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It was a great get-a-way. Glad to see all of you again and meet plenty of new guys too.

Many thanks to Jeff, John and anyone else that played a hand in organizing, and to Roger for dealing with my demanding nap schedule. This event is, and always has been a highlight of my year.

To anyone who saw me leave a 4" wide stripe of ATF up Deal's Gap parking lot as I pulled in, you were prolly just as doubtful as I was that my Taurus automatic would make it the 700 miles home. The grey area of whether my company car should have a trailer hitch on it would've quickly turned black if I'd have spun a tranny towing bikes through the mountains.

Fortunately, it turned out that when I had the fluids topped on Friday, they overfilled it. The ATF then apparently foamed from the mountain load and shot out the vent, pooled from windage at speed in some undercar plastic, then pissed out when I slowed to a crawl going up hill...like the Gap's drive...simulating a cracked case or severely spewing seal.

Tranny's fine, and I made it homo k in 13 hours. Now all I have to do is find a use for the seven spare quarts of Mercon V I bought for the trip home.

Ha, so that's what that stripe was in the parking lot. Glad it was just an overfill problem. I had something similar happen once, backing out of a parking space at a rest area, and finding a big puddle of ATF. That's not what you want to see.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

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Busy doing more riding than wrenching.......

Left sunday at 615am eastern, GT in tow. Easy ride back, Tstorms on I65 for about 1.5 hours arrived 230pm, central. 950 mile round trip for the PC towing averaged 37mpg. round 900 miles for the week on the GT500!! What a GREAT WEEK!!!!!! Cant wait till I go back and find more new roads(for me).

I'm homo-k, except for a tired on, severe depression, and a slight ringing in my ears I'm good

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1973 RD350, 1979 RD400F, 1984 RZ350, 2014 Suzuki Vstrom 1000
CHRIS AND JEFF ARE THE MEN

Depression??? Coz it's all over?? Hey 12 more months to go!!!!!!!!!!! Hurry up and get your video done, can't wait!!

Once again Edgar, THANX a lot for picking me up and dropping me off to the airport!! You really are a good guy!

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Lisa

"I tried to restrain myself, but I escaped."

Lisa.....did you show the boys how to drink?

Mike, it may be more like she showed them how not to drink.

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If it surges, that's normal, upshift.

Sounds like a story I need to hear?

Last night at the hotel we stayed at I kept waking up hearing 2stroke bikes, freaked me out.

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This is true. Where I grew up the hills were so steep and long, when your ball rolled down the hill you just said "screw it"...