A Short Ride in The Mountains

Just home from a week in the mountain cool of New Mexico and Colorado. It was a farewell trip with the yellow hack, which its owner cruelly demanded be returned to him after nearly a year in Arizona.

Our new outfit, Coda 2, is sprightly and fun to drive. It will be even more fun after I change the steering geometry just a tad. (Sidecarists will understand)


Katherine and her ride at Monarch Pass. She's an excellent
hacker and we changed off driving chores.


The Yellow Peril and Coda2 at Independence Pass.
I'm the bald guy, the U-Boat captain is our friend
and long-time riding buddy Dave Atlas.

Not all three wheelers are the same.


The standard joke is that riders travel through
beautiful scenery and end up with pictures of their
bikes in the parking lots of National Monuments.
Katherine took pictures of Canyon de Chelly.



We had a great ride, made even better by the challenge of wracking the outfits through the mountain twisties. Two-wheel riders find this hard to understand but the fun of sidecaring is setting up a driving rhythm that powers through right handers and taps a brake so the car pulls you around to the left. Faster is better!