I've spent the week in Stockholm for work, over 5000 miles away from my Yamaha FZ07 "Freedom." I've got a few hours to kill before my flights back home and I've wanted to make a timeline thread of my favorite photos of ol' girl, so here it goes! I got her on January 19th, 2016.
Day 2: Didn't stop long enough on day 1 to get a pic of the whole bike :D
Then she was never as clean again, that's what I get for riding with adventure bike buddies. 1000+ miles
Spring was in bloom in Texas, bluebonnets on the side of the road
Exploring abandoned barns on the way home from Austin (Apr '16)
June of that year. I had taken a similar photo with other bikes in this very spot, but the clouds creeping in makes for a cool shot
July 4th in the hill country of Texas, a beautiful overlook from Park Rd 4
November '16, probably my favorite photo of the bike to date. That's actually my buddy RJ, but we're roughly the same size so I took advantage of this opportunity to get him in the frame. It fooled most of my friends!
Same trip in November, more offroading. These rocks were tough to navigate! Also the first sighting of my stickerbombed fender.
Still riding in December, how does one resist this photo opp?
Drag racing night at the now closed Texas World Speedway. Must have been over 11000 miles at this point.
Gotta love Texas weather when you can ride for hours to the coast before March, we detoured on the beach to avoid a Mardi Gras parade
Allow me to sing you the song of my people, new exhaust and some other bits installed. That chinese LP mount didn't last long :/
With an R6 Yamabro of mine, they look great side by side
The cleanest she's been in a while, after I installed all my crash protection just earlier this month
Those are my favorites over the last couple of years, surely there will be more to come as this summer and the good riding season is just getting started! I'll be doing about 300 miles round trip to Dallas this weekend and going to Austin for MotoGP in April.
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