Tough living in Colorado

[podsobinski]

Monday morning Aug. 20th. headed south on I-25 to Trinadad, cool, calm and clear weather. Breakfast at a downtown cafe with a homecooked meal, then through the old coal mining town east and south 100 miles to Mt. Capulin http://www.nps.gov/cavo
Drive a spiral well maintained dirt road to the top and walk around the crater.
Down and out of the monument head west to Raton N.M. then over Raton Pass to Trinadad again only at Trinadad head west on Colorado State 12 "Highway of Legends" http://www.sangres.com/shol/index.htm
As beautiful as it can be and very little traffic. Over Cuchara Pass down into the town of Cuchara for lunch. Past the quite little town of LeVeta and back on the interstate home. Four hundred and fifty miles, boy it is tough living in Colorado.
School starts for me the 27th. so it is back to reality.:banghead
I still do not get it on posting picture or you would see my GS and my buddies lF800ST.

gpodzo

The twisties - not the super slabs separate the riders from the Wanna Bees.

[co_bmw_rider]

A few years ago, I took 12 the same route as you into La Veta ... didn't know about the spiral road to Mt. Capulin though. Nearly caught a deer once on Raton Pass on an R80RT ... I swear I heard it's hooves on the pavement as it leaped away.

Yup, it's tough livin' in Colorado !

[KGT1200]

You chose a great ride for this time of the year, and I know that you felt the fall in the air! Colorado riding treats go on and on, and you picked a good one for a late summer!

I've done that exact trip a time or two, sad your pics didn't make it, I had trouble figuring it out on my trip to CO this summer, but it's easy once somebody helps you get started, just cut and paste links!. If you want help uploading to to the site via photobucket, PM me, I would be happy to walk you through it.

BTW, where is school for you?

Red

[podsobinski]

I have been lucky with deer in Colorado. A lot of is watch for those reflective eyes. But imagine I am 58 now and have been riding mc's my whole life. Undergraduate school in the mountains, graduate schools all on the wester slope and post grad work in canyon lands all over Utah. With me living on the eastern slope, that is a lot of driving. All kinds of stories from friends meeting up with deer or other critters.
Posting pictures is a pain, why can't it be as easy as emailing pictures from my picture file?:hungover

gpodzo

[co_bmw_rider]

Sounds like a lot in common ... 57, born and lived in Colorado all of my life. Started riding on a provisional license at 14 (a Cushman Eagle). Under 16 riders were restricted to 6 HP max. I handed that down to my twin brothers, who promptly trashed it. I bought my 1st Harley-Davidson at 18 .. there wasn't much else available then, especially in a small rural town. There were a few Trumph's and BSA's around, one odd fellow had a Zundapp.

[podsobinski]

How could there be someone close to the same MO as I have. At 14 I had a Honda C-110 Super Sport 50cc king of junior high. Then went to Ducati's during high school and college and raced a little with Hodaka's. Family came first and was down to a Trail 90 for work but grad school in Gunnison I needed bigger and evolved into jap road bikes. Empty nester with some $$$ evolved to BMW's. Now almost totally retired do Iron Butts, Rallys, trips with the wife, dirt bike rides etc.:clap

[KGT1200]

Well I'm a bit younger, but made of the same stuff. Just turned 50 this summer.

Born in Brush, lived my summers west of Ft. Collins at my Dad's ranch, had my first (non-mini bike type) bike, a honda Trail 90 at 12. I tore up the dirt roads around Brush and Ft. Collins, w/o license and spent my summers chasing cattle and fixing fence , but mostly raising hell until 15. I saved up for a yamaha 125, and rode that all over creation until I got done with college, then had a series of Jap bikes, and finally bought my first BMW a 94 R65LS, then in 05 the GS. Now living in MN with my MN native wife, missing the colorado high country like you dont know, but coming back when the kid leaves the nest.

I recently rode through grand lake area, and have been watching the prices on things with the beetle kill and fires, looking at that as a place to call home cause of the declining cost. Buy now live later is the plan.

Glad to know some other CO natives browse this forum; seems we all have like backgrounds!

Red

[azduc]

There must be a whole hidden group of us! 59, Colorado my whole life, Vespa at 14! Some 160 Hondas in there, a 250 Ducati scrambler then Triumphs a K model Harley and on and on. Sold the K model to a pal when I went to Vietnam for $600 with the agreement that should he ever want sell it I get it back for $600, he still has it. Live in Arizona now and Vespas are back! The never ending cycle is a never ending cycle.

[podsobinski]

Ducati 350 scrambler in college. I think it was a '68 model year that had a beautiful red and white tank. It is amazing all us old guys that rode when we had that special license 14 to 16 years of age and under 5 hp bikes.
We have to get together for some kind of reunion and talk about the old days and what we were aloud to do... I remember riding bikes all through Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. Now you would get shot and riding my 50cc Honda Super Sport up Bar Trail to near timberline with a giant rear sprocket. Man, you imagine someone taking a motorcycle up Bar Trail to Pikes Peak these days.
High School was cool, I had a Ducati 250 Monza. . .slower and not as sporty as the Diana but a lot more user friendly and could still stomp the Honda 250 Scramblers. I never got into the British bikes but peaked with a Suzuki GS1000S Katana '82. Talk about uncomfortable. Maybe because of that Jap bike I love the BMW '02 GS. . .almost the exact opposite.

[co_bmw_rider]

Hey Red, I was born in Brush too ! At that time, Eben Ezer was better than the hospital in Fort Morgan. Now it is a nursing home and my neice works there.

[KGT1200]

Hey Red, I was born in Brush too ! At that time, Eben Ezer was better than the hospital in Fort Morgan. Now it is a nursing home and my neice works there.

Yep born and raised there my mom worked at Eben Ezer as a nurses aid, and I worked for years for the Weiss family south of town feeding cows and doing farm stuff and riding my honda 90 all over creation! Graduated 75. Remember Nicks bar and grill in Snyder?

[OUTBACKUFO]

there are soo few of the ture Colorado Natives any more that actually live the majority or whole lives in Colorado... even including the Flatlands