Texas X Riders
Main Area => General Discussion => Topic started by: Isorg on August 12, 2014, 06:53:02 AM
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Posting this now, the next 3 days are going to be BUSY!
As many of yall know, got a big trip to Alaska coming up and i am really excited about going.
a little over a month ago, we shipped our bikes north to Seattle. Mine didn't make it in one piece.
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10527627_10204353300781376_7681636224559060527_n.jpg)
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I had to really scramble to get another bike, and found an extremely great deal on a 2007 FJR1300a, all in effort to try and save my Alaska trip!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/t1.0-9/10404441_10204439514416663_4309188664017667257_n.jpg)
This is a great bike, and I got an extremely great deal on it! But, it seems that me buying this bike has extremely upset a person who I had considered a good friend. I get blamed for copying him once again, and then I am told that I am not allowed to go on the trip to Alaska. All because I have the same color bike as him... that i have committed some type of "Motorcycle faux pas?" (http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=998958)
So, I leave Friday, and looks like it's going to be a Solo Alaska 2014!
A link to this years Tracker! (https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=ad1653dd69da1ca0b)
Internet access I expect to be weak, so I will posts updates when I can! I will give a full report when I get back!
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Have a Great trip! Looking forward to your ride reports and pics. Watch out for the bears. A run on my bucket list. :notworthy:
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Good luck Bryce and enjoy the trip. Riding solo has it's big advantages. Go when we want, stop when you want, stay where you want, etc. Nobody whineing about this or that. I love traveling on long trips by myself for those reasons. "Nobody to talk to?" BS As you probably know when you by yourself, people don't feel threatened and will always come by and talk to you. So enjoy my friend and be safe!! :c :c To a good time :c :c
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But, it seems that me buying this bike has extremely upset a person who I had considered a good friend. I get blamed for coping him once again, and then I am told that I am not allowed to go on the trip to Alaska. All because I have the same color bike as him...
Please tell me you are joking.
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form of flattery....
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Really Bryce!?!!
Maybe you should have told the whole story instead of just acting like poor poor me.
Just my 2 pennies.
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Really Bryce!?!!
Maybe you should have told the whole story instead of just acting like poor poor me.
Just my 2 pennies.
Yes really Rex.
This is the whole story, as it has told to me in a grand total of three conversations. If there is anymore to this story it hasn't been told to me. So please if you know more, as it seems you do, please feel free to share.
Because from where i sit, it's all about the color of a bike.
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Really Bryce!?!!
Maybe you should have told the whole story instead of just acting like poor poor me.
Just my 2 pennies.
Yes really Rex.
This is the whole story, as it has told to me in a grand total of three conversations. If there is anymore to this story it hasn't been told to me. So please if you know more, as it seems you do, please feel free to share.
Because from where i sit, it's all about the color of a bike.
I'm sure the whole story will come out now.
I can't be leave you posted this on the board. Not cool not cool at all.
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Really Bryce!?!!
Maybe you should have told the whole story instead of just acting like poor poor me.
Just my 2 pennies.
Yes really Rex.
This is the whole story, as it has told to me in a grand total of three conversations. If there is anymore to this story it hasn't been told to me. So please if you know more, as it seems you do, please feel free to share.
Because from where i sit, it's all about the color of a bike.
I'm sure the whole store will come out now.
I can't be leave you posted this on the board. Not cool not cool at all.
If there is a whole story I look forward to it coming out!! anything has to be better than "you got the same color bike as me, so i don't want you to go on this trip" Excuse that has been given to me.
So your right, not cool at all.
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I've almost always traveled alone and have had some very enjoyable, memorable trips. Sharing a great experience with others may enhance the experience, but fending for yourself and being the sole decision maker with regard to your schedule and itinerary can also be very gratifying. Have a fun and safe trip.
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This is what happens when you abandon the X, have fun and enjoy the ride! :bikerider:
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I wish I could make Alaska anytime in my life. Ride the good ride.
