bikes - it turned out that Teresa still had a lot of fuel to go (and Ciliegia had even more, not having 80km of commute and city trips back in Hungary). The main sight in Zakopane and the neighbouring tourist villages was the local architecture, the tricksy houses that sometimes consisted of many floors and full roof. I don't know how they're insulated, but I'm quite sure they need it, winters can be cold up there. Even the parking attendant's booth was built in this style. https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...7c9ee0ef33.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...52fae419cb.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...1b7846a64c.jpg We stayed in Poland till Chochol?w, took a little detour to a side street to eat a bit (we got food in a store where we were totally amused by the Polish texts - it's even more entertaining than Slovak village names :D) and get our first sheep. It has the name 'Zakopane' embroidered on its side. The second we bought on the Slovak side, it has the name 'Vysok? Tatry'. They are our Shanghai and Hourai, in a sense (Touhou hint here, please ignore :D). https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...4dbebe0077.jpg Next place I found really beautiful was the West road of the High Tatras. It has the number 584 if anyone would like to find it. It leads among fields and less steep hills, then goes up to ~1100m/3600ft again, and is just as twisty as any such road there. Of course I missed the parking place on the top, so here are a few pics from 'down': https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...3827ec5a74.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...c67bbfb073.jpg And on the way back to the campsite: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...35af90adf0.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...587a3b101a.jpg Tanks finished this day were: Ciliegia: 424.7km (263.9mi), 11.91l (3.146 gal): 2.8l/100km (83.875 US MPG) Teresa: 509.1km (316.34mi), 14.04l (3.709 gal): 2.76l/100km (85.29 US MPG) Third day The way home, almost the same route as forst day. We took a few more pics (many of the above were really shot this day). Road 537 on the South side of the mountains: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...367bb49f0d.jpg https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...e8d60a8a67.jpg And the most mountains I could cover with a single shot, before the blue haze covered them: https://www.fuelly.com/attachments/fo...dced5560ea.jpg The weather was hot when we left the mountains, especially when we arrived to Hungary in the afternoon. We haven't fueled the bikes again until the station closest to home. The finishing tanks were: Ciliegia: 521.2km (323.86mi), 13.78l (3.64 gal): 2.64l/100km (88.97 US MPG) Teresa: 517.2km (321.37mi), 13.45l (3.553 gal): 2.6l/100km (90.45 US MPG) |
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Nice trip. The steep roof lines are so the snow will eventually slide off if it got too heavy, instead of collapsing the roof.
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You are right, its not easy to insulate. I'm sure with modern building materials its easier and better than it used to be, and a light coating of snow on the roof does add to the insulation value. Its a trade-off. Would you rather have higher utility bills, or risk having your roof collapse in a severe winter?
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Neither... I'd rather have a simple roof.
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Here's some footage I shot on the 9th annual battlefield run a couple weeks ago:
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To update all -
I bought this earlier this year. Then lowsided, my first painful motorcycling experience, around mid July. Spent the last few months healing up and riding my Vulcan nice and easy. Finally got the Duke back on the road last week and now it has charging or fueling issues. Only did about 6k miles of riding this year. I did however make my two longest trips this summer. One pre-wreck trip I took the Vulcan from Cincy to Cleveland, over to Toledo, then back to Cincy. I few months later Indy MotoGP was in town around August so I took the Vulcan up there and back. Good times! Hope you all faired better than me this year of riding! Next year - FZ6 will probably be added to the garage, the Vulcan may leave or the Duke, haven't decided yet. The Duke is too much of an instigator to bad ideas!!! Supermoto is fun but I lack the self control required. |
Glad you came out of your accident ok. I've had some close calls, but nothing serious on the bike has happened so far.
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There is a slightly steeper learning curve with lightweight bikes that have good power to weight ratio and sticky tires.
Makes you feel like a superstar when tires are warm and sticky, but once beyond the limit, you better know how to recover quickly. Duke is somewhat of a unusual bike, not many of them around; the older ones are starting to become difficult to get parts. I would sell it if you can still get decent $$ for it. But since it's been down already, certain replacement parts are not likely to be vilable, I'd just ride it to the ground until it explodes. Which could be a long time for those LC4 engine KTMs. |
Yes, I already cannot get some parts to repair the bike back to 100%. I'm thinking of changing it up a bit, new headlight assembly (from a super duke) and just putting a "beek" on it instead of the front fender.
I really like the Duke, it's just a bit too radical a bike for me. 55whp and 315lbs is a BAD idea when you live near all these tight twisty KY country roads. I miss my smooth predictably slow but agile little Ninja 250 and I'm back in the market for one. Between that and an FZ6 for more sport-touring long distance work, I think I'll sell off the Duke and Vulcan for now. Spring will be here soon and I'll know my next move then. |
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