Recent content by Tony D.

There is a ton of Eastern Washington and Oregon and on into southern Idaho that is nothing but high plains desert. Dry, flat, hot.

It's the little things, like stripping and recoating with zinc, that make the ADV1 so special. It shows the care and forethought, right down to the nuts and bolts.

Yikes! I'll have to check mine when I'm back home... My Rtic 20-can soft-sided cooler is big enough for my purposes, not giant, footprint smaller than the shelf, shorter than the latch. Even loaded, a single ROK strap through the loops of the cooler hold it in place nicely. One a LOT bigger...

Let's keep talking about where we might all ross paths again...

Seriously, laughing out loud Paul.

IT has been my immense privilege to live in a country where a fool with a high school education can ride his Vulcan to His Honda to And his Yamaha to There were Suzukis and Harleys and KTMs and BulTacos and Vespas and other states and other brands I'm sure I forgot in the mix. Now...

@Gunhog6 it was great to meet you, all too briefly. The breakfast was tasty, the cook was a Sex Bob-Omb, so the ptomaine poisoning was almost worth it. Let's do it again next year!

Gotta say @B2E2RUN I recently put a hundred miles on a Pan America. HD 10,000% crushed it with that engine. That mill should be in every bike they make. Self-lowering suspension just bloody worked and was invisible, I would kill to take it to the track and dial it in. Ergos were solid as...

Agreed, are you hanging from the rafters? LOL

@Paul I had the privilege to live for a few years where America was quite flat, and quite beautiful. Of particular memory was one evening, watching the sun settle over a billion acres that feed a nation. That sunset has never left my mind. While I prefer the contrast of mountains and oceans...

100% serious about the Velcro-able patch for the storage nook. IF your wife is up to make another like yours (love the red/white), LMK the cost and where to venmo her.

Sorry I missed chatting with Jimmy. I love the movies and all things cinema. Guess I need to hang around Rod/PASQ more!

Good eye Peter. That is one of his pieces, in the middle of the Chihuly museum garden in Seattle. I visited it last year on my ADV1 shakedown trip.

Saw a gent this weekend with similar molle plates all over his panniers and topbox. They were some kind of plastic, he said the mounting bolts weighed more but they seemed beefy.

Home. Good rally met a bunch of good folk, including Mike & Rod Clark. I lost my camp chair somehow (I swear I was almost sober too). Had some good rides, worked on the dirt skillset, got some odd looks dragging the trailer up some nasty rutted roads, but it was fun and my patented...