Road Conditions - Friday, Feb. 26th

*Update Mar 5, 2010*

Road's in much better shape. There's just a haze of white leftover, but no real piles to worry about. I went out today and made a couple of runs in the car, saw 3 locals on bikes and a few civilians. I had a great time with the top down, sun shining, and practically no traffic.

Had a few people ask about road conditions, so we went for a drive and got a few pics for ya below. There are several salt piles to watch for, and a white haze over the whole thing, but the majority of it is grippy and close to cleared off. We had a good fun drive with no tense moments. A couple of days of traffic or a good rain should take care of what's left, but that's not going to happen before this weekend.

We took drive across to scout the conditions today.

There are several piles of salt to deal with...

Left Turn

Shoot the groove!

State Line

Most of the road was in pretty good shape though...

Lori got a few action shots for us.

Over the tunnel and through the woods...

Until Next Time...

Mind your limits.

Random Update - Feb. 25th, 2010

As always, photos from the past seven years can be found in Our Store here.

Back from the Chicago International Motorcycle Show last weekend. We had a good time, and heard that the weather was nice here, with several folks out taking advantage of it on the Gap. Also heard of some idiocy, newcomers crapping in the community food bowl we all have to share...brilliant. Same types that trash up the parking lots they hang out in, and then complain when they get kicked out.

For the record the 4touge.com group was in the area, but not involved in any of that.

So yeah, Chicago show was great...met a lot of cool people and it makes me feel so fortunate to live as close as we do to such a great place that so many want to come visit. Numbers were smaller though, both with the attending crowd and vendor setups. That's the last show we do for the year, and Daytona Bike Week kicks off this weekend, so the season is about to crank up. (as 3 inches of fresh snow lays on our porch outside)

Before we move on to the highlights, just a heads-up about a change Blogger forced on everyone. There is a restriction now to about 25 posts per page, so the update is bigger than what you see here, but you have to hit the "Older Posts" link at the bottom to see the rest of it. Everyone is raising hell about it, so hopefully this will change back or at least give us the option.

Ok, on to the highlights!

A few shots from the Chicago IMS...

Dig the diamond-encrusted shock boots on the front forks. Ok they were not actual diamonds, just machining in the black anodizing...and they weren't actual shock boots, just metal anodized black...but still, interesting.

Needless to say, there were more than a few custom jobs...

Where does the little mouth come out at?

A few crowd shots...

A section devoted specifically to women who ride...or want to.

They've added free seminars to the program now.

Here Lee Parks discusses Total Control techniques.

Straight-Line WARRIOR

That outta get ya there.

Boss Paint

One for the Buellers.

So naughty!

I'm not sure his plugs would make it through the Dragon...

The flames sure would look crazy though.

Nice Guns

I'm really digging the direction some of these recent custom builds are taking.

Fuel Tube

New "Moto2" class race bike...

This is the Moriwaki MD600, a race bike for the new Moto2 class that will replace 250GP. It uses a Honda CBR600 engine, but the rest is custom built right down to the frame. I never was very interested in 250 class, maybe because the bikes were so foreign...I'm looking forward to this new 600 class though.