Our Motorcycle Rides 2010

December 31, 2010
Colorado, USA

OK - here are the totals for my numbers guy... 37,026 actual miles accumulated since the summer of 2008. According to HOG we have 36,277 miles (because of a glitch in the initial mileage reporting on the Heritage). 2974 miles between us and 40,000 miles. 3723 miles between us and the 40,000 mile patch. I can already hear Tim calculating in his noodle when we'll be able to sew on that 40,000 mile HOG patch - lol! It's gonna be fun getting there - that's for certain.

04/28/2010 Total 2008 Heritage Miles = 21168
12/28/2010 Total 2010 Ultra Classic Miles = 15858

Total Mileage 2010 = 17674 Woo-Hoo!
Total Ultra Classic Mileage 2010 = 15858
Total Heritage Mileage 2010 = 1816
12/28/2010 Today may be last ride of 2010 = 37 miles
12/26/2010 Total Mileage = 15821
12/26/2010 Might be the last ride of 2010 = 61 miles
12/25/2010 Christmas Day Dinner ride = 40 miles
12/24/2010 Christmas Eve Junk-tiquing ride = 26 miles
12/12/2010 Brrr... Chilly Sunday Ride = 60 miles
12/03/2010 Just a little lunch ride = 5 miles
11/28/2010 After Turkey Day Ride = 30 miles
11/07/2010 'Nother November Ride = 85 miles
11/06/2010 November Ride = 40 miles
11/01/2010 Total Mileage = 15340 miles
10/30/2010 Saturday before Hallowe'en Ride = 60 miles
10/24/2010 Breaking 15,000 ride = 100 miles
10/17/2010 Riding circles w/David for pie n coffee = 40 miles
10/16/2010 Great Fall Afternoon Ride = 60 miles
10/09/2010 Junktiquing on a Saturday Ride = 42 miles
10/5/2010 Dinner with Truckers Run = 28 miles
10/03/2010 Toy Run Sunday = 306 miles
09/26/2010 Likely the last Wyoming Ride = 178 miles
09/25/2010 Peak-to-Peak Color Ride = 191 miles
09/24/2010 BTGTW Dam Ride = 20 miles
09/19/2010 First Fall Color Ride 2010 = 164 miles
09/12/2010 Weekend Rides = about 60 miles
09/01-09/08/2010 Road Trip #3 - Texas HOG Rally = 2245 miles
08/25/2010 Total Mileage - 11077 miles
08/20-22/2010 Mini Road Trip = 679 miles
08/18/2010 Sunny and Hot BTGTWR = 30 miles
08/15/2010 Sunday Burgers & Ice Cream Ride = 91 miles
08/14/2010 Saturday Lookout Mountain Ride = 101 miles
08/08/2010 Mini Road Trip Day 2 = 458 miles
08/07/2010 Mini Road Trip Day 1 = 407 miles
08/03/2010 Total Mileage = 9144 miles
07/31/2010 Denver Passport & High Country Ride = 285 miles
07/25/2010 Sunday Passport Ride = 90 miles
07/15-07/20 Road Trip #2 - Five State Ride = 2438 miles
07/12/2010 Scootin' around weekend = 45 miles
07/11/2010 Just a short ride = 30 miles
07/10/2010 Scootin' around ride = 120 miles
07/06/2010 Total Mileage = 6065 miles
07/05/2010 High Country Ride = 275 miles
07/04/2010 Independence Day Ride = 110 miles
07/03/2010 Wyoming Passport Ride = 240 miles
06/28/2010 HOG Million Mile Monday High Country Ride = 207 miles
06/27/2010 Tejon Street Bike Fest w/Friends Ride = 312 miles
06/26/2010 - Got rain? Ride for beer! = 2 miles
06/25/2010 Friday Long Way Around to Lunch Ride = 50 miles
06/21/2010 Ride to work day = 4 miles (Ha!)
06/20/2010 Dad's Day White Water/Windy Ride = 360 miles
06/19/2010 New Friend & "Passport" Ride = 200 miles
06/14/2010 Flag Day Ride = 35 miles
06/03/2010 25,000 Miles in less than 2 years
06/03/2010 Total Mileage = 4096
05/27-06/02/2010 Road Trip #1 - Memorial Day = 2245 miles
05/23/2010 Sunday "Passport" Ride = 176 miles
05/22/2010 Saturday After Work "No Leathers" Ride = 93 miles
05/21/2010 Dam Ride = 25 miles
05/17/2010 BTGTWR - Lakes = 53 miles
05/16/2010 Sunday - testing the flags ride = 207 miles
05/14/2010 BTGTWR - TGIF = 65 miles
05/10/2010 1000 Maintenance Ride = 10 miles
05/09/2010 Breaking 1000 Mother's Day Ride = 300 miles
05/08/2010 Saturday getting closer to 1000 ride = 135 miles
05/07/2010 Long way to work ride = 65 miles
05/06/2010 33 Miles then rain ride = 33 miles
05/05/2010 Breaking 500 Ride = 91.5 miles
05/04/2010 Windy Ride to Thunder Mountain = 35 miles
05/03/2010 BTGTW Ride = 40 miles
05/02/2010 Windy and Cold Ride = 102 miles
05/01/2010 May Day Ride = 185 miles
04/28/2010 Honeymoon Ride on Ultra Classic = 107 miles
04/28/2010 Total 2008 Heritage Miles = 21168
04/28/2010 Say Bye Ride = 10 miles
04/27/2010 Tina gets a Dam Ride = 20 miles
04/24/2010 Burger ride = 10 miles
04/18/2010 Sunny Sunday Ride = 144 miles
04/11/2010 Fairplay Loop Ride = 383 miles
04/10/2010 Saturday ride = 75 miles
04/09/2010 BTGTWR Lunch Run = 20 miles
04/04/2010 In Search of the Easter Bunny Ride = 187 miles
04/01/2010 Total Mileage = 20195
03/31/2010 Chilly BTGTWR = 40 miles
03/30/2010 BTGTWR = 34 miles
03/28/2010 Finally - A great day to ride = 195 miles
03/22/2010 Signs of Spring Dam Ride = 20 miles
03/17/2010 Tim rides for corn beef and cabbage (solo) = 20 miles
03/16/2010 Long way in to work ride (solo) = 34 miles
03/13/2010 Vik's out of town - Tim's solo ride = 178 miles
03/03/2010 BTGTWR = 34 miles
03/02/2010 BTGTWR = 27 miles
02/28/2010 Fill 'er up before snow ride = 12.4 miles
02/27/2010 Vik gets first ride 2010 = 33.3 miles
01/30/2010 First Ride of the Year! = 19.4 miles
01/01/2010 Mileage = 19352
BTGTWR - Before Tim Goes To Work Ride

