Good Morning!!!! 83F @ 9:00AM. Partly cloudy. High near 95F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Huh! All the weather guessers were crowing yesterday about how much cooler it’ll be this weekend. Yeah, 95F is cooler than yesterday’s 104F, but once it gets to 95F, it’s still hot, hot, HOT!!!
I dunno what’s diggin’ up your yard, Rip, but you might wanna keep a ******* loaded with 00 buck handy if I was you!:laughing:
You sure seem to have more than your fair share of flats, Don. Do you rub your tires with your fingers when you hear them go over glass or gravel? I got into that habit back when I was a kid riding sew up tires, and kept right on with the only slightly thicker inner tube tires on today’s bikes. Tried several times to bend up “tire savers” from old spokes that would mount on the brake pivot bolt and skim the tire surface, but the tires never quite ran true enough for them to get to all of the surface. The front tire was easy to reach, but I always worried about getting my hand caught between the tire and seat tube in the back, and it was an awkward stretch even in my 20s. Not sure I’d be able to to it with this old body now...
The drive on yesterday’s rescue repair mission went very smoothly, other than feeling like I was wandering around in an ant hill that someone had kicked over. One giant urban sprawl of shopping malls, subdivisions, and condos. Ugh! Thought we were going to be working on a mongrel bitsa bike his neighbor needed help with, but instead it was a bike he and his pro motorcycle painter had been building together. Beautiful pearl green paint job, with a huge 10” BMW roundel ghosted into the side of the tank. But no spark at the plugs. We checked the wiring connections, checked that we had voltage and continuity in the right places, still no spark. Finally pulled the lead off the points and grounded it and it sparked. Put a feeler gauge between the points contacts and it sparked. Cleaned the points and it sparked, problem solved. He’d downloaded the instructions for the “ignition booster” when he started trouble shooting, and the first step was “clean the points”. I assumed he had, but he hadn’t.:confused2: It’s always the simple things. But he’s a great cook, and had breakfast ready when I rolled in at 7AM, then fed us a really tasty chicken breast at lunch. Don’t think I lost any weight yesterday.
Still needed to do the weekly grocery run after that goose chase, and found a Costco and Winco, and best of all, a Total Wine and more, all along the same strip of sprawl pretty near my buddy’s house. Surprised everything fit in the back, but then I won’t be buying any beer for quite a while...
TGIF gang!:drink:
