Re: [ST] overdue ride report part1

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Absolutely.  Don't leave us hanging....

Dan
'02 Sprint ST
Beaverton, OR

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> Keep writing. 
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> Subject: [ST] overdue ride report part1 
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> > On 5/12/05 a somewhat daft 43 year old man decided to do an IBA 50cc 
> > with little planning except to print a few maps, arrange witnesses on 
> > each coast and fit new tires to his Triumph Sprint RS. I left 
> > Princeton, Illinois at 4:06am. 
> > The weather was 45 degrees, raining and windy. Seems every time I've 
> > done a ride I start in weather that is crap. My destination was 
> > Savannah, Ga so I had a 1000 mile warm up ride before the start of my 
> > 50cc. I figured since I had the warm up ride to do I'd pick up a ss2000 
> > or ss3000 during the coast to coast. The ride to Savannah was actually 
> > very easy and without any incidents. I arrived downtown Savannah around 
> > 10 pm Eastern time feeling great with no burning ass and thought this is 
> > going to be a piece of cake. I found a room and got about 4 hrs of 
> > sleep and got up Friday morning ready to roll at 4:00am. 
> > Upon leaving the room in a quest for strong coffee I discovered that the 
> > fog had rolled in off the ocean and I couldn't see more than 20 feet, 
> > GREAT F***in time this will be I thought. So I drank some coffee, 
> > smoked cigarettes and waited until a decent hour to call my east coast 
> > witness, pissed because I was burning hrs of time waiting to get started 
> > and I had no idea what to expect on this ride as far as fatigue and 
> > sleep were concerned. I did know that I had 50 hrs from 1st gas receipt 
> > to get to San Diego and get an end receipt. 
> > Around 6:30 I couldn't stand it anymore and call the witness and woke 
> > him up, said I was ready and he told me to meet him SOMEWHERE, 
> > directions were like a foreign language to me. I got lost in the fog 
> > and called him from the side of the interstate two times. He met me and 
> > escorted me to some obscure beach 30 minutes away to collect my 
> > traditional east coast sand and verified my mileage. We then went 
> > somewhere for breakfast, met up with a couple of other LD guys and by 
> > the time I got my 1st gas receipt it was 8:11 am and I was nuts to get 
> > on the road. So I was about 4 hours behind the schedule I wanted to 
> > start with. I took off for the dreaded Atlanta and traveled in fog for 
> > the first couple of hours and then it burned off. Once the fog was gone 
> > it started getting hot and I was feeling tired from being up so early 
> > and not getting much sleep. Atlanta came and went easily as did 
> > Birmingham, but the heat was really starting to beat me up. When I say 
> > heat I laugh now, it was in the 80's, but remember I am used to Illinois 
> > weather and it was in the 40's when I left there. I-20 is a horrible 
> > highway with countless bumps that also beat me up and somewhere around 
> > Shreveport I pulled off at a rest stop defeated. I was tired, hot, sore 
> > and generally had a piss poor attitude towards the whole ride. I called 
> > home and told my better half I thought I'd be calling it quits by night 
> > fall, but would keep going until I couldn't stand it anymore. She 
> > really felt bad for me because I was really looking forward to this ride 
> > and it had seemingly turned to S*** quickly. 
> > 
> > I'll do another part if there is any interest in reading this, so let me 
> > know 
> > 
> > TimE 
> > 
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