Saturday morning the Javalina Harley dealer in Borne had an open house so I
decided to take a round-about ride and stop there on the way back.
 

First stop was BMW where I had to special order the gears for the
speedometer sending unit.  Quit working the day before.  They had a bunch of
those 1200cc boxers with all the chrome and BMW has their open house
scheduled next month.  I used to think BMW's were over priced, but not after
looking at BigDog and American Iron Horse offerening last week.  The owner
was telling me that he had bought 5 acres of land between the ducati dealer
and javalina harley as taxes in downtown San Antonio were getting to high
and is planning on moving.
 

   I headed out 281 toward Johnson City, when I saw the Bourne exit I turned
and it was 21 miles to Bourne.  Nice ride all the way, but it got cold after
a while and I wished I had put my helmet on.  Stopped in a Javalina Harley,
lot of people there, huge crowd, leather everywhere, band, no beer, thought
that was strange, then I remember they were giving demos of their new bikes
and that explained it. Saw one of our club members there, he was helping
direct traffic.  I picked up a $5 hamburger and must say it was worth the
$5.  Really huge like the ones at Shade Tree on 281.   I needed a good pair
of sunglass, but not at starting price of $25.  Even American Iron Horse had
cheaper sunglasses.  I stuck around for the drawing and then headed north to
Kerrville.  My R1100RT stuck out like a sore thumb at that harley dealer.
When I was leaving I overheard a biker chick pointing to my BMW and asking
her ride "what that?"
 

   Kerrville main street was all torn up really bad, lot of construction.  I
was behind about 20 bikes, all v-twin probably HD and they pulled into that
Alapulco restraurant right off the I10 exit.  I wanted to hit an old time
pit BBQ place on the other side of the river "Big Earls".  I ordered two
pounds of lean BBQ and was amazed when they cut off the black ends along
with the marbeled and threw it all away.   I was tempted to ask them if I
could take it home for my dog.  I would have taken the burned ends as I am
partial to jerky.  It was excellent, even if the sauce was too sweet and did
spill over in one of my saddlebags.   Had a nice ride back, put on the
helmet as the wind picked up and it seemed colder than in the morning.  On
way home I picked up two riders following me all the way to downtown
broadway.  Either bandidos or gypsies as they had the large patches with the
rockers on their backs but I couldnt make it out when they finally passed
me.
 

  In the last two weekends, I stopped at two harley dealers, Joe Harrison
Honda,  Bad Dog (Joe Harrison's) , American Iron Horse, and Yamaha.  Also
stopped at bmw.  I thought that bmw was always overpriced although their
bikes are good, but American Iron horse and Bad Dog start where bmw leaves
off  I cant see putting down $25K for something that wont make it past the
first gas station and no room on the seat for the wife