bike ride Tuesday

[masonjs at nrtco.net]

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>> I got old yellow out yesterday.  It was pretty disgusting how dirty it 
>>  was.  Its been in the garage for a year while they built the garage  
>> around it.  I gave it a quick wash so I wouldn't have saw dust and  
>> bits of insulation flying into my eyes.
>> I got away about 11:00 am, stopped at Kenny's for gas then continued  
>> over to Golden Lake.  I went through the reservation took the Ruby  
>> Road through Ruby to Old Kilaloe which is really Kilaloe as the  
>> Kilaloe we call Kilaloe is really Kilaloe Station--did you get that  
>> cause I don't think I can write it again --Who's on first?
>> After Brudenell, I took the Rockingham Road and just before I got to  
>> the end of it a squadron of turkey vultures lifted  off from a deer  
>> carcass on the side of the road.  I ducked and prayed that I wouldn't  
>> hit one.  A wing or a foot touched my back but that was it.  I arrived 
>>  at Combermere where I had my lunch along the Madawaska River at the  
>> local swimming hole beside the bridge.  I had to share my apple with a 
>>  surly red squirrel.
>> After lunch I went to Maynooth then took the Peterson/Elephant Lake  
>> Road (33 km with about 100 curves) over to Harcourt, Wilberforce,  
>> Cardiff and to the Cow On the Roof Kawartha Dairy store in Bancroft.

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>> I got a fi dollar shake but didn't see John Travolta or any of the  
>> other actors from Pulp Fiction there.
>> I stayed on 28 through McArthur Mills, crossed the Little Mississippi 
>> River. I continued on 28 to Hardwood Lake  and left it to go through  
>> Schutt, Latchford Bridge, Quadeville , Foymount, Cormac  
>> Heidemanville,(dueling banjo country) to Eganville.

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>> I stopped in  Cobden for gas.  I forgot they were resurfacing 
>> Government Road and  got on it to find fresh chip & tar.  This was 
>> like riding on 5 km of  ball bearings.  I made it onto Powers Road ok.

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>> I shouldn't have got  the gas.  I always do that just before I get 
>> home and plan to do some  work on the bike that necessitates removing 
>> the fuel tank like  changing spark plugs and checking the valve 
>> clearances.  There's a  difference of about 20 kilos (40 pounds) 
>> between an empty & full tank and you  can't spill empty..  The work 
>> will have to wait until I re-empty the  tank.
>> I was not happy to see Levi my lavatory retriever at the bottom of the 
>> driveway.  No amount  of yelling would get him to get out of the way 
>> the big goofy son of a  bitch.  Between trying to avoid him and having 
>> the bike stop in one of  the rain gullies I dumped it on it right 
>> side.  I managed to jump  clear.  The bike was stopped when it went 
>> over and landed in soft sand, nothing damaged ,  but I was pissed off. 
>>   He's very lucky dog I didn't have a gun handy.  I'd have  been sorry 
>> I shot him but he still would have been dead.  I think he  realized 
>> his faux pas as I didn't see him for an hour or better when I was 
>> looking to put  the boots to him.   It was 5:30 and I was beat from 
>> tossing that bike  around for 5 hours .  Up until that it had been a 
>> great day.

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>> I fired  the bike up yesterday as I wanted the oil to settle back in 
>> the sump  after the bike being on its side for 5 minutes. Blue smoke 
>> rolled out of both pipes like an old Johnson outboard or Kawasaki H1 
>> or 2..  There won't be any  bugs in my yard until the next wind storm. 
>>  Jim
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