XSEast 09 Official Thread

[madmax-im]

I have some video from the Sally-cam. Now this IS an older digital camera. It has seen over 30,000 miles packed on motorcycle trips, been to 20 some states and several provinces of Canada, and in baggage to and from China. So please excuse the quality. I guess I should upgrade after seeing some of the terrific photos the other folks have taken. And I apologize ahead of time for those who I missed.

(Note there are a couple of good videos on Dena's real video camera.)

Saturday departure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMjxPQX_9z8

The XS line-up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwM8Bi-Xs_0

The Hi-Speed pass (Sally-cam good effort - turn your sound down):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LS7Gr3xg8k

madmax-im repair:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEVxHQb_wzg

Marty and Sally your vids were fine and particularly got a good laugh from "Ben is Exhausted"...all in retrospect of course...that was a bang up day Eh? Despite the twilight zone of things happening to mine and other XSives bikes this was a most excellent rally and i wouldn't trade any of it
except some of those hard bumps and my freaking suck@$$ seat...the rest is good stuff.

[Phoenix Rider]

Wish I Was There!!!

Hi All,
I just got off the phone with Bruce Doucette from Nova Scotia. He wanted me to post that he and Dave got home tonight around 6:30 Atlantic time. Bruce also wanted me to add that he rode 3120 Kms(1835 miles Approx.) He would also like to thank Randy and whoever else was involved for putting together such a great rally.
I was thinking about you guys all weekend. I wish I was there and I'm glad everything went well.

Wayne

[Scootstado2]

Russ, looks like this site wants you to register to view the pics? Unfortunately it ain't happenin' if that's the case. Darn.

Try this.

http://picasaweb.google.com/scootstado/XSEastVT2009#

[MartyA]

I have some video from the Sally-cam. Now this IS an older digital camera. It has seen over 30,000 miles packed on motorcycle trips, been to 20 some states and several provinces of Canada, and in baggage to and from China. So please excuse the quality. I guess I should upgrade after seeing some of the terrific photos the other folks have taken. And I apologize ahead of time for those who I missed.

(Note there are a couple of good videos on Dena's real video camera.)

Saturday departure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMjxPQX_9z8

The XS line-up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwM8Bi-Xs_0

The Hi-Speed pass (Sally-cam good effort - turn your sound down):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LS7Gr3xg8k

madmax-im repair:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEVxHQb_wzg

[madmax-im]

Vintage Yammies all in a row

Finally added a video....

[olebiker]

Here are the pics and a short vid of the XS XJ lineup.

http://picasaweb.google.ca/Carl.Kathi/Brattleboro?authkey=Gv1sRgCKf8rNzd8pvpTQ#

[dpotter58]

[DeanR]

Here's some pic's of the festivities.

http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailsh...NAME=snapfish/

Russ, looks like this site wants you to register to view the pics? Unfortunately it ain't happenin' if that's the case. Darn.

[79XS11F]

Link to my photos...

http://s228.photobucket.com/albums/e...boro%20XS2009/

Is there any chance that you might post the group pics at the bridge on here so I could save them to my computer? i am guessing that you photo bucket account is setup in a fashion that currently does not allow for saving photos to one computer.
Rob

[rman]

Hi all,
Deborah and I had a great time at the rally, Thanks to those who took their time and effort to put this all together. It was really great riding with everyone.

This is a one minute clip showing the bikes lined up at the covered bridge; XS2009 East, Vermont. Oh and thats FSCGUNSLINGER at the end! LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVP-qT6sR4

[FSCGunslinger]

Alright everyone, I got back home to Martinsburg around 3:45 this afternoon. I left Ralph's at 1:30 and drove through rain the whole way! Oh well, at least I figured out that my rain gear works well! Haha.

[randy]

The 'Miss-Placed in the Green Mountains Rally" report

Disclaimer: This is far from complete in every detail and some names have been omitted to save some from embarrasment

The run to Brattleboro was safe for all and uneventful for most. Always a good omen. Five of us in the Atlantic corridor met up in Peekskill, NY on Friday at the non-existent Sunoco station and after a short bit of ‘lets go this way, no..let’s go that way’, we were off.



By 8PM nearly everyone had arrived.



We immediately set to shaking off the road and bringing balance back into our systems by consuming mass quantities of fermented electrolytes.



Saturday’s ride took us through the Molly Stark Byway, a winding mountain road with beautiful views and lots of hills which everyone seemed to love, and led us to the Bennington Battle Monument. From there we rode South to lunch at Angelina’s Subs where we got stuffed. Getting stuffed with food became a secondary theme of this rally. Another secondary theme was u-turns. I missed so many road signs that I’ve earned the nickname ‘Wrong-way Randy’. I did a few encores on Sunday, too. For my efforts I was awarded a compass and a corkscrew by two xs-cessively lovely ladies. I just don’t know whether to use the compass or the corkscrew first! “which way to the bar?”



After lunch we got on the Mohawk Trail, it winds through the woods beside a small river for about 40 miles and it would have been more fun if the speed limit hadn’t changed every mile, but still no one complained. We then found a covered bridge so Doug could do burnouts and try to light the wooden roadway ablaze. Then it was back to base to quench thirsts, fill bellies, tally up the votes and give out the booby, err door prizes.

The winners are:

Best XS – Rob from Canada (sorry, I don’t have your last name) ---78E
Best non-XS – Ralph Waltman – 08 Royal Star
Most Miles on an XS – Ryan “Gunslinger”
Most Miles non-XS – Ralph Waltman
The Harley Award remains in Canada this year, shared by Gary and Aaron Conboy. (Aaron, don’t let your mom read this!).

The rest of Saturday night was a blurr for me…Sunday morning we headed out on East-West road out of Putney to a group photo stop at the Dummerston covered bridge, then up route 100 through Woodstock. Just before lunch the skies opened for a few minutes, but after lunch the sun was shining and stayed that way the rest of the day. We again got stuffed at the Pot Belly Pub, an apt name.



Then it was on to the Quechee Gorge for a little sightseeing.



For the run to home base, we split into a couple of groups, some taking the local roads and others opting for the superslab to ‘blow out the cobwebs’ and Sally took some great pictures at speed.

Some honorary awards go to the innovative on-the-fly fixes:

The missing oil cap. (there were actually two, one was soon retrieved)



And the elastic shifter return spring (box of 200 for 49 cents, not a bad price really)



And last but not least, to the guy whose engine is only firing on three, I think it’s an ignition problem. Gareth and I found this in the middle of Main Street in Bennington!



We had an unusually high number of minor troubles, some of them were downright comical. I don’t know if I got all of them, but here goes:

1 speedo cable trolling for asphalt
2 filler caps
1 headlight relay (mine)
1 tail/signal harness
2 turn signal switches
1 cracked muffler joint
1 flying muffler
1 running light
1 O2 sensor plug
2 lost sidecovers

Thanks to all who came. It’s the participants that make the rally. After all, if nobody came. I’d still be doing circles in the parking lot!

[mitch]

Home

Got home at 3 pm, Thank you Randy for a great time,super rally as always, met some new ppl and some old friends,Im just pouring a triple rum and wishing i could do it all again!! The fishheads are on their way home and should be checking in soon. Great times great people thank you all !!!
MITCH

[dpotter58]

here are mine

http://s188.photobucket.com/albums/z144/dpotter58/?albumview=slideshow

[madmax-im]

PS MaximPhil, get one of those thottle paddles, makes it much easier on the wrist.

I have one its called throttle rock it or rocker..aboout $11 USD...works great at alleviating the stress.