Rocket Scientist
Grand Exulted Poobah
- Joined
- Sep 27, 2009
- Messages
- 6,832
- Location
- Spring Lake, Michigan
- Ride
- Black 05' Rocket III standard
Went on the 94th annual Spring Run with the Muskegon Motorcycle club. Missed a good part of the ride when my buddies Hardley $hit it's dress.
Here is me the day before spiffing up the ole' girl
The ride leaves from Mt. Garfield where they hold the pro hillclimb every other year. This picture doesn't capture the angle of the hill. When your standing at the bottom your nose is almost touching it ! They also dig huge ruts across it just to make it interesting.
There are usually around six hundred bikes that go. This is kinda the spill over area, to the right is where most of the bikes were parked. The misses didn't really get a shot of that area.
The bike in the bottom left of the picture is one that died. That's my buddy Lawrence. We've been friends for over 40 years. That bike came from down south. It was a hurricane Katrina victim. He bought it "as is". It had been completely under salt water. He got a deal on it but said what it cost him to fix it he could have just bought one that wasn't f'd up. He calls it Katrina.
The last pic is of the beginning of the ride. Wanted to get a pic of the line of bikes on the highway but the breakdown got in the way of that.
All in all not a bad day. Not real warm (50 deg F) but sunny and not to windy.
Here is me the day before spiffing up the ole' girl
The ride leaves from Mt. Garfield where they hold the pro hillclimb every other year. This picture doesn't capture the angle of the hill. When your standing at the bottom your nose is almost touching it ! They also dig huge ruts across it just to make it interesting.
There are usually around six hundred bikes that go. This is kinda the spill over area, to the right is where most of the bikes were parked. The misses didn't really get a shot of that area.
The bike in the bottom left of the picture is one that died. That's my buddy Lawrence. We've been friends for over 40 years. That bike came from down south. It was a hurricane Katrina victim. He bought it "as is". It had been completely under salt water. He got a deal on it but said what it cost him to fix it he could have just bought one that wasn't f'd up. He calls it Katrina.
The last pic is of the beginning of the ride. Wanted to get a pic of the line of bikes on the highway but the breakdown got in the way of that.
All in all not a bad day. Not real warm (50 deg F) but sunny and not to windy.

