Motorcycles BS Thread 2.0

Haha beat me to it, don't forget that like 10k of that population actually lives on this side of the state and just spend 9 months a year over there lol

 

Yeah I've never fully understood how they do the town's census with the University, to be honest. Like, is that 35K during the summer and it's permanent residents? Or is it 35K during the school year and dips down to 20K or less during the summer? I should ask the Mayor or city administrator next time I see one of them

 

Thats insane. My county has 400k. My town is 45k and growing.

You guys want to move cross country?

 

running street tires off pavement is half your problem you know

 

Kind of, my wife's company has offices all over the east coast. Fingers crossed though a promotion/raise goes through soon and I can actually afford more than my 1 bed 1.5ba 1 car condo haha (which I bought for 195 and is probably worth about 225 right now)

And for reference, like 70% of the county population is in Pullman:

 

On a more motorcycle note, after 3 years my klim dakar pro gloves have a hole in them, and re-stitching it seems close to impossible so i'm looking at new options. Anyone have the inversion pro's? Seems like it could be a good option for fall/some winter/spring for me.

 

Im not on street tires

 

Some updates.

 

Just posting to sub. Got a rear fender rack installed today and should have some new moto rims and dual sport tires installed in about 2 weeks. 2012 wr250. Baby bike I bought new but starting riding it just about everyday day this summer.

 

Fuck it, went ahead and bought 'em haha

 

lots of flood areas in Oldtown…

COL here is pretty low because income is too

LOLOLOL we have the WORST and i mean the absolute WORST bLowes in history. And The closest home depot is winchester, hagerstown, or Altoona

 

I’m a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig fan of the WR

 

Oh yeah, here is the final track from my ride today. Bike shows exactly 101mi from leaving the gas station when I started the track to getting home so it was about 15mi across the water I guess? It was a good time, now I need to find some more rides that are worth taking like that. And maybe get some gold gel and a seat concepts cover for my seat.

On another note, the only way to ride the ferries here is on a bike, get to skip past hour+ long lines and head straight to the front plus it costs 1/4 the price of taking a car on.

 

I think they count students here that use the address as their main residence here in town. So we count some and don’t count others. I don’t think many of the Haskel students get counted.

Douglas county has 120k people, but just Lawrence has 95k of those. With students all counted I think we are around 110k. It’s a big town for Kansas, but it’s no city. You could find acres and a house like that around Lawrence for about that price, but that sqft in my neighborhood would run 850k this year. It’s a nice big small town.

 

When I lived in Washington I would enjoy this trip a couple times every summer. I liked the Freeland cafe (on Whidbey) for breakfast or early lunch and would go to Hurricane Ridge on the OP as my turn around point.

i also liked just riding across in Mukilteo and then riding Whidbey through Deception and then back south on the 5.

 

You should take 9 up to Conway, cut across Fir Island to Anacortes-ish (rockfish grill for lunch?) then come back along fidalgo, deception pass, oak harbor, whidbey, etc. I grew up in Mount Vernon, parents live out there still.

That would make sense.

 

I'm partial to hard knuckle gloves with a hard palm slider.

 

I almost bought a BD6 this weekend. Haha. Talked myself out of it though.

looking killer, Jim.

 

The boy needs knobbies, preach.

 

I've always found it odd/funny that our Lowe's and HD in town are just a stone's throw from each other. I do gravitate more towards HD as they are usually less crowded and the staff seems more helpful...