Another Winter Ride

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Sloppy, crappy, cruddy, moist. Take your pick. I pick sloppy.

Annual ride to Randys’ Cycle in Marengo, IL today for Ural Demo Day. I was first and probably only guy to ride there.
As I walk in, Randy and Tom greet me and say I always bring the worst weather with me. Randy is wrapping up a sale of a CFMoto side by side and the new owner says I was behind him in Elburn. Small world, I guess.
Tom and I helped get the side by side loaded on the guys trailer for him. Guy tried to get up in 2wd and snaked his way up, and down. Tom slipped on the trailer and I slipped off of it. Once we got the guy to put it in 4L, it went up on the trailer like it wasn’t there.
While warming back up in the shop, Randy and Tom tried to talk me into trading in my Ural for this one.

The pic doesn’t do the color justice. It’s much brighter. 2020 Gear Up with custom paint, black engine, and drive train. And a price to match. First number was a 2. So was the second. There were three more numbers before the decimal point. Sorry, property stricken.
I left after a third cup of coffee and rode home into the wind. And slush. Just after I pulled out of Randys’, a FedEx van going the other way hit a pile of slush that got me. Felt like I got hit by hundreds of slush balls. And that was just first one. Got drenched by a half dozen more before I got on some more traveled roads.
So, sixty mile round trip in weather that was more British than Russian, fell on my ass once, saw some nice bikes, and thoroughly enjoyed myself.