 Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Barring a spewing volcano, Wendy, her two kids and I are headed for Florida for the last full week in August  If you know us, you'll say hello. If you don't know us, we'll no doubt look like more of the millions of tourists  Say hello anyway, we might talk funny but we don't bite.
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,126 Likes: 13
Should be Riding
|
|
Should be Riding
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,126 Likes: 13 |
Blowing gravel off rural roads
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 237
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 237 |
give a shout when in central fla.. and will try to check in.. howdy .. lol norton68@gmail.com
07 SPEEDMASTER ..SLASHCUT BUBS..
NOLOGY COILS/WIRES ..PHANTOM BLACK ..CHROME COVERS...K&N PODS..
BEAUTIFULL WHEN SHE RUNS RIGHT..SHE WAS ..
.. I LIKE HER>> ALOT ~~
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
Hey Jim, no this trip unless I can rent a trike that seats four! 
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
give a shout when in central fla.. and will try to check in.. howdy .. lol
norton68@gmail.com
Another Jim!!
Will have to see how it goes, we have about five weeks of activities to do in a week!! 
Is everyone in FL called Jim?
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 670
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 670 |
Well, if you're in central Florida and get an urge to go for a ride, let me know. I can probably talk the wife into letting you take the BA and I'll take the Geezer HD. Just sayin' Southern hospitality and all.... later, Tom.
But, what do I know?
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
Well, if you're in central Florida and get an urge to go for a ride, let me know. I can probably talk the wife into letting you take the BA and I'll take the Geezer HD. Just sayin' Southern hospitality and all....
later, Tom.
Appreciate it but I have this 'thing' about riding someone else's bike!
I've had rentals but they don't really belong to anyone, do they?
I have no probs there but to ride someone else's bike  I know lots of guys who think the same.
Lookin' forward to the Southern hospitality though
I just hope your beer measures are bigger'n everyone elses
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,457
Learned Hand
|
|
Learned Hand
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,457 |
If you can't hit the beaches before the oil hits, bring some clean sand. There is a dealer here in Tallahassee that rents out a Moto Guzzi, the sports tourer model. Some nice "canopy roads" around here. Gently twisty curvy roads where the trees meet over the road.
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 3,816
Freelance Jedi Knight
|
|
Freelance Jedi Knight
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 3,816 |
know his opinion about Moto Guzzi 
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
know his opinion about Moto Guzzi
I guess they are deisgned for little Italians, not fat English.
I tried the sports touring thingy. When I got off I had to see what cc it was - I expected about 600-800.
Was shocked to see 1200cc!! That thing counldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding!
I wanted a California but it felt smaller than my America - which now feels like a 125cc after having the R3 for the last 2 years!
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,126 Likes: 13
Should be Riding
|
|
Should be Riding
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,126 Likes: 13 |
Quote:
...my America - which now feels like a 125cc after having the R3 ...
you betcha. 
What skins are you currently snot-balling?
Blowing gravel off rural roads
|
|
|
 Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 2,626
Loquacious
|
|
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 2,626 |
Hope you have a great time on your trip. You do know what Florida in August is like, right? 
Steelheart- '03 Speedmaster Black/Yellow
The Hayabusa Killa
16" Shorties/140 mains/Airbox drilled
Procom CDI
"There is no cure for Celibacy. But we can treat the symptoms."
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
Quote:
...my America - which now feels like a 125cc after having the R3 ...
you betcha.
What skins are you currently snot-balling?
?? uh ??
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
Hope you have a great time on your trip.
You do know what Florida in August is like, right?
Sh!t, no!!
No worries, I have a selection of mankinis for when the temp cranks up
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,126 Likes: 13
Should be Riding
|
|
Should be Riding
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 11,126 Likes: 13 |
translation: what tire brand are your wearing out at an inordinate rate?
Blowing gravel off rural roads
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Well there you go - I thought that but it was a toss-up between looking stoopid and asking what it meant or looking stoopid and guessing what I thought it meant and getting it wrong. On my second set of Metzelers. First set lasted about 4,500 miles  Well you gotta play with something like this, haven't you? Go on, ask what oil I use ... dare ya
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 7,701 Likes: 22
Monkey Butt
|
|
Monkey Butt
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 7,701 Likes: 22 |
I am so sorry. I am leaving Key Largo now. I have all the sunshine from Key West to Largo in my bag. Had I known, I would have left some.
Diving in KW and snorkle in Pennekamp Park. These people in Florida have a pretty special place.
I try to aggravate one person a day. Today may be your day.
