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MOTOBRICK RIDING => Photographic Ride Reports => Topic started by: kryder on October 26, 2016, 07:33:45 PM

Title: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: kryder on October 26, 2016, 07:33:45 PM
I live about half the year in Park City, Utah. The rest of my time is spent in good ole Salida, Colorado. I travel around by moto quite a lot, usually longer trips are my mode of operating. Recently I rode out to Des Moines, Iowa by motorcycle for my daughter's wedding. Today I did a hundred miler only, tripping over to Echo, Utah on the old Lincoln Highway. It was once a thriving little roadside town with a gas station, restaurant, motel and bar, but the interstate came through and well, you guessed it. Echo is shut tighter than a drum. Here are a few photos of downtown metropolis, er, nearly ghost town, Echo, Utah.



Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: jaxon on October 26, 2016, 08:27:31 PM
Looks like your bike went without you.  :hehehe

Where's your big grin?
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: kryder on October 26, 2016, 08:49:29 PM
Out of the past! Last June on the way to Jackson Wyoming. I am camped near Afton, Wyoming. I made the trip on Ole Blue my '86 R80RT. I love the airheads but I am on my third K75 so I love them too.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: riots100 on October 26, 2016, 11:22:19 PM
Was the 100 miler a lazy loop on I-80 to I-84 to I-15 back to Park City?  I lived in PC a number a years ago for a few years.  I did that I-80/I-84 back way to Ogden a lot.  Grew up further south in Provo/Utah Valley.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: kryder on October 27, 2016, 07:58:28 AM
I rode I-80 out to Wanship then took old 40 ( Lincoln Highway) through Coalville and up through Echo, then on to Henefer to Highway 65 that winds up and over back to 80. I turned however onto 66, the back way into Morgan . Then back to Henefer on 84; back to Echo stopping to take the photographs and then onto old 40 to Wanship and back home on 80. I have been in Park City for about six years. I am considering a move next spring.


Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: jakgieger on October 27, 2016, 10:46:58 AM
Beautiful open country :bmwsmile
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: kris on November 13, 2016, 10:58:41 AM
So, does anything go on in Echo? Anyone left? Sad to see it vacant like that.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: Laitch on November 13, 2016, 12:41:35 PM
So, does anything go on in Echo? Anyone left? Sad to see it vacant like that.
People keep repeating themselves during conversations.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: K1300S on November 13, 2016, 01:33:06 PM
Kryder...what tank bag do you have on your K75s?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: jakgieger on November 13, 2016, 02:46:45 PM
Kryder...what tank bag do you have on your K75s?

Thanks.
Looks like a "late" multivario.  I have one of w/similar color pattern (gray/black base-black tops) but no yellow stripe...
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: K1300S on November 13, 2016, 07:22:26 PM
Thanks.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: kryder on November 17, 2016, 08:54:23 AM
So, does anything go on in Echo? Anyone left? Sad to see it vacant like that.

There are a few people living there, but there cannot be very many. The sad thing is , is that all those businesses and a couple of more are all housed in good buildings. The Interstate system left behind it a great deal of economic hardship.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: kryder on November 17, 2016, 09:00:47 AM
Kryder...what tank bag do you have on your K75s?

Thanks.

Jackgeiger is correct, it's a Multivario, the official BMW brand. I like the narrow design which does not interfer with the switchgear and the heavy duty construction. Plus, they just plain look great on the motorcycle. The elastic at the bottom where it attaches to the tank clips will get weak but can be repaired. If you buy one beware that there are different ones for different K bikes. A bag for an 1100 K bike for example will not work, or at least the base will not, so do some research. On the base ( the part that atttaches to the tank ) it will state the bikes the bag will fit. I buy extras whenever I see them come up for sale. They can be pricey.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: The Mighty Gryphon on November 17, 2016, 09:54:49 AM
I'm another fan of the Multivario tank bag.  Great bags except they soak up water like a sponge.  Everything inside gets wet in the lightest rain if you don't get the bag's "raincoat" on, even behind my RT windshield. 

I picked up one for a K1100 for super cheap, and modified it to work with my K75RT by removing the steel side fasteners and replacing them with loops of nylon cord that hook around the tabs on the tank that the battery covers attach to.   Took about 20 minutes and cost nothing.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: jakgieger on November 18, 2016, 07:59:29 AM
This picture is the modification I made to my multivario.  I like to lean forward and sometimes rest my chest/helmet on the bag with my feet on the back pegs, like when I am crossing the open plains of Kansas :bmwsmile.
Title: Re: Riding to Echo, Utah.
Post by: TrueAce on December 03, 2016, 10:43:00 PM
I was doing some of that flat-out across Kansas, Nebraska stuff laying on my tank, feet on back pegs, on the K1100rs, and with the low shield, that was putting way too much pressure on my C 4/5 & 6/7 with a full-face. When I got off, had a 3inch slice on my steel -toe boot from touching the wheel rim! Let me know how your speriment turns out, MG.