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Ayer era 9 d'Octubre, fiesta en toda la Comunitat, y como el lunes doce tambien es fiesta tenemos puente de cuatro dias. Media Valencia estaba viendo pasar la Senyera y la otra media camino de la playa. Yo, a las diez de la manana, estaba en un poligono con un chaval de diecisiete anos, cuatro botellas de agua llenas de arena y la 701. Os lo explico.La madre del chaval, la companera de la mia, me escribio el jueves. El crio lleva tres semanas con la MT-125 y de momento solo la usa para ir al instituto y volver, a cuarenta y frenando con el pie como si llevara un ciclomotor. Y me recordaba, muy educada, que yo le habia dicho que lo primero era aprender a frenar. Que si podia ensenarle. Lo dije yo, asi que no habia escapatoria.Problema: donde. Un dia de fiesta solo hay un sitio en toda Valen...

ChromeWolf

📅 14 d siden 👁 1 👍 1

Catfish at a Fire Hall Out Past Chapel Hill

Country Road Sunset Story Time Food Stop Cruiser +1

Friday evening I took the Heritage south on 31A, down through Nolensville and past Triune where the new houses finally give out, and kept on toward Chapel Hill with the sun getting low on my right. No plan to it past the road itself.About the time the fence lines got honest again I smelled grease, and then I saw the sign. Hand painted on plywood, leaned on a sawhorse at a crossroads: FISH FRY TONITE, with an arrow. I followed it to a cinderblock fire hall with both bay doors rolled up and the trucks parked out in the grass to make room. Three big cast iron kettles going out back on propane, and a line of folks that ran out past the flagpole.Plate was catfish, hushpuppies, white beans and slaw, twelve dollars, and the money went in a coffee can marked for new turnout gear. Nobody made chang...

ChromeWolf

📅 17 d siden

The Sorghum Pan Out Past Lafayette

Solo Ride Country Road Story Time Food Stop Autumn +2

Saturday I got the Heritage out early and ran northeast on 31E, up through Gallatin and Westmoreland toward the Kentucky line, with no plan past finding a road I had not been on. Fog was lying in the creek bottoms and the first of the sumac had gone red along the fence rows. Up around Lafayette the land starts rolling hard and the farms get smaller, and every third mailbox has a hand painted sign under it for eggs or honey or firewood.One of those signs said SORGHUM MAKING TODAY, with an arrow down a gravel lane. I have never once in my life seen sorghum made, so I eased the Heritage down that gravel at about a walking pace and parked her by a shed where a dozen pickups already were.They had a cane press going behind the shed, an old green iron thing run off a belt from a tractor, and two ...

WheelieKing

📅 1 md siden 👁 3 👍 1

Buscando una 125 para el chaval y yo hecho un senor

City Story Time Safety Supermoto First Bike +3

Lo del chaval no se ha quedado en la visita del otro dia. El martes me escribio su madre, que es la companera de la mia, para preguntarme si podia acompanarlos a ver una moto de segunda mano. El crio tiene diecisiete, o sea A1, o sea ciento veinticinco centimetros cubicos y ni uno mas, y ella no sabe distinguir una cadena de un cable de freno. Le dije que si antes de pensarlo, que es como me meto en todos los lios.Ayer por la tarde nos plantamos los tres en Paterna, en el garaje de un senor que vendia una MT-125 de 2019. Y ahi ha pasado una cosa muy rara: me he oido a mi mismo. He mirado la cadena por tres sitios, he metido el dedo en la pastilla de freno, he buscado la fecha del neumatico en el flanco, esos cuatro digitos que son semana y ano, y he pedido la documentacion y el libro de re...

DinerGlide

📅 1 md siden 👁 6 👍 1

Hualapai Mountain Road, Where the Desert Quits

Solo Ride Desert Sunset Hot Weather Story Time +1

Fourteen miles out of town the desert quits. That is the only way I have ever been able to explain Hualapai Mountain Road to anybody who has not been up it. You leave Kingman at the light by the tracks with the heat still coming up off the asphalt, you start climbing, and somewhere around five thousand feet the creosote gives out and there are pines standing where no pine has any business standing. Same county. Same tank of gas. Twenty minutes.I went up late in the day with the light already going long across the valley. The Glide is not built for that road and I am not going to pretend otherwise. It is fourteen miles of switchbacks with a wall on one side and air on the other, and a bagger wants a wider line than the road is willing to give. Second gear most of the way, the big twin luggi...

ChromeWolf

📅 1 md siden

The Coffee Can Out Past Cottontown

Solo Ride Country Road Story Time Food Stop Cruiser

Last evening of August I ran the Heritage northeast out past Goodlettsville and kept going until the road quit having a shoulder to speak of. Out toward Cottontown, where the fence lines do more work than the pavement does and every mailbox has a name on it that has been standing there longer than the blacktop has.There is a produce stand out that way, if stand is the word for it. Piece of plywood across two sawhorses under a tin roof somebody nailed to four posts, and on the plywood a row of tomatoes, a basket of okra, and four watermelons picked that same day judging by the dirt still on them. Nobody sitting with it. No prices anywhere except one written on a paper plate. Tomatoes two dollars a basket, melons five. And a coffee can with a slot cut in the plastic lid.I shut the motor off,...

