Friday Commute-The Long Way Home

[creamora]

Hi All,
A ChainGanger Inmate's brief first post to try this out. Been lurking and oogling lots of fine pic's, vistas and adventures here. In the short term I have limited adventures on my commute south and in the rolling hills of Northwestern Connecticut's Litchfield County. I started packing the camera. Here's a few shots of a place I pull over and decompress at on the way home sometimes - the Roxbury/Bridgewater ridgeline of Botsford Hill over the Shepaug River Valley.

Creamora


A nice outbuilding at GreyLedge Farm on the Bridgewater side of the ridge.


Further up the ridge overlooking some prime beef and the Shepuag River Valley.


Over on the Roxbury side a fine dairy barn restoration.

[Ks-Rydr]

Thanks for sharing.... I like your F650, I bought a new white F650 "Funduro" back in 1997, was told the white ones were not a USA color, but that Canada had them. How the white one ended up in Kansas I don't know, but decided I had to have it. My white F650 was the only one I had seen until a couple of years ago, and last fall, I came across another one, so there are a few of them in the country, but not many. What year is your F650 ? I had over 20,000 on mine when I sold it 3 years later, that was a really good bike, really enjoyed it.....

[creamora]

Originally Posted by Ks-Rydr

Thanks for sharing.... I like your F650, I bought a new white F650 "Funduro" back in 1997, was told the white ones were not a USA color, but that Canada had them. How the white one ended up in Kansas I don't know, but decided I had to have it. My white F650 was the only one I had seen until a couple of years ago, and last fall, I came across another one, so there are a few of them in the country, but not many. What year is your F650 ? I had over 20,000 on mine when I sold it 3 years later, that was a really good bike, really enjoyed it.....

Thanks, I'm told that I am the 4th owner of this gently used 1998 F650 Funduro; no one under 40 ever had her. Allan16 was just north of me in CT and the timing was right this August. There are a few very minor scrapes where it looks like she might have been off road - once. Now, besides our adventures scouting dirt roads she's my commuter and Allan set her up real good with modified Pelican's, Happy Trails and a BestRest. I think we'll be extending the riding season this year.

We're only over 18,000 miles now and yep, she's in OEM Alpine White. A good week of commuting will pull about 600 miles so they're racking up fast. I don't have her whole history - it's possible she came over the border by way of Maine years ago.