Saturday After Work "No Leathers" Ride

May 22, 2010
Fort Collins, CO

Finally! It was warm enough to ride without leathers on our Saturday after work ride. We hit 90 degrees just before Tim rode in after work. We rode for about two hours with temps in the 80s in our t-shirt sleeves. Then a cold front rolled through while we were still about 20-25 miles out, dropping temps about 20 goose-bump producing degrees in a matter of minutes.

Our 93 mile ride took us to Thunder Mountain where we picked up our Passports for a dealership game in our tri-state area. We will ride to 18 dealerships in Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, getting our passports stamped at each one. In September H-D will award prizes including a new H-D motorcycle and $50 dealer gift cards. All but one of the dealerships were already on rides we plan to make this summer, so it won't be hard to add that one to the list. It should be fun.

Pictured in this obligatory mountain shot is a cold front rolling in over the mountains that put a sudden chill on our Saturday afternoon ride. We rode toward it for a little while just to see what was going on in Lyons. Answer: Not much. I reckon anyone sitting at Oskar's (a favorite watering hole) took a gander at those clouds and did the same thing we did as soon as we made the short circle through town... they headed east toward sunshine.

On our way out of Lyons, we saw the bike in this photo sitting on the side of the road... Now, we've seen bikes that were loaded down but this one was something else... the stuff this biker was carrying didn't like much dragging the ground. Ha!

We took a sort of roundabout way home, passing down country lanes



and past this grain elevator in Berthoud, CO decorated with this colorful mural.



It was a great day to ride in Colorado.