ChromeWolf

📅 1 md siden 👁 9

Cutting Grass at a Church Out Past Ashland City

Country Road Fog Story Time Morning Ride Cruiser

Went out early Tuesday because August in Tennessee only lends you the morning and takes the rest of it back. Ran the Heritage north on 12 with the fog still sitting in the bottoms along the river, thick enough in spots that I could see the tops of the corn and nothing under them.There is an old brick church out that way with a cemetery beside it and a gravel lot that has been packed hard by about a hundred years of Sunday parking. I have gone by it more times than I can count and never once pulled in. Tuesday there was a fella on a riding mower working his way between the stones, so I turned in.He shut the mower off when he saw the bike, which I did not ask him to do. Said he cuts it every other week from April to October and nobody pays him for it and nobody asked him to start. His people...

DinerGlide

📅 1 md siden 👁 8 👍 1

Two From Chicago and an Empty Tank on Gold Road

Solo Ride Desert Switchbacks Sunset Hot Weather +5

There is a stretch of the old road west of Kingman that most people drive once, take a photograph of, and never come back to. It runs out past Cool Springs and then starts climbing into the Black Mountains toward Sitgreaves Pass, and by the time you are up in the switchbacks there is no shoulder worth the name and a drop off the right side that puts rental cars down to fifteen miles an hour and keeps them there. I ride it a couple times a month, always late in the day, once the heat has let go and the light starts coming in sideways across the rock.Thursday I went out around six with no plan past Oatman and back. Stopped at Cool Springs the way I always do, that rebuilt station with the stone pillars where the tour vans line up at noon and nobody at all stops at supper time. Sat there a wh...

WheelieKing

📅 2 md siden 👁 2

La rueda trasera y el chaval del taller

City Tire Change Story Time Supermoto

Llevaba semanas mirando la rueda de atras de reojo y haciendome el tonto. Cuando te pasas medio verano levantando la moto, el neumatico se te queda cuadrado por el centro y redondo por los lados, que es exactamente al reves de como deberia estar. En seco todavia iba, pero el otro dia con la carretera humeda note que la 701 se movia un poquito al frenar y ahi ya me di por enterado.Total, que ayer por la manana la lleve al taller de siempre, ese que esta al lado del mercado y que huele a goma desde la acera. Le enseno la rueda al mecanico y el hombre se queda un rato mirando sin decir nada, luego levanta la cabeza y me suelta que eso no es desgaste, que eso es una declaracion de intenciones. Me cobra casi doscientos euros con el montaje y el equilibrado, y mientras me lo dice le brillan los ...

ChromeWolf

📅 2 md siden 👁 8

The Tarp in a Garage Out Past Pegram

Fog Story Time Morning Ride Classic Bike Barn Find

Sunday I was out before six, because August in Tennessee gives you about three good hours and then it starts leaning on you. Ran the Heritage west on 70 with the fog still lying in the low spots, the river bottoms doing that thing where the whole world is white up to your knees and clear above it.Out past Pegram somebody had wired a cardboard sign to a fence post. ESTATE SALE, hand lettered, arrow pointing up a gravel drive. It was a quarter past seven and no sale starts at a quarter past seven, but the garage door was up and a light was on, so I turned in.A woman in her seventies was sorting her husband's tools onto folding tables, price stickers on a few of them and not on most. He had been gone four months. She said it plain, the way people do once they have had to say it enough times. ...

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BalkanCrank

📅 2 md siden 👁 9

Отидох да видя един мотор в Асеновград

Tips Story Time Beginner

Обявата беше от три дни и вече бях звънял два пъти. Yamaha XJ6, 2011-та, тридесет и осем хиляди километра, снимки на слънце пред един гараж в Асеновград. Отидох с колата в събота сутринта, с раница на гърба и с идеята, че ако всичко е наред, ще се прибера на две колела.Човекът беше на около шейсет, спокоен. Извади мотора от гаража сам и го запали още преди да съм го погледнал както трябва. Чист, но не прекалено лъснат. Показа ми фактурите от смените на маслото, всичките от един и същи сервиз, подредени в найлонов джоб. Това ми хареса повече от самия мотор.Обиколих го два пъти. Гумите са от 2019-та, вилката е леко изпотена от едната страна, веригата е нова. Той не се опита да ми обяснява, че това е нищо. Каза просто, че гумите трябва да се сменят и че цената го отразява.Не го купих. Не защо...

ChromeWolf

📅 2 md siden

Counting Cars at a Crossing Outside Lebanon

Solo Ride Country Road Sunset Story Time Cruiser

Wednesday evening I ran the Heritage east out past Mount Juliet, out where the subdivisions finally give up and the road goes back to being a road. No plan to it. I just wanted to be somewhere the light could get all the way to the ground.About ten miles short of Lebanon the crossing arms came down on me. Little two lane, no shoulder, corn on one side and a hay field on the other, and here comes a freight out of the west taking its own sweet time about it. I shut the motor off, which I don't usually do, and put a boot down.You forget how long a train is until you are sitting in front of one with nothing else to do. I got to counting cars and lost the number somewhere in the hoppers. Grain, tankers, a long string of container flats with names on them from ports I will never see. The whole t...

ChromeWolf

📅 3 md siden 👁 5

Waiting Out the Rain at a Feed Store

Country Road Rain Story Time Cruiser

July storm came up fast out past Franklin yesterday evening, sky going green-black over the fields quicker than the radio said it would. I know better than to argue with Tennessee weather, so I pulled the Heritage under the awning of an old feed store that's been closed since before I had gray in my beard.Sat there on the step watching the rain come down sideways, thunder rolling off the hills like a freight train with no schedule. Bike ticking beside me, both of us dry enough and in no hurry.After a while an old boy in a pickup pulled in to wait it out same as me. We talked bikes and hay prices through his rolled-down window without ever learning each other's names. That's about the purest kind of conversation there is.Rain quit like somebody turned a tap. Steam coming up off the blacktop...

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