Re: [St] TEST

["Dan Wetherington" <dnlwthrn@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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