digest number 13400

[achesley43@ymail.com]

Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads of gravel, broken up black top and good black top.  Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up the back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the KLR's present for the year.  As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate it on the go as per screen map plus and minus.  I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in the Truck.  Probably won't be much longer before I have to change out the chain and sprockets as the chain is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on going to down a tooth on the rear. Don't really want the tallness of the 16 front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll see.  Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and jetting kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 thousand rpm range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of that time in the 3 to 4 thousand range.  Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday. 

[Eddie]

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From: achesley43@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Reply-To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com>, To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Sent: 3/15/2016 5:47:11 AM Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Luvin my Old KLR still   

Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads of gravel, broken up black top and good black top.  Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up the back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the KLR's present for the year.  As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate it on the go as per screen map plus and minus.  I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in the Truck.  Probably won't be much longer before I have to change out the chain and sprockets as the chain is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on going to down a tooth on the rear. Don't really want the tallness of the 16 front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll see.  Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and jetting kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 thousand rpm range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of that time in the 3 to 4 thousand range.  Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday. 

[Martin Earl]

Andy and others-I am still loving my KLR as well.We don't have quite as many KLR days as the folks of LA have, but we get by, especially if we watch the forecast carefully. March in the Dakota's is a very fickle time; there was a weather window of 4 days and off I went! Temps were forcast to be in the mid-60's, with a brisk morning air. cough.I changed out my trail-gears of 14/46 for a 16/46; aired up the tires to 24f/26r, packed a few clothes and pointed the bike North. Logged 315 miles on Thursday on a trip from Sturgis, SD to Williston, ND.150 miles of that was near, continuous gravel roads that begin on the N. side of Belle Fourche, SD which wind up through buttes, prairie, and wadi's speckled with open-range cow pies, conditional gravel roads (is some places) that resemble marbles over glass, and 'edge-traps' created by cattle trucks squeezing soft gravel roads up between the dual-wheels. The wind was 25+ mph tailwind which made the riding more enjoyable going N. ah, not so easy going South on Saturday. shrug. I traveled near the area of the now-more-famous Hugh Glass, and his bear mauling experience. (Movie: The Revenant)I did not see any signs of Hugh, Leo, the movie company or angry bears. I guess I should look harder or slow down so the bear can at least get a glimpse of the KiLeR. There were an abundance of Golden Eagles (soaring), Pronghorn Antelope, Mule Deer, some White Tail deer and a few Prairie Dog towns without much activity, and of course, cows and calves; many of the mothers of all species having recently given birth. None of the critters move much with the wind is blowing. My guess the (hungry) Eagles are looking for fresh animal births that were not protected or were stillborn. Still to early here for vultures which migrate on the big-winds out of the South...my Missouri KLR brother =m2, tells me he is seeing buzzards in central Missouri, so Spring is not far behind. Two years ago, I was in middle Tennessee and noticed a huge crowd of vultures, some in trees, some on the ground, harassing a cow in a farm-field along the Natchez Trace. Her calf was dead, and the vultures were in the mood for converting calf-flesh to buzzard scat.It was the big circle of life being completed on the TRACE as well as here on the prairie. Same story, just a different location. I visited our friend Ross L. who lives in Williston, and works in the BAKKEN oil fields supplying fork lifts of all sorts and variety's. Oil field work has noticeably slowed down significantly as evidenced by the low number of trucks on the highway, as well as the minimum amount of cycles you spend at a stop light.Ross tells me that people just abandon their apartments and contents as the availability of U-Haul trucks prohibits some folks from taking their worldly belongs home, to where ever that might be now, or next. Williston (community) has gone through a huge boom to a nearly identical bust. Many, many apartments are left in various states of construction, unprotected from the elements and will be 'dust' in short order if the roofs and windows are not installed. From some appearances, it is already to late for many construction projects that I could see. The N/S ride home on Saturday was a parallel-offset ~20/30 miles into the Montana side of the Dakota's state line, resulting in an increase of ~35 miles for the return trip.Forecast wind for Saturday, was about the same as Thursday, 25+ mph, with G38; temps did not reach 45F until 1000 so we were not in much of a hurry to get cold! Ross rode with me ~100 miles West, then South, to the I-94 interstate where we parted company. I noticed in the first 100 miles (about 25 washboard gravel) that the steering head bearing seemed to be a little loose, and turned out, they were loose enough that you could feel them unload in the washboard section. I elected to stay on paved roads for the next 235 miles. The Montana prairie is also returning to life slowly; it is possible that we are still a good five weeks or more of Spring blizzards, or Spring rains if the weather forecasters are correct in their assessments of el Nino. The gravel roads are presently a very dusty affair, as though it were middle summer. It would be nice to see some rain in the upper plains states, perhaps the el Nino will do some good here soon. The middle South is feeling the brunt of that now, and if the jet-steam brings down the cold, el Nino will bring the snow...and delays to KLR riding.... The rain falls on the just and the unjust. (Matt 5.45) Perhaps it will come soon. and so it goes.m1. [img]https://ec.yimg.com/ec?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipmcdn.avast.com%2Fimages%2F2016%2Ficons%2Ficon-envelope-magnifier-orange-v1.png&t=1571810436&sig=Ym6T_jMAlKvhT9X_SPUnNA--~E[/img] 0 viruses found. www.avast.com

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:47 AM, achesley43@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads of gravel, broken up black top and good black top. Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up the back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the KLR's present for the year. As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate it on the go as per screen map plus and minus. I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in the Truck. Probably won't be much longer before I have to change out the chain and sprockets as the chain is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on going to down a tooth on the rear. Don't really want the tallness of the 16 front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll see. Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and jetting kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 thousand rpm range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of that time in the 3 to 4 thousand range. Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday.

[souperdoo]

Martin,

Can't help but wonder if you passed through either my home town (Sidney) or my family's home(stead) town (Medicine Lake) on your way back from Williston.

Haven't been there since late 2000, but would like to take the KLR there later this year. Sort of a pilgrimage, if you will.

Couple years ago I rode through Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming up to Red Lodge, but then turned around and went out through Yellowstone into northern Utah and out to Nevada (but stopped and made a run at Bonnevile; got off the bike, walked out on to the salt flats, and ran for 100 feet) down through Ely and Vegas and back to SoCal.

Tom

[Martin Earl]

Tom,cough. you made me get a map out...don't you just go a general direction for 3 fuel stops, and then look L/R and see if you should ask for directions? wink.Just so you know, I carry paper and GPS maps. I never had the battery fail on my paper map, or have the paper map lie to me about a compass direction. You are correct, for the return trip: We did more than just pass through Sidney; we passed a 'pee' at Sidney, I am thinking, perhaps Ross left more than that, but our jaunt did not go N far enough to see Medicine Lake. The interweb photo's of ML are beautiful. Somewhere West of Williston we intercepted the 1804 to Sidney and hit the unpleasant cross winds that ruled for the rest of the day (in fact, the wind is howling even now), MT261 to Wibaux where Ross went East on I-94,then MT 7 to Ekalaka andMT 323 to AlzedaUS 212 to Belle FourcheSD 34 to Sturgis. Ross and I did Red Lodge, MT, Sept of 2014. I crossed the Bear Tooth Pass going N (to meet Ross in Red Lodge) before we were being driven to ground by a huge rain storm. We were planning to tent over night in the National forest, however, after 2.3 sec of deliberations, we opted to spend the night at that well known, favorite location of all adventure riders, Camp VISA. The Alpine Inn rapidly accepted our VISA and I think the evening ended with Ramen Noodles made over a microwave campfire. The following day, we left after a hearty breakfast burritio breakfast at the Alpine Inn, then going S over the Bear Tooth Pass that morning. We rode through Cody, WY and then through the Big Horns = a good time had by all inspite of the Brits on their rental BMW GS we met at the top of the pass, complaining about the weather (it sucked a little. wink) and that the pass was closed the day before when they tried to cross. "Really, I had no trouble on a KLR" which did not leave them amused. Who am I to say, "who doesn't like freezing rain and high winds with large drop-offs along the road edge." yikes. Ross was on a Triumph 800 Tiger XC so their pride was slightly assuaged. Pitching over the pass, we continued West, toCooke City just outside the Silver Gate (N. East Gate of Yellowstone ). where I knew there was hot chow, = something more than a can of limp noodles. cough.The place is the Buns and Beds-, N side of the road ~middle of the town.I had lunch there the day before, so I knew there would be hot chow to match the rain.We had a Cheddar Burger (or was it Cheddar Bomb?) The other feature that is combined with a Bear Tooth Pass experience is the Chief Joseph Highway, that basically connects Cody, WY and Cooke City, MT. Stop and read the historical signs and see how Chief Joseph used the terrain to escape the US Army, until, he didn't. m1. [img]https://ec.yimg.com/ec?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipmcdn.avast.com%2Fimages%2F2016%2Ficons%2Ficon-tick-round-orange-v1.png&t=1571810437&sig=mBY_EpXVKf_eS_6Yv37rUw--~E[/img] Checked by Avast Antivirus. www.avast.com

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:15 AM, ctschmitz@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Martin, Can't help but wonder if you passed through either my home town (Sidney) or my family's home(stead) town (Medicine Lake) on your way back from Williston. Haven't been there since late 2000, but would like to take the KLR there later this year. Sort of a pilgrimage, if you will. Couple years ago I rode through Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming up to Red Lodge, but then turned around and went out through Yellowstone into northern Utah and out to Nevada (but stopped and made a run at Bonnevile; got off the bike, walked out on to the salt flats, and ran for 100 feet) down through Ely and Vegas and back to SoCal. Tom

[itsdfoot]

Nice  Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S 6 active, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone-------- Original message --------From: "king9004@... [DSN_KLR650]" DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> Date: 3/16/2016 9:00 AM (GMT-05:00) To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [DSN_KLR650] Digest Number 13400   Nice insight to the Western Dakota's, thanks Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Tablet

On Mar 16, 2016 3:30 AM, DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com wrote: > > There are 3 messages in this issue. > > Topics in this digest: > > 1a. Luvin my Old KLR still    >     From:  achesley43@... > 1b. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still    >     From: Eddie > 1c. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still    >     From: Martin Earl > > > Messages > __________________________________________________________ > 1a. Luvin my Old KLR still >     Posted by:  achesley43@... achesley43@... >     Date: Tue Mar 15, 2016 2:47 am ((PDT)) > > Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads of gravel, broken up black top and good black top. > Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up the back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the KLR's present for the year. > As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate it on the go as per screen map plus and minus. > I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in the Truck. > Probably won't be much longer before I have to change out the chain and sprockets as the chain is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on going to down a tooth on the rear. Don't really want the tallness of the 16 front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll see. > Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and jetting kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 thousand rpm range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of that time in the 3 to 4 thousand range. > Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday. > > > > > Messages in this topic (3) > __________________________________________________________ > 1b. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still >     Posted by: "Eddie" edgyver40@... edgyver31906 >     Date: Tue Mar 15, 2016 4:00 pm ((PDT)) > > I sold my 2009 KLR in 2012 to buy a Yamaha Super Tenere 1200. > I > don't regret buying the Yamaha at all. But, there are plenty of days where it's > just a bit much and I miss the 650. > I did the doohickey, thermo-bob, Progressive suspension upgrade and a host of > farkles on the Kawasaki and it was a faithful companion for ne > > --- > New Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail replacement - get it here: > http://www.oeclassic.com/ > > arly 19k trouble-free miles.  (Barely broken in by some accounts!) > =) > > -eddie > Original Message: > From: achesley43@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> > Reply-To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com>, > To: DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: 3/15/2016 5:47:11 AM > Subject: [DSN_KLR650] Luvin my Old KLR still > >   > Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads of > gravel, broken up black top and good black top. > Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up the > back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the > KLR's present for the year. > As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate it on the go as per screen map plus and minus. > I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in the Truck. > Probably won't > be much longer before I have to change out the chain and sprockets as the chain > is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on going to down a tooth on > the rear. > Don't really want the tallness of the 16 front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll > see. > Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and jetting > kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 thousand rpm > range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of that time in the 3 > to 4 thousand range. > Hope to see more action on this old site. I still check it most everyday. > > > > > > Messages in this topic (3) > __________________________________________________________ > 1c. Re: Luvin my Old KLR still >     Posted by: "Martin Earl" mjearl4@... revmaaatin >     Date: Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:52 pm ((PDT)) > > Andy and others- > I am still loving my KLR as well. > We don't have quite as many KLR days as the folks of LA have, but we get > by, especially if we watch the forecast carefully. > > March in the Dakota's is a very fickle time; there was a weather window of > 4 days and off I went!  