Friday, December 30, 2016

A Good Old Gal.

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One of my "girls" turns 40 this year.

"Miss Tilley!"  My 1977 KZ 750 twin, that I bought in original stock condition, 18 years ago from a lady in Oklahoma who's husband didn't like the fact guys whistled at her when she rode around town. They made a compromise and sold both their bikes. I was rather happy he was pissed that I took her old "junker" over his shiny late model V twin.
 This bike, with 97 thousand miles plus/ minus, has literally taken me all over the the Southern United States. Not too shabby for a $700 investment.




"catch ya on the road."
            (f)

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Short ride after the surgery

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Posted: Dec-29-2016

 I fully understand now when I hear people that have had heart surgery say they cant raise their arms or cant do anything. The muscles are shot! It's been a little over three months since the operation and it's a killer to just ride the bike. Feels like I have no muscle tone or control or whatever. The vibration from the handle bars just seems to wear me out. I spoke with a couple of specialists and they said that it was the same thing only different in that mine was mostly in my stomach and that I was most likely atrophied from the months of not riding, Etc.           
 This morning I packed up and headed out on the first  of a program of "exercise" rides to build it all up again. It was a really short ride by normal standards, 198 miles. But I managed to incorporate all the things I normally did when heading to one of my usual travel spots. Packing, pretrip  maintenance, camp setup, Etc. The theory is a workout everyday of what I use to do everyday.
 Like I said it wasn't much of a trip but I enjoyed it. It was cool last night, but apparently I slept through it. This morning I was a little stiff but that seemed to fade as I got going. Cooking breakfast seemed to loosen me up for some reason? Probably the coffee. Packing up and breaking camp seemed to take a little longer than normal but not as hard as I had expected.







 It was a good trip along back roads that went no place. 

   "catch ya on the road"
(f)