Beating the heat trip - 2,500 miles, 18 days
We just returned from our 18 day trip from Tucson up into the southern rockies of Northern New Mexico and Colorado in our 24' Nexus C towing a 10' Utility trailer with my motorcycle. WOW, what a grea...
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Ductape wrote:
Nice report! Thanks for sharing.
How did your bike like the thin air? Mine is carbureted and tends to run rich and bog somewhat.
It didn't, the bike is a 1987 BMW R80 RT air cooled opposed twin (Air Head), and like yours was running really rich. It was a bear to get it started but once it was running it rode just fine. I used the lower octane - 85/86 instead of the usual 91 she drinks at home in Tucson and that seemed to help.
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