Tragedy four miles from my El Paso hotel!

Seeing flames in a rearview mirror are never good. My best guess is that after a ten hour ride through the desert at over 100 degrees F the exhaust temp skyrocketed and set off my tail bag. A strap could have wiggled loose, I may never know, but I am down a duffle bag, synthetic riding jacket (oh yeah they are very flammable and a bike cover.

The bike seems to all be there and there is damage to the tail light assembly but it's still working.

I will be taking 24 hours to asses and figure out what my plan is, the 2nd degree burns on my right hand is the real issue.