Show us the highlights of your summer....(Pic Heavy)

[IndieSol]

Well, the summer has come and gone, along with a good portion of the Fall. I hope all of you were able to spend a lot of time in the sun, preferably on two wheels. Let's see some pics of your road trips. I know sometimes we get some of these anyways, but I'm putting out an open invitation to extend your summer just a little bit with this thread.....

 

[IndieSol]

My personal highlight was a quick trip North a couple hundred miles for the Isle of Vashon TT.

My buddy Tony (xxSonicCB160xx) and I had to leave late Saturday night due to his work schedule, which kind of sucked, but we made the best of it.

Driving a lowered fifty year old truck up I-5 for four hours with two classic bikes in the back is no picnic, but we made it up with no major mishaps and had a late night beer with our host, DTT member, JoeHardy.

The next morning, after a short but chilly ride we arrived at the SouthWorth Ferry, one of two ferries that will get you onto the Isle of Vashon.

Waiting for the ferry are JoeHardy's gorgeous CB750 (Lola), Tony's CB400F and my GS1100....

Also waiting was a Suzuki RE5 Rotary...

About to unload from the ferry....

We met up with JK333 and his brother while on the Ferry. At this point, out of five bikes, I was the only one not riding a Honda. Style points!

The Isle of Vashon TT is held by the Vintage Motorcycle Enthusiasts every year. It at one point grew so large that the VME had to start releasing the dates to members only via the newsletter. Honestly, it's the only reason I joined, but it will cause them to get my money again next year.

Our group after sitting down for breakfast and drawing our first cards for the poker run....

Some bikes...

Well...this one's kind of a bike....Ace Cycle Car.....

JoeHardy's CB750

A slightly racist, but highly modified SR500....

Harley

Ceccato

Trump in front of a Velocette

Nimbus

Bultaco with clever spark plug bandolier

Beeza

Anyways, we had a great time. The above pictures are really just a sample of the bikes we saw. I can't even describe it. Tony and I made some new friends in JoeHardy and JK333 (and his brother) and we're looking forward to next year.

Now let's see yours.....

 

[foundation982]

The most memorable was going up to Wisconsin's 2011 Airventure show A 250 mile trip. I had just rebuilt the SR500 a month before hand and had no clue was I was in for.
Right before we left (Me far right My friend mark middle, and my brother in law ben on the left)

photo 4.JPG by bn_lehman, on Flickr

photo 5.JPG by bn_lehman, on Flickr
lookin like a doofus enjoying some wisconsin cheese

photo 1.JPG by bn_lehman, on Flickr

photo 4.JPG by bn_lehman, on Flickr
and getting poured on for 80 miles on the way home, I'm sure some of you know what that's like but for those of you who don't think of being shot everywhere on your body by a airsoft gun over and over

 

[78whiteorbs]

Did you dudes purposely color coordinate you jackets and shorts ???

 

[foundation982]

Did you dudes purposely color coordinate you jackets and shorts ???

haha no but we had a good laugh when we noticed we were wearing the same things

 

[Shermanator86]

Highlight of my summer was getting my bike (first one) getting it running and making my first road trip down to the Indy moto GP.
This is about the only picture we got of our bikes together, we planned on getting one in the infield of the track but we got split up while parking and were too split up

 

[JRK5892]

well so far i am 15,000 miles so far this summer... still going till Dec... we will see how i end up but so far def pic heavy!
our ride to southern Arkansas and mo

ridding the mississippi river valley

upper UP with dad/mom and his buddy

STL wedding ride when my friends got married (took the bandit)

ride though Joplin (very sad)

mothers day at Gene and judes

yearly run to the HD muesuem

lake Genevia wisconsin summer road run

had a bunch more... and here are some of the 2011 builds i have done for myself and friends so far this year (shop builds not included of course)