The Good Roads: Last Day

Eight days of riding in nine days, and 2,103 miles. I can say I've had enough riding.......not too much, but enough.

This is my eight days bug collection:

Today I rode the "Devil's Triangle". This is actually the fourth time on it for me, and Carolyn was on the back for one of those rides eight years ago. It's not as spectacular as the Dragon, but it's really good and doesn't get as much crazy traffic. Still, this being a weekend day, there were some bikes.....even a bunch of quads and side-by-sides. It must be legal, somehow. The ride is also close to where Carolyn's sisters live, so easy to get to. I took one picture of a typical curve, and this is not the tightest by any means:

I didn't post any of the pictures from my visit to the AMA hall of fame museum, so I'll end this trip blog with some of those.

I got to the museum shortly after it opened and I was the only one who rode there.

There were bikes and riding gear from all the famous American road racers, motocrossers, flat track racers and off road racers. Most of them were from my 55+ years of riding and were familiar to me.

This was the first modern 4-stroke motocross bike that started the revolution to modern 4-strokes.
It was an obvious one-off factory special.

This is one of Evel Knievel's bikes and shows some of the many body repairs he had. I wonder who paid for all the surgery.

Bill Baird was the national champion enduro racer when I started riding enduros. He was pretty much unbeatable, but only rode eastern enduros, not desert events like I rode.

The guy who rode this bike was incredible. Read the story below.

I had one of these bikes, only it was black. They are using it here to provide a simulation of riding. Carolyn and I rode double on it from Fargo ND over to and around Lake Superior, camping out almost every night. I crashed that bike on a ride down in Baja, and then later got sideswiped by a pickup truck and got a broken collar bone. I figured it was an unlucky bike and gave it away.