Temps were forcast to be in the mid-60's, with a > brisk morning air. cough. > I changed out my trail-gears of 14/46 for a 16/46; aired up the tires to > 24f/26r, packed a few clothes and pointed the bike North. > > Logged 315 miles on Thursday on a trip from Sturgis, SD to Williston, ND. > 150 miles of that was near, continuous gravel roads that begin on the N. > side of Belle Fourche, SD which wind up through buttes, prairie, and wadi's > speckled with open-range cow pies, conditional gravel roads (is some > places) that resemble marbles over glass, and 'edge-traps' created by > cattle trucks squeezing soft gravel roads up between the dual-wheels. > > The wind was 25+ mph tailwind which made the riding more enjoyable going > N.  ah, not so easy going South on Saturday. shrug. > I traveled near the area of the now-more-famous Hugh Glass, and his bear > mauling experience.  (Movie: The Revenant) > I did not see any signs of Hugh, Leo, the movie company or angry bears.  I > guess I should look harder or slow down so the bear can at least get a > glimpse of the KiLeR. > > There were an abundance of Golden Eagles (soaring), Pronghorn Antelope, > Mule Deer, some White Tail deer and a few Prairie Dog towns without much > activity, and of course, cows and calves; many of the mothers of all > species having recently given birth.  None of the critters move much with > the wind is blowing.  My guess the (hungry) Eagles are looking for fresh > animal births that were not protected or were stillborn. > Still to early here for vultures which migrate on the big-winds out of the > South...my Missouri KLR brother =m2, tells me he is seeing buzzards in > central Missouri, so Spring is not far behind. > > Two years ago, I was in middle Tennessee and noticed a huge crowd of > vultures, some in trees, some on the ground, harassing a cow  in a > farm-field along the Natchez Trace.  Her calf was dead, and the > vultures were in the mood for converting calf-flesh to buzzard scat. > It was the big circle of life being completed on the TRACE as well as here > on the prairie.  Same story, just a different location. > > I visited our friend Ross L. who lives in Williston, and works in the > BAKKEN oil fields supplying fork lifts of all sorts and variety's.  Oil > field work has noticeably slowed down significantly as evidenced by the low > number of trucks on the highway, as well as the minimum amount of > cycles you spend at a stop light. > Ross tells me that people just abandon their apartments and contents as the > availability of U-Haul trucks prohibits some folks from taking their > worldly belongs home, to where ever that might be now, or next.  Williston > (community) has gone through a huge boom to a nearly identical bust.  Many, > many apartments are left in various states of construction, unprotected > from the elements and will be 'dust' in short order if the roofs and > windows are not installed.  From some appearances, it is already to late > for many construction projects that I could see. > > The N/S ride home on Saturday was a parallel-offset ~20/30 miles into the > Montana side of the Dakota's state line,  resulting in an increase of ~35 > miles for the return trip. > Forecast wind for Saturday, was about the same as Thursday, 25+ mph, with > G38; temps did not reach 45F until 1000 so we were not in much of a hurry > to get cold!  Ross rode with me ~100 miles West, then South, to the I-94 > interstate where we parted company.  I noticed in the first 100  miles > (about 25 washboard gravel) that the steering head bearing seemed to be a > little loose, and turned out, they were loose enough that you could feel > them unload in the washboard section.  I elected to stay on paved roads for > the next 235 miles. > > The Montana prairie is also returning to life slowly; it is possible that > we are still a good five weeks or more of Spring blizzards, or Spring rains > if the weather forecasters are correct in their assessments of el Nino. > The gravel roads are presently a very dusty affair, as though it were > middle summer.  It would be nice to see some rain in the upper plains > states, perhaps the el Nino will do some good here soon.  The middle South > is feeling the brunt of that now, and if the jet-steam brings down the > cold, el Nino will bring the snow...and delays to KLR riding.... > > The rain falls on the just and the unjust. (Matt 5.45)  Perhaps it will > come soon. > > and so it goes. > m1. > > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_med ... =oa-2115-f> > 0 > viruses found. www.avast.com > https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_med ... =oa-2115-f> > > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:47 AM, achesley43@... [DSN_KLR650] < > DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Still love being out on my old KLR for afternoon rides down out back roads > > of gravel, broken up black top and good black top. > > > > Finally bought a new rear shock from Progressive and like it. Softens up > > the back a bit over our hash bumps in the roads. That was the KLR's present > > for the year. > > > > As per GPS, still using my Garmin 276c even though there are starting to > > get some dark streaks and smugges on it. I do have a spare that I can take > > the screen off it when the time arrives. Why Garmin has not made a good > > follow up to it for motorcycles is beyond me. I love being able to operate > > it on the go as per screen map plus and minus. > > > > I do have a Montana 600 also but mainly use it on me Suzy Bandit and in > > the Truck. > > > > Probably won't be much longer before I have to change out the chain and > > sprockets as the chain is starting to get fairly sloppy. Really thinking on > > going to down a tooth on the rear. Don't really want the tallness of the 16 > > front but would like just a touch more in that direction. I do have a very > > lightly use 16 so I could use it and the chain in stock and just go to a > > larger rear, But, that might end up costing me a longer chain. We'll see. > > > > Still loving the change in engine preformance with the KLX needle and > > jetting kit , plus the Ex Cam advance. Really woke it up in the 2 to 5 > > thousand rpm range when I run 99% of the time with the biggest amount of > > that time in the 3 to 4 thousand range. > > > > Hope to see more action on this old site. 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[souperdoo]

