O.k. so its been a whole month since my bike has been on the road and I haven't posted anything up here. Bad Girl. That doesn't mean to say that I haven't done any riding. I haven't done a lot but I have done some. I know I've boomed around town with my mom a couple of times at least.
May 1st and 2nd was the annual mall show. A bunch of groups around town sacrifice the riding weekend to put our bikes on display in the mall. Its sort of a "Hello again, its that time of year. Please realize we are on the road again and look out for us" Of course like every year it seems, it was far too nice of a weekend to be cooped up in the mall. But we got to get our bikes out at about 4:30 pm on Saturday, so we took a trip out to Hixon for dinner. It was a beautiful ride and a great way to really kick off the season.
I haven't really done much riding since that. I was out of town from the 10th-23rd, so that has a lot to do with it. Also, I REALLY needed a new back tire and really didn't want to ride on the old one very much more.
While I was out of town, I left my bike with Reg so that he could do some work on it. And work he did. I sort of gave him a very long list, and he fulfilled them all, with the help of Kyle his son. For my records I will list everything that got done. (as you can tell I sort of use this as a maintenance log as well) So here goes, the very long list.
1) New Tires, I got both a new front and rear tire and had dyna-beads put in as well
2) Oil Change (Way over due, and I was told I need to remember to check my oil more often, oops)
3) The Crash Bar was fixed. It wasn't properly attached, which I didn't notice until the end of last season
4) A bolt for the high side saddle bag bracket was replaced
5) the low side highway peg was adjusted.
Kay so #3-5 were supposed to be easy little fixes, turns out 3 and 4 were actually a pain in the butt. Thanks again to Reg and Kyle for all the hard work you did to get that rectified.
So ya, it was kinda nice, I didn't really even have any down time with all that work because I was out of town anyway, and my bike was stored in a nice safe and warm garage while I was out of town. It was perfect.
So today my mom and I went and picked it up, all spiffed up and ready to ride. It was a beautiful day and we decided to head out to Salmon Valley for a little bit of a highway ride. On our way back we took Old Summit Lake Road back into town. It was a nice little ride.
So as for Kilometers, I don't really know exactly have good records I do know that I went about 70km today, so I'm going to say that all the work was done at 42,365 km. Other than that, I'll just but down from April 25th to May 24th and hopefully I'll get it together for the rest of the riding season.
Start: 42,194 km - End: 42,435 - Total Distance: 241 km
Happy Swim-a-versary to Me!
3 months ago
4 comments:
was your oil actually low, or just scheduled for a change?
Well, It was really over due. (I went about 11,000 km last year and hadn't done an oil change except in the spring) But Reg said it was really really low as well. When Kyle drained it he was like "That can't be all of it can it?" And he's a licensed motorcycle mechanic.
You went 11,000 km last year??? that's a lot of km. where did you go?
Liana, you are funny. Next time I see you I'll sum up, but you could read the rest of this blog and it would tell you ;)
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