First big trip on a first gen

[OutKast]

My last big road trip was in 2013. Several large trips before that all over the country, all on my 04 second gen. Kitty made several trips alongside me on her 87 first gen. After having back surgery, she decided she was going to sell hers for something smaller. While I loved the interstate manners and seating position of the second gen, the thing really gave my back a work out in city traffic, parking, our gravel driveway, etc. and I missed the more nimble ride of the GL1200s I rode before getting the second gen. So after riding her bike to/from work several times and some local trips, we sold my second gen instead.

 

Then we moved to Texas on onto some raw land living in a camper with no shop. The 87 sat in the barn alot. Took it to get inspected back in june, and it ran horrible. Recommited myself to keeping the bike up.

 

Now it is all tuned up and running like a beast again. Leaving Victoria Tx tomorrow for Amarillo, meeting a friend there, then on to Pike's Peak, and then to South Dakota for a mission trip working on a Christian school on the Rosebud Reservation.

 

Lucky to have Kitty riding tail in the truck with the kids and the tools for the work. Hoping to get time away from the work to take a cruise through the Badlands!

 

So if you see an 86/87 two faced venture in that area, Wave!

[Sylvester]

Very nice bike and good on you to keep it.