January

Well here we go again, it's 2010 and I'm hoping to have another great year riding. I will not have the opportunities to ride as much this year but still have a few rides planned. I'm also going to help host this years NMLOE in October, which should be great. I'm already trying to come up with a theme for this year rally.

I started the year right, getting out on the motorcycle for a New Year's ride with friends. We met for breakfast then went for a short ride, the weather was a bit nippy (below 20 degrees) when we started. There was about 20 riders and a few of us broke off and took a different route stopping at Route 66 casino for a quick drink. I'm not real comfortable riding in larger groups, I tend to do my own thing. I have a few riding friends that feel the same way so we might start with a group but tend to brake out early.

I also got out the next week with four friends we met for coffee and sat around for an hour or so waiting for it to warm up a little. When we arrived it was 14 degrees, a little cold even for the toughest of us. Once we cleared 20 degrees we headed out looking for snow. I wanted to get a few pictures of us in the snow for the IBA magazine. I was hoping to get our picture in the next addition. We planned to grab lunch in a little town called Jemez Springs, they have a bar there called Los Ojo's that has great food. I know that I have talked about this location many times and if you ever get to New Mexico it is a get little stop. We ended up stopping a little earlier than expected, one of the guys hands were frozen, he said he could not feel his fingers. We stopped at this little corner store for him to thaw out. Once he was up to it we started heading for a nice place to take a few pictures.


After snapping a few pictures, we headed for Los Ojo's and lunch. We had a blast, I think everyone thought we were nuts, riding in this weather. After a great lunch and a drink, we were back on the bikes heading for home. It warmed up a little and by the time we made it home the temp was up to 34 degrees, seemed like a heat wave. We talked about getting together again next week so we will see, so far I have about 200 miles for the year.

Well not much has been happening, the weather has made a turn for the worst. It seems as soon as it is the weekend for me, a weather front moves in to rain or snow. So on my off days the FJR has been sitting in the garage, I was able to get the oil changed and it looks like I finally have shop time set up for that tire change I have been talking about. I have been able to put a few miles on but as the month ends I will be lucky to get 400 miles in.

Well until next time ride safe.