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Well thanks a LOT Ron!  You just wait, when we get round to visiting Texas, we'll bring the crappy p!ssy English weather with us 
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 609
Adjunct
|
|
Adjunct
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 609 |
Eeh, I have a feelin' I know what this trip to Florida is REALLY all about! It's really to go take a look at a '59 Caddy sittin' up on blocks just outside of Ft. Lauderdale that you spotted on ebaymotors recently, isn't it FT??? Yeah, I KNOW how you have a thing for those big ol' Yank Tanks, ol' buddy! (BTW...hope you guys have a great time!) 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 6,681 Likes: 1
Bar Shake
|
|
Bar Shake
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 6,681 Likes: 1 |
Quote:
Barring a spewing volcano, Wendy, her two kids and I are headed for Florida for the last full week in August
Funkletrumpet,
Go see Moe and Ryan on the Atlantic side. Maybe the giant oil slick won't be there yet. 
"Catching a yellow jacket in your shirt at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary" Author unknown
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
Eeh, I have a feelin' I know what this trip to Florida is REALLY all about!
It's really to go take a look at a '59 Caddy sittin' up on blocks just outside of Ft. Lauderdale that you spotted on ebaymotors recently, isn't it FT???
Ssssh!! Wendy looks in on here you know?!! 
Quote:
Yeah, I KNOW how you have a thing for those big ol' Yank Tanks, ol' buddy!
You know me.
I miss the Boat Tail so I got the Town Car. Too nice for me.
We had the '50 Chevy Fleetline - sold it recently.
Current toy is a classic Brit .... 1969 Mark 2 Ford Cortina
THIS ISN'T MY CAR BUT SAME COLOUR
.
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
Go see Moe and Ryan on the Atlantic side. Maybe the giant oil slick won't be there yet.
Met them both a few years ago at the NorEast and plan on meeting up again but haven't been in touch with Ryan yet.
It's a whistle-stop tour so it might only be for a coffee or two.
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,113
Learned Hand
|
|
Learned Hand
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,113 |
Quote:
Well there you go - I thought that but it was a toss-up between looking stoopid and asking what it meant or looking stoopid and guessing what I thought it meant and getting it wrong.
On my second set of Metzelers.
First set lasted about 4,500 miles
Well you gotta play with something like this, haven't you?
Go on, ask what oil I use ... dare ya
Hey mate, when you have finished with the Mets, try Avon Cobra's, slightly cheaper then the mets, but one heck of a difference with handling, don't know about milage yet though.
Paul.
"If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving."
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 3,816
Freelance Jedi Knight
|
|
Freelance Jedi Knight
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 3,816 |
I got Avon Cobra on my America I think 8000 miles now
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
I got Avon Cobra on my America I think 8000 miles now
Jesus!
They MUST be good .... I know how you ride
.
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
Hey mate, when you have finished with the Mets, try Avon Cobra's, slightly cheaper then the mets, but one heck of a difference with handling, don't know about milage yet though.
Will give 'em a try.
Got the Metzelers 'cause when I had the 12 month service done at the dealer I bought the bike off (after they had given up their franchise), they had a set hangin' around so he let me have them at cost!
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 3,816
Freelance Jedi Knight
|
|
Freelance Jedi Knight
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 3,816 |
Quote:
Quote:
I got Avon Cobra on my America I think 8000 miles now
Jesus!
They MUST be good .... I know how you ride
.
scratched footpegs yesterday again love those rounabouts
|
|
|
Re: Hey Florida, we're coming
|
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7
Loquacious
|
|
OP
Loquacious
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 3,403 Likes: 7 |
Quote:
Say hello anyway, we might talk funny but we don't bite...
... unlike the friggin' mozzies at Moe's house!!!! 
We went to see Lynn and Moe. I hadn't seen them in four years (thanks again guys for making us welcome ).
In the few minutes it took to say our goodbyes I managed to get about 4 - 5 humdinger bites on my legs / feet.
The two on the back of my legs? Holly crap they look nasty 
We had a great time ... apart from that d@mned rain and heat.
Heat? What the he|| is THAT all about?!?!
Even the rental car guy at Sanford airport said he never gets used to it.
Last day at Magic Kingdom (Wendy's daughter's 7th birthday) was great ... up until 30 minutes before the illuminated procession and fireworks then the heavens opened and pretty much washed everyone away!
(You think I'm kidding? I'm not).
We had a great time and the kids had never been to the US so that was cool for them.
We want to come back but it will be earlier in the year next time
Thanks again Moe & Lynn, you da best 
"You can't believe everything you read on the internet" : William Shakespeare
|
|
|
|
|
