Topic: The Happy-ish Thread. Share your small wins and mixed blessings.

[BenelliSEI]

Three great friends and perfect weather all weekend! Second on Saturday and first on Sunday. Car ran flawlessly for 16 hours. Very “Happy-ish”!

[grcamna2]

Solid performance.

[Kelly E]

Nice driving guys, a second and a first.

[Kevin D]

Very nice John. Did you get some time behind the wheel?

[BenelliSEI]

Very nice John. Did you get some time behind the wheel?

Kevin….. We each do two hours stints, both days. Three mile road course, ski country, rolling elevation changes, 17 corners. I covered over 375 miles in two days. Set the fastest lap time on Saturday and on a cool Sunday morning, Tim beat it by 3/10ths. Everyone drove really well. Consistency and three perfect fuel/ driver change stops on Sunday made the difference. Beat second place by 38 seconds, after eight hours!

[Kevin D]

Very nice John. Did you get some time behind the wheel?

Kevin….. We each do two hours stints, both days. Three mile road course, ski country, rolling elevation changes, 17 corners. I covered over 375 miles in two days. Set the fastest lap time on Saturday and on a cool Sunday morning, Tim beat it by 3/10ths. Everyone drove really well. Consistency and three perfect fuel/ driver change stops on Sunday made the difference. Beat second place by 38 seconds, after eight hours!

Well done, John and team.

[BenelliSEI]

Very nice John. Did you get some time behind the wheel?

Kevin….. We each do two hours stints, both days. Three mile road course, ski country, rolling elevation changes, 17 corners. I covered over 375 miles in two days. Set the fastest lap time on Saturday and on a cool Sunday morning, Tim beat it by 3/10ths. Everyone drove really well. Consistency and three perfect fuel/ driver change stops on Sunday made the difference. Beat second place by 38 seconds, after eight hours!

Well done, John and team.

Thanks Kevin! Next weekend, Chris, Gary and I are headed off on a three day CVMG ride. LED by John Pepper and Phil Goldsmith, a dozen of us are riding up towards Ottawa and around the Calabogie area. John has booked us into a trio of lovely cottages on one of the lakes up there. My ride count should improve dramatically in the next few weeks!

[newday777]

Very nice John. Did you get some time behind the wheel?

Kevin….. We each do two hours stints, both days. Three mile road course, ski country, rolling elevation changes, 17 corners. I covered over 375 miles in two days. Set the fastest lap time on Saturday and on a cool Sunday morning, Tim beat it by 3/10ths. Everyone drove really well. Consistency and three perfect fuel/ driver change stops on Sunday made the difference. Beat second place by 38 seconds, after eight hours!

Sounds like a fun course, congratulations John and the rest of the team.

[BenelliSEI]

Thanks Stu. It was great weekend!

[grcamna2]

Very nice John. Did you get some time behind the wheel?

Kevin….. We each do two hours stints, both days. Three mile road course, ski country, rolling elevation changes, 17 corners. I covered over 375 miles in two days. Set the fastest lap time on Saturday and on a cool Sunday morning, Tim beat it by 3/10ths. Everyone drove really well. Consistency and three perfect fuel/ driver change stops on Sunday made the difference. Beat second place by 38 seconds, after eight hours!

Well done, John and team.

Thanks Kevin! Next weekend, Chris, Gary and I are headed off on a three day CVMG ride. LED by John Pepper and Phil Goldsmith, a dozen of us are riding up towards Ottawa and around the Calabogie area. John has booked us not a trio of lovely cottages on one of the lakes up there. My ride count should improve dramatically in the next few weeks!

Which bike have you chosen for the ride ?

[BenelliSEI]

Very nice John. Did you get some time behind the wheel?

Kevin….. We each do two hours stints, both days. Three mile road course, ski country, rolling elevation changes, 17 corners. I covered over 375 miles in two days. Set the fastest lap time on Saturday and on a cool Sunday morning, Tim beat it by 3/10ths. Everyone drove really well. Consistency and three perfect fuel/ driver change stops on Sunday made the difference. Beat second place by 38 seconds, after eight hours!

Well done, John and team.

Thanks Kevin! Next weekend, Chris, Gary and I are headed off on a three day CVMG ride. LED by John Pepper and Phil Goldsmith, a dozen of us are riding up towards Ottawa and around the Calabogie area. John has booked us not a trio of lovely cottages on one of the lakes up there. My ride count should improve dramatically in the next few weeks!

Which bike have you chosen for the ride ?

