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[QUOTE="woodsy, post: 906063, member: 27856"] We headed north and soon discovered that ice was appearing more frequently. I stopped LT and told him that I thought for the protection of the troops we should turn about.. He agreed so I gave the about face and the troops circled. We arrived at Naughty Pine Grocery and Larry proceeded to fill up his CR. I walked around INCA and looked closely at the GLS on the front of Ted’s bike (not knowing for sure that it was a GLS because I had not seen one of these new inventions yet).. Larry came back from paying for his gas and offered us all a glass of pop and a cracker. Of course, I followed Larry to sit against the building to help him eat as many of his crackers as I could steal.. Young Ted stood over by the bikes and chatted with Bob.. After finishing up Larry’s crackers we put our helmets on and got ready to leave.. I reached for my gloves and, hey – my gloves are gone.. Everyone but Ted took off.. Ted stood there and watched me look for my gloves.. He said: what’s wrong.. I said: can’t find my gloves. He said: what did you do with them? I said: I think I laid them on me bars and they are gone.. He said: what I color are they? It then dawned on me that because I was in the company of a known rotten sucker that I may be in the process of being duped.. Having handled many rotten suckers in my days I did what any wise person would do – I looked that scary rotten sucker right in the eyes and said “did you take my gloves”.. I was shocked – he couldn’t lie and said yea – walked over and took them off the top of the building behind us.. More proof that Young Ted is more or less – probably less – a pretty good guy in that he couldn’t lie to me (you blew a perfect opportunity that time Timer!!) The ride home was pretty much uneventful – yea right, like that is possible riding with these rascals!! While ripping along on a gravel road Ted looks over at me and points down to that GLS on his front fender.. He shouts, you didn’t ask about this.. I yelled back, of course not!! He said: it kinda works like a compass!! At that time I realized what he was trying to tell me. The front of the GLS has “L” “S” and “R” written on it – Randy is making a right turn and the GLS happens to be pointing to the “R” and Ted yells – see, it is working perfectly.. It suddenly dawns on me that the letters on the front of the bike stand for “left” “straight” and “right”.. About this time I am laughing so hard I am having a hard time keeping Blipy upright.. ONCE AGAIN I HAVE BEEN DUPED!! While riding along next to Ted on that gravel road I reached over and spin the needle on the GLS hard enough that I thought he might take off like he was wearing a beanie copter!! When I did so I yelled - take that you rotten sucker!! Later I stopped Ted in the trail and told him that I had NO idea that the thing on his front fender was a GPS.. He said :Its not! I said - well what is it then.. That rascal looked at me in total seriousness and said “it’s a GLS.. I said a GLS?? He said yea – a GLS!! HE could tell I was getting confused so he went on to explain that he had invented a “Get Lost System” and it works perfectly!! :rotfl: After we caught up to the other guys - Ted, Bob and I attempted to put the GLS thru its paces.. We got separated from LT and Larry and, after circling around behind Ted and Bob I followed them for a long ways – yep, the GLS was spot on!! After a while we hooked back up with LT and headed back to the vehicles. Larry’s bike decided that it needed more gas then it had in it again so Bob gave Larry a ride back to the trucks on his XR400.. I noticed that these two grown men looked a little cramped on the seat of that XR and asked how the ride was.. Bob said that Larry did sit a little close to him and that if Larry goes back and his bike starts with not problem he wasn’t going to ride with us anymore – not exactly sure what he meant by that but it didn’t sound good to me! They all changed into their clothes – I didn’t have to because I had ridden my bike in.. Larry said he was going to get his bike.. I said – not alone your not, I’m going too! Larry said there was no need. I said – what if you get stuck? He said good point.. I said how about we meet at the BP gas station in Twin Lake and if your not there in a short time we will come looking for you (sounds like another opportunity for a Woodsy adventure don’t it?). Larry said – sounds good!! Then he said – hey, there’s no BP gas station in Twin Lake.. He said do you mean the Gas and Go.. I said – yea that’s the one – it has a green sign just like a BP don’t it? Ted said – sounds a lot like that Wesco station stunt you pulled in Baldwin!! Man these guys are sensitive!! Just because I left Ted sitting at a Wesco station in Baldwin while we were at a station that I thought was a Wesco Station and he was less then a block away from us all that time doesn’t mean he has the right to get nasty about it!!! Anyway, we all agreed to meet at the Gas and Go in Twin Lake.. After I hid Blipy in the woods at Cedar Creek I climbed into Ted’s van and away Ted and I went.. When we pulled into the BP there was Larry talking to Randy and somebody I didn’t know.. Well, I least I didn’t know that I knew him.. I later found out that he was a an uncle to some fellers that I almost ended up racing for back in the 60’s. Small world!! While we were talking to him a biker came in on a 1945 Harley and, of course, I headed atta way.. Got talking to “FlatHead Fred” about his bike (interesting character for sure) and finally headed home around 10:45. (Randy/LT/and Bob had long since left Ted and I to our folly.) Ted and I went back to Cedar to find Blipy and, and, and I could not find my bike!! I stumbled all over in the darkness looking for her and she was GONE!!! A very familiar feeling started coming over me – one that I hadn’t experienced in over a year – then it disappeared as Ted yelled my name – phew, I thought I was lost in the dark at Cedar and didn’t have my Emergency Kit!! I was starting to taste worms again (worms are the only thing you can find in the dark to eat without a flashlight – you can find other stuff but unless its cold, long and wriggling I wouldn’t eat it – there are lots of dangerous things that you can put in your mouth off the forest floor – worms only taste bad but they wont hurt you!! Ted yelled and asked if I wanted a flashlight.. Why didn’t I think of that!! I used his light and walked back out – looked for about 10 minutes and Ted yelled again – want some help he said.. I said that’s ok I will find her and I went back to calling “BLIPPYYYYYY” in the darkness.. A couple seconds later I heard Ted yell something and I said WHAT?? He said “I think you might be in the wrong place.. I said why// He said ‘ because I can see Blipys headlight over here.. I looked and he couldn’t have been more then 150 yards from me so I was in the right area - again proving my innate God given Woods knowledge that has saved me so many times – I asked Ted not to repeat this incident so I thought I better include it in the story!! Being that it was my fault that Ted was so late getting started back towards Chicago (well, that’s what I told Connie anyway – we friends gotta stick together you know) I invited him to come home with me for a bite to eat.. He said it sounded like fun and away we went.. Got home and was greeted by “C”. I asked how her day went and she and Becky smiled at each other and said “fine”. Like I was telling you at the beginning of this book: I usually find out why she is so happy when I am leaving after I get home. I said; so how much money did you two spend while shopping today? Becky said; wait till you see all me new clothes dad!! It is always nice to know that my little girl is growing up to be a normal women! Cheryl then asked “how’d the ride go” and I said just another normal day on the trail with my buddies.. Ted shook his head in agreement and that was that.. The first pic here is of Young Ted’s new invention – a one of a kind fully operational GLS!! If, perchance, this new item catches on in the ranks of the MTR group a local company (Woodsy Inc.) will begin producing them in China and selling them at a reduced rate as I have found out that spies have already received pictures of this item in their e-mail – TREACHOROUS bunch those Woodsy Inc fellows are!! The second and final pic (my camera lost all its mem again – THANKS Ted for letting me use your new camera!!) is of a good friend and his bike with his new invention.. Isn’t it always nice to see people finally come full circle and realize what they really are? It always amazes me though how quickly they resort to advertising who and what they really are once they do come full circle!! [/QUOTE]
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