Laurel highlands lunch ride

On this past Thursday, I was off work, and once my chores for the day were done, I told the wife I was gonna take a quick ride, and grab a bite for lunch...I ended up clocking a little over 300 miles, and had an awesome ride meandering through the laurel highland region of southwestern PA, I also dabbled in Maryland and West Virginia. The bike ran awesome, although my slightly rich main jetting became more than slightly rich once in the mountains. The tank bag is a dead give away i had no intentions for a short ride

here is a couple of shots I took on a local back-road, in the suburbs of Pittsburgh




After this stop I swung out through Monongahela, through Bell Vernon, and took some backroads out past Connelsville. PA711 is an awesome road, and I snapped these photos just outside of Donegal






From here I made my way over too 7-springs ski-resort, and then on my way from there to OhioPyle state park.










From here I decided that I was only an hour or so from Deep Creek lake, and who doesn't like a Honi-Burger?








It was while I was inside this particular establishment that my wife texted me, and informed me that she had made dinner plans with our friends(as they were cooking my burger). As a result, please forgive me, I didn't stop to take any photos on my um..err..expedited trip home(after the burger of course).

A positive side note, In the tuning runs leading up to this, I was getting a high speed wobble above 80mph. Before I left for this ride, I re-torqued all the suspension bolts, and the steering stem bearings. This removed all traces of wobble all the way up to an indicated 140mph.( thats where I chicken out without leathers on)

Great views, weather and bike......can you bottle it for sale?

Beautiful scenery & weather, Like Spence said, Its just TOOO bad for us in the Mid West that we cant have this weather year round

It was definitely kind of cool to get her out on some of my favorite roads and snap a few pics to share. I think I want to take it into the city and get some shots to share, perhaps even to a couple places I know of that still have that funky 70s vibe about them. It would be cool to have a few "period" shots of it.

Looks like a nice darn day up on two! Pretty country...I mighta had to spend some time at the river though! I heard the fishies, just looking at the pic! LOL! Thanx for sharing!

Nice report and cool pics. Beautiful scenery around them parts. Your bike looks great--I love the green with the pin stripe. Many of the KZ900's get a repaint in solid but the pin stripe makes it look a little classier.

Be sure to get out on another ride and snap some pics.

Great pics! I haven't ridden though those hills since the mid 70s when I was going to school at PSU near Uniontown. I remember scooting through there many times on my GT380 with a ridimg buddy on his 350F. Thanks for the memories!