steveb leatherworks: the blather

Friday afternoon…..another holiday here is here, heralding the end of summer..hmmm…a good time to scheme getting some “last licks” road trippin’ in, what do you think? Can I squeak another one in? I feel like a kid scheming his next cut class.

Got a bunch of work waiting for me on the bench, the “events” agenda is clear (except for the work I could be doing), the bike is ready to roll..I think Zeb is available and good to go….always good to have a partner….always good to roll with Zeb… hmmm..the new iPod “bike specific” playlist is ready for a test.

This might be a done deal.

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Sunday night recap: so Pupkin and i burned up to Southern VT on a cloudy, but dry afternoon – not a lick of rain…a novelty as it had poured like the dickens the night before and was rainy that morning. Took the great collections of slab up North, Merritt Parkway, Route 8, 84 & 91. Only bummer heading up was a traffic snarl due to an accident on the Merritt – a scenic parkway, narrow with nada for shoulders..so we had to split lanes for about 45 intense minutes..well it was  intense for me anyway..ha

seems all these pissed off people stuck in cages (i am sorry they had to do that, I am) with their screaming little Johnny’s and Jane’s were not loving the fact that we were on air cooled machines that need to be moving before they nuke themeselves from heatstroke…soo it goes like this…

we are both on baggers..pupkin comes up splitting lanes in the center of a tight two lane road with me in the rear…pods of SUV’s Hummers, minivans all stuck in the fracked traffic.. begin to try and knock us off our bikes…i shit thee not..these crazy people actually tried doing us harm, just not the usual childish behavior of blocking our way (that never works now does it?..)..unreal..get over it folks

fun, oh yeah

got so bad that pupkin began cursing these loons, he’d pass ’em by and so, they tried taking it out on me…lol…good thing i have years of NYC city evasive training. Fun, oh yeah.

Other than that it was great, we had the road to capture our attention, my new playlist was good stuff, grabbed a lunch in a backwoods joint and had the world to enjoy to ourselves due to the cloudy weather and got to our friend Ren’s new house (to him) in the woods after negotiating some dirtbike challenges on our 800lb behemoths..fun, oh yeah..

 I am really happy for Ren, it’s a great place – perfecto.

Ren's House

Went to dinner at a local ski resort joint and crapped out for the night. Next am we got up, went for a local diner breakfast and headed out killing the day slowly taking may “not so shortcuts” and saw some new backwoods stuff..great, really good day – weather was freaky great – comfy cool with a warm breeze. Pupkin is my favorite riding partner, we have the same ideas for the most part when it comes to road trippin, making it easy.

Got home, took a quick shower and got to work and there ya have it – a quick overnight blast to VT, close to 800 miles.