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Glad to see it warm up a bit in the Midwest

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Haven't been logged on in a while. So busy with Work, (pottery) and Christmas. Still Riding!! Darn it's getting cold Dec. 25, 2009

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Ah Robin. You are precious!! Happy New Year, 2010! I spent Christmas Day in bed with the flu, but as long as I know someone is out there doing the crazy things we do, I feel better about missing my Christmas Day ride. ~grin~

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Just wondering what brand or kind of throttle lock everyone else uses. Planning on getting one soon.

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2005 V-Star 650

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Illinois

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Effingham

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Artist / Construction Manager

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http://www.angelfire.com/wi3/willeypottery/

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Still wanting to make some favorite road trips

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Music, 80's. and the stuff my kids listen to
TV Shows, American Thunder, CSI, Speed Channel
Hobbies - I'm a potter, ya know the whole wheel and throwin gmud thing

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My best riding buddy is my husband. We started riding in July 08 and haven't stopped. Jay has a 2005 Road Star 1700. We didn't put our bikes up for winter. just kept riding as long as the sun was shining.!

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to everyone. I haven't checked into this website in so long. Been busy with the pottery and the Christmas season. So glad that's over. Then with Christmas and the family, so glad that's over too. Been Riding almost every day to work. It was actually 18 degrees one morning. Thanks to my kids for getting me heated gloves for Christmas. Can't wait to use them. Gotta wait until this darn RAIN stops. The lane is a nightmare. Maybe it will freeze again next week so I can get out.

Posted on December 25, 2009 at 4:24am —

Been Busy Riding

Sorry, I lost track of this website all summer, been too busy riding and working. Working to keep riding! haha. Just rolled over to 20,000 miles on my bike in 14 months of ownership. Seems so much but it has gone so fast. This weekend we are leaving for the Frog Follies Car Show in Evansville, then on Sunday we are going to hit all the State Parks in the Shawnee Forest in Southern Indiana. Got soaked on the way to work this morning. What a excilerating way to start my weekend. Is it 5:00 o'clock… Continue

Posted on August 28, 2009 at 7:19am — 5 Comments

Your right KAT, always wear Helmet, Jacket, Gloves,

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/07/15/vo.or.motorcycle.accident.dashcam

Thumbs up to this motorcyclist who lost control but got up and walk away because he had 1) helmet 2) jacket 3) gloves

Posted on July 16, 2009 at 1:20pm — 2 Comments

Two New Bikers on the Road

I want to congratulate my daugter, KATand my son, DAVE, for taking the 20 hour motorcycle safety class this weekend and PASSING!!! Now they can go and get their Class M license from the DMV.
CONGRATS KIDS, and Ride Safe

Posted on June 7, 2009 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

LOVE THIS VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mU8ZqMZPU

If you don't ride, you don't know.

I love this video. This group of guys made this awesome video and sung this song that expresses exactly how I feel when I ride. I watch it often, especially on days that I don't get to ride. It gives me a good feeling inside. I even found their T-shirts online and bought me one.

Posted on May 28, 2009 at 9:53am — 3 Comments

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At 12:26pm on December 31, 2009, Larry Walther said…: Happy New Year Robin! I am completely over the "4-day flu" I had during Christmas ... feel real good. In about half-hour I am leaving for a Patriot Guard mission at the airport in Moline, but will take the truck because Kris (spouse) wants to go, too. My riding for 2009 is over, but I am trying to figure a way to afford a trip south in January or February, and the boys and I spent Christmas (Saturday) planning our ride back to North Carolina/Tennessee in late April or early May.

I got a pair of gloves (ordered), too, but they are the "cheapies" that are battery powered. They were on eBay and too cheap not to try, so I threw in a low bid - and got them. Haven't tried them yet, but will when they get here. Supposed to be good for 5-6 hours of riding on a charged battery - we'll see. I already have the electrical hookups for the plug-in style like yours, and will probably end up getting them anyway.

At 6:22am on December 28, 2009, Robin Willey said…: Larry,
My kids got me a set of heated gloves for Christmas. They are the plug in type. Bad thing is for some reasont they didn't get Jay a pair too. Ther eis no way I'm gonna ride with warm hands and leave him in the cold. My goal this week t o find him a pair that fits. he has super large hands. There is a bike swap meet in St. Louis this weekend and J&P are gonna be there. Hope to fins them. We actually got to ride on Christmas morning. Put about 20 miles on. just enough for me to roll the V-start over to 25,000. yeh, 25 on the 25th.!

We have also decide to make the trip to Sturgis this year. We are gonna take 10 days off and seeand do it all.

At 12:29am on December 27, 2009, Larry Walther said…: Hi Robin. Seems like yesterday but is more like a year or more ago we started this friendship. It's been valuable to me - just so you know. Like yourself, I've been riding more and posting less until very recently, but the weather now has me slowed down ... just too much ice and snow - and concern that the battery might not be able to turn the Star over if it sits too long in very cold temps. Away from home, this could be a major problem. ;^)

Just finished Christmas (on the 27th) and had a great time with family at our house. The "boys", Chad and Bobby (37 and 29) and I spent part of the evening in the garage planning another trip to Deal's Gap area, and of course a return to the Tail of the Dragon is a (small) part of the plan. We are hoping to go in late April or perhaps even May, depending on weather, room availability, and our own schedules. Bobby hasn't been there yet, but Chad went with me last year so we're "breaking in" the youngest member of the Apple Dumpling Gang ~ to that area.

I bid on and won a pair of electrically heated gloves on eBay, and am anxious to see if they work for my purposes. They aren't the plug-into-the-bike's-system type, but the rechargeable battery type. In November I rode 140 miles one-way to help honor a KIA coming into Rockford airport, and the temp was +27F most of the way up, colder on the way home. So I'm looking for something that doesn't involve tapping into the bikes' battery, but will help me avoid frostbite for a 3-6 hour ride. Don't know if these are the answer, but they are the cheapest solution I've found so far, at $40 ... I'll probably end up spending the money for a full vest-glove system that operates off the Star's battery, but wanted to see if I could get the task accomplished "on the cheap", so to speak.

At 5:03pm on November 17, 2009, Larry Walther said…: Deal's Gap or Sturgis? It really is apples and bananas, Robin. Sturgis is a great big party, with the vendors being on center stage. Yep, lots of great people, but the event itself, that is, "Sturgis" with a capital "S", consists of getting a motel room a hundred miles away, or a camp-site nearby such as the Buffalo Chips campground and socializing ... all of which takes place outside of the town/city of Sturgis itself. Nobody goes into town unless there is a specific demo or show taking place there, and the reason is the crowding of too many bikes and bodies into too small an area. But I'm just guessing and could be wrong. LOL!

On the other hand, Deal's Gap is just a retail/gift and trinket shop, with a dozen or so attached cabins designed for cyclists who want to use it as their "base", and a "restaurant" (not) in which you can get canned and bottled drinks and a not-too-bad burger. The allure of the Deal's Gap/U.S. #129 area is that it is at the center of some of the best mountain riding around. The "Tail of the Dragon" is cool to say "been there - done that", but that's about all. The REAL enjoyment (in my opinion) is in riding the hundreds of miles of (mostly blacktop) mountain roads surrounding the "Tail" (eleven miles is the heart of the Dragon Tail - too short to be called a reason for riding out). The Cherohala Skyway is a 60 mile trip that has Robbinsville, NC on one end, and Telluco Plains near the other. Along that 60 miles are all kinds of "rides" that aren't widely known, but are the real "meat" for the trip to Tennessee/North Carolina border area.

I have the T-shirt for both, and my advice is, get a friend to get you the T-shirt for Sturgis, but go ride the mountains in the Deal's Gap area (mountain roads in/on the Indian Nations). Hope this helps, Robin - have a wonderful day/evening.

P.S. I loved the Robbinsville, NC area for lodging, location, and great folks, but be aware you need an early reservation if you are going to stay over, and Robbinsville is in a "dry" county - FWIW. ;^)

At 6:15am on November 01, 2009, Larry Walther gave Robin Willey a gift…: Lucky Cat
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At 8:19am on October 13, 2009, Rdcnslr said…: Robin, I see you are getting the weather we had about a week ago. Left us with 4+ inches of snow and a week of below 40 degrees. Just now getting back to normal, low 50's and upper 40's. We are getting frost every night and have had the sprinkler system shut down until June! Did about 6,000 miles this summer with a trip to Cottage Grove, OR to visit my parents, then the Hell's Canyon MR in Baker City, OR. The premier experience for the summer was the Star Days Rally in Billings, Montana (see album). The bike has proven to be a great cruiser. I am little concerned that they might drop the line as Star Motorcycles is only showing the 1300 Tourer for 2010. Oh well, I like the bike and it will probably be the last one I own. Hope all is well with the family and you all are riding safe!

At 4:11pm on October 9, 2009, Larry Walther said…: Hey Robin, don't be upset with me because I had good reasons, but ... I am now riding an 1100. Still a V-Star, and still a shaft drive (love 'em) but I had to let the 650 Classic go and replace it with effectively the same bike, but the bigger machine. Even as I signed the papers, my mind went to the comments I had made to you that I'd probably die still riding my 650 ... but things change.

There is no "short of it", because it is a story that spanned nearly 40 years, but here's what happened: When my (now 55 year old) wife was 17 years, she was the passenger on a motorcycle that lost a left turn to a car. Left her pretty banged up, and one part of it was a left leg that healed an inch shorter than the right. This caused "wear" on her spine, knees, and hips which we've dealt with as "symptoms" over the years. But for years, the worst problem was her left hip, which just "wore out" from the way she had to walk to compensate. The pain got so bad she was having trouble walking, and under no circumstances could she get on a bike (passenger or operator). Then came the summer of 2009 ...

She had total hip replacement (as opposed to a repair effort) in May, and the result was an end to pain, and her ("Kris", sorry) newfound ability to do things she has been unable to for years. So one day in July, she said she'd like to try riding passenger (again), and found in a 20 minute cruise that she still loved the wind. The problem was, the 650 was a little underpowered for some of the places we were riding as doubles, while it had been fine for me as a single.

That's the story: I saw a great deal on eBay for a 2007 V Star 1100, and jumped on it (and drove my pickup and bike trailer all the way to New Jersey to pick it up). Naturally, it's a black Classic model, and is completely chromed to death. Thought I'd better let you know the whole story, so you don't think I was fibbing when I said earlier this year (or was it last?) that I saw no need to get a bigger bike than the 650 ... I just wasn't thinking in terms of doubles, because I hadn't done so since the 1970s.

Hope your riding season was good to you. We had the same junk wet weather everyone else probably did, so I won't go there ...

At 6:43pm on July 28, 2009, Crash said…: Robin, my bags are from Saddleman. Sorry it took me so long to answer you, still finding my way around!!! They fit perfectly

At 10:01am on July 14, 2009, Crash said…: Lets see if I can make this interesting...lol. It was a cold evening, about sunset when I went riding around the town. About 2 hours into my ride, I decided to start heading home, (it was getting colder). I took a shortcut through a side street and made a left hand turn. I made a very wide left hand turn. I hit very LARGE gravel and the next think I knew I was head first into a ditch. The bike went in rear end first. My friends said I was air born for what seemed like a long time to them. I got a severe concussion and sprained my neck! Tore a rotator cuff.....and hurt my pride! This was in Feb. 2009. I have had severe headaches since then and memory loss, fortunately all that is getting much better now. There's my story......