Speedtrip

Thats for you Bob.

Get any interesting farkles?

The Prophet

Thanks,

The day started out lousy, as I had a meeting in Chicago, which is 2.5 hours away, horrid traffic and sub-moronic drivers, and the streets are still pretty icy, etc. Sounds like fun eh?

Made it OK, and home in time for the family to take me out for a great steak dinner last night at Foxfire. Prime Rib, Chilean Cabernet wine, strawberry shortcake for desert. Oh yeah!

My wife got me these:


Motorcycle Hard Bags, Motorcycle Trunks, Luggage Trunks, Motorcycle Hard Saddlebags (Powered by CubeCart)

The ones in the middle of the second row. "LG". I also got the "Easy Mount" ghost brackets, which cost about the same as the bags!! This will be my third set of bags for the Bonnie, as I'm convinced the Bonneville was never designed to have saddlebags, and the rear shocks / pegs / fender / seat certainly don't make it easy. The factory bags are tiny (not that these are huge!) so anything more than one or two nights on the road is.. challenging(?). Add these two to hitching a small carry-on style suitcase to the rear luggage rack, and now we can at least have a couple of changes of clothes. Plus I get two extra Tailights.

I have to make my own bracket that the "Easybracket" will mount to. This will be a piece of 3/16" thick aluminum, three holes (Shock mount, seat bar 1, and seat bar two) , both with one inch sleeves/spacers to make the bracket straight/flush with the shock mount distance from the fender. If you look at the short video, the first bike is a Bonneville. Note these are the same bags, and note the rear view for the bracket concept.

I had asked for Flannel Shirts, as most of the "favorite" ones I have are worn out. So I got four nice shirts, and a sweater to boot! Not a bad haul.

I've already told the kids NOT to get us anything for Christmas, just show up for the party, as the economy dictates they be prudent and frugal.

I have enough stuff anyway. The only thing I want from the wife is a handlebar mount compass, from newbonneville.com. That way I can have even more exploratory fun on unknown, rarely traveled backroads and hopefully not get too turned around and lost.

Thanks again,

Bob

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motowebmaster

My Birthday is in December as well, that's unusual

Happy Birthday!

The Prophet

Growing up, I would very, very often recieve one gift, with the explanation that it was for "both your birthday AND Christmas".

Bummer!

That be known, in our house, we traditionally put up the Christmas Tree the day AFTER my birthday. My theory is to not distract anyone from this obviously important and most sacred day.

My birthday!!!

Point to ponder: The older we get... the less "stuff" we need. Lately, when someone asks me what I want for Christmas, etc. I'm very hard pressed to come up with something. Mostly, I enjoy all the kids coming over, and my two grandkids. We have a blast.

Ride Safe!

Bob

Jamie

Depending on the gift itself, I would not mind (MY birthday remaining scheduled in January). This time around, for both celebrations, I am gonna get the new, full-face Shoei XR-1100 helmet. Jamie