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Home Safe From Maggie Valley Check-in....

Maggie Valley

I got in at 11:00 last night and, created some friendships while I was there. Thanks to Tim and Robin for leading the way home last night.:clap:
 
We got to our new home for a few weeks in the West Virginia mountains near Princeton WV. Will be based here until around early to mid August. Then who knows where.
 
Made it home from Maggie Valley today

I left Lamont's about 3pm arrived in Ft Payne, AL about 7pm, spent the night, left at 7am arrived home at 2pm. 700 miles total on the RT in a day and a half.
 
We enjoyed meeting everyone at the Comfort Inn and Lamont's. Sadly, all good things must come to an end but thankfully, we made it home safely a couple of hours ago. Hope to see everyone again in the near future.

Jeff, Elaine, and Graham
 
Juat got home

Just arrived back home at 9.30 pm today had an awesome time enjoyed the great riding in and around the area. On our way going through North Carolina one of our riders...she is now know as "SPEED QUEEN" got pulled over for speeding doing 69 in a 45 zone lucky it was in NC and not in GA due to Ga...... 20mph over is classed as reckless driving and you can be locked up NC its 30 mph over ....so Miss Speed Queen was lucky. I am now wondering what it is going to cost I would say somewhere around the $400 to $500. range anyone out there that might know what this ticket will cost.
 
Some Guy said:
Hey Firefly!
Some Girl and I made it all the way home without using GPS! We can actually read maps that don't talk...and...like I've said many times...the signs are always right!
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Then you won't be needing that new 660 Garmin GPS that came with your brown trout colored RT. I'll gladly take it off your hands since you won't be using it.

Maybe when you install your fancy map holder, you can install an 8-track player too!

Or better yet....mount an Etch-A-Sketch like many others mount ipads.... and just draw your own maps.... lol


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spydernatic said:
Just arrived back home at 9.30 pm today had an awesome time enjoyed the great riding in and around the area. On our way going through North Carolina one of our riders...she is now know as "SPEED QUEEN" got pulled over for speeding doing 69 in a 45 zone lucky it was in NC and not in GA due to Ga...... 20mph over is classed as reckless driving and you can be locked up NC its 30 mph over ....so Miss Speed Queen was lucky. I am now wondering what it is going to cost I would say somewhere around the $400 to $500. range anyone out there that might know what this ticket will cost.
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Tell her to fight fight fight the ticket! Ask for a deferral if she will take an online safety class and go 6 months without another ticket. They'll usually agree to a deferral in exchange for extra $$$$.

PM me if you want more info on filing the right paperwork to help get a deferral...it's really pretty easy.


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Nancy & I got home tonight about 8, after spending the night in Bull's Gap. Had a few issues on the way home. and ran about 70 miles one time with the check engine light on and a "Check DPS" warning. That flashing orange warning is sure distracting, but the update announced at last year's OE did prevent limp mode after a reboot...it just throws a continuous check engine light. Also had a throttle positioner problem at one juncture and some more steering problems like the ones I had on the Rattler. No big deal, I'll visit the dealer this week and we will take a look at things. I suspect a new DPS and another throttle body may soon be in order, but we will see.

Anyway, as long as the Spyder will reboot after such things happen, it can be ridden just fine. We did 540 miles today, about 380 of them after our first incident. BTW, when you have an orange warning flashing in the trip meter box, the whole display shows the warning if you stop moving. It will disappear if you acknowledge with the MODE button. That was a surprise to me. Also, if the whole display shows the orange warning, the fault codes can't be displayed until the warning is acknowledged and the warning reverts to the trip meter box.

If you have not had last year's update done, I highly recommend it. We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
 
SWMBO and I got back home with time to obtain new cage (2013 Silverado, blue topaz, crew cab, 2wd) before attending 5th annual Crabtree Crawdad Boil on Saturday.
 
Cruzr Joe said:
John

We are still on the road and having fun, glad you made it home safely, good to see you and the missus

Cruzr Joe


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Enjoy your trip, good to see you guys and everyone else. We had a blast even if we did get wet once.

JT
 
Made it home safe and sound last night around 7:00PM after 12 hours (600 miles). We only ran into about 15 minuets of a hard rain but we were at a gas stop at the time.:yes: No problems with the :spyder:except for the parking brake issue prior to us leaving last Saturday! Oh, by the way, we had a great time again!:2thumbs: Kudo's to BRP for another fun Owners Event!:bowdown::clap:
 
Drop DocRags in Altanta

We are home, but had to Drop DocRags in Altanta so she could go to her mothers, for a few days while she is in the Hospital, and I drove all the way myself. I was great to see and visit everyone at the Owners Event and at the BBQ. Will be looking forward to seeing everyone again soon.
 
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