WetLeather Motorcycle Rider Information

Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:44:11 -0700 
From: pete moss 
Subject: Re: Kinda Looks Like Martin

Kathy E Gill wrote: 
> :-) :-) 
> http://blog.cagle.com/daryl/2009/09/08/from-my-anti-socialist-mail-bag/ 
> (cartoon is below the discussion) 

fun post-work exercise, i did my best: 
http://petemoss.org/moto/for_martin.jpg SQUEEE! :) 

In 1991 I sold my Harley stock (purchased with the money I received when I sold the '79 R65), traded in my K100RT, and bought a new R100GS.

This picture was taken in Ludlow, VT on one of the NEDoD Leaf Peeper tours in the fall of '92 or '93. Deb is wearing her old BMW full leathers (since gone to a new home). I'm in one of several one piece Aerostich Roadcrafters I've owned.

Last summer (2007) I took a big loop trip to pick up checkpoints on the RCMC Grand Tour. I traveled to Vancouver Is, across BC to Golden, up the Icefields Parkway to the Glacier Visitor Center, down through Montana and Wyoming and back through Idaho and Oregon.

This was taken along the road back to Portland from eastern Oregon. Might have been near the "mountain finder" that's along Rt 206 (possibly??). If anyone knows drop me a line and I'll update this post.

That snow covered peak is always the first sign of home after a long trip.

My sole sidecar driving experience occurred at the BMW MOA National Rally in York, PA back in 1989. The guy who was importing Flex-it sidecars (or maybe making them; I can't recall) brought a K100LT rig to the rally and let people take it out for a parking lot spin.

It was one of the oddest riding experiences I've ever had. The thing felt like it weighed a zillion pounds and the bike handled with very high handlebar inputs. But it did lean and the bike did turn.

These are probably collectable now.