Goooooooood time

[tomb raider]

OK all, I was going to put this in the ( Back road thread but it was a big'n so it needed it's own thread. Well the weather broke and was about 70 and sunny when I got home. I asked the wife if I could have a pass for some riding, she said bugger off, hell I still had my riding boot's on.

I've been wanting to hit Hwy 9 and head North to Canada, many bikes do this this run on nice weekend days.. SO I took off and made my first stop over the Stillaguamish river on 9. Looking up which is East. North and South fork come together there and Man it's a good fishing spot for Salmon and Steal head.

Next I take off and get stuck behind a logging truck. While fallowing in I pulled the camera out of the tank bag and snap a picture in gloves none the less   Ever had to lean steer a motor cycle on the road   It's not recamended.

Next stop was on a 1 lane bridge over another little fishy water way, these dump into the Salt chuck.

Ok I take off and head towards Lk. Cavanaugh and this is were the fun starts. I got to this straight away and stopped. Took the picture, put camera away and went balls out, 1st time on the hawk. I was @ 75 mph in a few blinks and ran that girl to about 8K before shifts   Many twists with ups and down as the road meanders it's way in the hill's.

I come to the lake and the speed drop's to 25 MPH, good think cuz the cage's I came upon thought there were the only ones on the road.

About half way around I take a rest, took some pictures, then back off I roll.

I haven't been up there in 20 years, felt good and a great day to do it as I now have a road bike..

Soon I find my way back to Hwy 9 and head North, I came to a little eatery that host's a all you can eat I think Wednesdays of shrimps. Man the bikes come from all over for this feast.

About 2 more miles I turn around and fallow the road around the lake. Looking at the lake you can see how the road goes. Bloody Hell it was a FUN TIME  

Here is where I flipped out the high way pegs for a good try out and cruised back. Now I see traffic, poor stiffs must work till 4:00, haha.. Lot's of bikes now and all but 1 did the wave. I stopped down the street from home, gassed up and got a pack of Bud's.. I can't wait for the next trip.

[drdubb]

Now that's what you should do with a motorcycle. Ride to nice places and get your Zen on.

[tomb raider]

OK I'm still not up on how to make it like it should so this is how I'll do it, bare with me.

[tomb raider]

Wait there more.

[tomb raider]

Last batch.

Hope you enjoyed.  Fire house was my 50 mile turn around point.

[ariwhiteboy]

Great report TR,  now I need you get off the computer and go steal me that Coors Light sign for my garage.

 

[fishmeister]

Great Jimbo! Looks like you had a super ride....

Life is good, the scenery is real nice.....where were the shrimps? I didn't see Bigfoot either.

I'm thinking you stopped for a cold one at that hangout.  

Keep on keeping on, ride safe brother Jimbo!   

[gammer]

Great ride report TR!! 

I like the pic at the gas station with the pack of Bud on the back 

Kokanee...thats a western Canada beer, eh?...enjoy!

[tomb raider]

No sign stealing, no big foot seen, and Kokanee's are so goooooood..   One thing I don't do is drink and ride, sure thought about it though..

[fishmeister]

Oh yea, the bike looks real clean.....good job!

[hockeyhawk]

Awwwwwwssssssssoooooooommmmmmeeeeeeee pics TR. Love the case of BUD on the rack, Nothing better than capping off a nice ride with a cold one. 

[luckylindy]

Love that scenery.

[tomb raider]

Look @ my wind shield falling the logging truck. I was headed off the road, no hands. lean steering. Not going to do that again.. Can't wait to make video's..

[hppants]

Love the case of BUD on the rack,

When I saw that picture - I thought of Loki.  wonder why? 

It's hard to believe that you can see all of that in a 100 mile ride.  Non-motorcyclists will never understand.  Thanks for sharing.

[LOKi]

Nice ride report. Glad the weather was nice.

Thanks for sharing.

One thing though, you should upload your images to http://photobucket.com/ create an account and upload the images there. Then you can link the images in the post. Then you can have text in between. It also lightens to workload on the forum server. Hondo has a how to guide here http://nighthawk-forums.com/index.php/topic,84.0.html

[tomb raider]

Funny thing, coming home I was thinking how much more I seen on a bike.

Thanks LOKI, I sure will. Hondo sent me a note on how to. Next time I'll do that.. Is that photo bucket Free ?

[LOKi]

yes it's free. What I like most is that photobucket doesn't change the order or names of the files uploaded. They all go into the same directory (that you make). So you copy the path ".ww.photobucket......image.jpg" It would have the img and /img on each side. Then copy the link including the img tags and just change the last part "image.jpg" to the next image name you want to post.

[tomb raider]

Well I hope it works for me.. Thanks for the info..

[LOKi]

Check out Burgi's ride report here http://nighthawk-forums.com/index.php/topic,5777.0.html

select quote from the first post and check out how it was linked.

[JB1290]

Great report. That is some really nice scenery. That ice cold beer in the last pic looked delicious. Never heard of that kind before. 

[DaveB]

Very nice report and some fine pics. Looks like you had an excellent mental therapy session. 

What's the location of the shrimp shack? It would be good to know in case I get up that way.

[Hangster]

I have to say that's some genius workmanship with a 24 pack on the rack (rack pack ..lol) awesome place to live 

[highwayjamin]

Nice report Tr,is hard to imagine only driving 100 miles and seeing that stuff.  It would take me days to get to something like that,man I am so jealous   

Thanks for sharing.