Martin, 

Ah, then, you appropriately enjoyed the Sunrise City (err, 'wee town' would be more appropriate). Beautiful place; you can stand on your roof and see all the way to Miles City if the wind doesn't knock you off. I hadn't been there in 35 years when I went back. All the streets that were unpaved when I was a kid were still unpaved. Seems they left the core of the town untouched and merely sprawled out to the south beyond where the DQ used to be.

My good friend Tim and I made the trip I spoke of. We left Lander and headed to Heart Mountain, then went back to Cody for the night. The next morning we rode up Chief Joe and over Bear Tooth. It had been raining a bit coming out of Cody and was damp and dark on Chief Joe. Going up the pass visibility reduced to about 20 feet with fairly heavy rain. My lap felt heavy and cold and when I looked down it was covered in small balls of ice. Hail, I think it was. It was raining heavily enough that I didn't notice that it was also hailing. Proceeding slowly, I noticed a driveway off to the left and took it, finding myself at The Top Of The World. He had coffee for a buck and I think I owed him $10 before I left.

Unfortunately, as I was trying to get out of my wet gear and into a dry martini (the shop keeper had none) I noticed Tim riding by. He never saw the place. I couldn't go after him and so resolved to leave as soon as the rain and hail stopped. That was another hour.

Tim got into Red Lodge and checked into the Yodeler Motel only to find I was not there yet. Knowing that I had been ahead of him and not having seen me along the way he came to the logical conclusion that I was dead, having run myself off the side of the road. So beside himself was he that he couldn't bring himself to go out to dinner.

Which was good, because I arrived about an hour later and we went out and had a nice dinner followed by pie and coffee, staying in the restaurant until they ran us out so they could close up.

The next day was much better going back over the pass and west to Yellowstone.

Tom

[Martin Earl]

Tom,Tried to send you a PM; I think your spam filter did not recognize my address and rejected my email. I have been across the Bear Tooth 4 times, on 4 different days. I think the one common denominator is it will be overcast, blue skies, calm, windy, 9 miles visibility, That includes tourista price gouging as well...not just a Sturgis phenomena. Not much Sunrise City for us...to cold to get out of bed to see a sunrise or be in a sunrise city; heck, Subway in Williston was not open at 740am due to the low volume of customers in the now barren, BAKKEN oil fields. I seem to believe we did witness at least 2 speed checks and a 'hot pursuit' in the span of a few minutes. Like Montana, many of the streets in less affluent Dakota prairie towns are still gravel, and what a mess when the wind blows = silt all over town and through every crevice of your home. It is difficult to get used to the wind, the wind blows all the time. Our home is located in a pass, so it is like living in a venture. The good news, depending on the prevailing wind during a blizzard, our home can have snow drifts upwards to 10+ feet covering our front door. Still, a great place to own a KLR for ~6 months of the year. Not so good this year for the snow machines, shrug. m1. [img]https://ec.yimg.com/ec?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipmcdn.avast.com%2Fimages%2F2016%2Ficons%2Ficon-tick-round-orange-v1.png&t=1571810442&sig=bUC0tQpSmsRQtG_iYTl4bA--~E[/img] Checked by Avast Antivirus. www.avast.com

