We got 15" of snow here in the last three days. And now...... A winter weather advisory for sunday through monday calling for another 15" of snow. I dont think we're in Kansas anymore! LOL.
   I removed the tensioner from my S40 and had it modified (guy did a sweet job), still waiting on my new gaskets to arrive to put it back together. (UPS truck probably snowed in somewhere). If anybody sees spring or warm weather send it my way.

Has been a gorgeous weekend here so far!

I left the Midwest precisely for this #%*€!

I'll take the snow over tornados, hurricanes and earthquakes any day.

and I know where my stuff is when it's over.  

I put the bike back together this afternoon. The modified tensioner looks soo much better . The last person to change the oil filter left out the small oring  , luckily I found one that fit in my assortment. She fired right off after nearly three weeks with lows in single digits, so the battery must be descent. It's 32 degrees out there, so my toes and fingers have left the building. I bought myself a shiny new helmet today, I think it's the first one that actually fits properly. It's supposed to be 55 on sunday, and I'm going to ride .

           Forecast called for sunny and 52 today, we got 39 and overcast. I went anyway and put around 40 miles on the bike. Until today I had only ridden it home from the dealer, and around the block a few times. I wanted to ride it enough to see if there were any more unknown issues to work on. The bike runs great now that it isn't sucking fuel through the evil petcock.
           It was even colder and much more windy the last time I rode it, and I was pretty wired about having just bought a cruiser so I didnt really get a feal for it that time. I got to say the bike is pretty light, and nimble. I stopped once to reinspect the back wheel, and swing arm as the road i was riding down has grooves and ridges in the blacktop and was moving the bike around a little. I had to keep reminding myself, I grew up on dirtbikes on sand and dirt country roads. My pavement experience is fairly low.
            I took it around the bypass a few times at road speed (60mph) and for the first time I may half way get why people rave about heavy bikes on the highway. It was comfortable in that it handles ok, it's just a bit more touchy to input than I expected. There a again I learned to ride on loose sand on dirtbikes.
            I swung by the house and put on my baclava, and insulated gloves, and was fairly comfortable then, my legs were frozen, but coveralls would have fixed that.

WD wrote on 03/03/13 at 15:13:14:


Yeah? So what's the problem WD??