RE: [ST] Mid-trip report

["STeve Duncan" <xhippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Beckie,

So you should be home by now.  How about "the rest of the story"??

Hoped you enjoyed our Hill Country.  Bandera is as good a place to stay as 
any down thar :))  I think I was down there just after you were, when "all 
hell broke loose".  The ride home was cold and wet and windy.  But my worse 
day on a bike is still better than my best day at work.

Hope y'all made it home safe, let us know!

happy trails,

Steve
   Duncan
Dallas
   Tejas

'00 Sprint-ST
(the redhead)





>From: wisbyb@xxxxxxxx
>Reply-To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [ST] Mid-trip report
>Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 21:19:12 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi All,
>We are 2 weeks into a 3 week trip.  We left Oregon April 16th about 6pm,
>it began to rain almost immediately, finally got completely South of the
>crappy weather somewhere around Bakersfield the next day.
>We wanted to start out going over through Nevada and Utah, but it was
>snowing where we wanted to be, so headed South towards Hill Country.
>Five days into the trip, we were in Benson AZ, and to make a long story
>short, after pulling my rear wheel off the bike in the parking lot of the
>motel, discovered that one of the 4 pins had broken off and the holes were
>all ovalled (is that a word?) Anyway, we called the Triumph dealer in
>Tucson and they basically told us to take a hike. So we called Phoenix
>Int'l in Phoenix, Cory told us to come on in. They had me out in 24 hours.
>The parts were promised in 24 hours, so they robbed a wheel and pin off an
>RS they had on the floor.  I was really impressed with how they helped us
>in a crisis, and the owner, Peter, couldn't have been nicer. (Well, I
>guess he could have been, I didn't have a beer while I waited)
>Anyway, so with the bike fixed, we  continued on to Hill Country in TX,
>via Presidio, Lajitas, and Big Bend.  We stayed 3 days in Bandera, and the
>weather was great. The day after we left, all hell broke loose there, so I
>guess we lucked out.
>Today we rode from Salina UT over hwy 50 to Ely, then over hwy 6 to
>Tonopah NV. It was a rather pleasant road, except for the really long
>straight places.
>Tomorrow we head for Vegas for 2 days.  I have to win enough to pay for
>the new wheel I had to buy in AZ. Incidently, they said what caused the
>problem was the rear wheel not being torqued to spec of 146, so it ran
>loose.
>Take care, everyone, and ride safe,
>Beckie from Corvallis OR
>'01 Sprint ST brg, 37K today



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