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Re: [St] TEST



Hi Dan, took the ST. The Trophy will only give me 42-44 m.p.g. at best.?Glad the tire's doing well. Just give me a call when the front needs changing........



Don Kames

03 ST in ILL


-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Wetherington <dnlwthrn@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 4:24 pm
Subject: Re: [St] TEST




The real question is which bike did you take?  BTW, the new rear tire is
doing well.  No problems or balance issues.  Thanks again for the help!

Dan

On 10/23/07, dkamest110@xxxxxxx <dkamest110@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Nope! Just got back, yesterday, from Vintage Fest at Barber. Left(from
> 50mi. west of Chicago)?thursday at 4:30a.m. in the rain and thunderstorms.
> Rain till Mount Vernon Ill. then wet roads till Nashville, 25mph headwind
> all the way. At Barber weather was great! the racing, museum and swap meet
> even better!!! On the way down averaged 42 m.p.g. 715 miles in in 9 hours
> 15 minutes.
> ?On the way back...took lots of back roads, Tenn. and Kentucky have GREAT
> secondary roads! A day and a half was used getting from Birmingham Al. to
> centrial Illinois, when the temp. turned cool again. Stopped by Lynchburg
> Tenn.to take the tour of the Jack Daniels distillery, you just gotta do
> it!! Averaged 52 m.p.g. on the way back. Return leg was 933 mi.
> ?If you haven't been to Barber you gotta go, hundreds of bikes 1904-2007.
> And the best Lotus racing car collection in the States.
> ?Dennis Manning was there with #7 his 350 M.P.H. L.S.R. bike, and was
> giving 90 minute seminars on getting the record. Ran into Dick Mann in the
> swap meet, he was buying BSA single spares both unit and pre-unit, digging
> through boxes of of oily parts just like all of us.
> ?Well, going to go wash the bike now.
>
> Don Kames
> 03 ST in ILL
>
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