Rain, shine or hell of stormy weather. I’m out there. Period.
Eye of the storm
First ride of the year
Gassing up after a long Christmas and New Years holiday time off. Storms are coming in so riding in the mountains is not as spirited. Still heck of fun!
Mickie D’s
Burger stop at the local McDonalds.
Parts pickup
Rode the sled from work to Manteca for gear pickup. I took the freeways from Rancho Cordova and having a lane splitter makes the difference between a long night or not.
Getting colder and racing!
The temp this morning was around 41 degrees. It’s a little chilly but not too bad. I didn’t even turn in the heater grips or seat.
I had a spirited cat and mouse chase game on the country side twisted roads. A VW Golf GTI wanted to see if I could keep up and the fun began.
Let’s in the end the V-Dub pulled over to the side of the road and rolled down his windows and gave me the sweeping arm gesture to allow me to pass on by.
I’ll be 60 next year and I still can’t resist a friendly competition on the roadways.
Back on the saddle..
Wifey and I took off on the Silver Scooter this morning. It was the first time Lorraine had been back on a motorcycle for probably close to 3 years.
HERE WE GO!
I’ve been writing blogs on various topics for a really long time. It had started off when I used to travel all over the world for my employer at the time. That being said, I am consistent in posting to a blog regularly. I find the key is to make updates while your thoughts are fresh in memory. This may also mean depending on when you visit my site you may see a bulleted item I had uploaded to be further expanded once I was at a location to do so.
We met the seller in Stockton California. Both he and his wife drove into town the night before to avoid all the traffic highway work being down between meet point and Visalia California.
Even though the motorcycle purchase included a couple of helmets (one being large) I still brought my lucky Nolan N3 modular helmet. I haven’t used it much since it was fairly beat up after years of use and has gone through every weather condition imaginable. It was good thing I brought my helmet because the Shoei Neotec helmet did not fit my head when I tried it on. I could probably get away riding for a few miles and eventually one of my eyeballs would have popped out. It was freakin’ too tight.
My first ride on the Wing lasted 2 minutes. We decided to have breakfast at the local lumberjacks restaurant about 100 yards away.
The ride home was excellent! The bike handled better than I expected. I’ll look more into it but I believe the Centramatic Wheel Balancers (3 each) is making a huge difference in handling. The tapered All Balls Racing steering bearings and seal kit may also play a part in the ride difference. I tried testing for the 30-40 mile per hour no hands wobble and it was non-existent. The previous two Wings I owned both had this issue.
I’m very happy with this Goldwing, all we need to do is come up with a cool bike name.