Where did you ride your FTR today?

EllenGtrGrl

Active member
I was able to ride for the first time in a week, (this past week, it's been rainy most days, except for last weekend, which due to social obligations, prevented me from riding) - a 50 mile (80 km) round trip commute to and from work. It's been warmer than normal the past couple of weeks - well, that's coming to an end. Starting tomorrow, it looks like our typically colder October weather has arrived - for the first time since early May, for at least the next several days, morning temps are supposed to range from as low as 40F (4C) to no more that 50F (10C), that's waaaay too cold for me on my FTR1200 doing 70-80+ mph (113-129+ kph) on 25 mile (40 km) freeway ride to work. With the longer hours I have been having to put in lately for my job (I'm a Quality Engineer), and having to run errands on the way home after work, it's already dark, or starting to get dark (and get colder) by the time I get home from work, so no after work rides for me (when temps. are at least warmer than they are in the morning). Oh yeah, and October is typically rainy around here.

In short, today's commute to and from work on my FTR, was its last ride until next spring. I gassed my FTR1200 up when I got close to home, put fuel stabilizer in the fuel tank, made the short 10 minute drive home for the remainder of my commute, and shut her down for the season, when I got home. :( Oh well. With the shorter days (the sun set at 6pm today, and it's not even the 15th of October), and colder days, it's just not practical for me to do much more riding. It's like that for most riders around here at this time of year. I saw nobody else riding a motorcycle during my commute to work (usually I see anywhere for 8-15 motorcycles on the road, during my morning commute).
 
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edgelett

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Gave the gear lever a small adjustment and got out for a decent ride on the FTR today - combination of hills and then some country roads. Rearsets are perfect now, bike felt great turning in to corners and by a miracle people actually used slow vehicle turn out lanes today!
Did over 200kms and stopped for lunch by the mighty Murray River.
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S2Davies

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It was the last bike Night at Idle Torque near Loughborough last night. It was a great vibe with food drinks and a real eclectic bunch of people and bikes. Very cool evening. 😃


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An just to prove I can follow an instruction .......................

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FTR London

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It was the last bike Night at Idle Torque near Loughborough last night. It was a great vibe with food drinks and a real eclectic bunch of people and bikes. Very cool evening. 😃


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I thought these were near Lutterworth?
 

S2Davies

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We went along when we first opened up from lockdown and it was mobbed. We actually left quite early that time because there were so many bikes, there was a good chance you would get blocked in. It's a very chilled atmosphere I love it. A lot of HDs, even saw a full on 70's spec very long chopper last night, it was very cool but did look a handful!
 

lobo

New member
Where is that, it looks vaguely familiar. And before you say it, I know it's not Loughborough :)
If you use Chrome, you can right-click any picture and choose "Search Google for image". The church didn't generate any good hits, but the house did. :)
 
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