dusty
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- On a long trip, luggage should be arranged to form a solid lower backrest.
- Frame sliders double as road pegs when on your 500th mile of the day.
- Do NOT EVER drive through wet clay. After 10ft, enough will be packed between the front tire and fender to ruin any chance of riding until you've worked for a half-hour cleaning all of it out. And mud will still be flying from the general vicinity through the next 24 hours.
- Keep a plan to vacate your passenger seat's luggage onto your buddy's bike quickly to allow for giving random local girls rides
- Superior rider always trumps superior bike around the twisties.
- The town of Sturgis is one big slow-drive contest. If anyone didn't know clutch control before entering, they'd be an absolute veteran by the time they made it to the other side.
That's all the major bike-related lessons I can think of at the moment. I rode out with a buddy and stayed in Buffalo Chip Monday through Thursday. We ended up coming back early due to lousy weather forecasts for the remainder of our scheduled time.
Saw two other FZ6's while I was out there. I met one of you exiting Needles (blue; dunno year). The other I talked to for a bit at a lookout point overlooking the lake (Red 2007 from N MN, if I recall correctly). If either of you saw a guy on a Red 2006 with a tankbag, it was probably me.
The bike in touring mode:
(Yes there's mud on the side from where I dropped it after the front tire locked up from the stupid clay. On the plus side, the bike wasn't moving when it went down, and it dropped on mud/grass, so no damage occurred.)
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