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My younger days were thrown away with staring down a long highway
Waiting for a chance to dance my dance to the tune of the open road

Freedom seems like a hopeless dream to southern wild child still in my teens
Never been scared with a soul that compared to the way that the river flows

Forewarned but free I was born to be my old man
No one but me to understand just how I am


Don't want it for me don't know where I'll be today
Cause I'll do things my way and my way is the highway

The sound of the train still rocks my brain the road makes the blood pulse through my veins
And my age doesn't cage or disengage the man I was born to be

Like my dad once said son when your dead its just you and your story wrote above your head
The good lord knows the highway is my home

Forewarned but free I was born to be my old man
No one but me to understand just how I am

Don't want it for me don't know where I'll be today
Cause I'll do things my way and my way is the highway

Did they ever make a Super Motard version of the DR650? Looks like it would be right at home for this hop...

extrememarine wrote: ↑Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:37 am Did they ever make a Super Motard version of the DR650? Looks like it would be right at home for this hop...

Many have so modified to an SM but nothing OEM. 17" front shortens the rake a bit too much. Steering gets heavy. A 19" front is a good compromise. Hits a decent sweet spot on handling and broadens tire choice.

Or rigging a set of non-leading forks (Some older Triumph 43mm forks & 320 mm brake rotor swap in nicely) allows for a 17" front and shortens the wheelbase for proper SM handling.

I keep thinking about a 19" front wheel w/ rotor investment for remaining barn rat bike. Decent handling and still gravel runner/adventure travel capable...and a hell of a lot less expensive than a Versys, new or used. But DR is never going to be as much fun as the twin. Conflicted. Winter will resolve the quandary one way or the other.

Very nice. I really like this photo.

fontanaman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 07, 2021 10:43 pm Very nice. I really like this photo.

One of my favorite roller coaster hooligan roads.
Used to be a destination just for the purpose of running it when I owned a Versys.