PNW rider's check-in thread

[Red01]

  GP!

I know St H is a lot closer to you, but have you ever been up the Mt Baker Hwy?  If you like St H, you'll like that one, too... and it was just repaved a couple of years ago and it's not nearly as bumpy as the roads around St H.

[pmackie]

OK guys...it's starting to sound like there are a few more interested PNW guys this year...we should start planning a PNW Bandit ride soon. I will have lots of time and energy for making trips this year, and other than the big yearly ride with my Cranbrook buddies, I am hoping to make several trips to the west this year.

I want to do St Helens from both sides, Mt Baker, the roads around Ranier that I haven't done (still a bunch according to my DH book) and likely Vancouver Island. My buddy Steve (Concours 14) has moved to Nanaimo from Vernon, so I need to go farther west.

Cargo7 is game for any PNW rides this year (after standing us up in '06 over a little snow!!)...so let's start committing to an early season ride...maybe early May? Who's game?

[GP]

I haven't done Baker .. I guess i will put that on my list for this year ( I get 5 weeks vacation    ) ..more than willing to go on a one day ride ( I only have Saturdays and Tuesdays off) ...so any sat when there is no ice on the road( or if anything lines up with a vaction day/week...i..I am willing ...gotta warn ya ...I don't go slow in the twisties....really looking forward to riding with some guys that aren't afraid to lean it over  ( I was whacking tree limbs with my shoulder  coming down St Helens last time :) 
 I want someone to put me in my place( so far my friend on his Hayabusa and a guy I met last summer on his 14 conny couldn't keep up ) ..not bragging ..I know there are 100,000 guys out there that can hand me my lunch ...I just want to meet some of them so I can learn ...

[ciso]

Certainly up for a day ride in the St Helens area. A bit limited on free time and saturdays are best but keep this post current with lots of rides and I will be able to participate

[GP]

the roads around Ranier that I haven't done (still a bunch according to my DH book)
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 the back side of Rainer ( sunrise ...is a blast , I did it 2 years ago on my PC 800..can't wait to do it on the Bandit ...last year it was closed ...hope it opens

[zefninja]

Hello everyone!  Glad I finally found a bandit forum.  I picked up a 2001 bandit 1200 about a month ago and am really enjoying it.  Look foreword to further perusing the site some more.

Here is the tiny picture from the CL post.

[pmackie]

Hey sefninja

Welcome aboard. I always liked the Red 2001. One of my favourite colours.

[andrewsw]

Welcome aboard!!

[Bobcat]

Naked goodness! Still one of my favorite bikes of all time. Welcome.

[Red01]

   I sold a 2001 B12 about a month ago... but it was a S model and not thru CL.  I started missing it immediately - even though I hadn't ridden her in more than 6 months.

[jeffw]

Yeah, that's the problem, as soon as you sell something like this, you really miss them.  That's why I still have my 84 V65 Sabre.
 

[sandy klock]

this is off topic but I was just going to see if RED01 was doing a comparo after having the c14 this long. what he likes bout both.  got a smashed sabre and couple magnas in shed, all victims of alcoholism. thought v65s had a shake, was probly me.  Welcome to forum nice lookin scooter.  I,ve read somewhere that red bandits are the fastest.  not a theory but a proven fact.         g

[andrewsw]

  I,ve read somewhere that red bandits are the fastest.  not a theory but a proven fact.         g

My lil red B4 thinks she's the fastest. I don't have the heart to tell her otherwise. 

A

[sandy klock]

Andrew; If you have luck convincing females they are wrong your the man.

[ae86andkp61]

Greetings! I live in Portland, OR. I joined recently since I am in the process of repairing and doing a semi-restoration on a neglected 1991 GSF400.



In my spare time, I have a 1992 Suzuki Goose 350, and a 1997 DR350, for which I have both dual sport and supermoto guise. 





Hope to see you guys around!