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Tom, Steve, and J…the Tourmaster Triplets

We had an interesting ride this morning.   The weather, in a word, was bad.    Tom, Steve, J, and I rode Sheep Canyon again, running the RX-3 through its paces in the rough stuff, and then we rolled into Wrightwood for a great breakfast at the Grizzly Café.   Sheep Canyon was great…it was overcast and cold, and it almost seemed like we were in another state on a hunting expedition.   It was desolate, we were way out in the boonies, and I half expected to have a close encounter with a bear.   The closest we came to seeing a bear, though, was the wooden one at the Grizzly Café (where we had a super breakfast).

It started raining while we were having breakfast.   We thought maybe it would stop, so we headed deeper into the mountains on Angeles Crest Highway.   That was a bad move.   It just got colder and it started raining harder, so we turned around and headed back to the ranch.   We stopped at my place for coffee and to warm up a bit, and then we rolled the rest of the way in the rain back to the shop.

The good news is we did about 100 miles in heavy rain, and the bags and the trunk on the RX-3 were bone dry.  Well, almost.   The left saddlebag had just a little water at the bottom in one of the corners, but I couldn’t tell if that had leaked in or if it fell in when I opened the bag.   They worked well enough, I think.   The factory bags on my Triumph Tiger leaked like a sieve, as did the bags on my old Honda CBX.

To me, it’s all moot.  I never depended on the saddlebags to keep stuff dry on any of my other bikes.  I always put all of the stuff going into the saddlebags into a Hefty trash bag, and then I folded that over to keep everything dry.     The Cyclone bags are as good as or better than the bags on any other bike I’ve ever ridden in the rain, and that’s good enough for me.

J, Steve, and I rolled J’s KLR back into his Dodge Power Wagon, and I picked up my KLR from last week to ride it home (as you remember from our ride last week, the rear caliper bolts fell out of the KLR).   The ride home in the rain on the KLR was dicey.   J was following me in his big Dodge.   I felt the KLR sashaying around in the rain and I thought it was my imagination, but J told me he saw the bike moving around a bit.   Say what you will, but I rode the Cyclone and the KLR back to back in the rain, and the Cyclone was much better behaved in the wet stuff.

And those bolts that I had ordered from the Kawasaki dealer…you know, the ones that fell off my KLR and were supposed to be delivered the next day?  Well, they didn’t make it the next day, or the next day after that, or the Friday after Thanksgiving.   I called the dealer on Saturday morning to find out what was going on, and the bolts never made it at all.   The dealer just forgot to ship them.   Just as well, I guess.   30 cents for the bolt at a hardware store versus $4.00 at the Kawi dealer…it’s a no brainer.

As it worked out, J and I bopped around So Cal in the Vette yesterday, and we actually stopped at the dealer mentioned above just to look at their new bikes.   Here’s something that’s real interesting…check out the freight and setup these guys are charging on a new KLR…

That’s some mighty fancy setting up and freighting, I guess.    You’ll see none of that kind of nonsense on a CSC Cyclone.

On to December, friends.   Ride safe and stay dry…