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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
I had a front flat on a gravel road once with a girl on back. Luckily i got it stopped without spilling her off.
The Mrs. and I when we first got married did two weeks on my 72 BMW R60/5 from Lafayette, to detroit, toronto, montreal, quebec city, bay of funday, down through Maine and that area, boston and up into New Hampshire. Then home. We did 4000 miles in two weeks I believe. No mechanical difficulties, but wore my brand new continental rear tire right out.
We almost got nailed by a semi switching lanes on the freeway but I managed to back off and squeeze to the left edge of the pavements.
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That was quite the trip at the time. Not as many roads had been upgraded yet when we travelled.. Prices where cheap in that period and everything was different than today. Your motorcycle was a 1972. So we did a lot of trips about ten years earlier.
We were staying in the blue mountains and many other places for 2 dollars to 5 dollars a night for lodgings and some places even threw in breakfast. Gas was 5 gallons for a dollar and food on the road was cheap. Seems like yesterday but was pretty long ago now.
There were repair places seemingly everywhere as the vast majority of gas stations also did them. A time and era that will never be seen again. I know we were not aware such massive changes would occur. I feel a lot has been lost in the ensuing time until today. I was trying to visualize the changes in those ten years or more between our excursions. There would have been at least some changes I know.