Correction: December 26 not last ride of 2010

December 28, 2010
Colorado, USA

Tim is on a rare week of day shift, so when he arrived in from work about mid-afternoon, we couldn't resist the idea that we might squeak in a short ride. We did. A short, cold ride. The afternoon sun was simply too weak to do much more than allow us to throw a shadow. We rode over to west of Loveland to check out a new leather shop we heard about. Beaver's Den Leather on Hwy 34. But, they were not open. We decided to take the route through Masonville and around the south end of Horsetooth Reservoir which is a great ride but darn cold in the shadows of the mountains.

The Ride is eight months old today - 15858 miles

It was pretty darn cold riding today

The sun didn't give us much more than a shadow today

Day after Christmas ride

December 26, 2010
Colorado, USA

Well, color us happy. We got a ride in for the third day in a row. We never saw the forecasted mid-50s but we have no complaints about riding in the mid-to-high 40s under mostly sunny skies. Better yet, we had little more than a breath of wind. Most of our Texas friends are stuck inside and did not get a ride in over the holiday so we are feeling pretty lucky.

View of the mountains from east side of I-25

We rode out of town and past all the hustle and bustle of the day-after at the shopping centers as quick as we could. We chose to ride at a leisurely pace up and down the country lanes and the farm roads east of busy and getting busier by the minute I-25, not breaking 45-50 mph most of the time. We managed to stretch about 60 miles out over nearly three hours, stopping once for coffee.

The mileage on The Ride clicked over 15,800 while we were out today. The Ride is two days shy of being eight months old. We finished out the day with the odometer reading 15,821 miles. This is likely the last ride of 2010 as we will see the New Year in with temps dipping into the single digits. Yikes!

What a great year this has been... stay tuned for the recap of 2010 and I'll finally get around to producing the videos of our adventures this year.

The Ride sporting new stubby antennas

Christmas Dinner Ride

December 25, 2010
Colorado, USA

Santa was good to the Harley-Kid this year

Santa was good to us and the Harley-Kid but I think the best gift was being able to leather up and ride warm enough to get to dinner and back. Again, we rode in the 40s, a couple of digits above yesterday's temp. Today we had sunshine so we took our time getting to our favorite truck stop on I-25 which is where we would have Christmas dinner.

