
Hey
from Texas.
For the past few weeks prior to this luncheon
event- essentially since our October weekend in Paris (that's Paris
Texas), I'd been having trouble keeping the battery up.
The lead/acid battery was only about a year old
& I'd kept it pretty much on a battery tender but ya never know how long
one will last.
Sealed gel battery was not readily available, so
I got another traditional type battery.
It was dry-charged but after adding the acid, I
charged it for about an hour before starting the bike.
It fired right up.
I put Sea Foam in the tank when we gassed up
upon leaving home.
Misting & mid-40s, SugarBeet wore her leather but I thought
positive & wore the mesh jacket when we left on a dreary morning for
lunch in F'burg.
With the mist even behind the windshield, we
were getting a little chilly, so we stopped in Burnet and put on the
rainsuits.
When I started back up, the bike backfired...
...when
we slowed to turn around to go home (SWMBO), as I suspected that it
would, the engine died on the center stripe of US281 & I coasted to the
(now northbound) shoulder.
Hit the starter button & not a whimper.
It ain't the Sea Foam, it's the...(read
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Southeast Regional AVA Rally
By Dave and Dot Wirtz (AVA Marketing and Ride Directors)
Posted 1/19/2010
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Whew,
I am glad that we live in the south and have extended days of nice weather.
HOWEVER, with that being said we attended the S.E.
Regional Rally in Palm Coast, Fl in Oct.
Friday the weather was great, Saturday a little cool
BUT Sunday was frigid.
Sorry but the Sunshine Voyagers of Florida had no
control of the weather. Was glad we got a couple of good weather days out of
it all.
David & Honor Lee along with Dot & Dave Wirtz
from the Palmetto Voyagers and Chairman of the Board Duane Ash from Idaho
attended the rally hosted by the Sunshine State Voyagers and what a great
time we had.
On Friday the people from
Kawasaki welcomed us to their tent along with ROK where they gave us a pizza
lunch.
After they had closed the tent
up for the day they gave demo rides for AVA members to try a ride on the new
1700 Voyager.
After the ride, they requested
we fill out a survey sheet reference the things we liked and disliked about
the new 1700.
There was also a section for
the passenger to fill out which was a real nice thought.
Sometimes the passenger has a
lot to say, both good and bad.
There were several influential people from Kawasaki there...(read
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Southeast Regional AVA Rally

By Mike Biggerstaff
Posted 1/19/2010

The
2009 AVA Southeast Regional Rally has come and gone.
By the time you actually read this it will seem like
ancient history but the timing of the last Voyager’s Voice was such that it
was too late to get something in that issue.
There were good and not so good aspects about the
Southeast Regional Rally. It was good to see old friends from the Palmetto
Voyagers, Chairman of the Board Duane Ash from Idaho, and the Riders of
Kawasaki, and I’m happy to report that the Riders of Kawasaki took good care
of us. ROK provided us a pizza lunch on Friday for lunch and that afternoon
night there were rides on the 1700 Voyager set aside exclusively for those
attending the rally. If you have ever tried to get a ride on a demo bike at
a ROK event you know how special having set aside rides is. My thanks go out
to Brian Gibson and the rest of the ROK staff. The bad news is that things
at the Speedway were a ghost town compared to other events we have done
there in the past. Many of the major manufacturers pulled out to include
Honda, Suzuki, Harley and Victory. The only manufactures were...
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Enchanted Tour
2009
By Dave Schani
Posted 1/19/2010

Like I often do for
New Mexico events, I left directly from work Wednesday afternoon but this
time a little earlier than I usually do. The weather forecast for my route
had such high rain probabilities that I had briefly considered canceling my
trip. I wandered through Llano and Brady avoiding most of the precipitation
although I had a few minutes of steady rain and a few stretches of wet
roads.
Kevin
Sawatsky,
Along the way the road goes through an area of pasture land dotted
with huge wind turbines on both sides of the road - you can get quite close
to them here. Approaching Sweetwater, I hit several more minutes of rain,
however, I was able to continue at a speed that allowed the fairing of the
RT to keep most of it off me. By the time I got to Sweetwater, the rain had
stopped at least temporarily so I decided to continue to Snyder and spend
the night there.
The next morning, I was on the road by about 6am. I arrived in
Lubbock for rush hour but...
...Friday morning, after breakfast at the campground, we headed north
into the mountains through Mora and on to the Enchanted Circle going
through Angel Fire, Red River, and Taos. At the outskirts of Taos, we
detoured west to the Rio Grande Gorge. Bud, Rod, and I had been there
back in July during the AVA rally but for some of our group it was the
first time.
Saturday was a real change of scenery from the day before. Our route
initially took us northeast through the foothills. When we reached Ocate,
we turned east. By now, the scenery was turning to relatively flat
grassland. We gassed up in Wagon Mound and continued east towards the
town of Roy, which was our planned lunch stop. There wasn't much scenery
to speak of until about ten miles from Roy. At that point...(read
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