Picture: ROMEO Bear
La Crosse, KS (the barbed wire capital of the world) is about 110 miles from Salina so after riding for an hour and half the park in Hosington looked pretty good for a break. Pat, Neil and I had already settled in behind what appeared to be three ROMEOs (you know, helmets, jackets, old, etc) so it was no surprise when they turned into the park ahead of us. Also not a surprise was to see Richard and his crew already there making a total of 10 bikes/scoots.
Richard's wife, Joyce, pulled out a cute little biker bear of the V-Star's bag and was showing everyone the "ROMEO" on the back of his jacket. She had gotten it for Richard's birthday so he posed with it quite happily I might add. The little ROMEO bear's name is Brutus. Now all this begs the question of changing the ROMEO meaning. How does Richard's Own Motorcycle Enhancement Object sound?
The 4-Corners restaurant was a typical small town cafe and was quite busy. Thankfully it was large enough to accommodate an extra 18 or so old motorcyclists. I ordered the smothered steak which included potatoes, texas toast, salad/soup bar and a drink for $5.50. Hard to beat a small town for a good meal.
Before the chow arrived I remembered I had left my wallet in my jacket which was with the Dubya so I trekked out to the parking lot to retrieve it. As I was walking out three guys on the above trike pulled and started checking out the Dub. We got to chatting and they were from a bike shop in town that builds trikes and sells conversion kits. Pretty interesting what you find in some of these out of the way places. Check out their web site at http://www.tetratrikes.com/.
Just before we left this ole boy on a 1949 Cushman pulled up. Not one of the ROMEOs but a local guy riding to lunch. I love it when the don't hide 'em but ride 'em.
Paul and his Honda 750-4 joined us for the ride back which included a Diary Queen stop in Hoisington. Nice ride back as the rain held off but there was welcome cloud cover.
The number of curves in the Falun road has long been debated so Neil decided to lay the controversy to rest by counting them. I turned on my GPS so I could check his accuracy and we both came up with 14 turns/curves. Good job Neil considering I was holding you up going around some of the curves. Chew on that you Deal's Gap freaks!
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