Why I ride
Time sure does fly by, it was nearly 7 years ago when I bought my Honda Africa Twin and a month ago it became obvious I needed new front/rear springs/coil.
The AT is in the shop at the moment and “should” be done in a few weeks.
I’m really looking forward to an improvement from the OEM springs and will write an update once it’s back home.
A recent photo on the Sondors Metacycle portal shows the black (or supermassive) version being assembled for delivery so what does that mean to us folks who ordered one? Not much I’m sure, there have been no shipping updates and my questions to Sondors get met with a form letter. Only 2,000 to ship and they can’t seem to communicate effectively to their customers. Becoming more and more disappointed in their rollout.
I understand the delays caused by the pandemic, shipping, chips, etc., but when you don’t communicate often enough people start to imagine the bad, not the good. There are many people who just troll the company (and likely don’t even have an order in), but there are also many of us who have an order, are in the first round, and just want more information on where OUR Metacycle is within the production and delivery lifecycle.
I’ve written twice to try and get some sort of status and the same auto response from “Rigo”. The first one seemed legitimate, but when you get the exact same content on the second request you know they are not applying themselves to fully supporting this product or their customers. I feel like this was a bad way to spend almost $6K. Oh well.
I attended a conference in Las Vegas in early April, 2022 and decided to drive down from Spokane, WA which is about 2,300 miles round trip.
I had thought about riding my Africa Twin down, but the second day from Twin Falls, ID to Las Vegas, NV turned out to be a very windy, rainy/snowy, and cold day so it would have been pretty miserable. I don’t mind the cold or rain/snow, but that wind was brutal.
On the way down I went through the Boise, ID area so that I could meet someone I had hired a year ago, but hadn’t met due to the pandemic. It was really nice to finally meet him and get to know each other a little bit better.
I then stopped in Twin Falls, ID for the night before heading onto Las Vegas. The conference was really worthwhile and it was so good to see so many friends again.
On the way back I went a bit east to go through SLC (horrible drivers) to stop in Missoula, MT to see some friends and then back to Spokane.
The second day on the drive back was also very cold with morning temperature around 27F with lots of snow in the mountain passes. Very beautiful, but not fun on a motorcycle.
The route was:
I used GoPro’s TimeWarp during some of the trip, but it still ended up being over 30 minutes for the 36 hours of driving.
There’s no sound, but if you play your favorite playlist it’ll make it a fun “drive”.
Cannot wait for my next big two wheel ride!
This year I’m hoping to get back to a reasonably long ride and HOPEFULLY Canada will reopen to us if numbers are down and vaccinations are up among those who have resisted science and caring about your fellow human.
Really hoping we can get into Canada again! I miss it!
Get vaccinated if you can!
If Canada isn’t open, this is the possible route:
In July of 2019 I rode from Spokane, WA to Harvey, ND for a family reunion. On the way home I rode the old Highway 2 in ND, through MT to visit Scobey, MT where my Father’s blood family lived for a few years, then north into Canada to visit Assinaboia, SK where I saw a few photos with city signs in the background.
I’ll add additional photos and notes below.
