Featured What you been doing with your TRIUMPH today??

Great photos. Where were they taken? On Friday we did Hunstanton, along the coast road to Wells and then home. 230 miles round trip.

 

Love your photos of your run to the Trossachs, Dougie. Your Rocket is looking stellar (as usual).

 

Stunning photos, @Markus!

 

Wow, what an eclectic ride, Dougie! Brilliant write-up and photos. Thanks for sharing your day and the photos of it with us.

 

Wow! Glenlivet Distillery looks amazing. My bucket list is growing longer........ Thanks a lot, Dougie.

 

Your deer experience definitely sounds "pucker-inducing", @Mrs Visor. But it sounds like you handled it beautifully. Thanks for the report and photos. I really enjoy reading about how you're feeling and what you're learning as a new rider.

 

Good effort, Neal! Thanks for stopping and snapping.

 

@Sandi T: Thanks Sandi!

 

@Neal H: Your photo stops definitely paid off! Many thanks for it!

 

The weather in Austria currently has 2 seasons in one day, so I also change my bikes depending on the time of day. In the morning when arriving with the TIGER to the office it had -2.5 degrees Celsius and on the return trip in the early afternoon 18 degrees Celsius. Just crazy! The afternoon I have then also immediately used to make with my wife and our BONNIEs a 170 km ride in the neighboring province.

The village LOCKENHAUS:






2 cups of peppermint tea with a delicious cake.

 

Speedy was next up in the ride queue, so after catching up on household "stuff" that piles up (literally and figuratively) while on holiday, I mounted up and headed out the door. It was a beautiful sunny day and the temperature reading on my screen indicated 70ºF.

I decided to ride over to Old Pueblo Harley-Davidson. I always love riding my Triumph to one of the H-D dealerships. And, conversely, sometimes I ride one of my Harleys to the Triumph dealership. One of the reasons I rode to "OP", as we fondly call it, was to say hello to Roe, a good friend of Mr. Sandi's and mine. Just last week he was hired on at the General Manager! When I first met Roe about twelve years ago, I was a brand new rider and he was the Service Manager at Tucson H-D and then the Sales Manager. For the short while that I was a motorcycle salesperson there, he was my supervisor. In the years since, he and his wife, Shelly, have become very good friends of ours. If you saw my thread this past December about our over-nighter to Bisbee on the bikes, it was Roe and Shelly that we traveled with.

Old Pueblo is a bit smaller than THD and it's slightly longer mileage-wise to get to than THD. But with Roe at the helm, I'm likely to switch allegiance and start patronizing OP mostly. It's a beautiful little dealership and was only built about six or seven years ago, I think. When I pulled in today I was surprised to see that they have so many used bikes that they've parked a number of them in the motorcycle designated parking spaces in front of the breezeway.




There were two motorcycle parking places to the left of where I originally parked so I moved my bike to one of them lest someone in the market for a used bike put an offer down on Speedy while I was in chatting with the OP guys. The purple parking spaces to the left of my bike are "Wounded Warriors" spaces, part of the Wounded Warriors Project that supports veterans wounded in the line of duty.


I snapped this pic of a lightly used (2,800 miles) Fat Boy for my riding buddy (and boss), Leila. She and I went for a ride together shortly after I got El Gordo and that sealed the deal for her. She said that she's always like Fat Boys (motorcycles, that is) and, in her words,, "I'm gonna get me one of those one of these days".


Roe just started as GM a week ago and he said he's really liking it already. He recently purchased and restored an '80's FXRT. I don't remember what specific year it is but he got it from a seller in New York. Now it's his commuter because he said he can hardly ride his BMW 850GS to work as El Jefè at the dealership.

I asked him if I could snap a photo of him with his bike and he said yes, if I'd let him take one of me sitting on it.




The FXRT is clearly the inspiration for Harley's "new" 2022 Low Rider ST. That and the American West Coast "tall bike" craze.



It was good to see some of the guys at OP that I've known for years. And it's always amazing to me how many employees leave H-D only to return. One of the service writers at THD that I became friends with and did some riding with just started at OP--at a mechanic! I also learned he's a dad for the second time and now has a five-year-old and....a three-month-old!

A short and sweet ride on a beautiful Arizona spring day. It's few miles farther to OP than THD round trip but it does take a fair amount longer to get there from our house than it does to THD because it's through all city traffic. But Mr. Sandi and I both plan to support OP and Roe. So now I guess I'll just have to ride there frequently to figure out the most efficient route.

 

@Sandi T: Thanks for your entertaining report Sandi! Great pictures as always! Our temperatures at home are coming up too.

 

@Markus we're experiencing similar temperature ranges too; it's a bit crazy!! That peppermint tea and cake looks delicious.

 

@Sandi T thanks for the write - up as ever, good job the Speedy didn't get sold!!!

 

As I’ve said elsewhere on the Forum, I am stuck in an Isolation cabin on a cruise liner in the Caribbean after being diagnosed with Covid. All
of your ride reports just seem like a million miles away from here.
The day I throw my leg over my bike will be a very happy day but gawd knows what hoops I’m going to have to jump through to get to that stage and to get back into the UK
To cheer myself up I’ve been looking through my photos so here’s one from a while back

 

I wish you all the best!!!

 

It was at the Desert Rats memorial just off the A1065 between Swaffham and Mundford.

 

Well, geez, @Oldskool, I'm just back on the forum after a week or so away so I hadn't known that you're trapped on a cruise liner in the Caribbean. That's just cruel--that ocean outside your cabin and you stuck inside. I'm really sorry to hear about your plight. I hope that you're not too ill and that you feel much better soon. And that you get home and back to that bike soon, too! Mr. Sandi and I were in Cozumel diving and saw a number of cruise ships in port. We had to get Covid tested within 24 hours of our flight and present a negative result to depart back to the U.S. Which is ironic since the Covid rates in the U.S are (or at least were) much higher than in Mexico. But we did NOT have to have a negative test to enter Mexico. Hope to hear soon that you're back in the UK safe and sound....and healthy.

 

I have a day off work today, using up annual leave. I have spent time out in the sunshine fitting a Powerbronze screen to my Striple. I dithered between clear, light tint and dark tint, but I am pleased with the look of the dark one.

 

Thanks Sandi .
Feeling pretty rough at the moment . We were in Cozumel two years ago . We had a few Mojitos and my wife managed to stumble and fall over the high kerbs on our way back to the boat. Nasty wound on her shin.
Accordingly, we rechristened the town Cozufell..!
Hope you had a great time.