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PostSubject: Much Ado about Mutton ... & More   Much Ado about Mutton ... & More Icon_minitime1Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:53 pm


This is about the latest "Mutton Run" to Daviess County in western Kentucky, and includes -- at no extra cost  Wink  — (a very few) pix of a Hagan family reunion.  

As longtime readers here know, for several years, I and others similarly afflicted with a love of motorcycles and willingness to eat mutton — not necessarily a common combo! — have ridden from various points to eat mutton twice a year at the St. Mary of the Woods picnic and at restaurants in Owensboro, e.g., the iconic Moonlite BBQ.

OK, OK, as many also know, it is possible that it is not only mutton alone that calls us, but, perhaps, beer, bourbon, and BS, all of which abound on the Mutton Runs.

Here’s the latest of these, told in (yes, too many) pix and captions, of our ride to Daviess County.  

My moto-accomplices began arriving on Tuesday, 20 September, and we returned home on Tuesday, 27 September.  My total mileage of about of 1300 miles in four riding days was hardly of the “ironbutt” sort, but not a mile was on the slab, and most on very fine backroads in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, and Kentucky.  

I rode my GRiSO.  I do not need to tell readers here that it is a wonderful beast and fine tourer.  Mine now has 32K miles.  With the exception of the well-known "rollerization," its only problems have been self-inflicted by me.  :rolleyes:  I managed to fix -- to the "good enough" standard -- the stripped threads on the rear brake and the associated severed speed-sensor cable.  Neither was an issue on this trip.

Larry, who started from Ormond Beach, Fla., on his shiny new V7-850, tallied 2300+ miles.  His return home was less of the “smell the flowers” sort than his outbound leg, as Hurricane Ian smacked his hometown hard.

Bob started in Rochester, N.Y., and rode with us on is '01 EV to Maysville, then returned home via a side trip to visit an ailing friend in Columbus, O.

Larry and I rode on with a brief appearance at the Kentucky rally in Frankfort.  Fun to see Zoom Zoom and other Guzzisti there.

Then, Scott, on his really nifty MP-3, met us in Owensboro.

Kathi  [queen] slabbed it in one day in our little Fit, carrying enough tools to do roadside depot-level maintenance.  Rolling Eyes

Back to the pix.  As I usually do, I have these on Smugmug in “collage landscape” form.  That way, they all open in collected thumbnails first.  You can then hover your cursor over the individual pix to read — if desired — the captions.  That process truncates one or two captions a bit, but most appear completely.

You can make the pix bigger and see (again, if you wish) all of captions in larger text size if you select the slideshow option.

                         https://bill-and-kathi.smugmug.com/Nuttn-But-Mutton-September-2022/n-4dWqJ9/

As a (slightly related) aside, I dropped my laptop in the hotel on this trip, resulting in the “black Screen of Death.”  Kathi gently suggested that bourbon was involved.  Possibly.   :boozing:  Anyway, as it was long out of warranty, I decided to try some self-help “surgery.”  

Friend Lannis -- who has been on several Mutton Runs -- is blessed that I didn’t perform his recent bypass op.  I watched a few y/t vids, donned gloves, used the right tools — delivered by Mr. Brown the same day! — and converted the MBP’s dead monitor into a large paperweight.  $igh.  Yes, I now have a new laptop.

Hope to see some of you on a future Mutton Run!

Bill


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A great gluttony of pics, as usual!


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beetle wrote:
A great gluttony of pics, as usual!


cheers




You actually got a tank bogged?  Shocked











Yes, I did that.   Embarassed

Many American soldiers likely lived as a result of my subsequent transfer to the JAG Corps.  cheers

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Awesome, Bill! Almost like being there.

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Dang, never occurred to me to huffalumpit on the V7, but I see someone did that (albeit an 850)

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Dang, never occurred to me to huffalumpit on the V7, but I see someone did that (albeit an 850)

That was Larry, a retired USN P3 driver.  Rode his new V7/850 up from his home in Ormond Beach, Fla., then to Muttonland, Ky., then home, about 2500 miles on the road.

In September 2021, Larry flew into Dulles, and then rode my V7 III from here to eat "senior-citizen lamb," then back here, before flying home, after c.1600 miles on the III.  Muttoneering Sept 2021

This past September, I rode the V7 to the South'n Spine Raid in Tellico Plains, Tennessee, then into Georgia, before coming home 1400 or so miles later.


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My point is that I find my III a fine LD tourer, at least on the backroads I frequent.  I hear of folks who say that they ride all day on the slab at 75+.  That ain't me.

I am even planning on riding the Stornello, a V7 II, down to Wendell (vic. Raleigh), N.C., next week, a backroads romp of c.700 miles after my various lost or wandering deviations. If I can't R&R the Stornello's rear tire in time, I'll take the GRiSO.  Please don't throw me into that briar patch! cheers
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<<Please don't throw me into that briar patch>>

Dang Bill, are we really old enough to remember what that means?

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