Not saying you will, but if you ever bought a denim black H-D road glide, you can ride with me anytime. :bikerider:
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If it was yellow and have tree wheels would have made me very very upset also. :stickpoke: :no no:
Come on guys, enjoy the trip, not everybody can do such a great trip :bikerider:
Remember dirty laundry stays home, and always behind doors :thumbup: :popcorn: :violin:
Seed y'all in Arkansas
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Seed y'all in Arkansas
You better keep your SEED to yourself........ :ohwow:
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Stupid auto correct, wont be seeding any one, :thumbup:
:bikerider:
Unless requested :rofl: :rofl:
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Wow, on an open forum. I am pretty sure that I told you the reason on the third phone call. Well since you had to take this here I will follow up with my side of the story and then I am not responding again, I have way too much to do. You can take it and twist it up anyway you like Bryce.
Yes it is about color but not for the reason you portray and I think I made that clear on the third phone call which was 8/3/14 and now will add the details for everyone. On last years trip on the way back from California, we stopped in Clayton, NM. The next morning when we were fueling up, I believe your glove hung up on the gas pump. You shot gas all over your bike and you started beating the gas pump as hard as you can with the pump handle. This was the last of multiple gas pump beatings and at that moment I said I was getting a different bike than you! When you are getting tired you completely lose it and have this rage about you. Everyone who was on the trip last year can verify this and it appears to get worse every year.
The route that was laid out this year is further than any that was done before. Yes I have a problem going into a different country where I could get mistaken as you and get blamed for whatever you tear up.
I tried to give you multiple hints, suggestions, even sent you pages and pages of bikes. You kept saying you had no other option but this one in Carthage or the one at Point Blank which both happened to be maroon 2007. I tried everything and even offered to take you anywhere, lend money, whatever you needed. But if I even hinted that you maybe not get the maroon 2007, you acted like you were offended. I picked out bikes for you and you said it had to be a second generation. I found one in Dallas that was blue and a second generation, so I sent you a link. You sent an email back saying they didn't have it anymore. Since I have teenagers I am used to following up on things, so I decided to call. Wow low and behold they have it, so I called you and asked you what they had said and you told me that they said they had sold it and just hadn't taken the ad off line. I said wow that is not what the guy told me. Then you really acted offended and said you just don't want me to get a bike like yours do you. No I really don't! And then the next day you went and bought the maroon 2007.
I was upset, so I told the guys that I would be going in a different direction maybe lay out a more relaxed ride into the Canadian Rockies. Then I had you call me and ask me if I had a problem, so I proceeded to tell you that yes I had a problem. Then you flew off the handle and said that you would not go. I said great, so I called the guys and told them I was back in which was 7/21/14. Then on 7/28/14 you decided to call me and tell me that you were going no matter what and that you were shipping your bike in a few days and brought up the didn't want for this to cost a friendship thing, which usually doesn't sit well with me. And about that friendship, is that the one where I set up your beach houses, bring your food so you can ride, work on your bikes for trips so that we won't have any problems, get down in a hot Cranberries parking lot and fix your bike in Austin because you were too lazy to do the maintenance at home while never asking you for a thing. When do you ever call to say what's up. Right!
Then I decided I was not changing my plans again! Sorry I have wasted enough time on a BS post that really shouldn't be put out here. Sorry Bryce, I give myself two weeks a year and I have to enjoy it. Please have a safe ride and as I said on the last phone call, you should really try to hook up with your folks since they are on a big ride at the same time. The ride that is layed out is not one you should do alone!
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Ahh well, there we have it.
last years gas pump.
no, my glove didn't get hung up, the gas pump malfunctioned, and didnt turn off until i put it back in the pump cradle, seeing how I had gas everywhere, me, the bike, the ground, I used a little bit of force. But hey, if that's your excuse, so be it.
the Dallas 2006 FJR you kept trying to push me to buy. Or any of the other bikes.... But the dallas one, you do realized you have just accused me of lying to you, saying that i made it up when i told you, that i was told, that the bike was sold. that you felt that you had to check up on me like one of your teenage kids. Since I made those calls from the office, those calls are all recorded, would you like to hear them? So, when I said I called the dealer that morning and spoke with a salesman, and that salesman told me the bike was sold, that is exactly what I was told. And while i did thank you for your relentless pursuit to get any other bike but a red one, I would have ended up spending $1100 more for a 2006, with more miles and less options. But... it would not have been red!
