Late Friday afternoon I posted up a short tide in the Pelham area in Street rides. It was last minute because I was waiting on Max Motorsports to see if my scooter would be ready for pickup. So I got the call and posted the ride even though I knew it would be a long shot.
Saturday morning I got in my truck and drove an exciting (not!) 110 miles down to Pelham. All I have to say about the Birmingham area is that THE TRAFFIC SUCKS!! When I got there I checked the forum on my phone and saw that Springer had posted that he would be there!
I picked up my scooter. I wanted to take it on an extended test ride to make sure the ABS was fixed. Springer showed up before I was ready to ride. Once I geared up we headed off. Ridng south on 31 all I can say is THE TRAFFIC SUCKED
I don't know the area. Springer suggested taking a right to get out of the traffic so we went west on 52. I tried the brakes many times, they seemed to work OK. 52 was too much of a main road so I turned off on another road. It was a pretty nice ride. We passed a road sign saying "River Road". Maybe it just a coincidence but I have found in the past that roads named river road often go to or along a river(https://advrider.com/f/styles/advrider_smilies/ne_nau.gif)
So we u turned back and we rode down River road. It was a gravel road but Springer was on an Africa Twin and my scooter had an ADV sticker on it so I figured we could handle it. Soon we came to a road closed sign but we back tracked and turned down another road that went down to the Cahaba River.
Posing my scooter by the river:
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Springer and I talked a bit then some "normal" people came by (as opposed to us crazy bikers ;)) so we talked to them too.
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Who would have thunk a big adventure bike and little scooter would be out riding together?
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Then we headed back to town. I was getting hungry. Oh yeah, THE TRAFFIC SUCKED! We had a light lunch at a taco Bell. Then I headed back to Max and Springer headed off, hopefully away from the traffic.
Thanks Springer for riding with me. While it wasn't exactly an epic adventure I enjoyed it.
Any day riding is a good day! I get back home I will start on a video of the ride. ;)