Planning to ride my K1 and my son is taking the K3……. The weather doesn’t look great (two days with rain forecast) so I might change over to the Varadero. The big, watertight boxes, windscreen and bodywork make it very tempting!

[Kevin D]

John, please give my greetings to Phil. I’m certain he’d rather be riding than watching me mess the cone course. What is Phil’s traveling ride, I think I have seen him on a 305 Scrambler, but can’t imagine him loading it down and heading for the 401.
 I’m trying to place John Pepper…..
Ride safe

[BenelliSEI]

John, please give my greetings to Phil. I’m certain he’d rather be riding than watching me mess the cone course. What is Phil’s traveling ride, I think I have seen him on a 305 Scrambler, but can’t imagine him loading it down and heading for the 401.
 I’m trying to place John Pepper…..
Ride safe

Will do! Phil has more than a few bikes, including a 1978 Honda cb750K and one or two larger BMWs. He’ll probably take one of them. We call John “Norton Man”. He has several, including one that belonged to his Dad. He probably sat with us at G250 dinners. He’s planned the entire route exclusively on two lane back roads!

[lash]

Watch out for guys doing U turns on two lane back roads!

[RAFster122s]

Watch out for guys doing U turns on two lane back roads!

Yeah, that usually leaves a mark and can ruin your month or life...and really screw up a bike

[Kelly E]

Watch out for guys doing U turns on two lane back roads!

As a judge once told my friend (in open court in front of the other person) that had someone whack out a U turn in front of him "Mr Watters, stupid people will do stupid things".

[BenelliSEI]

Watch out for guys doing U turns on two lane back roads!

Will do. The weather does not look good…..

[BenelliSEI]

Nice people! I used to buy all my Honda parts from Cameron Cycle in Peterborough, Ont. They WERE a Honda motorcycle dealer for +50 years. Honda Canada foolishly opened large box store dealers and slowly shut down the small, local places. I still go there for aftermarket stuff and to search their old inventory. A very smart lady (Patti Lynn) runs the parts dept.
      In my stuff I have three, original finned exhaust clamps for the Sandcast. Still in the old bags. When I called Patti about #4, no luck. She called me this morning explaining that a few of the older dealers still share an ancient inventory system. When checking, she discovered a dealer in SW Ontario have ONE on the shelf. I called Davidson’s and Toby was kind enough to pull it out of “a very old bag”. Bingo! He’s posting it to me today. Brilliant!

[RAFster122s]

Congratulations on a great find of the needle in a haystack...

Good parts people are getting rarer with the treatment the big box style stores have or foster...

[BenelliSEI]

Congratulations on a great find of the needle in a haystack...

Good parts people are getting rarer with the treatment the big box style stores have or foster...

Oddly enough I went into my Peterborough Home Depot yesterday and the Associate in the Electrical aisle was incredibly polite and helpful. Found what I needed and made sure I knew how to install without killing myself!

[Tracksnblades1]

Survived yet another year to celebrate our country’s 4th of July Independence Day with my family and friends while enjoying our freedoms. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸.

Hoping everyone has a safe and memorable day. Have a great 4th of July..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[grcamna2]

Survived yet another year to celebrate our country’s 4th of July Independence Day with my family and friends while enjoying our freedoms. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸.

Hoping everyone has a safe and memorable day. Have a great 4th of July..🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Yes,I hope you and yours also has a safe and Memorable 4th of July. 

[scottly]

The place next door to me just sold, after being a rental for years. Over that time, there have been some very good neighbors, and some VERY BAD neighbors, so we've all been wondering who is going to move in...
This morning, one of those double-decker auto transports parked in front of my driveway, with a Tesla "truck" on the top deck, second from the front. I had to walk out to take a look at it, to see if it was as ugly in person as it was in pictures, which it was. What caught my eye next was a little car on the lower deck at the rear, which the driver was unloading. My first thought was VW Carmen Ghia, but as soon as I got a better look it was obviously something I'd never seen before. There was a badge on the fender, "sport Prinz", which turns out to be an NSU car, powered by a 600ish cc air-cooled two cylinder engine. I helped the driver get it unloaded and moved into the yard next door.
I'm guessing that my new neighbor will fit right in with the local gear-heads.

[newday777]

That is interesting Scott. I read an article that John Glenn owned one. Not a high dollar car even today but very eclectic.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1967-nsu-sport-prinz/

Did the driver put it in the garage or leave it outside?

[BenelliSEI]

My wife is hosting the annual BBQ for her Survivors Abreast Dragon Boat Team, today. +20 women and others. The focus has been intense. I’ll be happy when it’s done and life returns back to normal!