We left Oakley this morning with Denver as our destination. We set out on the road and not even 30 minutes in we lose Gomes. I signal to Marco to pull over. We look back in the distance to try and find Gomes and we see a small dot that we believe to be Gomes. We wait it out and…
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Almost everyone we spoke with said the most boring part of our trip would be in Kansas. “It’s flat … there’s nothing … it’s boring” they’d say. We began dreading the ride through this state, especially since it would be the longest state we’d be crossing on the way to California. Well so far it’s the most scenic state we’ve…
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We woke up today to some not so good weather reports. Even though it won’t rain in Kingdom City until 2pm, Kansas City is already experiencing rain and the clouds are moving towards us. We take a quick trip to the local Walmart to make some purchases we needed and then come back and try to decide on whether to…
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When we were doing prep for the trip, I thought about bringing one of my swords, for protection of course. My personal favorite is my two-handed Lord of the Rings replica, Anduril, which is Aragorns sword in the films. Obviously space is limited on the bikes and only things that are absolutely necessary could come with us, so I sadly…
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Given the lack of clearance on the cross bar of the brackets on the R90 coupled with the added weight of all the gear, the rear tire was bottoming out. I had chopped an extra front fender off a CB550 and bolted it to the crossbar with some countersunk bolts. Turns out, the bolts weren’t sunk in enough, or at…
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It’s day three and we have made some really good time the past two days. If all goes well, today we will be a whole day ahead of schedule. For this we’ll need to make it out to Lawrence, Kansas. After getting ready and running through the same grueling routine of re-loading the bikes with all our gear we set…
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We’ve been getting an interesting amount of attention on the road for the bikes we decided to take on this trip so why not break down what we are riding. The Japanese Italian Bruno is on his ‘79 Honda CX500, the smallest of the three stallions but it’s kept up with no issue what so ever. It was purchased in…
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It’s only our second day in and we’ve all experienced our share of problems already. Marco keeps having some bike troubles, Gomes’ cargo net clips bent and broke due to the heat, and I . . . Well picture this. It was about an hour into the ride, Marco and Gomes are in front of me. We hit a stretch…
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It’s 4:15pm on the side of route 70 in West Virgina and my odometer reads 146 miles on this tank just before the R90 dies. It didn’t sputter or slowly lose power, it just died. Once we finish coasting to the shoulder of the highway I begin to worry about the dreaded electronic ignition issues I had been having a…
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If you had told me a year or two ago that I would be doing this today, I’d probably say you were crazy. But here I am. One day down, twenty nine to go. The plan was to leave my house sometime around 7am. Well 7am rolled around and I was still waiting for Gomes, who was headed to Marco’s…
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