67 years are taking their toll, but Kadizzle can still walk, hike, and ride a motorbike. Kadizzle has been contemplating buying another adventure bike. The little Yamaha 250 is adequate to kill yourself in a rocky crash on a mountain road, but if you want to get killed at 70mph going off a cliff on a nice windy road you need more cc. Old goats get enamored with toys and it is not long before they sober up and abandon their latest bucket list toy. Phoenix is the perfect place to shop for the toys abandoned by old goats. Since most of the goats have money they often are willing to take a beating when they sell their toys. Kadizzle has been thinking about a Yamaha Super Tenere or maybe a Triumph Tiger 800. Another possibility is to go back to the KLR 650 Kadizzle had last summer.
Now there are a couple of problems. How would Kadizzle get the damn thing back to North Dakota? Ride it is the obvious answer. That is a long ride. Leave it here an only use it in the winter? That is too much cash to stash. So on goes the thinking.
An adventure bike will go down the road all day at 80mph and get 50 mpg. You can pack enough to tent, and you can get up some pretty bad roads to find a place to tent. Crashing on a heavier bike on a bad road is not good. Just getting the thing upright is a challenge for an old man. With Stoupini Kadizzle made the trip on the KLR to Port Townsend from Hazen last summer. On some days we did five hundred miles. Two or three hundred a day on a cycle is plenty. Well the wheels keep spinning. One possibility is just to own the machine for the winter. Ride the roads of the Arizona wilderness, then sell the beast in the spring. Pondering.
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