Road trip
My buddy Matt called , He thinks I need to get out of here for a while . I tried to let him know how bad my health is right now and all the crap I have to do every day because of my catheter . He said “not a thing” that he's ok with it and we are going to have a few beers and hang out in his garage . Matt's garage ….. His house is a two bedroom small affair . His garage is big enough for five or six cars And a bar . I put the bar in about five or so years ago so I would have a place to sit . Big bar , Five bar stools , holders over head for thirty wine glasses and a fridge under neath . I mean a bar .
He has two buicks One a grand National both built to the max . One is black and good looking , The other is ,,,Well not so good looking but is fast . He plans to sell the good looking grand nat and build the other into his next drag car . He wants to pick my brains {what little I have left} on the paint scream .
I used to build show bike's . Never won anything ,,,, paint was my thing back then But I liked them . You people would like matt , He's a 20 year navy vet retired jet mechanic . And he does like to go fast . He has several Z cars 240 260 and 280 z's and a 300 z . His only real fault is he has to turbo every thing . unless he can super charge it . I can't explain how a old retired navy vet and a ex biker/retired gold miner met and became friends ,, It just happened . He was good friend to my late wife as well .
The last time he and I road bikes together was the “shoe tree” run . That's a tree on HY' 50 , The lonest road in Navada . It's out by a place called Middle Gate . Legend is a Navada man , back in the late 1880 or so married a Morman woman from salt lake that bitched and moaned so much on the buggy trip to Fallon Navada that he threw her shoe's up into the tree and told her to walk home . To this day people throw shoe's up into the tree . It stink's like gym locker there . But at middle gate is a bar with the best hamburger's . Or after the trip to get there anything would taste good . And the beer is cold . Maybe it's after the stink of the shoe tree anything else is good by comparison .
It's been awhile since Matt and road together , He used to ride with me prospecting gold claims . He didn't know what he was doing but he had fun doing it . I would trailer my quads out to a good spot and we would ride into some pretty rough places . One place we found was Fort Defiance . A long lost cavalry fort that was to prevent Indian's from pyramid lake frum attacking Verginia city . Once we saw a bunch of high dollar S.U.V.s coming up the trail and they were full of ladies of the evening on their day off . They all had to stop and chat with us and we became good friends with them .
We found a place called Shady Run , They took out close to 20 million out of there in 1910 . Another was Copper Ried . And Horse shoe bend . I took twenty once's out of there .
All good time's ,,,,,,, and good beer after a long day hunting for gold . Nothing is better then sitting around a camp fire relaxing with a cold beer and good friends .
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nytwatch1 11 months ago 1
Good site . thank you . When my wife and I left Calif , After attending our fifth funeral of those we rode with in a year and were informed of the death of bad eye Ray , My best friend and best man at our wedding . 1983 . {He used to tell people You think I'm bad ,, He did this to my face ,,, I didn't , He put his bike though a barb wire fence} Barb and I decided to just go . 1989 No plan , No idea of where , just go . Passing though Fallon Navada she had a hart attack .
After she got out of the hospital she was in no shape to travel so I found us a place and looking around for work kind of fell into gold mining . Six months later Barb lost her left leg and we found out she was diabetic . I sold two of the four bikes we brought with us and I lied to her about keeping the two . I promised her that I would put away all thought of riding again . It was her fear that if I started riding again I too would be killed . We didn't ride with "nice guys ." Barb was the love of my life . She was the only one I never even had the thought of cheating on . Except I did ride from time to time , often with Matt . And I did feel like I was cheating on her doing so .
Rigel 11 months ago 1
Have you ever heard of Rick Fairless - Dallas custom bikes. His store has an outdoor picnic area where they hold bikini contests, wet tee-shirt contest, concerts etc. We used to go to his shop and browse the custom and stock bikes for sale. Think you would enjoy it.
https://www.strokersdallas.com/