Saturday, June 4, 2011

Motorcycle First Thursday–June 2011

Lots of people and motorcycles this month at Motorcycle First Thursday at Dulono’s Pizza in Minneapolis. I would guess about double from last month, so I’d guess 1000+ bikes and a few thousand people.

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As last month, I took the WR250R down. I’ve been riding it the most the last two weeks. It is such a fun little bike. As soon as I pulled in with it, two different people started talking to me. One was an older guy from FL who wanted to buy a DR200, and this reminded him of it. The other was a guy named Todd that had liked to ride dual sports too.

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We chatted for a while, and he mentioned he didn’t get to Theilman this past weekend. I couldn’t go either because of my RiderCoach training. He said he watched a video of a guy riding there on his DRZ400 and falling 15 times, and how much he liked it. It took a few minutes to convince him it was the WR250R in front of us, and that it was my video. How cool is that? A random guy saw my video “15 Ways to Drop a Bike” and found it funny (the intent of the vid). We made a loose plan to attempt to ride together later in the summer.

The spikes and daggers all over this bike made it rather unique.

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I spent most of my time making a video with the GoProHD again. All of the pictures below were taken by my friend Dave McLellan.

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(above: the only other sidecar – a custom R1150GS)

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(above: a pic from Dave’s beautiful Hayabusa. He always gets a great parking spot by the door. The luxuries of being retired.)

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(above: The Freddy Krueger art bike shows up regularly. I have a photo from September 2009: Krueger Art Bike )

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(above: A Spyder with the touring package. I haven’t seen many of these lately.)

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I’m still working on the video. Been busy studying for my first class next week and getting the Ural ready for this weekend.

Changing k335 winter tires on #ural to summer duros.

5 comments:

  1. Good stuff Chris, though the amount of people is above my usual level of tolerance....way too many.

    Did you get a closer look at that 1150GS rig? Any inspiration perhaps? : )

    dom


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  2. Dom: Yes, that belongs to a guy named Dan. I've talked with him many times now. He was trying to get me to buy his tug then. He's going to replace it with a R1150GSA vs his current, heavily modified, R1150GS.

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  3. I wonder if this is the same First Thursday that Gary C ( of Baron in Winter fame ) used to write about in his blog. Last I knew he rode a green KLR. We lost touch a while back. Interesting that you are in the same area.

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  4. The Freddy Krueger is wild!! Always love a bike much more when a dog is in the sidecar! Nice pics!

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  5. irondad: it is indeed the same event as he was also living in st. paul when he wrote that blog.

    sharon: dogs and sidecars are like peanut butter and jelly.

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