Gypsy Stats:
Elapsed time: 6 hrs 42 min
Riding time: 2 hr 43 min
Total distance: 116 miles
Average speed: 43.5 mph
Beemer stats:
Total distance: 120 miles
Average speed: 42 mph
Gas mileage: 46 mpg
A bright sunny morning with lots of promise for a good day's ride in the early summer. We headed out to Ephrata for the 1st Sunday buffet breakfast and motorcycle show. The buffet was good; coffee was definitely OK, probably running No 3 behind Marvel Ranch and Lawn FC and the sausage gravy was excellent, really full of sausage. Makes me think we better go back to Richwood to see how their reputation is holding up.
It's always interesting to wander around a congregation of motorcycles. The crowd at Lawn tends towards chrome and load pipes but the Ephrata crowd is more eclectic with a better representation of diverse bikes from around the world, including some true classics. There is always at least one or two home built, customed-out atrocities, of course, and today was no exception. Between breakfast and walking the line of bikes we used up about 2 hours, then headed out to ride.
There was a sprinkle of rain and some wet road over towards Mt. Gretna. On Rt 117 out of Mt. Gretna, Dave hit a slick patch of wet road on a right hand turn and low-sided the Triumph, sliding about 150 ft into and across the opposing traffic lane. Luckily, there was no oncoming traffic, and smartly, we ride ATGATT, so he got up with a scuffed jacket, torn pants, and a ruined pair of gloves but no injuries. The bike was somewhat worse for wear, of course, with a mirror gone and scuffed and broken plastic on the right side. The crash pegs seemed to have prevented any major damage and after a stop to decompress in Mt Gretna, we were able to ride home though with the day's enthusiasm curtailed.
