Good Morning!!!! 53F @ 5:45AM. Sunny. High near 75F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
Kyle, there’s no power anywhere close to where the sistern or water tanks would be located; water will be pumped up there by the well pump or jet booster pump, then gravity will bring it back down. Probably 500 yards to the closest A/C.
The motorcycle I’m trying to sell has the first version of a power boosted ABS system that is very expensive to fix. The most common repair is to plumb around it, resulting in a configuration that was available in the rest of the world, but not here in lawyer happy USA. Yet another reason I’m getting rid of it. “Buyer” has backed off need for scanned/emailed copies of everything, and has passed along the phone number of someone from UShip that may be in my area today. If that’s the case, and I get back in time, the deal may just go through. Just in case, I’ve notified the 2nd place bidder that the bike could be back on the market, but this time on a fixed price/best offer basis. If he’s interested, I may kill the deal anyway, as the auction closed about fifteen hundred bux below KBB or NADA retail price.
Mostly uneventful ride to pick up the cylinder heads yesterday. They were ready and look brand new, but the RT is back to its usual tricks and my effort at cleaning the problem carb don’t seem to have borne as much fruit as Drew’s garden. The weather was overcast (June Gloom), and by the time I started heading north again and gaining elevation, I was inside the clouds. Heavy mist, almost rain, and the pavement soaked. I was warm and dry behind the fairing, but now the motorcycle is filthy.
On the way down there, I almost had front row seat to a spectacular roll over accident on the SF Bay Area freeway when some nut job, after missing their exit, decided to jump the gore point. It featured a curb and a 30° down slope across a 10’ wide graveled area, but since God looks after fools, I didn’t have to dodge pieces of flying plastic and tires. Would’a been a mess with me right in the middle, and was a big part of why I got out of there back in ‘10.
Tasty but horribly expensive vegetarian curry dish for dinner last night, but the resturant was so busy service took forever and the noise was so bad we had to shout to talk. Won’t be going back to that one anytime soon. The old friend putting me up was rearended in his ancient Honda two days ago, so we went to the Toyota dealer to look at a new Prius for him. The latest body styles look like something out of Transformer, butt ugly in both our books. But we had a fun time joking with the salesman. They also had a couple of older Sienna vans that he was also interested in. What he really wants is an all electric car, but knows that technology is evolving so rapidly now that anything he bought would be obolete in just a few years and nearly worthless. So the idea of a less expensive used vehicle could bridge him over four or five years until things settle down. Then again he’s in his mid 70s, and that’s a relatively long time to wait. He’s got some more research and thinking to do.
I’m set to pick up the reworked transmission this morning and then head home. Hopefully it will be an uneventful trip.
