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01-30-2010, 10:45 PM | #1 |
Breakfast today
The engine in my Bronco, 302 V8, started knocking about 6 weeks ago while on a trip to Boise. This week I finally decided on a course of action and handed it over to a trusted garage who pulled the engine and sent it to a machine shop for an autopsy and rebuild. They found #5 piston slightly melted. Guess I need to run more injector cleaner on a regular basis. Might have gotten more than 175,000 miles out of it.
Back to breakfast. We have a Blue Knights breakfast meeting the last Saturday of the month at a local eatery. Since my Bronco is in the shop, and my wife needed her car, the only way for me to get there was on the Nomad. It felt good to get the bike out. All leathered up with gauntlet gloves, full face helmet, XM radio to keep me entertained. When I got there for some reason no one else was on their bikes. Roads were clear and dry. Few patches of ice but they were easilly avoided. It was embarassing. Blue Knights car club. It was 10 degrees when I left the house. Down in the valley it was 16 and by the time I came home it was up to 23 with the sun shining. Some people are just picky about the weather they ride in I guess. Oh, breakfast was good and the ride was awesome!
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01-30-2010, 11:04 PM | #2 |
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No one can accuse you of being a fair weather rider Idaho.
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01-31-2010, 09:58 AM | #3 |
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At least I got to plant my chaps in the saddle in January. That is rare in my neighborhood. It felt gooood.
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01-31-2010, 11:00 AM | #4 |
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You are THE MAN Bud!
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01-31-2010, 11:10 AM | #5 |
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10 degrees and riding the Nomad!!!! Don't have the words Bud !!!
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01-31-2010, 12:06 PM | #6 |
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And bragging rights for you to the rest of the group for many many meetings to come!!! I am sure you didn't rub it in to them at all ;) ;)
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01-31-2010, 12:50 PM | #7 | |
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Actually, it was not as heroic as it sounds. It's only a few miles and at slow speed so the wind chill really was not a factor.
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01-31-2010, 01:09 PM | #8 |
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But still........burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....
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01-31-2010, 01:19 PM | #9 |
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You're a better man than I am Bud. I rode one afternoon a couple of weeks ago when it was 34. It felt great for about 10 miles. I didn't don the chaps and my legs did get pretty darn cold. Everything else was OK.
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01-31-2010, 01:49 PM | #10 | |
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If you are out riding in 34 degree weather with only jeans on your are crazier than me by a long shot!!!!
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01-31-2010, 01:49 PM | #11 |
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Still Bud, riding in those temps will give a man two sets of tonsils!
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01-31-2010, 03:20 PM | #14 |
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I hate to say it Bud, but it's about 70° here right now. I's goin' for a ride!
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The following week is the SW Rally in Cortez. You should try to make that and we'll do the million dollar highway!
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