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I attended Golden Aspen in New Mexico this Saturday. There were some fun twisty roads on the way and I must have spent about half my ride with a hand doing the wave. EVERYONE (and there were a lot of everyones) was waving.
On the way home on the same road--not so much waving. Not sure if we were all pooped or what. For my part I was spending so much concentration on going faster and leaning further that I didn't want to take my hands off the bars.
I got in some good rides. I'm more used to my Suzuki SV650s, which I've recently sold, and am trying to get comfortable on the Thruxton. By the end of the day I was much more confident in my tires and was achieving some turns I'm not embarassed were seen by hundreds of other motorcyclists. I came pretty close to finally wearing all the little nubbles off the outter rings of the tires. One usually great ride up to the top of the mountain was liberally gravelled this year, and I spent the entire ride doing 15-20 MPH through hairpin turns, thinking of every went-down-in-gravel story I've read. It was pretty scary.
The motorcycles were something of a disappointment. It was mostly Harleys, followed by Japanese cruisers, followed by about equal numbers of Gold Wings and assorted sport bikes. The oldest bike I saw was a late-70's CB750, and I didn't see a single Bonneville or other Triumph. I'm sure more interesting bikes were there, but I didn't see them among the sea of aforementioned Harleys. The dealer's tent reflected this cruisercentrism with Barnett HD taking up about 1/5th of the floor, at least five stalls selling black leather chaps, skid lids, and assorted HD patches, and most of the other stalls were peripherally related to cruisers as well.
So, was anyone else there?
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