Bike Night at Skeeter's in Carpentersville with Mews

Every wednesday skeeters in Carpentersville throws a nice bikenight.  The bartender makes a homecooked meal that is free until it runs out starting a 6pm and there are cheap buckets of longnecks.  The main bar is closed for remodeling so the tikibar in the parking lot is in full swing.

At the burger night in Lombard some of the Mewsers were interested in checking out Skeeters for their Wednesday Bike Night the following Week. I threw up an event on meetup and about 10 riders dropped in.  There was a bit of confusion on which way to pull into the bar but the comedy of all the regulars screaming wrong way to the guys who missed the sign was priceless.

Eating at Jt's Porch with MEWS

I'm a bit behind due to being caught up in other projects such as getting this beast back on the road.

The Mews Meetup group meets a few times a month for $4 burger tuesdays at JT's Porch in Lombard.  My schedule and the weather were cooperating a few weeks back and I made a run down there.

There was about 30 bikers in attendance and it was probably the best $4 burger I've had.  The 30+oz cup messes with the scale as the burger/plate/cup were all huge.

Slimey Crud Run Spring 2013

After seeing the Slimey Crud Run whispered about in dark corners of the internet I decided I would like to check it out.  An old friend whom I will refer to as Whiney Old Crotch Rocket Rider or WOCRR for short was also interested so we agreed to to leave our respective houses at 8:00am and meetup at a halfway point in Darien by the titty bar and ride up together.

I left about on time but realized I needed gas and had to grab cash for food and drinks in case I couldn't use plastic in cheeseland so I booked it on the way up and arrived at the gas station with 2 minutes to spare.

And then I waited and waited and waited.   After double checking the Vegas Club wasn't open I waited some more.  After 15 minutes I got a call from WOCRR who said he was lost or some such excuse and would be there in another 5 minutes.

After 20 minutes or 3 extended lapdances had the titty bar been open I heard a pitiful sound come whining up.  Sadly the bike sounded OK, it was the rider whining about his old age related problems such as not being able to tell time or drive the speed limit.

Shortly after taking this picture he complained that smiling hurt his cheeks.  We were now both gassed up and ready to go but 30 minutes behind schedule.  I realized there may not be many places to stop once we get out of Janesville so we grabbed a quick breakfast at McDonald's.  WOCRR complained it would give him gas, luckily I was the lead bike.   We hauled ass up to Pine Bluff and knew we were getting close as we kept seeing more and more motorcycles.  Once we got really close we started to see earlybirds tearing off to start their run.  Just before town a Hayabusa flew by in a full tuck and must have been doing 100+.

The $100 Burger at Pilot Pete's

With a free afternoon before my accounting final, the temps pushing 85F and a need for an early dinner I pulled up my handy list of places I want to check out and picked Pilot Pete's.

On my way south on 31 I got stuck in construction traffic around  Algonquin.  Idling an air cooled bike for 20 minutes on an 85 degree day left me seeking a way to cool down so I shot across the Fox and followed the river into East Dundee.

 

Oil temp was 225F when I stopped to snap this pic at a picnic area on the Fox.

40 minutes later I arrived at Pilot Pete's hot and hungry.

Ninjas, Cats and Gyros or where I rolled on the first nice weekend in Chicago

With the weather finally getting warm I was able to actually able to get some great riding in without trying to cram in what I could while the weather held so I made the most of the weekend.

On Friday there was a meetup of the Chicago Motorcycle Meetup group at The Twisted Spoke in Chicago.

 The Twisted Spoke is a motorcycle themed bar and grill which had this cool skeleton spinning around on top.

 The also had a nippon rust garden.

The Quest for The Dead River

While I was looking for interesting places at Altas Obscura and saw the pictures of the Dead river I decided I would put it on my list of places to check out.

The weather was supposed to be in the mid 50's all day today and I decided to see if I could find it and check out the sights along the way.

I left Crystal Lake and headed Lakemoor to pickup RT120 to Waukegan.

Once I got to the lakeshore I saw signs for the Waukegan Municipal Beach so I decided to check it out.

Doesn't look very beachlike does it? 

 I drove a bit further down the road and came upon the actual beach.  There were tons of kites being flown which was neat.

The Whistle Goes WOOOOOO!

With spring finally peeking It's head up the days are getting warm enough to ride with a destination in mind.

I decided to head down to Bob's motorcycle shop in Dundee as he's shutting down and will be closed by 4/31 at the latest.

I bought some chrome head bolt covers to hide the rusty hot mess that mine have become and of course ended up buying the wrong ones.  Oh well anyone need a set that are too small for an 03 sportster?

I then checked my map of places I wanted to check out to see what was close.  I saw 2 Toots Grill in Bartlett or Priscilla's Ultimate Express in Hanover Park, IL.  Due to the fact that I had limited time and had to get back for a 3 hour accounting class I decided to hit 2 Toots.