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

Jun 4, 2006

The journey home

Filed in Reno 2006

Everyone had different plans for the day, and Barb and I had talked about going over highway 88 throught the mountains. My oil leak had worsened overnight, which worried me, so we said we’d go fuel up and see how it did. We went to a gas station where we had a pretty unfriendly encounter with one of the locals, and my bike wouldn’t start. Of course I now knew how to fix it, but it pretty much decided us on taking the superslab home :: sigh ::

I forgot to check the oil level so stopped in Verdi. Bike wouldn’t start, so did the same old again. Also, it piddled so much oil when I put it down on the side stand that for the rest of the time I never had the bike anywhere other than upright. Breaks were few and short, and involved one or the other of us standing the bike upright (o for a centre stand). I guess I may not be ironbutt material after all. We stopped in Colfax, where we were checked out by a kitty cat riding happily along in a woman’s truck, again in Fairfax, and Barb and I waved to one another and parted company in Milpitas.

Don and I got my bike upright so it won’t disgorge more oil, and then a shower was definitely in order. My wrist *hurts*.

We are going to take the side cover down to a welder. It’s all the aftermath of that dork who knocked me off the bike last December or whenever it was. And the engine bars, which never did get delivered, should help.

And I have a new jacket! It is a First Gear Kilimanjaro II in black and yellow. It’s wonderfully visible and very versatile. Liner needs to come right out for the summer, though. I will need to learn how to use it though as it’s pretty complicated. ;-)

OK, enough typing. :-)