When I first called you asking if you had a problem, because our last few conversations indicated to me that you seemed to be truly upset, and i cared enough about our friendship to call, i had no idea you had already sent an angry email to the other guys telling them you were not going, so i was hearing your true AppleSauce for the first time, not half veiled hints. You accused me of "doing it to you again" and that you "can't get over it this time", Imagine my shock to find that someone who I considered a good friend revealed that he has carried this type of resentment over the past several years. I would not actually say i "flew off the handle" since you did most of the talking while just listened in stunned silence. My initial reaction was one of upset because i thought i truly had done something to upset a friend. I did the only thing I could think of at the time, back out of the trip. But once the shock wore off.... I realized that I was not the one who had done anything wrong, and I was not the one with problems. Frankly i truly got Chicken Sandwich angry at you for your childish behavior.
Cost a friendship, your the one who stated he had a problem, not me. I was the one who had his bike trashed, I was the one who had to scramble to find a solution to a problem we all jokingly talked about playing "What if" on the very day we shipped the bikes out.
Then you try and tell me what bike i can or can not buy, and then you tell me where i can or can not go on a vacation, a vacation that we as a group had been planning for months. That's when i asked you if you really want to burn a friendship over this, a color of a bike, and your reply... "i guess so"
I already knew where I had been relegated to as "friendship status" before i even posted any of this, I have seen you do it before, and i am sure you will do it again. So if your willing to burn a friendship over something petty like this, well here let me provide the gas. Lay it all out on the table so that everyone can see it.
See you in Alaska! and i sincerely hope you have a great trip.
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Ahh well, there we have it.
last years gas pump.
no, my glove didn't get hung up, the gas pump malfunctioned, and didnt turn off until i put it back in the pump cradle, seeing how I had gas everywhere, me, the bike, the ground, I used a little bit of force. But hey, if that's your excuse, so be it.
the Dallas 2006 FJR you kept trying to push me to buy. Or any of the other bikes.... But the dallas one, you do realized you have just accused me of lying to you, saying that i made it up when i told you, that i was told, that the bike was sold. that you felt that you had to check up on me like one of your teenage kids. Since I made those calls from the office, those calls are all recorded, would you like to hear them? So, when I said I called the dealer that morning and spoke with a salesman, and that salesman told me the bike was sold, that is exactly what I was told. And while i did thank you for your relentless pursuit to get any other bike but a red one, I would have ended up spending $1100 more for a 2006, with more miles and less options. But... it would not have been red!
When I first called you asking if you had a problem, because our last few conversations indicated to me that you seemed to be truly upset, and i cared enough about our friendship to call, i had no idea you had already sent an angry email to the other guys telling them you were not going, so i was hearing your true AppleSauce for the first time, not half veiled hints. You accused me of "doing it to you again" and that you "can't get over it this time", Imagine my shock to find that someone who I considered a good friend revealed that he has carried this type of resentment over the past several years. I would not actually say i "flew off the handle" since you did most of the talking while just listened in stunned silence. My initial reaction was one of upset because i thought i truly had done something to upset a friend. I did the only thing I could think of at the time, back out of the trip. But once the shock wore off.... I realized that I was not the one who had done anything wrong, and I was not the one with problems. Frankly i truly got Chicken Sandwich angry at you for your childish behavior.
Cost a friendship, your the one who stated he had a problem, not me. I was the one who had his bike trashed, I was the one who had to scramble to find a solution to a problem we all jokingly talked about playing "What if" on the very day we shipped the bikes out.
Then you try and tell me what bike i can or can not buy, and then you tell me where i can or can not go on a vacation, a vacation that we as a group had been planning for months. That's when i asked you if you really want to burn a friendship over this, a color of a bike, and your reply... "i guess so"
I already knew where I had been relegated to as "friendship status" before i even posted any of this, I have seen you do it before, and i am sure you will do it again. So if your willing to burn a friendship over something petty like this, well here let me provide the gas. Lay it all out on the table so that everyone can see it.
See you in Alaska! and i sincerely hope you have a great trip.
You may want to calm down and not let this get to you so much.
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You may want to calm down and not let this get to you so much.
Actually there is one thing that has gotten to me. It is the fact that I don't feel I have made it clear enough why I am going solo. It's not because you don't want me to go on the same trip as you because the color of my bike. No.
The reason I am going solo, is that you have put the other guys into a position that I feel is unfair to them. You are demanding that they make a choice, you or me. I would never make such a demand from my friends, so in respect for them, I will not demand that they make that decision.
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:popcorn: :c
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Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
:congrats:
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I only have two things to add:
- The color of the bike is black cherry, not "maroon", or "red". It was only used one year, and is the absolute best, and fastest color to slap on an FJR.
