Monday, August 25, 2008

Wow, so its been awhile since I've written here. That's because its been awhile since I've been on my bike. That's what happens when my riding partner leave town for almost a month. ;) Anyway, I didn't really get a ride in today either. The bike was more of a mode of transportation more than anything. My mom needed a ride home because she was dropping her bike off at Reg's for a service. Ryan had the car so I decided to take the bike. That's about all we did. It was threatening to rain so I just rode her home and came back into town right away. I did notice however (AFTER I got home) that I should really put gas in my bike. I'm glad I didn't run out on the road.

Start: 39,780 km - End: 39,801 km - Total Distance: 21 km

Monday, August 4, 2008

So Phil and I had plans to go for a ride today. We met up at Timmy's at about two and decided to pick up Nadine and take her with us.



By the time we finished that we didn't get out of town until about 3:00 pm. We headed to Quesnel for dinner. It was an awesome ride. The weather was very nice, and it was hard to decide whether or not to wear our jacket. (In actual fact, we either put them on or took them off at nearly every stop). We had a really nice ride out there and back.

There always seems to be one idiot though. So we're in a passing lane and we pass this one car, and a second car comes up behind us so I pulled back into the right lane and he passed me, but he ran out of passing lane (and I left too much space between Phil and I) and he got between us. So as I'm looking for another place to pass this car and get up with Phil, this car is riding Phil's butt BIG time. And the more I watch him, the closer he is getting. All of a sudden I realize that he's trying to pass Phil on the RIGHT. Phil realized what was going on and pulled over and let him go, but we were all pretty upset.

Once we got back into P.G. we decided we weren't quite done riding and decided to take the Old Cariboo Highway to Giscome Rd as a little detour. I think we all had a really great time. I know I did. I've been gone pretty much all day. I left the house at a little before 2:00 pm and didn't get back until almost 9:30 pm.

Start: 39,451 km - End: 39,780 km - Total Distance: 329 km

Cleaning :P

So I cleaned my bike yet again today. I'm still trying to get all the dirt from my last trip off of it. I have again failed at my task. My response yet again was "Well, its better". My dad always raved about S100 for easy cleaning. Its a spray on, spray off type of cleaner so I thought it would work great in all the little hard to reach areas. Unfortunately I was wrong. I was actually not very impressed with it at all. It seems that every time I clean the silly thing, more dirt leached out of places I have overlooked before. I was however really impressed with a cleaner that my mom brought over called Purple Slice. I had tried to clean my wheels a couple times already and could NOT get all the grime and bugs off of them. This stuff however did an awesome job. I guess there's nothing for it. I am just going to have to spend a good few hours going over every inch of the silly bike to get it really clean.

P.S. Does anyone know of a good paint cleaner/polish that will fix a hazy finish?