NinjaDoc

Last year I went to India. There was a village close by which mainly depended on farming for livelihood. Unfortunately suffering from drought and no rain for few years. They were drifting into hardship and asking for help. I drove by found a suitable location, pretty good road loop nearby. Chose a good weekend date and posted an OR epic ride right there and then. Told the villagers to be ready for divine intervention. And exactly on the date of ride it started raining.crops sprout famine abolished kids playing harvest booming and Everyone lived happily ever after.

Maybe Justin’s old bike

That’s pristine ... paristine and rare 👍

Good to see all the faces pop up, Few more folks reply to this thread and we can declare OR is back in full swing. After all this whole fiasco was not in vein

Is there a way for it to be merged below the new thread Muckles started? I know he loves to plan stuff like these. That way rest of the folks who replied in there get notified of new reply and such.

I think what @Muckles was trying to say is people with really loose flexible inner and thick outer can break and squeeze into the OR circle and feel at home. I believe Muckles is one of them, most folks who skim through the threads won’t get the inside jokes and banter and overall feel of this forum. And hence hard to get new members. But... the big butt question is, just like anything in this world. Where do we draw the line... thin margin between over moderation and having relaxed easy fun, may be just have the intro thread visible to new members until they have 3 new post something like that, by then we can do our welcomes and stuff and then show them the brutal battle royal waiting for them.

Not trying to stir the pot, and I did not get to read the full thread before it was closed so I don’t know what transpired in there that it deserve to be closed. So I’m not pro or against closing as I don’t have enough information. Just as a continuation of discussion, posting up my thoughts. most forum esp OR is an eclectic group of folks coming together and sharing ideas / discussion / arguments etc a thread and it’s further reply constitutes a conglomeration of ideas from various individuals. The whole thread takes a meaning of it own, has a value of its own. Thus the Value of whole thread with its replies takes a far more value than just the opening post, opening post is just what it is ...an opening , like some guy who walks into a hall full of people and saying “hey what’s up, how’s weather” The thread belongs to everyone who posted in there and even a bit to every member in forum who joined / logs in daily and reads these. They all have their own value in keeping this place rolling. my humble opinion (which prolly doesn’t matter) is going forward in future let’s keep the threads open, if OP wishes to erase his post and thread mods can help him. Let the rest of the discussions which folks put effort to come up with ideas and took time to type it out stay here. If majority of thread is highly inflammable and pure toxic with no productive value what’s so ever, I agree closing and hiding makes sense. But for OR that’s a pretty high ceiling to touch. By now literally all of us know each other on personal basis and know exactly where the posts are coming from. From a funny angle or vicious Inner negative angle. As for this thread the last I seen was all productive posts, esp a planing and involving thread with many folks who are usually silent coming forward to participate to bring together a ride. That should have stayed and the requested posts or dubious post could be edited out. Anyways I don’t know the specifics nor the technical difficulties in achieving that, genuinely trying to discuss pros and cons.

You good panda, no worries. But Yes i can’t get any sleep thinking about this, someone explain

Dayum that was exciting 👍

Thx for sharing B. Other than passing through, I missed out on exploring Kentucky all those years I was in Ohio. Missed out a lot from the pics.

You probably seen the radar in this area right, kinda mushy wet hit and miss rain every day. But up in the mountains it looks promising

Don’t know if it’s true or not but my feeling was Honda was too proud and kept making motorcycles that it thought the world needed. They wanted to determine what was good for the rider. Made good stuff but never clicked and priced it to a premium point. The value of which you will only understand once you own it and ride it, never on paper Eg vfr1200 And thus it suffered but recently I have a feeling Honda changed and started making bike what the people wanted, changed design language to fit current trend as well. Eg Cbr naked bike comparison from past generation to current. Also the whole bikes they started building based on current trend I assume. Prime eg new gold wing, put it right where it will eat away business from low weight Sport tourers as well as heavy weight long distance mile munchers. CRF 450 what the dual sport world was asking for long time. New Cbr 1000 with all the fancy gadgets and stuff, probably be the liter bike of the year. Albeit everything is still priced premium and people buy it as left over mostly

Long ago I used to make these rides easy.... coz I never slept. Gas station fuel up for bike 5 hr energy drink for me. Even if fun Was not at all best good days of my life. Good thing I changed

Skinny guy 3....2....1 you guys and your over rated twisty roads phshhhh 😑

Tim I think I talked to you about this, left side I have space to work on more to pull back, after every shift i kind of expect the next shift coming up and lazily keep the feet right there. But the right side trust me I already am on the ball of my feet, I am not exaggerating when I say this, I don’t if it’s my weird feet shape. From the ball of my feet to the tip of toe it’s 2.5 inches . Plus shoes are one size up I think. This weird feet helps me run like a gazelle when I play soccer 🤣 but the feet sticks out like a sore thumb when riding .

Trailered it to gap for first time in life hehe and I would like to apologize to @MidgetTodd for making fun of him trailering and riding the gap all these years. This was a perfect family vacation with little bit of motorcycling added. I would wake up early and just few runs here and there the usual stuff, dragon skyway moonshiner etc, 4-5 hrs max and back in cabin and then family stuff by the time they are awake and ready to roll. So no exciting travel and routes for me. This worked well that family is happy to repeat this in future And never suspected I was having a ball, some speed limits were fudged ,laws bend, yellow lines dissected, RPM limits stretched, tires scrubbed edge to edge and heavy ear to ear grin intact. 🤙🏽🤙🏽 which is another plus 👍

Extremely capable machine, balanced power weight handling. It’s hard to describe, jack of all trades. Good in tight stuff and fast stuff. But Not as flickable as super moto in very very tight stuff or not as fast as super sport in longest high rpm sweepers. kind of real good in both worlds but not the best. Can hussle twisty roads or take it to race track. First bike I bought new since on paper everything was perfect for what I wanted. Advanced electronics in a light weight package was my main search. Will be keeping this for a long time since I love it that much (plus depreciation will be killer) all other bikes I bought and sold used with minimal financial hit. It’s a KTM already established a relationship with local dealer by getting more than needed expensive first service done here also tire changes parts etc. More than likely will be needing there help sooner or later 🤣

Did a quick trip to the smokies last week. Just wanted to do it when weather was nice and pretty much same time as our traditional June trip. Was riding solo everywhere and hence could stop for pics