Comments on: Riding in Colorado with the Master https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/ Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:34:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: irondad https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5081 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:50:04 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5081 I try to be artistic but end up being practical instead. Maybe I should settle for photojournalism.

My practical side says to keep the underwear and send a check, instead.

Reading both of your posts makes me envious. It would have been glorious to play with you two! I would even have been glad to stop with you for photos. Probably would have learned something.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5065 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:36:01 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5065 Conchscooter: Making fun of me probably wouldn’t be too satisfying. I’m pretty thick skinned and the attention is lost on me. But I wouldn’t want to stand in the way of your fun.

Your comments about Mr. Riepe are unnerving. Maybe I should just wave as I go by??

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5064 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:33:11 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5064 ToadMama: Riding and picture taking are a natural fit for me. With others it could be a problem, especially those that are about riding more than photography.

I’ll keep at it.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5063 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:27:05 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5063 Mr. Riepe: I’ll get down your way sometime soon. Probably a spur of the moment thing knowing how I operate. Showing up at your gathering and sitting in the corner where no one will notice.

I just put my desire for a BMW to rest so I won’t have to worry about which K-bike to get. The Vespa and I will continue to travel.

]]> By: Steve Williams https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5062 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 23:55:48 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5062 SonjaM: I think the ride on the vintage BMW has effected me. Since I’ve been home I have been looking closely at them on eBay and other places. It’s the first serious desire to actually buy another machine.

Damn.

]]> By: Conchscooter https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5061 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:46:22 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5061 If I rode with you I don’t think I would straighten any of your photos up. On the other hand I would make merciless fun of you. Correction, riepe and I will make merciless fun of you this summer. I’m hoping to do another iron butt and end up being ravaged by the dogs at Schloss Stiffie.
ps don’t take the first room he offers you; when you’re fast asleep riepe tends to… well never mind. You’ll find out.

]]> By: ToadMama https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5060 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:53:48 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5060 Great pics. I like the one of the big, red rocks the best. It’s amazing that you get to ride so many different bikes. And even IN a sidecar. I’m with you on the solo photo trips. Even with someone who says, “Go ahead and stop as much as you want.” It still feels like I’m being rushed. Every now and then I like to go out alone just to shoot so I can stop when I want to take pictures of fun stuff like cows, and rocks, and barns, and much other stuff that leaves my Hubby scratching his head.

]]> By: Jack Riepe https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5059 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:20:33 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5059 PS: $3700. Here it is.
http://scooters362.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=119194200

Riepe/TW

]]> By: Jack Riepe https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5058 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:15:05 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5058 Dear Steve:

When you decide to come out this way, leave at a leisurely pace on a Saturday afternoon. If you leave your town at 3pm, you should be here by 7:30pm. We’ll put you up in the same room we gave Michael Beattie. Just give me a couple of day’s notice. Right now, that room has a car parked in it.

That way, you’ll be up to dodging food debris at a Mac-Pac breakfast.

At some point, I will find a hotel 167 miles west of here, on Rt. 322, and let you know when I will be lowering property values in your neighborhood. I always wanted to have breakfast in a Norman Rockwell painting.

Like anything else, you can find old K75’s on eBay. But the best place to look is on the IBMW list, and there were 4 when I checked yesterday. You can find a Rolls-Royce just about anyplace these days… But even a free one needing an exhaust or a valve job is no gift. I found a red-hot bagain of a K75 for $3k the other day… And if I were in better circumstances, I would have grabbed it for a work bike. It would have been a great candidate for a Sprint Fairing.

The economy is far more precarious than Washington wants the public to know. This is going to be a great year for used motorcycles.

Fondest regards,
Jack • reep • Toad
Twisted Roads

]]> By: SonjaM https://scooterinthesticks.com/2011/03/riding-in-colorado-with-master/#comment-5057 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:28:50 +0000 http://69.195.124.229/~scootet3/?p=296#comment-5057 Steve, wonderful pics as usual. Great you guys could meet, I always love these stories.

Honestly, if the master would offer me a ride on a vintage beemer, I would also have risked missing my plane/boat or whatever transport would have been scheduled.

I am a slow traveler myself, and believe there’s nothing wrong with it. So please do not be apologetic about it.

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