...and I'm home again, safe and sound, already dreaming about the next adventure. This is my longest ride ever: nearly five thousand miles in ten days. With my friends Elaine and Greg, I went all the way to Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Canada, with so many stops in between (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas) that it'll take me a month to get the ride report completed. How cool, though, to have ridden in both Mexico and Canada in the same year!
Except for a wiring problem in a turn signal that I deemed too difficult (but not impossible) to bother fixing on the roadside, the ZZR performed flawlessly, arriving home with over 32,000 miles on her odometer. What a great bike this has been for me: fast, comfortable, reliable. Up in Canada, I got my best gas mileage ever: 45.9 miles to the gallon (12.1 miles per liter, if you're Canadian -- ha!). Nearly 46 mpg on a machine making 160-something horsepower? That's just unbelievable.
Full report to follow. Watch this blog or my
website...
Labels: canada, motorcycles, travel, ZZR1200