- Enjoy your new wheels, Bryce; I know I love mine!
(http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii555/jmdaniel/P1010405_zps1a2871c7.jpg)
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I am getting home today, want me to set up a octagon ;D
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I only have two things to add:
- The color of the bike is black cherry, not "maroon", or "red". It was only used one year, and is the absolute best, and fastest color to slap on an FJR.
- Enjoy your new wheels, Bryce; I know I love mine!
(http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii555/jmdaniel/P1010405_zps1a2871c7.jpg)
That bike looks friggin awesome.
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That bike looks friggin awesome.
Thank you, sir.
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That bike looks friggin awesome.
Thank you, sir.
But can you pop a wheelie with it though?! 8)
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But can you pop a wheelie with it though?! 8)
Huh?
(http://www.mcqart.com/xj600/images/fjr/fjr1300wheelie_large.jpg)
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Damn I need to get one now.
Maybe a Maroon One. 😜😜😜😜😜😜
Naw!! I think I will go Black or Blue. 😉
Or maybe an ST.
No Man Crush Here. 😉
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Damn I need to get one now.
Maybe a Maroon One. 😜😜😜😜😜😜
Naw!! I think I will go Black or Blue. 😉
Or maybe an ST.
No Man Crush Here. 😉
thanks, i found that very....... informative.
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free wifi on the plane!!
Seattle Bound!
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Ok, this might be my last update for a few days!
made it Seattle and picked up the bike!
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Internet access will be unpredictable over the next few days. Tomorrow I enter Canada heading north!
To my other friends in the area, have fun! and enjoy the ride!
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Be careful! When you twist the throttle on that one, AppleSauce happens! Rubber side down!
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had a 20min layover in Vegas baby!
just enough time to loose $5!
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Ok, this might be my last update for a few days!
made it Seattle and picked up the bike!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10457936_10204632141672224_306805063755066039_n.jpg?oh=fa376517ca7e28547a5d21c8a2d0dd7f&oe=54660863&__gda__=1415812659_db73c0e34b0facc7c0c63d02e21b8d39)
Internet access will be unpredictable over the next few days. Tomorrow I enter Canada heading north!
To my other friends in the area, have fun! and enjoy the ride!
Be careful. keep us posted
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Ok, this might be my last update for a few days!
made it Seattle and picked up the bike!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10457936_10204632141672224_306805063755066039_n.jpg?oh=fa376517ca7e28547a5d21c8a2d0dd7f&oe=54660863&__gda__=1415812659_db73c0e34b0facc7c0c63d02e21b8d39)
Internet access will be unpredictable over the next few days. Tomorrow I enter Canada heading north!
To my other friends in the area, have fun! and enjoy the ride!
Like it blue better but maroon is ok I guess. :couch: :congrats: :t
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Ok, this might be my last update for a few days!
made it Seattle and picked up the bike!
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/10457936_10204632141672224_306805063755066039_n.jpg?oh=fa376517ca7e28547a5d21c8a2d0dd7f&oe=54660863&__gda__=1415812659_db73c0e34b0facc7c0c63d02e21b8d39)
Internet access will be unpredictable over the next few days. Tomorrow I enter Canada heading north!
To my other friends in the area, have fun! and enjoy the ride!
Like it blue better but maroon is ok I guess. :couch: :congrats: :t
:agree: :agree: :c
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back in the states!
made it all the way to the top of the world hwy!
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saw some really COOL Stuff....
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Wow! Beautiful country! Couldn't help but notice the lack of pavement in the Glacier picture and in the picture following it. I guess you just have to get used to it.
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How'd the Feejer treat ya? What is the brand of aftermarket cans you have on it? You should get a top case for your next trip, saves you from having to strap on one of those bags. Welcome back!
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Looking forward to seeing more pics and hearing the stories
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beautiful pictures....what kind of temps do you experience at this time of year?
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beautiful pictures....what kind of temps do you experience at this time of year?
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made it home! at least 7500 miles.... :bikerider:
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:thumbup: :thumbup:
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:notworthy: :notworthy: :c :c :thatwasclose: :good:
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:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
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made it home! at least 7500 miles.... :bikerider:
What a great adventure. Looks like there was some cold riding going on but worth every skin cell that froze and fell off.