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:07 PM, ctschmitz@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Martin, Ah, then, you appropriately enjoyed the Sunrise City (err, 'wee town' would be more appropriate). Beautiful place; you can stand on your roof and see all the way to Miles City if the wind doesn't knock you off. I hadn't been there in 35 years when I went back. All the streets that were unpaved when I was a kid were still unpaved. Seems they left the core of the town untouched and merely sprawled out to the south beyond where the DQ used to be. My good friend Tim and I made the trip I spoke of. We left Lander and headed to Heart Mountain, then went back to Cody for the night. The next morning we rode up Chief Joe and over Bear Tooth. It had been raining a bit coming out of Cody and was damp and dark on Chief Joe. Going up the pass visibility reduced to about 20 feet with fairly heavy rain. My lap felt heavy and cold and when I looked down it was covered in small balls of ice. Hail, I think it was. It was raining heavily enough that I didn't notice that it was also hailing. Proceeding slowly, I noticed a driveway off to the left and took it, finding myself at The Top Of The World. He had coffee for a buck and I think I owed him $10 before I left. Unfortunately, as I was trying to get out of my wet gear and into a dry martini (the shop keeper had none) I noticed Tim riding by. He never saw the place. I couldn't go after him and so resolved to leave as soon as the rain and hail stopped. That was another hour. Tim got into Red Lodge and checked into the Yodeler Motel only to find I was not there yet. Knowing that I had been ahead of him and not having seen me along the way he came to the logical conclusion that I was dead, having run myself off the side of the road. So beside himself was he that he couldn't bring himself to go out to dinner. Which was good, because I arrived about an hour later and we went out and had a nice dinner followed by pie and coffee, staying in the restaurant until they ran us out so they could close up. The next day was much better going back over the pass and west to Yellowstone. Tom

[souperdoo]

Martin,

I checked my account settings and discovered that my e-mail address was invalid. I've corrected it.

I'd send you a PM with the correct address but I am embarrassed to say that, though I've belonged to Yahoo Groups for many years, I don't know how to do that.

Tom

[Martin Earl]

Tom,I replied to your latest email.It still does not like your address. shrug.m1.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Martin Earl wrote: Tom,Tried to send you a PM; I think your spam filter did not recognize my address and rejected my email. I have been across the Bear Tooth 4 times, on 4 different days. I think the one common denominator is it will be overcast, blue skies, calm, windy, 9 miles visibility, That includes tourista price gouging as well...not just a Sturgis phenomena. Not much Sunrise City for us...to cold to get out of bed to see a sunrise or be in a sunrise city; heck, Subway in Williston was not open at 740am due to the low volume of customers in the now barren, BAKKEN oil fields. I seem to believe we did witness at least 2 speed checks and a 'hot pursuit' in the span of a few minutes. Like Montana, many of the streets in less affluent Dakota prairie towns are still gravel, and what a mess when the wind blows = silt all over town and through every crevice of your home. It is difficult to get used to the wind, the wind blows all the time. Our home is located in a pass, so it is like living in a venture. The good news, depending on the prevailing wind during a blizzard, our home can have snow drifts upwards to 10+ feet covering our front door. Still, a great place to own a KLR for ~6 months of the year. Not so good this year for the snow machines, shrug. m1. [img]https://ec.yimg.com/ec?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipmcdn.avast.com%2Fimages%2F2016%2Ficons%2Ficon-tick-round-orange-v1.png&t=1571810443&sig=9WrVlvKvJo.mEZnR77dvKA--~E[/img] Checked by Avast Antivirus. www.avast.com On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:07 PM, ctschmitz@... [DSN_KLR650] DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Martin, Ah, then, you appropriately enjoyed the Sunrise City (err, 'wee town' would be more appropriate). Beautiful place; you can stand on your roof and see all the way to Miles City if the wind doesn't knock you off. I hadn't been there in 35 years when I went back. All the streets that were unpaved when I was a kid were still unpaved. Seems they left the core of the town untouched and merely sprawled out to the south beyond where the DQ used to be. My good friend Tim and I made the trip I spoke of. We left Lander and headed to Heart Mountain, then went back to Cody for the night. The next morning we rode up Chief Joe and over Bear Tooth. It had been raining a bit coming out of Cody and was damp and dark on Chief Joe. Going up the pass visibility reduced to about 20 feet with fairly heavy rain. My lap felt heavy and cold and when I looked down it was covered in small balls of ice. Hail, I think it was. It was raining heavily enough that I didn't notice that it was also hailing. Proceeding slowly, I noticed a driveway off to the left and took it, finding myself at The Top Of The World. He had coffee for a buck and I think I owed him $10 before I left. Unfortunately, as I was trying to get out of my wet gear and into a dry martini (the shop keeper had none) I noticed Tim riding by. He never saw the place. I couldn't go after him and so resolved to leave as soon as the rain and hail stopped. That was another hour. Tim got into Red Lodge and checked into the Yodeler Motel only to find I was not there yet. Knowing that I had been ahead of him and not having seen me along the way he came to the logical conclusion that I was dead, having run myself off the side of the road. So beside himself was he that he couldn't bring himself to go out to dinner. Which was good, because I arrived about an hour later and we went out and had a nice dinner followed by pie and coffee, staying in the restaurant until they ran us out so they could close up. The next day was much better going back over the pass and west to Yellowstone. Tom