It's kind of a sad ending for the bike. After all the great care I took, and which would have made it good for many more miles, he plans to chop it up and make a super mini bike out of it. He has a Honda Grom, which is kind of a cult mini bike, and he want to take all the fairings off the cbr and put the Grom forks and wheels on it. It's going to be a difficult job as the Grom forks and steering head are not going to transfer over without major cutting and welding. Plus, the small wheels are going to make a ground clearance problem. Oh well, it's his bike to do with as he pleases.
Last week Big Mike and I did a three-day ride over to central Oregon and I rode the new bike 936 miles. Carolyn took this pic as I was leaving. I have my summer mesh gear on, but wore my rain pants over the mesh pants to stay warm on a cool morning:
It was great to be back on those super motorcycle roads over in Central Oregon as I haven't done that for quite awhile. That's some beautiful country, too, and it was surprisingly green for late July. I'm pretty shy on pictures for the blog. I've taken quite a few that I've already posted and we were having so much fun neither one of us wanted to stop and take pictures. I did go for a walk the evening we stayed in Prineville and found this old court house that makes me think Prineville must be the county seat:
The second night we stayed in Spray, which is about as small a town as there is what still had a motel.
However the only restaurant closed at 4pm. We got there before that but didn't feel like eating that early, so we took another ride over to a road I had not been on yet and added about 60 miles to our day. We ended up eating at Service Creek, which is a place I have stayed at several times.
These three days got pretty warm in the afternoon but the mesh gear made it bearable. I took my cooling vest that gets soaked with water along but never felt the need to use it.
The bike and I are really starting to bond. It's comfortable, handles well, and has all the power I could ask for. I hope we have a lot of years together.
