The Sunday ride was a tour of off the highway route numbers. The Club left Dunkin in Montville shortly after 10am. The ride ran down 32 to 163 over to route 82. We took 82 through Salem four corners to East Haddam where we picked up route 151 in Moodus. We stayed on 151 following it through Haddam Neck to Cobalt and route 66. We turned east then picked up 16 through Westchester and Colchester then out to Lebanon where we grabbed route 207. We crossed through Lebanon Center and picked up route 32 in Franklin, then 203 through Historic Windham Center. 203 took us to 14 and we ran east through Scotland, Hampton and Canterbury crossing 169, then staying on 14 at the 14/14a split. We took that to Central Village. There we picked up 12, following that north through Wauregan and Danielson to Dayville for our destination, lunch at Zips Diner. The ride was just under 90 miles at 87.3 (according to Google Maps), which had we taken the more direct (as in highway, 32-163-395-101) it would have been a whopping 36.5 miles . We arrived at around 3 minutes after noon.
The food was good, service was good and the waitresses cute, (spelled y-o-u-n-g).
After eating the main group headed to the highway for the trip home, Craig and Ginny were to drop off in Plainfield for a ride over to 165 and Buttonwood for Ice Cream.
Joe, Myself, and Tree opted for Joe's plan of back roads, no lights, and a ride to Ekonk Hill Turkey Farm. (which we would never see).
Joe lead us out of Zip's onto route 101 to Cook Hill road. Cook Hill ran south through South Killingly, across route 6 and turned into Snake Meadow Road. In Moosup we turned left on route 14. We followed that into Sterling then hooked a fast right on Providence road. If you know this area you know it is a down hill right sweeper on 14 which starts to straighten where Providence road turns right. This is a great corner because you can just keep the right sweep going and you will be on Providence road without adjusting your turn. Joe knew this, halfway through the turn his right signal came on... Tree was following him, I was behind Tree. Tree never saw the turn indication. Joe swept onto Providence, Tree didn't, I swept onto Providence, Tree looked back at me as she is still on route 14 with that, "What just happened" look. I have to say I had a good chuckle at her expense. Joe slowed and we bopped along waiting for her to regroup.
Providence road takes you to 14a in Oneco, where the gas prices still read $1.70 a gallon. (of course the station has been closed for a while). Joe pulled over to the right and parked. He gave us a choice. 14a/49 Ekonk in 4 miles or a little more riding. We chose the later. Joe took us to Newport road, which goes nowhere near Newport but it will take you into Rhode Island. Then Hazard Road, Molasses Hill road, past Arcadia Forest onto Escoheag Hill road which strangely enough takes you through Escoheag. Past Stepping Stone Falls, Stepping Stone Ranch, and Oak Embers Camp ground before depositing you on 10 Rod Road (165).
Turning right we bounced our way along the broken pavement passing Beach Pond, where amazingly enough the pavement gets real smooth...exactly where the State of Connecticut takes over. We cruised through Voluntown then down towards Glasgo where we arrived at Buttonwood and had ice cream with Craig and Ginny.
Finished we said our fair thee wells to the trike and the bike, Joe picked up 201 north as Tree and Myself headed south. Down 201, onto 2, back on 201, I waved goodbye to Tree at the 201/627 split and headed to rte 184 and home. All in all a good day.
The bike was on and off in neutral for the ride and for about 12 miles of the ride the little red security key indicator figured it would light up in solidarity with the neutral light, But it appears to be just indication issues because the bike ran fine. The new Heavy breather air cleaner even adds a little more sound to the bike, its sort of a sound of power when you go to full throttle.
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