Ride #9, 6/12/24, for a 200 mile day.
Started off at 9:40 am, 68° F, back home at 8:30pm, 78° F, after a full day of riding and conversations of bikes. Weather was broken clouds, scattered showers though we only got wet while at the Weirs walking around and it poured for about 15 minutes while we hung out talking to others under a huge Maple tree in the park on Lake Winnie
https://www.lakesregion.org/our-lakes/lake-winnipesaukee/ We didn't bring rain gear and really didn't even need it riding.
My buddy Pete arrived at my shop and we headed off to the Weirs at 9:40 am, so he could get this year's Laconia Classic pin. He was on his (orange) K4 and I on my K5 (Blue). We didn't take the direct route(of 66 miles) but took the far more scenic indirect roads which was 120 miles to get there from my place through the mountainous central NH roads which were in fairly good condition overall. We probably passed by 20-30 lakes and ponds and 4 rivers, with lots of twisties. We even did a backtrack on the highway at one point for 11 miles just to get some extra twisties in the mountains. I-89 has some nice riding being for a 4 lane highway with some good views.
Coming back from Laconia,we each split off to go back to our places after gassing up in Concord, he wanted to get back to his bride and I headed to the Wednesday night bike night in Milford via Rt 13.
Bike Night had a few less bikes as there were folks still up north and some scattered showers around during the afternoon (fair weather riders!). But there were close to 100 that showed up.
@ 7:30 some of us went for Ice Cream! I got there a few minutes late(I had to put away the cones from the parking lot)so there's an arrow of me coming in with the Hooker Header barking getting to the farmstead. It was a great day of right at 200 miles.
On the way home from the ice cream stop, Wookie's new to him CL360 died at a stop sign. All Electrics died. Loose battery cables and dirty connectors, got it fired up and had him stop by my place to tighten up the battery bolts, clean the multi pin connector, put in a new 15A fuse and replaced his gas cap rubber(he had asked earlier where to get one, which I had a couple of). It's a good little bike but he may sell it soon as he wants to get my latest K6 750 when I get it running and cleaned up. I guess I need some more shop time(been off working carpentry jobs)