Riley April 2025 in Ar.

[SmithSwede]

I called the park.  No flooding or other issues.  Weather looks clear with highs in low 70d, nighttime lows in mid 50s. 

Maybe wildflowers blooming.   

I’m heading north now

[LowRyter]

Broken brake lever.  Never had that happen.   

[kballowe]

Arriving Friday afternoon.

[Shorty]

Cabin check is at 4 pm. I might grab lunch at the lodge while waiting to check in. Friday.

[Shorty]

Broken brake lever.  Never had that happen.

Bring a different bike. 

[SmithSwede]

Isn’t that why you are never supposed to use the front brakes?

[kballowe]

We had pulled pork sandwiches and all the fixins' for dinner. And beautifull riding weather.

[SmithSwede]

The Swede badly miscalculated rear tire life.  Or maybe he was too hard on the throttle.





He got the Tow of Shame into Russellville.

[kballowe]

Scuff 'em

  up !

[kballowe]

We had a nice time, and a decent turnout for not-a-rally.

States represented:

Arkansas    - Rudyr
Kansas       - Delrod
Missouri     - kballowe, leroysch, travelingbyguzzi, John Wesley
Oklahoma  - Shorty
Texas        - SmithSwede
Wisconsin  - Tkelly + 2

Longest distance award goes to those crazy Wisconsin riders (led by Tom Kelly - approx 800 miles).
Delrod won the 50-50 raffle.

Many thanks to Rudyr for getting this set up, and for providing the gathering place and the chow.

[rocker59]

The Swede badly miscalculated rear tire life.  Or maybe he was too hard on the throttle.





He got the Tow of Shame into Russellville.

plenty of tire left on the sides. You could've gotten a few hundred more miles out of that tire here in The Hills !

[kballowe]

He's pretty modest - he'd never admit it.

But, we got him liquored up and then he won the burnout contest.

[PJPR01]

Surely that tire was bald leaving Terrell already!  Swede living dangerously!

I want a hat like Rudy has...looking cool in the shade there!

[tazio]

Yikes! on the bald tire, but I've been caught out the same way once. Never again. My rear tire looked ready for several more full "day rides" in the north Georgia mts, but I hadn't accounted for the mostly "vertical" 2 day round trip to Brunswick ON INTERSTATE ROADS that had exposed the cords as I rode back thru Atlanta at night. I know this, as a fellow motorcyclist yelled out to me YOU'RE THROWING SPARKS! Believe me, there is only a mere film of rubber behind those cords. I now keep a running tab of the miles I've covered on each new tire I install.
Here I've cut tire for your viewing pleasure...

[rocker59]

Yikes! on the bald tire, but I've been caught out the same way once. Never again. My rear tire looked ready for several more full "day rides" in the north Georgia mts, but I hadn't accounted for the mostly "vertical" 2 day round trip to Brunswick ON INTERSTATE ROADS that had exposed the cords as I rode back thru Atlanta at night. I know this, as a fellow motorcyclist yelled out to me YOU'RE THROWING SPARKS! Believe me, there is only a mere film of rubber behind those cords. I now keep a running tab of the miles I've covered on each new tire I install.
Here I've cut tire for your viewing pleasure...

Your application for admission into The Cord Club has been denied.

That tire has got a good 500-600 miles left in it.

 

[tazio]

 

AND the wifey is a nurse. THIS event NEVER reached her ears.
 

[Tkelly]

Thanks Rudy for the fine southern cooking and hospitality,got a taste of summer Sunday on the way home,today we had constant heavy west winds all the way up north,hope to see you in WI.