Good Job B5Mac - Ireally should work on a sig pic. Like everyone else out there I have so little time for so many things that requiremy attention.

 

Sorry Trotter - my last message should have been a reply to B5Mac, I'mnot sure what happened there??

 

B5,
Jeez louise what do you call that? Did you have any problems with skeeters or bugs with no tent? Did any of gear get hijacked by the wind running down the highway? And did you have anything strapped to the front? Guess we should nominate you for the Easy Rider of the Year Award! Way to go man.

Bart

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I can't do the avatar thing but here's my packing job....(yeah that's a pro pad seat thing..I bought it that day andit's F*^&ing useless).

http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z...syriders21.jpg

 

Black Bart, I didn't have anything on the front. I had enough room on the back for everything that I needed. The Jungle Hammock has a rainfly and skeeter netting around it so no problem with them. It's a lot more comfortable than sleeping on the ground. I'm 57 and gettin' up off the ground is a lot harder than it use to be. I didn't bring any food at all since I knew that there would be food venders there. I went there by myself so I kind of went from group to group meeting folks and got fed a lot of good food and offered a lot of free beer. Had to turn down the beer though. It's a drag getting older. I just can't take the hangovers any more.

 

Here's a pic of my campsite.



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looks like a pretty nice set-up to sleep. I'd prob take up my neighbors offer of beer, but I'd be afraid of falling out of the hammock !!!! I'm 56, rather hotel it if I got the OL with me, but I'd camp

 

Damn shame we didn't hook up Bmac. I didn't have a tent either, but some nice folks had a spare and offered it to me for the weekend. I'm only 36, so sleeping on the ground for a few nites only hurt a little.

My quarters.....
http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...Sturgis056.jpg

As far as the beer thing goes, be glad you didn't. I consumed massive quantities and paid for it on the ride home Sunday. [:'(]

Here's a pic of my raggedy setup on my scooter. At least you had a sissy bar to hang crap off of...............


http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s...Sturgis062.jpg

 

How many bikes did you see get laid down because of too much beer? I saw two, one guy solo laid his down in some gravel and a guy and his girl decided to ride naked and laid it down. They got scratched up some but nothing serious. Both bikes had to be pushed back to their campsites. I tried real hard not to laugh!!

 

I lost count of the bikes I saw go down that weekend. Hell, on Sunday I was packing my gear up and watched a dude on this big Bagger just fall over while doing about 10 miles an hour. Guess he hit a rut or something.

I did some short runs in the early mornings and then parked it once the beer started flowing.