Aaaaaaaaaaand\u2026. I\u2019m back. Actually, I\u2019m still here \u2014 I never left, I just got lazy. I got busy with the club, busy with the bike, busy with the wife (pun intended), busy with work\u2026 You\u2019ve seen it before: Blogger blogs, blogger falls off the face of the earth, blogger comes back and resumes posting fitfully until he gives up and quits. So consider this the middle part of that. Onward.<\/p>\n
In new news on the motorcycling front\u2026 I got a new rear tire. I should say a new new rear tire. I only seem to be getting about 5,000 miles out of a rear tire lately. Maybe it\u2019s the cheap Chinese tires I\u2019m using (Kenda), or maybe it\u2019s the fact that I\u2019m not exactly svelte and the tire is carrying a heavy load, or maybe it\u2019s that I ride it hard \u2014 I dunno. I like to think it\u2019s options 1 and 3. Anyway, I\u2019m on Kenda #3 and I\u2019m happy enough with it \u2014 now.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m running a Kenda Kruz, my second one, and it\u2019s not a bad tire. But the one I just replaced was a different Kenda model \u2014 a Sport Challenger \u2014 and it suuuucked. It wasn\u2019t too bad for most of the life of the tire, but it got squirrelly as hell toward the end. It started feeling kind of wobbly in the straights, and it started scaring me in the twisties. I\u2019d lean it over and crank it around a turn, and right at the apex the back end would sort of skip just a little bit. I actually started wondering if something was wrong with my swingarm. I\u2019m not sure what was going on; maybe the sidewall was deforming or it was breaking traction, I dunno. All I know is I couldn\u2019t replace it fast enough. Now there\u2019s new meat on the back and it\u2019s riding right again. So I\u2019m a happy man \u2014 at least for another 5000 miles.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m off work tomorrow, so the plan is to maybe wash my bike. My prospect looked at it the other day and said to me, \u201cYou know, soap and water isn\u2019t that expensive.\u201d I told him he\u2019d just bought himself another 3 months of prospecting, but that I appreciated his honesty. I should have made him wash it himself.<\/p>\n
You know your bike is dirty when prospects are making fun of it, so I\u2019m thinking I might get productive and show the scoot some sudsy love tomorrow. Or\u2026 it\u2019s supposed to rain this weekend. I may just take it for a ride Saturday and aim for the wet stuff to rinse off the worst of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aaaaaaaaaaand\u2026. I\u2019m back. Actually, I\u2019m still here \u2014 I never left, I just got lazy. I got busy with the club, busy with the bike, busy with the wife (pun intended), busy with work\u2026 You\u2019ve seen it before: Blogger blogs, blogger falls off the face of the earth, blogger comes back and resumes posting fitfully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neutral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deadpan.net\/ridereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}