Mike NiteRide

Happy Hump Day all....looks like a sunny and warm week for the Laughlin River Run...temps of 100 and no rain until next Monday...so sunscreen and hydrate folks if you are headed this way...the desert sun will be brutal...ride hard, ride often, ride safer.... :)

Good evening all....if anyone is around the Laughlin River Run, this Friday is the annual Fireman Poker Run if interested....lovely weather this week, a bit of a breeze mixed in...shutting down the office for the day and off to burn some fossil fuel....ride hard, ride often, ride safer....

Good morning folks...hope all had a lovely Easter weekend...helped with the Kactus Kilo ride Friday and Sat, had 38 riders for this years event...then Sunday spent the day wandering around on the Springer enjoying the sun...the prickly pear cactus are blooming, soon the fruit will ripen and be enjoying some prickly pear margaritas :) ...Laughlin River Run this week, have family and friends in town for a few days...weather looks great this year...enjoy a fun week all...ride hard, ride often, ride safer... :)

Good morning folks....looks like a lovely Easter weekend...great riding weather for the 2019 Kactus Kilo ride....this the 3rd year of the event, and has been fun to be part of the staff...its a combo Iron Butt /Tour of Honor ride, with all benefits going to Pediatric Brain Cancer Research...and grabbed a fritter from Bashas while out on my early am ride..summer is close at hand, and morning and nite rides are available...enjoy the day all...ride hard, ride often, ride safer.... :)

Hello all....hope everyone had a fun weekend...went chasing some Red Dirt music in Lubbock over the weekend...weather forced the Street Festival to be moved indoors, and thanks to Charlie B's for stepping up and allowing the use of their dance hall...was a full house, the bands played for 5 hours...was hell on my old knees standing there, but was up against the rail so could lean a bit..anyone heading to Stagecoach...See More Festival?..its same weekend as Laughlin Run, so I wont make it out there, but if you're passing thru the area, give a shout..enjoy the nite all, ride hard, ride often, ride safer.... :)

Good morning all....road trip to Texas this weekend...stops in El Paso, Lubbock and Albuquerque...been awhile since been over that way...and a little Red Dirt music in Lubbock to enjoy...still another work day til then, duh...ride hard, ride often, ride safer... :)

Truth!

Good morning all....was a breezy weekend here, but today is starting off pretty nice....rode up to South Cove on Lake Mead yesterday, hadnt been there in a couple years...lake is at like 35% capacity, we are parked where we used to launch from 20 years ago...now its 50 - 60 feet lower....had a fun ride with Jeremy...next weekend, a loop around So Cal, for wildflowers and pie...ride hard, ride often, ride safer, :)

Good morning all....got the Road Glide radio back from Iron Cross Audio....they went thru the radio, reinforced the Aux port,installed new face plate (the one I had was rebuilt by Harley and 2 of the faceplate mounting tabs were broken, not allowing a waterproof seal) ,updated software,added some anti vibration mods to the audio circuits, installed Bluetooth Interface Module....gonna install next week when time...See More permits...will be a tight fit with the CB/Intercom and Ipod Modules...but their techs have been helpful with my questions and are readily available...meanwhile, a pretty nice weekend around here, so will get some riding in with Jeremy....enjoy the weekend all, ride hard, ride often, ride safer.... :)

Good afternoon all....well, more changes for next week...cancelled AZ Bike Week plans and headed to Anza Borrego, Julian and Joshua Tree Park next weekend....unless Jeremy changes his mind again, lol....weather is sure nice, wildflowers are blooming most everywhere in western AZ and southern Cal...gonna ride up to Meadview tomorrow am, and then Valley of Fires and around Lake Mead in the afternoon...off to Prescott and Skull Valley on Sunday...hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and gets some wind...ride hard, ride often, ride safer.... :) :)

Joshua Tree National Park is in a super bloom season this year...here is a wildflower report posted on Desert Wildflower website: See More
March 21, 2019 Terry reports: Surveyed the Pinto Basin Road, Cottonwood Spring and Bajada nature trail. Fields full of Mojave poppy, Bajada and Mojave lupine, desert chia, fiddleneck, pincushion, purple mat, blue phacelia, and brown-eyed evening primrose. Other species included Bigelow's monkeyflower, bladderpod bush, Booth's evening primrose, brittlebush, button brittlebush, California tickseed, chuparosa, creosote bush, cryptantha, desert bluebell, desert chicory, desert dandelion, desert five-spot, desert globemallow, desert lavender, desert linanthus, desert rock pea, desert senna, desert star, devil's spineflower, Joshua tree, Mojave suncup, Mojave yucca, ocotillo, Pacific blazingstar, pygmy poppy, redstem storksbill, sand blazingstar, Schott's indigo-bush, star gilia, Western tansy mustard, whispering bells, white tackstem, woolly daisy, and yellow evening primrose.

Read more: https://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca_jtnp.html#ixzz5jDMImmRl

Good morning all...spent Sunday riding with Jeremy...rode up to Willow Beach, had lunch in Boulder City, then down to Cottonwood Cove and on down to Needles, back up thru Topock to the house...some pics of the road down to Willow Beach and the Colorado River...gorgeous day...spring is definitely here in northern AZ....ride hard, ride often, ride safer... :)

The oddity of this pic, is that it appears the wind is coming out of the north, blowing the plants southward...in reality, the wind was blowing 15-25 from the Southwest...would it be that they were reaching into the oncoming wind, for the sunlite?... struck me as odd....ride hard, ride often, ride safer... :)

A few more pics from along US 60 and Salome Road...cactus should be blooming by early April and the central AZ desert should be lovely for Arizona Bike Week.... :)

Good morning all...nice day to ride yesterday....11 hours, 495 miles, spent $44 in gas and a meal....these are some pics from along US 95 south of Needles and Plomosa Road, a fun little backroad between Bouse and Quartzsite AZ...the Ocotillo Lounge in Bouse was packed with about 30 UTVs, so headed on to the Tin Top in Wintersburg....ride hard, ride often, ride safer.... :)