Georgia Mountain Rally 2005

2005 Georgia Mountain Rally

La Abeja on her first long distance camping trip. I believe that the only appropriate way to ride a beemer is to maintain it well but ride it hard and often. If you can't do that for your scooter, be decent enough to sell it to someone who will ride it properly.

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When I bought this 1992 R100GS garage queen in April of 2005 she only had 20,719 miles on her. I increased the mileage on the odometer by 2,500 miles the first month of ownership.

La Abeja (the bee) gets a stale, warm beer poured on her tank and is christened, el Poderoso, (The Mighty One.) Traditionally, this ceremony is performed by an elder pissing on the tires, but this impromptu ceremony was held at 6:00 am Sunday morning, May 1, 2005 after everyone awake had already peed. An old man's prostate cannot be expected to perform on command, so the ceremony was completed with an unfinished beer from the night before.

A Peruvian friend of mine tried to correct me on my name choice. "Vehicles are typically female, she said, so your bike's name should be La Poderosa, which translated means "The Strong Woman."

That IS a great name, but if it is all the same with you, I'd rather have a "boy" motorcycle. If my 3 ex-wives taught me anything, its that I have a great deal of difficulty maintaining a long term relationship with a female. Who needs the constant maintainence and frequent breakdowns?

The Georgia Mountain Rally boasts, "Every steak cooked to perfection." In other words, you grill your own. The coals were not hot enough this year, so if you were hungry, "perfection" would probably have been rare to medium rare.

Skip and Kym are my heroes. Well-educated and once ambitiously seeking the "American Dream," They opted out of the rat race, got a VW van and a couple of old airheads bascially and became gypsies, scoring odd jobs to get the money needed for food and gas. See their adventures at http://www.grrlwander.com

Here's Skip riding his 30 year-old airhead at Deals Gap, NC.


		Wasting Away Again in Bubbaville The 2005 Georgia Mountain Rally was wet as usual. The rain didn't stop until early afternoon Saturday, so unlike some of my friends, I opted out of riding Deal's Gap. I would rather wait to tangle with the dragon when the pavement is dry, thank you very much. I rode with a group of Poverty Riders around some of the local roads around Hiawasse, Helen and Clayton, and frankly, all the roads in that neck of the woods are filled with curves, hairpin turns and sudden dips. Biz was very proud of his new (to him) R1150R police bike and told a hilarious story about how he used his new black and white to stop traffic. It was good to see old friends like Mitch, Kevin, DC and Foster. Conspicuously absent were Uncle Dennis, Wrong Way Sam and Gator. I did stay overnight at Sammy's place in Ashville, NC, catching up on what's what, getting stoned and listening to Sammy and his boys play guitar and sing to everything from Greenday to Little Feat. Best poverty alcoholic beverages: cheap Red Dog beer ($5.65 a 12-pack at Walmart) and Green Apple flavored vodka poured into an ice-filled Mason jar.



		La Abeja on her first long distance camping trip. I believe that the only appropriate way to ride a beemer is to maintain it well but ride it hard and often. If you can't do that for your scooter, be decent enough to sell it to someone who will ride it properly. When I bought this 1992 R100GS garage queen in April of 2005 she only had 20,719 miles on her. I increased the mileage on the odometer by 2,500 miles the first month of ownership.						La Abeja (the bee) gets a stale, warm beer poured on her tank and is christened, el Poderoso, (The Mighty One.) Traditionally, this ceremony is performed by an elder pissing on the tires, but this impromptu ceremony was held at 6:00 am Sunday morning, May 1, 2005 after everyone awake had already peed. An old man's prostate cannot be expected to perform on command, so the ceremony was completed with an unfinished beer from the night before. A Peruvian friend of mine tried to correct me on my name choice. "Vehicles are typically female, she said, so your bike's name should be La Poderosa, which translated means "The Strong Woman." That IS a great name, but if it is all the same with you, I'd rather have a "boy" motorcycle. If my 3 ex-wives taught me anything, its that I have a great deal of difficulty maintaining a long term relationship with a female. Who needs the constant maintainence and frequent breakdowns?





		The Georgia Mountain Rally boasts, "Every steak cooked to perfection." In other words, you grill your own. The coals were not hot enough this year, so if you were hungry, "perfection" would probably have been rare to medium rare. II'm in the market for an entry level bike for my wife. I'll just assign it a BMW-like model name, like the Funduro F70, R7GS, or the /1. I can't resist a quick digital snap shot of a cool vanity plate. I am planning one for my new (to me) R100GS. ABEJA, which is spanish for Bee or PDRSO, which is "Poderoso" abreviated until it makes no sense in any language.						Skip and Kym are my heroes. Well-educated and once ambitiously seeking the "American Dream," They opted out of the rat race, got a VW van and a couple of old airheads bascially and became gypsies, scoring odd jobs to get the money needed for food and gas. See their adventures at http://www.grrlwander.com Here's Skip riding his 30 year-old airhead at Deals Gap, NC.


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