Hey 14kmtnman…
Mark and I got Carl back to his place about 12:30-1:00 a.m. I expected him to sleep on the ride home with all the pain meds, but he was awake and coherent the whole time. I texted with him today. Says the pain isn't to bad. He's just taking it easy, reading a book. Of course the topic of conversation was why is this happening with the OEM cases.
Bike retrieval was a breeze. Although when we were driving to the spot where we left the bike, both Mark and I silently had our fingers crossed that the bike was still there when we turned the corner. It was. I think Mark and I had it loaded up in about 15ish minutes. Tied down and GTG. My one-bike trailer is designed so that one person can unload and load the bike easily. But we were both tired so we both loaded it.
It was interesting the comment made by the guys in the "Razor". They said they saw us go by and head down what they called, "That sandy washed out road" rather than continue through an easier route.
The route itself while we ran into closed sections of the COBDR, was really nice. Some sections were amazingly dry. So much so we were all strung out very far apart. The scenes from the top of 315 were stunning! The Sand area we crossed while not "THE" sand section on the COBDR was still a good exercise in riding in sand. Although I dumped it hard once. I made the mistake about 3/4s through of using bar pressure to try to get the bike to change its line in a shorter distance than one should have… I can't say I'd do it again until I gain more experience, but Mark enjoyed it and wanted to find the "Real" sand section.
What amazed us was the amount of water up there. That high plain area off of Hwy 9 towards Hwy 24 was just swamped. Water running over peoples driveways and yards… meandering through it.
Stupid me did have my GoPro with me and on… BUT I didn't have the dang SD card in it. So nothing recorded. I'm so pissed...
It was a long day… total mileage covered combined was over 700 miles. I don't know what time Mark's head hit the pillow, but mine didn't till 2:30 a.m. and my stupid internal clock had me up at 5 a.m.
I hear ya about sitting on the bike! When I tweaked my ankle I did the same thing! lol!
I think Mark said he's not available the July 4th weekend. I need to check with the boss as we typically spend the weekend at her bro's house in Red Feather Lakes...
14kmtnman said:
Did you get Carl back home last night? How's he doing? How did the bike retrieval go? Can't wait to see the write up on this trip. Any pictures? GPS map track? I'm still just sitting on the bike going thru the motions ::001:: & making funny sounds ::26::. Hopefully I'll be able to ride the weekend of the 4th, I'll be in the boot until then