Topic: 25 Rides in 2025, Frank's New Years resolution that we can all enjoy.

[BallAquatics]

It was an awsome day and maybe, just maybe, I can love one more before the end of the year.

Wow, what a great ride Jim. Good to see you and Eeyore here on the forum.

Well I'm back again, just in time for the new year.

Hey Terry, great to see you! You've got that Yamaha looking fantastic. For a company that started out making musical instruments Yamaha has built some fantastic & unique bikes over the years.

Happy New Year everyone!  Here's hoping we all have days and days of fantastic riding weather in 2026.  Be safe guys and I look forward to see all your interesting adventures coming our way.

[PeWe]

I forgot the obvious, the V-Max looks really good. The polished side covers improve the look!

[newday777]

No last hoorah ride in 2025 for me here in icy/snowy/salted/22°F southern NH this year like I have been able to get in during some of the past years, this year has been colder and more cold and snow than in a lot of years, more like when I was growing up here in the 60s. On Monday we had the storm that flooded California come through and dumped lots of rain that could have washed the salt away if the temperature wasn't freezing the rain at the ground covering everything in ice, so the highway departments were out in force spreading salt and salt sand mix all day into the evening as the temperature went from 33°F during the heavy rain back down to the low 20s to make a skating rink overnight. But all in all it was a good year of riding here so I won't complain.
Happy New Year to you all. Ride safe and be Blessed. I look forward to riding again when spring arrives back here and getting in the mix with the 26 in 2026 thread.
In the meantime I will spend time in the shop working on the project CB750s I have.

[willbird]

Ok started to do Libre Office Calf sheet on 2025 rides to back track to starting mileage and found what ODO was when I got new rear tire and chain and sprockets. Started 2025 at 6961 miles, ending 2025 at 16010 for a total of 9049 miles in 2025. Will finish fleshing that sheet out later and add a tab for 2026, way easier to keep it updated a ride at a time :-).  Could be 90xx, need to work on the math in the sheet a little bit....


Bill

[ofreen]

#11 I think, if I counted right. New Year's Eve rides mostly becaume a thing of the past for me around here when they started using mag chloride and salt on the roads.  But there hasn't been any snow here in the valleys yet, so the roads are clean.  So the 750 and I went for a coolish ride of 85 miles.  There was an inversion. so it was hazy in the valleys, not so much once we got a little elevation.





It's a big country -


The 750's odometer put this pivot at just a hair under a 1/4 mile long -

[jgger]

Good on you Greg. That is a big pivot. Are they driven by the water flow? Expiring minds, like mine, wonder how much water it would just fill something like that, let alone the water pressure.

No more rides for me for a few days as the rain returns to So Cal.  May even make the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl look a bit different than years past.

[willbird]

Good on you Greg. That is a big pivot. Are they driven by the water flow? Expiring minds, like mine, wonder how much water it would just fill something like that, let alone the water pressure.

No more rides for me for a few days as the rain returns to So Cal.  May even make the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl look a bit different than years past.

The amount of water they use is crazy, they run on 3 phase power to pump too, the ones I drive by have power clear out to the very end because they run a flashing red beacon on the end at night. Some can spray ag. chemicals dosed in too. The way our local aquifer works the rain from them never re enters the aquifer it was pumped out of. Our water comes down from MI in a gravel layer and there is a deep band of clay between it and the surface.

[Terry in Australia]

Happy New Year folks, I've created (well, cut and pasted last year's with updated dates) the 2026 thread, here:

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,206303.0.html

I won't be going for a ride until tomorrow or Sunday, but hope to get my 26 (and more) rides in early this year, now that I've apparently retired. Let the games begin!

[BenelliSEI]

Eat, sleep, repeat. Yeah!

[PeWe]

I'll look forward to read about your rides, Terry.
The good season gave up in September over here. Now wait another 3 months if lucky with the weather, winter gives up in time.

[PeWe]

Eat, sleep, repeat. Yeah!

That feels very familiar
I have to work when not yet retired. That might help to get time to run faster?

[Kevin D]

Stu, I never asked, but I have been wondering: Do you blame the trailer wobble for the final drive leak?

That was a pretty handy job getting that repaired mid-trip. I’d have been a wreck by the side of the road.

[newday777]

Stu, I never asked, but I have been wondering: Do you blame the trailer wobble for the final drive leak?

That was a pretty handy job getting that repaired mid-trip. I’d have been a wreck by the side of the road.

The wobble was from the swivel hitch that I had on the trailer tongue, it was an older one that had worn bushings. I put on a standard 1 7/8 ball coupleler on from tractor supply and no more wobbles.