Raven's Roads
Living an interesting life: the travels and musings
of motorcycling author Linda R. Moore

Sep 29, 2002

29 September 2002

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We finally had a day when all the stars came together and both of us were out of bed at much the same time - in the morning. We decided to start work on my front forks, changing the fork and the dust seals to lose one of the last leaks, if not the last. (We’ll see.)

It was more complicated than I thought! I felt like humming the bones song - you know, the foot bone is connected to the ankle bone… all the time… there were so many little parts tucked inside what had looked like a simple hollow tube. We had some trouble getting the fork nut off, as the threads had worn. I had to walk up to Home Depot and get a nut which we then gripped in a vise and used to leverage it open - it worked! And we had been talking about taking the bike to a shop and having them do the work… Heh. I got us a pretzel from the little food stand outside Home Depot and got chatting to someone who saw the BMW t-shirt (from last year’s Women on Wheels rally) and the big black stains on my jeans (I had been polishing parts and not realising how mucky they were) and wanted to know what I was working on. He had a BMW.

Got back, and we did some more work. But we were running out of daylight and energy and had to run off and get some glue to seal one of the lower bolts. I forget what the stuff is called. By the time we gave up, one fork had been reassembled, but we needed to do the other. That can wait - we were tired!

We got chatting to one of our park-neighbours, Sharon, who turns out to be an ex-biker and have a very good sense of humour. She had found me waiting outside the house for Deann one time, and we’d got talking. Hopefully we’ll bump into one another more often. :-)