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Got a little over 400 miles in today through the WV/VA mountains and BRP with @2talltim.

Some random pics...

Great time today, thanks for hosting Sam, I ate some great butt today. Good to see everyone, look forward to riding with everyone!

My daughter and I rode close to 300 miles today and had a blast. We spent about 5.5 hours on the bike. I think we will have a blast on our Tail of the Dragon trip this summer. After I talked to her about not trying to lean the bike and just to remain neutral we got pretty comfortable. I don't think the Q3s enjoyed the ride as much as us. I'm hoping with some extra preload added the next time they may not get as chewed up. Time will tell.

Adjusted valve clearances on the old Bandit. Had planned to do new fork seals but a friend stopped by to change his fork seals on a 1st gen SV 650 and he needed a lot more help than I'd anticipated. Helping noobs is one way I try to give back to the sport.

Had a great time. Thanks to all who were there.

Gawdayum pauly, looks like u shaped the day from shady cloudy to awesausem. Wish I was living closer to you so some of this pedal addiction dust settled on me.

Bummer nivin, hoped to see you. In other news, I pulled my pork! Well one of them. The first roast I unwrapped pretty much just fell apart. The other one, not so much....So it's in the oven at 250 for another hour or two in the hope that it will break down and shred. And my rub was a bit salty...A bit too salty. Brats will be great tho. And Pauly is bringing chip dip! Oh, and I fucked up while kegging the IPA and there's bits of hops floating around in it. All we need now is a tornado and a fatal bike accident and it'll be the last fucking NEO meat and greet I ever host. See you tomorrow. I may be slightly hungover.

Good times, great people, great food. Thanks again Sam, @CrazySkullCrusher for the hospitality. Here are the few pics I took today:

Sv650 are good bikes, epecially when you are first starting of out. Congrats on starting out with the BRC before jumping into motorcycle ownership. That is the way to go.

Home back in Westerville/Columbus. Great time seeing old friends and meeting new faces! Super delicious food and beer. I got rained on periodically headed up but nothing coming back. Warmer temps than I expected in the afternoon, so it felt great to shed the gear after putting the bike away. Geez the V-Strom felt heavy after playing with a Beta 350RR last weekend.

Late date, just got home an hour ago. I'm up, showered and let the dog out. Looks like I'll get a little rain on the way up so will don some ADV gear. I'm betting I'll be there about noon thirty, maybe a little before.

No silly, everyone knows that Jesus died and after 3 days he rose up...stuck his head out of the hole, and if he saw his shadow there was 6 more weeks of winter! Definitely February!

Gonna smoke a few of those left-handed cigarettes on your bike ride down?

Maybe with the fireworks and all, he was born on the 4th of July?!

I went back to the beginning a couple times just to listen to Isa purr.

Here is a very very short ride video from last sunday. Was just experimenting with some new stuff including new bike. Happy to report I got the desired outcome I was looking for. This means you can expect more of these kind of pure raw experience. My hope is to follow many of the riders from OR each with their own riding style and different bikes and hopefully keep things interesting. Please don't think I am stalking you guys if you end up getting PM from me regarding making plans for riding together Ended up making a new channel wanted to have a clean start / will be uploading all raw content here. / Hopefully u guys like this simple straightforward videos and support me with some subs and likes. Need to learn how to grow the channel for our very own Derek

Sounds great Doc, bring that bad boy to the Epic Ride next month!