The Antlers? Along with playing the arcane Irish Uilleann Pipes at the Festival, I'll be partaking of Ye Olde Abotts-Bromley Horne Dance there too. It is one of the few remaining Anglo-Celtic ritual dances that survived Christendom, and is still performed in England to this day.
More pics as the trip unfolds, or when I get back, as opportunity permits...
And yes, a tankbag would be handy.
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: mystic red on March 27, 2012, 06:55:08 PM
With the multivario extended, all that stuff would fit in your tankbag.
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: billday on March 27, 2012, 07:17:28 PM
Your place reminds me of my sister's house in Hereford, AZ.
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: frankenduck on March 27, 2012, 07:25:49 PM
Be sure to take a ride up to Tortilla Flat while you're there.
Be sure to take a ride up to Tortilla Flat while you're there.
Yup, I think I may be headed there in just a few - very close to where I'm stayin', and I hear the burgers are great! Though I hope th' washboard dirt road for the last few miles doesn't knock the rest of the oil outta my leaky fork.)
Yeah so I got here after a 12 hr. ride from Taos at about 1:30am Wednesday morning. Loving the heated vest and grips! When I got to Showlow at about 10pm, I had to rock it back as that is serious Elk country ,til ya get to the Salt River canyon. While it was daylite I was averaging 90 and kissin' a hundy from time to time in them wide open, un-patrolled NM spaces. Yeeeeeahhhhh!!!
Visiting with many old ren-faire friends, hikin' in the Superstition Mtns. Will be performing all weekend here, then start heading back to Taos on Wednesday, prolly by way of Payson. Will post pics when I gitz back to my compooter at home.
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: johnny on March 30, 2012, 04:17:11 PM
dig both that payson ridge of the world area and that salt river canyon...
when az was in our territory we would go to that renfest and get all hammered on mead...
im gonna have to dig up them photos when we get back to wi this summer...
j o
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Post by: frankenduck on March 30, 2012, 04:50:39 PM
It's been a while but I think it's paved all of the way to TF. That's where the dirt starts IIRC.
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: Crapdealerbob on April 01, 2012, 10:21:25 AM
Hwy 87 & Payson
Great road, enjoy thyself...
:k75s
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: sbeadg on April 01, 2012, 11:48:10 AM
I'm a trad. Irish player meself. Got a good friend who plays pipes. He'd chit his pants if he saw your pic. He carries a humidifier with him when he travels. :lol: I think he paid like 18 grand for his set, so I can see why. I'm prolly gonna get a "fiddlestick" for longer trips. A buddy's gonna lend me his to see how I like it. Don't have a beater fiddle....
Have a great festival! Gotta see one of those celtic dances...
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: TaosBrick on April 02, 2012, 04:34:13 PM
Still campin' at the Ren-Faire site in AJ. Played pipes all weekend at the faire, and did the Horne Dance a coupla times, so no interweb time. Did get up to Tortilla Flat on Friday, did enjoy the twisties, but the road surface is just plain fugly. I guess they have "heat heaves" in stead of frost heaves around here. About every five to ten yards the whole way up there's a crack in the pavement clean across the road accompanied by an upswell about an inch or two in height. Needless to say, this did not instill confidence in the curves, and going down the road with a "k-thunk, k-thunk, k-thunk...." for 20 miles or so wasn't too comfy. But the scenery was great, and entertainment value high, what with 50 kabillion Hardly Ablesome riders and their biotches in tight jeans going up and down the whole way and hangin' out listening to th' cheezy but good country/rock cover band playing at the "mining camp" at the end of the pavement. Burgers were precooked, reheated disappointment, and a leetle pricey too. But as I said, it was a good time, all in all. Hungering for more of an excursion, when I got back to AJ I headed for the 87 and let Chile Red unwind towards Payson. Super nice ascending sweepers outta the Verde Valley, then a right on AZ 188 thru Punkin Center, past Roosevelt Lake then back to Globe, right on 60 thence back to the Faire Site. About a four hr. tour, what with pokin' around here and there, enjoyed myself right well.
Now it's time to start packing up to get back to Taos, but in a leisurely fashion - not leavin' til Wednesday. Gotts to find a shop and get some more fork oil tho. Must be gettin' low, as that infernal vibration over 90 the bike had when I got it is back, even with the RideOn in the front tire. I still think there is WAY to much lead on that rim, maybe I can find a shop with a wheel balancer around here somewhere - or maybe it's just the lack of fork oil in the one leg :hmm:
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: johnny on April 02, 2012, 08:46:38 PM
if yous gotts ride on in there i would take all balancing weights off and see how it goes...
if its all weighted up the ride on may not be able to overcome that much weight...
butts remember that you can balance a wheel with the ride on already in there... you will be chasing the sweet spot...
j o
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: TaosBrick on April 03, 2012, 12:29:39 AM
Yeah Johnny, that's kinda what I wuz thinkin' meself. Will put about four oz. of fork oil in, see if that does anything and if not, I'll be poppin' those weights off. Maybe take the dang things off anyways. I checked wheel balance on th' bike with the calipers off before I put the ride on stuf in, and the weights were definitely quickly settling to the bottom from whatevr position I let go of the wheel.
Title: Re: Off to the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Apache Jct.
Post by: TaosBrick on April 04, 2012, 01:38:03 PM
Well, I got rid of them none-too-Irie-vibes. Tyres are Michelino Macadams with less than 2k on 'em. Popped the mis-placed wheel weights off, (whoever installed the tyres must've left the old ones on) and allowed the"RideOn" liquid fix-a-flat and wheel balancer stuf I'd put in there over a month ago to do it's work. Front wheel is riding smooooth. So smooth in fact, that I now notice that the rear wheel needs some help too :/ It's always something, ain't it? Prolly balancing the throttle bodies will help a bunch too.
Anyhey, I've got a new favourite ride around here, AZ 177 between Superior and Winkleman. Stupendous scenery, Mtns, rock formations and such, with the thickest concentrations of Saguaro I've seen anywhere, literally forests of them. And the road! :yes MAJORLY high YeeHaw factor. Curves just right for going as fast as you dare - and lotts of 'em, coupla passes with 10% grades, conveniently placed straightaways, good road surface and no law around on the entire 30+ mile stretch between US 60 in Superior and AZ 77 in Winkleman.
Packing up today, start for Taos this afternoon. Going the Payson route, looking forward to climbing the Mogollon Rim. Will stay with friends in Snowflake 2nite.