First Long Ride on New Bike

First off, I sold the Honda.  Here is the new owner hauling it away: 

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.