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Returned home from a 2600 mile trip to Nova Scotia and back where I spent 7 wonderful days on the road. The only problem I had was the zipper in my rain jacket broke, but that is my diets fault not the rain jackets fault. The bike treated me so well I gave it a bath and in the process converted it from a mile eating road warrior back into a mild mannered street machine.

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Wow love to hear how a wing truly is a road warrior...the 84 has some nice gearing to eat the road up ..let’s hear more ..like how did the dark side double go in use ...and handling I need to go there up front ...great trip and glad you had trouble free trip
 
Yesterday, actually. For the first time since 1987 I rode a motorcycle without a fairing/windshield. A buddy who crashed last summer and whose knee isn't quite ready to ride yet asked me to test ride one of his bikes that he had done some work on to get it ready to sell. It felt like a mini-bike at first! It's a cb 750 with an 836 kit. Man I enjoyed the ride!!! It made me want to get my ass in gear and start making room in my garage for the free Yamaha Radian...but that is a story for another day.....
 
I cleaned the carb on my volkswagen trike. Cleaned a little pile of carbon out of the heat riser tubes, in a quest to improve the idle after a hot run (it stalls). First time I've dealt with what might carb icing, initial results are encouraging! Gotta get this ready to camp with the "Motocampers " group in alleghaney forest sept 6-8.
Looking for a fun weekend? Join us at Loleta campground south of Marienville Pa. Here is the link:
https://www.motocampers.com/forums/showt ... pa-campout. Beautiful small campground, nice roads to ride, great folks to swap campfire stories with. Last count was almost 20 people planning to attend and great weather forecast.
 
[url=https://www.classicgoldwings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=212139#p212139:j8v78w7k said:
saganaga » Yesterday, 10:37 pm[/url]":j8v78w7k]
My wife and I just got back from taking old dawg on his last major camping trip.


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Sad..Looks like a great old dog
 
On the road at 7:30am, a bit chilly. So I was able to test out my new electric vest connection. Worked like a champ, keep me toasty:) I also got to check out my 4 gallon aux fuel cell. It's nice not getting range worries at 150miles. Then ran up the highway about 177miles to check out a '94 GL1500 with Escort Sidecar I was thinking of adding to the stable. Sad but it was too tired for too much money. First time I've ridden a GL1500, this one wan't a good example, my GL1200 is sooo sweet compared. But that GL1500 did have some good pickup even hauling a hack.
So 355 miles to home and a quick oil change, my excuse for the ride to get the bike fully warmed up :) Switched to Mobil 1 10W40 4T, hope this helps the shifting.
Tomorrow it's a predawn ride to check out my new LED headlight and 2 driving lights I recently installed.
 
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dan filipi » August 25th, 2019, 4:07 pm[/url]":rqnqpexu]
[url=https://www.classicgoldwings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=212139#p212139:rqnqpexu said:
saganaga » Yesterday, 10:37 pm[/url]":rqnqpexu]
My wife and I just got back from taking old dawg on his last major camping trip.


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He's a great dog, but even canoe camping is getting to be too much for him. We did a little more than a mile of walking on the first day, spread over eight portages, and he was pretty tired at the end of it. Slept most of the layover day, then slept well after we did about half of a mile on the third day, and half of a mile on the last day as well.

I don't think we could take him on a trip where it rained. Guess he's going to have to stay with the other dog when we go camping from now on.
 
Added a mount for a shortened bicycle flag to my bike trailer. Also cut a couple feet off of the flag pole. Now, once the bike is unloaded I can drop the flag in the holder and be able to see where the trailer is going when backing it up to park. It's hard enough to back being so short, but impossible when you can't see where it is!
 
[url=https://classicgoldwings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=212344#p212344:olb8f1ov said:
pidjones » Today, 5:03 am[/url]":eek:lb8f1ov]
Added a mount for a shortened bicycle flag to my bike trailer. Also cut a couple feet off of the flag pole. Now, once the bike is unloaded I can drop the flag in the holder and be able to see where the trailer is going when backing it up to park. It's hard enough to back being so short, but impossible when you can't see where it is!
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I used to stick a pole right by the hitch on the trailer tongue, and a pole right on my truck's hitch so I could see when backing up to the trailer.

Very useful.
 
even though i'm still wearing the boot I went out and rearranged some things in the garage so I can bring the sunL 70 home in a couple weeks. I stopped when my foot started burning, something I knew would happen
 
Wow, William, your F150 injury is dragging out a lot longer than mine did. I wonder why they didn't just put a regular cast on it?
 
Hurricane moving up the coast. Had to head down and double up our mooring lines on the boat in Cape May. I had just disconnected the trailer from the Slug (1st time in a year) and shot down to Cape May. I forgot how well she handles not pulling a trailer! :wave: :yes: :moped:
 
[url=https://www.classicgoldwings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=212468#p212468:1q9ludz5 said:
GTC@MSAC » Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:19 pm[/url]":1q9ludz5]
Wow, William, your F150 injury is dragging out a lot longer than mine did. I wonder why they didn't just put a regular cast on it?
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probably cause i'm dealing with workers comp. my next doctors visit is on 9 / 11, will most likely need a new x-ray or CT scan, last x-ray done in july. and I don't know if they will send me for rehab
 
Took a Uni-go receiver adapter to the PO to mail it to another 1800 owner. Mine came with two - a brandy new stock one and one that is double-thickness. I have no need for the stock one, so sold it for 1/3rd price. So, I have that and a set of SS GL1000 headers (MAC, I think) headed out and hopefully a set of stock headers headed towards me. Have to keep busy doing this because I've pretty much done all that I can on the '79 until I get headers and the mufflers on so I can remount the rear wheel and then jack up the front to rebuild the forks/replace one of the tubes.
 

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