Today is the first time in several days we had a decent glimpse of the mountains which have received snow measured in feet rather than inches this year.
Longs Peak/Peak-to-Peak Highway area on the left, Estes Park (Rocky Mountain National Park) on the right
Ice on the move on not quite frozen lake

Johnson's Corner is a great place to eat on I-25 in northern Colorado and the last decent place to eat before you get to Wyoming. The food is great, reasonably priced and the staff is always friendly and efficient. Even today. Our wait was about half an hour or so. The place was busy, apparently being one of the few restaurants open for a holiday dinner. Our Christmas dinner was served up in generous portions of thick-sliced turkey, gravy, dressing, mashed potatoes, green beans, whole baked stuffed apple and pumpkin pie. Yum!

The next couple of pics are of a fox we saw at an intersection in Fort Collins on the way home.
He came out of this shrubbery as we pulled up to an intersection near dowtown Fort Collins
Beautiful markings and long black stockings

Needless to say, we were a little better insulated for the leisurely ride home. Today's ride was over 40 chilly miles. By the time we arrived back at the house in time to pay a Christmas visit to our friends across the street, the shadows were long and temps were dropping quick into the 30s. We rode in high on the promise that tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and warm. We are looking forward to it.

Merry Christmas!

Hope Santa found his way to your house.

December 25, 2010
Colorado, USA



Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve in Search of Santa Ride

December 24, 2010
Colorado, USA

Woo-Hoo! Yesterday, we finished shopping for the Harley-Kid in the garage and Tim finished his shopping, so this afternoon was open for a Christmas Eve Ride. The weather in northern Colorado does not normally cooperate with such activity so we're thinking Santa is thinking we have been really good this year. Ha!

We rode with temps hovering just over 40 degrees and a light cloud cover. Every year on Christmas Eve (if we are still in Colorado), we ride or drive to our favorite junk-tique store and usually add a few vintage Santa pieces to our rather large collection. This year, we got to ride over on the Harley.

It wasn't a long ride (about 26 miles). As we rode in about 3 pm with our Santa loot, the temp was dropping fast. So we parked the ride and hopped in the Tahoe and went in search of Christmas Eve dinner before the sidewalks cleared the way for Santa.

This is me in the middle of a HO! HO! HO! let's go find Santa!

We were happy to see the Shadow Riders - with temps in the 40s - we needed all the sun we could get!

Tim - ready for a Christmas Eve ride.

Vik - ready for a Christmas Eve ride.

Tim & Vik after the Christmas Eve ride

It ain't over until the big man brings...

December 22, 2010
Colorado, USA

HO! HO! HO!

December 21, 2010
Colorado, USA

Kristmas Kool

December 20, 2010
Colorado, USA

Nuff said...

December 19, 2010
Colorado, USA

Santa is coming to town...

December 18, 2010
Colorado, USA

Brrrr.... Cold Sunday Ride

December 12, 2010
Colorado, USA

We count ourselves lucky if we get to ride at this time of year in northern Colorado. Last year we had icy, snow-packed streets for what seemed like f-o-r-e-v-e-r.

We could have hung around here and finished up the outside Christmas decorations. We could have spent the day in the Tahoe getting our Christmas shopping done. None of that sounded like fun...

Was it warm enough to ride today? Not really, but we layered up and leathered up and rode out of here anyway. At about 11 am, the temp was 37 degrees. It was cold riding all day, but we had sun. Temps were supposed to climb into the low 50s. It never made it past the low 40s.

A winter storm was raging in the high country. The Rockies usually visible along this route were socked in. We caught only an occasional view of a snow-covered peak throughout the afternoon.

We rode to one Harley dealership, stopped, shopped and warmed up. We took a leisurely route so we didn't have to travel over 60 mph. Most of the time we scooted along at 45-50 mph. Then we rode to another Harley dealership, stopped, shopped and warmed up. Then we rode to Johnson's Corner (our favorite truck stop on I-25) and stopped to warm up again. Going about 10 miles at 80 mph with temps near 39 degrees chapped our faces, our gloved hands and a few other places. We thought about having a bite to eat but the temps were dropping and the sun was soon to slide behind low clouds rolling over the foothills. We wussied out and brought the ride on in home. It was a good decision.

After dropping the leathers and warming up a bit, we hopped in the Tahoe and drove for a couple of beers and a pulled pork sandwich with cherry chipotle sauce at Serious Texas BBQ. Yum!

It was about 60 miles of damn chilly fun. No, we did not learn our lesson. We rode in with a smile and agreed - we would do it again and soon...

Happy Birthday Laura!

December 9, 2010
Colorado, USA

Sometimes we meet people on the highway of life who instantly step across the threshold of our lives as more family than friend -- it is both a delight and a comfort to know you - welcome aboard...

PMS

December 8, 2010
Colorado, USA

The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine...