where did you TAKE your Tenere today?
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14kmtnman
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Met up with a couple of new friends for a ride. A newer BMW GSA, and a V-Strom 1050. We spent quite a while trying to figure out how to connect our 2 different types of comms, Sena (2, ST and GSA) and Cardo (VS). We even watched a couple of videos. Nothing seemed to work for the 3 of us to connect at the same time. We didn't think we were able to connect all 3 of us so we headed out. Later in the ride, the other Sena user would just appear every now and then and we could all talk. We (Sena and Cardo) could hear him very clearly at times and at others just mostly static. The comms started working again for all 3 of us at Vantage until the cardo unit ran out of juice at Ellensburg, then it was just dead air for all of us. The sun was close to setting as we went thru the Yakima River valley gorge, so no pictures of that gorgeous road.
At our meet and greet place with the V-strom owner Rick. For some reason I never got a shot of the GSA rider.
Lots of orchards and hops around here. This is a view of Mt Adams to the west. The wind started blowing about this time.
This is at a rest stop on the Columbia river by the Hanford nuclear reservation. It was a bit windy up to this point, but as we Crossed the river going north it got much worse. Some lady in a car at the rest stop said the wind was blowing her car all over the place. The wind didn't seem to bother the fully fueled GSA much, but the ST and VS were really affected by it.
This is heading into Vantage looking at I-90 going across the Columbia River. There are lots of different layers of volcanic rock around This area
At our meet and greet place with the V-strom owner Rick. For some reason I never got a shot of the GSA rider.
Lots of orchards and hops around here. This is a view of Mt Adams to the west. The wind started blowing about this time.
This is at a rest stop on the Columbia river by the Hanford nuclear reservation. It was a bit windy up to this point, but as we Crossed the river going north it got much worse. Some lady in a car at the rest stop said the wind was blowing her car all over the place. The wind didn't seem to bother the fully fueled GSA much, but the ST and VS were really affected by it.
This is heading into Vantage looking at I-90 going across the Columbia River. There are lots of different layers of volcanic rock around This area
I wonder if the wind had more influence due to the larger windshields. Looks, like the Beemer has less coverage. 'Cuz, about the only thing high winds effect on mine is the fuel mileage. She's the most stable bike that I've had in the wind.
14kmtnman
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Yeah my bike really suffers fuel mileage wise in the wind. The VS was leading and was averaging about 58. The GSA was around 50. I was about 40mpg. I just changed the plugs, air filter and oil/filter about 600 or 700 miles ago. Maybe I should rung some Fi cleaner thru it to see if that helps. We are going on a day long ride in the next day or 2, so now would be a good time for the cleaner to be added.
Cycledude
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Really sucks that different brand’s Bluetooth have so much trouble connecting together, hopefully someday those issues will be resolved
robp
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I have a fairly new 2021 and got about the same mpg on I-10 in west Texas, coming back from Big Bend. I was riding at the posted limit of 80mph. I have a Madstad windscreen and was carrying hard luggage and a gear bag across the pillion and rear rack.
Bill_C
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Ah Alice's! I haven't been up there in years! I used to ride up there a lot back in the day. Great roads up there.
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Above 75, she tends to get thirsty unless you get one of our typical 20+mph tail winds. Throw the luggage on there, and 40mpg is doing good at that speed. For the last six months our wind just hasn't let up. It's been 20mph, either from the North or South. So, during my daily rides, my mileage is either in the upper 30s, or upper 50s at 75mph. Computer is showing a 43.6avg.
PineLaneRider
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Is it still around the back, just about a mile from the railroad track?
14kmtnman
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We (ST, GSA, VS) took a ride down thru Bickleton (lots of wind again today) to Goldendale. We ran into rain, hail, more wind, and sunshine. Before leaving our meeting site we tried to hook up our different comms units without any success. Mike the GSA rider brought his old 10 series Sena unit for the Cardo user to try. We had the comms working, until Mike tried connecting to his phone, then we lost everybody, and to start all over again. We sure wish there was an easy way to connect the different brands. We stopped and cooked lunch at a nice secluded campsite right before we got hailed on outside of Bickleton. There was a brand new picnic table just waiting for us to use. Most often by the time we got our rain suits on and started riding, it stopped raining. At Goldendale we were surrounded by some really heavy thick rain clouds dumping lots of water. We managed to skirt most of them. Per some instructions from TomZ we took a back rode down to Lyle on the Columbia river. What a fun ride that was. Then we headed up old Hwy 8 and Canyon road towards Appleton. There was still a lot of snow alongside the road in this area. It was getting late so we decided to head back to Goldendale following the Klickitat river. That was another very fun road. We kept watching the rain clouds and made if over Status Pass without more rain. There was 1 rainbow we kept watching going over the road that we drove thru while seeing the end of it right off of the highway. That was pretty cool. We did not see any pots of gold.
The BMW rider was not interested in getting his bike into some lite mud.
Mike (GSA), Rick (v-Strom) and Jeff (ST)
Looking down the canyon towards Lyle on the left and the Columbia River with Oregon on the other side. Too many clouds to see Mt Hood ahead and Mt Adams a ways off to the right.
This is on the Appleton road heading down to the Klickitat river in the valley and the way back to Goldendale looking back towards the Columbia river. There were a lot of elevation changes on this ride.
This is at the Toppinish National Wildlife Refuge. Mike was saying he had not seen it so flooded with water before. The elevated viewing stand was on the other side of the highway.
The BMW rider was not interested in getting his bike into some lite mud.
Mike (GSA), Rick (v-Strom) and Jeff (ST)
Looking down the canyon towards Lyle on the left and the Columbia River with Oregon on the other side. Too many clouds to see Mt Hood ahead and Mt Adams a ways off to the right.
This is on the Appleton road heading down to the Klickitat river in the valley and the way back to Goldendale looking back towards the Columbia river. There were a lot of elevation changes on this ride.
This is at the Toppinish National Wildlife Refuge. Mike was saying he had not seen it so flooded with water before. The elevated viewing stand was on the other side of the highway.
jhansen
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14kmtnman
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Stop! You are making me hungry looking at that apple pie.
jhansen
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Not one picture of a bike.This would be a good contribution to the Food Porn thread.
Mine is under the HiVis jacket.
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