Laughlin River Run 2008

For the third year now I got to travel 1400+ miles over this past weekend to the Laughlin River Run in Laughlin, Nv. Chris and I started off on Thursday morning, in a rain and snow storm. Luckily we missed most of it. But by the time we got to St. George the bikes looked terrible. So much for all of the cleaning I did before I left! On Friday we rode to Zion and went through the tunnels just to make sure our pipes were loud enough, and yes they were.

One of our several pit stops to rest our butts.

We left for Laughlin on Saturday morning with Rick and Cyndy, Todd and Shantae, Shantae's dad and family friend Mark, and Todd's friend Matt. It was a wild ride down because the wind was blowing like crazy. We took a new route down this year. We went through Overton, and got to ride this really bumby road that about bucked me off the bike more than a few times. Sunday was a long ride, we rode from Stateline all the way home. It was about 600 miles I would guess.

Here I am attempting to clean my bike at 7:30 Friday morning, the water and soap was freezing to the bike before I could even wipe it down. I had to just leave it out in the sun to thaw out.

We decided to add a little religious history to this trip by stopping and visiting the Mountain Meadows site. Apparently we killed a bunch of people here for some reason? Thats sucks, but there is a nice monument there now.

Todd, Chris, and I on our ride in Zion.

I Love Big Jugs

I drove up to Logan yesterday to help Stallion with a tile job at Whitney's work, so she took a few photos as she always does and here is Jesabel with her new jugs and ape hangers.

The weather was great so I was able to get a few more miles on the Hog.

On saturday the Nelson clan went on a ride into the wilds of northern cache valley.we stopped to eat at some place named LD's Cafe, which I never knew existed but it had some good food.Here we are somewhere in the middle of nowhere, it was very windy but a great family outing.

Jesabel Lives!

Well I've decided that this blog stuff doesn't work so well when you dont have access to the internet very often, or a ditial camera. Anyway I'm trying to keep up on this page.

Good news, the hog "Jesabel" is finally done and out of the shop!!! Its been a long and frustating at times project, but finally on Monday I got to go pick her up from North Salt Lake. My roommates brother in law did the work for me, and it seems like she was never going to get finished. Now I have to break in the new motor and that means slow driving for the next 500 miles. Thats going to be rough. I hope I get enough good weather and time before leaving with Chris on Thursday for the Laughlin River Run. I have some pictures of the complete bike, but At the moment I can't figure out how to get them onto the computer, because everyone that knows anything about computers is asleep. I'll get them posted hopefully tomorrow so soon.

However I have a pictures here of when she was getting worked on in SLC...

Here is one of the old pistons,

Jesabel got new S&S Gear drive cams, as seen here, a bigger motor, 1550 cc. screamin' eagle from the old stock 1450 cc. Best of all is the 16" ape hangers, sorry I'll get a picture of those as soon as I can.

Let me tell you she is one hot ride, I doubt I will be single for much longer when the chicks get a look at this hog!!!