Home Sweet Home...

Home Sweet Home…

A group photo in the parking lot after 50 miles in heavy traffic, a hot shower, a nice dinner at Red Lobster last night, working out the details on getting everybody back to the airport for their flights to China, Colombia, and New Mexico, the bikes parked in the CSC maintenance area waiting for Gerry’s capable guys to check them out on Monday, and it’s over…an epic ride. This is one for the ages.

As I sit here at 5:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning enjoying a good cup of coffee, I’m thinking of all the keyboard commandos and their inane forum comments over the last year: The racist rants against all things Chinese, a 250 is too small, the seat’s too hard, and all the rest of the moronic drivel coming from folks who are tiny in every sense of the word. Ah, that’s enough…I’ve already wasted more of our blog’s ink (figuratively speaking, of course) than their sorry butts merit…they can go back under their rocks and pound out the venom.

It feels good to be home.

It felt good to be out on the road. Our 10 RX3s pounded out 50,000 miles in 9 states. We rolled across historic trails, national parks, national monuments, famous roads, national forests, and all the rest you’ve been following on the CSC blog. All at 70 to 75 mph, with the needles mostly hovering at 7500 rpm. Our guests got to see the best of America, speed-dating style. Sometimes we’d hit two national parks in a single day. Small towns. Big cities. Country roads. Freeways. Historic bridges. The Colorado, Columbia, and Snake Rivers. Panguitch, Medicine Bow, Cody, Carey, and a bunch of towns most people never heard of. Sometimes we had RX3-borne buddies join us for a day or three. It was grand.

Our friends from China and Colombia saw more of America than most Americans ever do. All on 250cc singles from Chongqing. 300 miles a day. Every day. For days on end. Resting? That’s for Internet trolls. Nope, that’s not this group. We’re out there, living it. To say it was awesome would be an understatement.

I want to add a few more photos from this trip…stuff I haven’t put on the blog yet. Enjoy. And when you’re done, get out there and ride. It’s what life is all about.