Kancamagus Highway 9/04

First and last time I made it up to the Kancamagus highway this year.  Just been one of those years where no one is free when you are to go riding.  I lucked out once and Mike with the BMW Dakar was around to go riding, figured why not make a day of it and head up to northern NH.  Got an early wet start, which turned into a later wet start after mike proudly stated "the BMW has been running great today", followed by him mounting the bike and turning the key with no effect.  After removing some body work in the parking lot we spotted a lose battery terminal, bike started up with that corrected.

Ride up was uneventful outside of  some passing rain.  Did some hot bike swapping action and I got to throw a leg over the BMW.  Going from the 929 to Dakar was about as night and day as you could get.  The Dakar felt VERY tall, making it easy to look down into most SUV's on the highway.  Not as unstable as you would think it'd be on the highway (75mph or so).  And that little windscreen does a great job of punching a hole through the air.  Mike had a good time on the 929, first time he had ridden a full on liter bike.  At one point mike asked me while I was on the 929 if I could keep it around 75 or lower since his bike starts to struggle around 80, tops around 105.  I told him "Sweet, now I don't have to shift!".  Not sure he believed me till I pulled up next to him doing 75 in first gear.

Took the usual pictures, they all look the same don't they?  Sadly they installed some park benches on the platform at the base of the bridge.  Was a challenge to try and get the bike and everything into the picture and not get the bench.  No drama on the ride back either, nice relaxing day.