tibork
New member
After eight years on a 600 cc Yamaha street bike, we went out on our first short trip with the 'new' Beemer. Just riding around town through small towns and back home, we clocked 127 miles. This was our first trip with the new bike and with a touring bike (picture shows when we stopped for ice cream) ... but the highlight of the trip was something we missed taking a picture of a very large black bear crossing the road right in front of us! We had to slow down as it walked across the road in a slow pace, then when it was in the ditch we got right by it just feet from it. I put the bike into 2nd gear in case the bear would start chasing us and also kept rolling for easy take off but fortunately it was just staring at us. It then turned around and went into the woods. Neither of us seen a black bear (or any bear) in the wild let alone get to just feet to one and one this large. I had my iPhone in my inside pocket but I had to drive and be ready to take off in case it turned on us and my girl's phone was in the box behind her so sadly we missed any photos of this rare event ... oh well, we'll be more prepared next time. The trip was still fun. Keep on riding!