{"id":268,"date":"2011-03-16T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=268"},"modified":"2011-03-16T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:51:10","slug":"one-seriously-cool-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"One seriously cool motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s Run: Limerock Road 4.0 miles]<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>For awhile I was a motorcycle rider.\u00a0 This is my final and best motorcycle.\u00a0 It was a BMW K-75.\u00a0 I bought it from a guy in Denver and it had about 70,000 miles on it if I remember correctly.\u00a0 That is a lot of seat-time on a motorcycle of this size.\u00a0\u00a0 And the guy had done this “custom” paint job and a few other little things.<\/p>\n

K-75 has a 750-cc triple inline engine, shaft drive, single-sided swing arm, dual disk front brakes. This one had the hard bags and faring.\u00a0 It runs smooth, like riding on a sewing machine.\u00a0 It also is quiet compared to the HD-style machines.<\/p>\n

I had it for a couple of years (circa 1999-2000) then got out of the motorcycle thing; sold it to another guy in Fort Collins.<\/p>\n

My longest day on it was a drive from Estes Park, south to I-70, west and north over Berthoud Pass, north through Winter Park\/Fraser, Granby to Walden, through the Poudre Canyon to Stove Prairie Road, back south to Big Thompson Canyon and west to Estes Park.\u00a0 It ran smooth all the way.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I ran across these pictures while defragging my computer disk.<\/p>\n

Motorcycle riding is a solitary activity.\u00a0 Kind of like running in that regard.\u00a0 You have your own little shell: helmet, leathers, boots, gloves.<\/p>\n

On the other hand you are more in touch with the landscape, the bumps in the road, and especially the smells along the way.\u00a0 You go under the shade of a tree and you feel the cool air just for an instant.<\/p>\n

It is totally different from driving in a car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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